January Recap

Yes, I know I'm very, very late with a review of our January! Matt and then I had to get over a long-lasting cold, and we had a winter storm where we lost power for a few days (although our generator allowed us to keep heat and water going), so we were a little distracted.

We did have a few exciting outings this past month.

Matt went with me to an event at work.

Fortunately the amount of cookies and cupcakes made up for the lack of trains.

We went to our favorite open gym.

Matt made a new game for himself: matching colored blocks to the same colored squares on a mat.

We also tried out a few new to us places, including a trampoline park, which Matt enjoyed, and an indoor spray park or splash pad, which Matt did not enjoy.

Checking out the trampolines

Matt's favorite part: the pit of foam blocks.

Kicking a goal

Mostly, however, we went to a few playgroups and storytimes but spent a lot of time doing various activities at home.

Matt's new interests include "making a cave," or crawling under blankets, and "hiding," although he will readily call out "I'm ov' there," if asked, "Where is Matt?"

Hanging out in his blanket cave

Peeking out from the cabinets

Matt spent a lot of time doing crafts and other projects.

Sticking stickers everywhere

 Licking the beater

"Drilling" into his homemade wooden blocks

Painting

Intently working with "dough play" (aka Play-Doh)

Digging for dinosaur bones (a new favorite activity)

As always, Matt enjoyed doing puzzles. He started challenging himself by reaching for harder jigsaw puzzles, getting up to 12-piece puzzles this past month.

Assembling a number train puzzle

Solving his first 12-piece puzzle all by himself

Working on a 12-piece train puzzle

And sometimes Matt was just silly.

With Mama's sunglasses, his hat, and his gloves

With Mama's rainboots