9 Months and Father's Day and Happy Birthday Cole....

Wow, we have a lot to talk about today. We will start by saying Happy Father's Day to all the father's we know and love! And Happy Birthday to Cole Dewese, Mateo's BFF that he hasn't met yet! Mateo had his nine month check up on Friday. He is healthy as ever - he weighs 23 pounds and is 29 inches long. His favorite things now are:

• Sampling food - all kinds of food
• Remote controls and cell phones
• Daddy - this never seems to change
• Trying to crawl to all the things he's not supposed to mess with
• Standing up and trying to balance
• Swimming - as long as the sunscreen doesn't run into his eyes
• Mickey Mouse Clubhouse
• Saying "dada" - we are still working on "mama"

Mateo had a sleepover at Lady and Paw-Paw's Friday night, and then we celebrated Father's Day over there yesterday. Unfortunately, Mateo came down with something last night, and was feeling very under the weather. We can tell just by looking at him - we say he looks "droopy." We still had a nice Father's Day today. Mateo was wearing a shirt that said "Daddy's my Hero," and I was trying to get some cute Daddy-son pictures, but I was not successful. You can tell Mateo was pretty pitiful by looking at the quality of pictures.

Silly Boy!

Mateo was being silly tonight, and we caught it on tape, so I decided to share some videos. This is Mateo trying to turn the page on his toy. He will try and try until he accomplishes what he set out to do. He is also testing his balance now by seeing how long he can stand without holding on before he plops down.

Talking some jibberish:

Daddy is always able to make him giggle!

Now when it is time for Mateo to take a bath, Juan just has to get up and walk to the bathroom, and say "Let's go take a bath..." and Mateo will follow. He looks so proud of himself when he makes it all the way to the bathroom on his own.

Mobile Baby

Mateo is crawling like a professional now, and trying to stand and walk every chance he can get. We put him in his playpen, which looks like baby jail, to keep him from running away from us. He loves to pull up on the side and practice standing without holding on. It's amazing how fast they can get moving only after a week of crawling. He is also enjoying eating finger foods now, which seems to be the only thing he wants to eat. He looks so proud of himself - I think it makes him feel like a big boy! We had a pretty rough start to the week when Mateo came down with pink eye in both eyes and an ear infection. He's over it now and back to normal, but he was a very sad sight earlier in the week, with both of his eyes swollen shut. We officially put our house on the market on Friday, and we started our househunt this weekend. Our realtor took us around yesterday to about 10 houses to get an idea of what is out there. We are looking for houses in an area with better schools and daycares. We didn't find anything we really like yet - although that is probably a good thing, because there is no telling how long it will take us to sell our house. Here are some pics from the week.