B, B, B...

Mateo is just trying new words...each night, part of our bedtime routine is to sing a version of Hush Little Baby that has a mom showing her son all these different things. She starts by showing him a humming bird. Mateo now always points to the picture and says, "B, B, B". Well a couple of nights ago we were watching our friends Maggie & Lily Kelley, Kate and Andrew Fronza, and Charley Petrik play soccer in the YMCA league in town. Mateo say a bird fly across the sky and he shouted, "B, B, B". He spent the rest of the night pointing out every bird he saw fly (and some imaginary ones too).

We think he is really going to like soccer...I am not sure if that comes from his Central American heritage, or if its because boys love to kick balls around...but he seems thrilled every time he has a ball...and he's been practicing kicking. Of course, it is still like three more summers before he will be old enough to play, but we won't be surprised if he likes it.



I finally got around to upholstering the chair from Matt's youth for Mateo. We brought back some great purple striped fabric from Guatemala that matches our purple paint color upstairs. Thanks to some great advice from Aunt Paula from Tennessee, it took us only about 20 minutes to do it together and Mateo loves it. Boys will be boys though...we had it done for less than two days and he was kneeling in it facing backwards and he rocked it over right into a face plant on the floor. I don't know who was more freaked out, Mateo or me when I heard the story!

Better run, we are off to go pick some berries with Nona today. Yeah for Oregon Summers!!

Love from Silverton, Sarah