Mathew is killing me with his cuteness

I mean seriously, how cute can one 17 month old be?
His latest obsession is flipping through board books over and over and over again.
The other night we spent a good part of an hour doing this. He calls them “cooks” and hands them to you then stands there expectantly, or climbs in your lap while you open it up to the pages inside. He points and comments about the pictures on each page. His two favorites are a great big heavy Animal board book, and Brown Bear Brown Bear. I love getting him to make the animal sounds as I point to the animals. My personal favorite is the horse because he shakes his whole face to make the sound. He thinks he’s pretty funny too, and looks at my like I’m crazy when I do the rooster call. I’m trying to teach him his colors using Brown Bear. So far he’s got green and blue. After about 45 minutes of looking through books I tried to distract him by walking upstairs. I was waiting in the kitchen for him to come up and I had to laugh because there he was climbing up the stairs bringing with him the great big animal book. He was working so hard to get it up there pushing it ahead of him before each step. Its about 1/3 his size! Of course we read for another 15 minutes before I put him to bed. I couldn’t let him go through all that effort for nothing.
The other thing he’s been doing regularly is dancing. It’s the cutest little shimmy I’ve ever seen. The girls always had the little hip shake going on, but Mattie does a whole body shimmy back and forth. The girls and I were cleaning their room the other night and Mattie was helping by being DJ. He put High school musical in the CD player and as soon as it started he did his little shimmy. He’s so serious about it too. He’d push pause and totally stop straight faced then start it up and start shaking again. The girls and I were laughing so hard we couldn’t clean and he loved the attention, even if he didn’t’ get why we were laughing so hard.
I put on Wiggles for him the other night and he was mesmerized. I don’t know if that was so smart on my part.. I DID suffer through years of the Wiggles with Megan, and I think I might have set myself up for a few more years of them. Oh well, Watching him watch them takes me back to those days when Meg would watch in awe and shake her little booty.. Seriously, Who needs TV when you can watch a toddler?