Well Matteo is now 15 months old...he weighs 22 lbs and has 3 words in his vocabulary...mamma, us (meaning bus) and his latest word is quack quack quack....on his 15 month birthday after we had gotten back from his checkup at CHEO (and more bloodwork) he grabbed his big Easter duck and carried it to me saying "quack, quack, quack"....I have usually done the quacking when we played with it, so it was a lovely surprise for him to say this.... Also S. thinks that he says "yes" pronounced "s"....but I'm not so sure...however in the last few days he is definitely showing signs of trying to repeat words that I say, so this is nice to see...
This is our last long weekend of the summer!!...I decided to take Matteo out of daycare today and plan a mini 4 day holiday for us. Today we shopped for new shoes, groceries and then dropped into a park that Matteo has been to but I haven't so we went together. Got lots of nice photos posted below and even bumped into a high school friend's mom...so that was nice. Matteo climbed the play structure for the first time with me (not sure if he has with W.) But it was wonderful to see him climb and try and explore and not be afraid.
Tomorrow we have plans to visit with some other single parents who have adopted or are in the process of adopting...not necessarily from Vietnam.
On Sunday the Vietnamese community has organized events at city hall for the Autumn moon festival so we are attending that.
And on Monday we will be visiting my high school art teacher who has become a friend over the years. She was very instrumental and inspirational to my becoming both an artist and an art teacher....She is anxious to meet Matteo and I am anxious to have him meet her too....so we will head out to spend the afternoon in Almonte.
Here are some photos from our day today.
No, that was his first time climbing the playstructure!
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