5 Months

Our sweet little man is 5 months old! Hard to believe, but it's true. His favorite activities right now are playing with his toes, teething on everything and giggling as much as possible. He's rolling around and squirming to get around. He seems to want to run, but we're hopefully quite a ways away from that. This boy melts my heart daily. Just look at that face....

Another Zoo Trip

Ah, sweet sunshine in January! I am so thankful for days that aren't 100% rainy and cold. We took advantage of good weather and Kris, the boys and I headed up to Point Defiance. We're going to make good use of that zoo pass!

Screaming after being eaten by a shark

My favorite zoo animal

The sweetest face ever

My sweet boys and I

Alex and his lemur friends

The walrus that befriended Alex. They were pressed nose to nose for a long time. It was way too cute!

My Sweetness

Dear Wendy's

You might sell more kids' meals if the "toy" were a little more kid friendly. This little "hand puppet" as you call it took me about half an hour to put together (half an hour of Alex trying to help...) is falling apart already. Ages 3 and up, yeah right!

This Week

We've been...

water color painting

playing with toes

not smiling when Mommy asks

being adorable

and more adorable...

Random Pictures from December

Mattei Family Christmas

Due to the incredible amount of sickness we had on this trip I didn't take very many pictures and worse yet there are very few with my family. I did manage to get a few semi decent family pictures. Vickie joins us as an official member of the family this year. Michael and Vickie were engaged a few days before Christmas and will be married at the end of the summer. I expect we'll have some great family pictures come out of that!

Seth, Alex, Coral, Michael, Vickie, Andrea, Asher & Amy

Great-Grandma Edith meeting baby Asher

Great-Grandma and Great-Grandpa with Asher