Our Family Blog: Week 44

Another busy week flew by!

Monday was Labor Day, so Jon had the day off from work, although Matt kept him hard at work on his swing set.

Inspecting the progress

Tuesday we went to the play space at the Y with one of our friends. Wednesday we joined my moms' club at the local coffeehouse and then went for a walk in the late afternoon with another friend.

Hanging out in his stroller

Thursday I had a board meeting for my moms' club. Matt did a pretty good job of amusing himself with the other kids while we discussed business. Friday we joined my moms' club at a nearby playground before it got too hot; it was not a great week to be outdoors, sadly. Saturday Matt went to his first friend's birthday party. He was too small for the bouncy house, but he enjoyed the other highlight, a petting zoo. His favorite animal was the goat, maybe because the goat was the only animal who was happy to tolerate the not so gentle touch of an active infant.

Not so impressed with a real live bunny - the goat was definitely funnier!

Sunday we watched some football (Matt's hometown team onesies have lost their magic touch!) and let Matt play in his newly completed sandbox.

As you can see, Matt's new sandbox is also a big hit, just like his swing.

Whee!

In addition to playing outside, Matt has been busy mastering new skills. I forgot to post last week about Matt's ability to climb stairs. At the playground I let him try a few, and he did very well. When we got home, I let him try our main set of stairs, and he went right up. We haven't yet tried down, though.

On Friday morning Matt displayed in rapid succession a bunch of other new skills: pushing items over to stand on so he can get at hard to reach things (something he had been working toward all week - soon he's going to figure out how to reach doorknobs...), opening cabinets, opening drawers, and deliberately putting things back into containers and drawers (usually after taking them out and before taking them out one more time).