Mateo is 3 Years Old!

Things I love about Mateo:

- he makes me laugh every single day

- his cute high pitched voice

- he demands "big muaah!" (meaning big kiss) when one of us leaves, even if just to the mail box

- he is compassionate

- he has a good sense of humor and understands jokes

- that he loves to tell us about everything he does

- he wins everyone over with his charming personality

- he has strong views and opinions (will serve him better when he gets older)

- he's got lots of personality!

-he challenges me to be a better parent and a better person

- he is so lovable!

In honor of Mateo reaching his third year of life (and almost two years in our family) here is a video of the last year that I made for him.

Happy Birthday!

Grape Soda Overdose

Just watch the video. In my defense, the grape soda was all Dave's doing.

Our Story (in video form)

Make sure your volume is on.

Holiday Montage!

My favorite pictures from the Holiday Season 2008!

A Daddy and Mateo Video

Here's a video montage I made for Dave. I am just obsessed with making these videos so I'll make one for any reason at all. My next post will be tips for adoptive families by yours truly. I know, I probably give myself much more credit than I deserve. Just trying to go along with the National Adoption Month theme.

National Adoption Month

So here's our one year later video made for Mateo's Gotcha Day, which was August 29. Tomorrow I'll post about the process of becoming licensed to foster or adopt and how you can get involved without having to become a parent. Without further ado, here's a brief, happy view of our experience with Mateo the last year. If you've seen it already, sorry.

Our Adoption Video

Okay, so I promised a video, and I actually have several. One of them I posted in August on Mateo's Gotcha Day but I'll post it again for my new readers later this month. Here is the first one. It's longer and more of a photo/video montage. I made this one for Mateo's adoption party we had in June. The second one is more fun and tells our story a bit. I also have two other videos montages. One with Mateo and Daddy, and one with Mateo and me. I'm a little obsessed. I'll post those this month too. I'll just bombard you with sappy videos that only a parent can love.