Family Time

One of the best parts of visiting Utah for the holidays was letting everyone meet Tiago.  It's a good thing he likes strangers [as long as they'll hold him] because he got passed around to a lot of people.  He loved it, and they loved it. Here are some of the relatives that Tiago got to meet:

Technically he wasn't meeting Grandma.  But they got re-acquainted while she carried him around the house all day.  

By the end of the trip, Santiago had Grandpa wrapped around his little finger.  Being held wasn't enough;   anytime Grandpa sat down Tiago would cry because he knew Grandpa would stand up and walk around with him.  (Always facing out, and always with his arm propped up.)

Tiago met Great-Grandma Hatch when we went to lunch at her house on Wednesdays. 

 He drooled all over Aunt Jenna.  (If you look closely, you can see it dripping off her arm.)

 Aunt Amie got to babysit him a few times.  

He liked to stare at Uncle Doug (fondly)... although not in this picture.    

Uncle Matt held Tiago a surprising number of times.  And his hands pretty much fit around his entire torso.

When Aunt Courtney got home from her mission, she wouldn't get closer than 3 ft to the baby.  Fortunately for her, she slowly warmed up to him, unless there was a diaper change involved.

The first time Tiago met his Hatch cousins, they were so excited to each give him a gift, and show him how it worked.  Another day, Jake even gave Tiago a candy cane, which I later found in his car seat. :)

He also met his Porter and Crowton cousins, and they had so much fun playing with him.  They are pro's at entertaining babies.  

Tia Edna managed to balance both babies at once.  They were both wide-eyed staring at something else to their right.  Wonder what it was...

 

He spent a lot of time with Abuelo and Abuela, pulling their hair and trying to talk.  Abuelo got him to fall asleep just like he used to do with Hyrum.  (He never falls asleep when I hold him... I guess I don't have "the touch".) 

He spent Christmas Eve with the whole Hatch family.

And on Christmas he saw (almost) the entire Suarez family.

And as a bonus, he even got to "meet" Daddy!  Or at least a likeness of him. More to come of Cardboard Hyrum.