65 Month Update

I was re-reading past updates and loved how they captured a moment in time, so I decided to continue on with these monthly updates.

• Still loves Curious George
• Still sleeps with his Bears, but leaves them at home when he goes to school. Instead, he takes Mr. Domo because he fits better in his backpack.
• LOVES kindergarten
• He usually sits with his friends Skylar and Alyssa on the busride to school and either with Robbie or Joey on the busride home
• He had a playdate with Alyssa (who wrote him a love note)
• He understands the concept of girlfriend ("someone you marry")
• He finally tried a new sandwich at Subway. Instead of tuna, he now gets a BMT
• He still drinks about 32 to 48 oz of 1% milk daily
• He LOVES his little sister and can always make her laugh
• He is obsesses with the Cars and Cars 2 movies
• LOVES The Polar Express movie and will sing all of the songs that are sung
• Does not like Spongebob, but likes Spongebob in Spanish
• Loves the Busytown Mysteries cartoons
• Hates kielbasa and beans
• Loves to cook and has become quite good at retrieving ingredients from the fridge and pantry
• Will go upstairs and call Backaw for dinner then race downstairs to beat Backaw to the table (he also will quickly get Backaw's diet Coke from the fridge and put it at his place setting)
• Can take off his clothes and dress himself (when he wants to), but still likes it when I or Cesar help him get dressed
• Brushes his own teeth, but we still help him at night to make sure he gets at least one good cleaning
• We have to floss just 2 teeth in the back, otherwise he has great spacing
• He grinds his teeth incessantly at night (it makes it difficult when we have to sleep in the same room with him)!
• Sleeps with a light on and music
• Will not pick his nose and has to be forced to blow his nose. We do put saline drops in his nose to clear out some of those boogers
• Goes to the bathroom without help and can wipe himself after pooping mostly without help.
• Still does not stand up to pee
• Played soccer for the first time this fall and loved it!
• Tried hockey for the first time also and hated it (mainly because he does not know how to ice skate)
• Wants to play baseball badly
• Loves apple juice
• He gets his own hot lunch at school
• Getting hot lunch was one of the things he was most excited about when going to kindergarten
• Has a great sense of humor and always is telling jokes and trying to think up new ones
• Loves to go shopping and go on outings
• Loves to play games on my Iphone
• Writes his name very well and is starting to spell words phonetically
• Loves to color and draw pictures
• Loves to read
• Loves to snuggle
• Loves to just talk at the end of the day with me
• Loves his Legos and can put together anything by following the little instruction booklet

Andrew's First Love Note

Andrew's First Girlfriend

Yesterday Andrew informed me that Alyssa (a girl on the bus) kissed his hand on the way to school and then kissed him again on the way home. She then invited him over to her house.

After he told me that, he said, "I sort of liked it".

Oy Vey! It has only just begun!

Andrewisms

• Andrew and I were doing homework last night and going over letters and their sounds. I asked him, "What sound does the letter 'S' make"? He thought for a minute (he had already answered correctly earlier) and he said, "BOING!" We laughed and laughed for a good 5 minutes.
• Yesterday after school I asked Andrew what he had for lunch and he said, "Mom, I had the most delicious sandwich. The bread-part was like a donut--it had a hole in the middle of it!" I told him, "Oh, that's a bagel!" He then said, "I thought a bagel was a muffin". (You can tell we don't eat a lot of bread-products in our house :))

Andrew Answers Some Questions

Here are some questions that the Primary Presidency asked the kids to answer. Andrew answered the following unprompted by me. Some of his answers surprised me (I didn't realize he knew so much!)

? I know the scriptures are true because or testimony of the scriptures....
Because of Jesus Christ
? Reading the scriptures makes me feel...
Happy
? Reading the scriptures has helped me learn...
Jesus Christ
? When have the scriptures helped tell you what to do?
To read the scriptures
? How does reading the scriptures make you feel?
Good
? Who am I?
A kid
? Where did I come from?
Heaven
? What will happen to me after I die?
Get made again
?How do you follow God’s plan?
Reading the scriptures
? I will follow the living prophet by...
Listening to their plan
? Who presented a plan to everyone in heaven before we came to earth?
Jesus
? How can I follow His example?
By praying
? How does reading the Book of Mormon make you feel?
Happy
?How do you help make someone’s burden lighter? Examples
By helping them
?When or how has the Holy Ghost helped you?
All the time
?Why does God command us to build temples?
So we can learn about the world and how it got made
?What can you do to prepare to go to the temple someday?
Pray, read scriptures
?How do you feel when you visit the temple grounds?
I feel a little nervous
?How can you treat your body like a temple?
Take a bath everyday
?How does listening to good music make you feel? Why?
Happy
?How can you prepare now to go on a mission?
Eating good food and going to sleep
?What can you do now to be a missionary?
Doing good things
?How do we talk to Heavenly Father?
Praying
?How do you feel when you pray?
Good
Share an experience of how Heavenly Father has answered your prayer.
When I had my lemonade stand, there weren’t many customers. Mommy and me prayed for more customers to come and they did!
?How can you show reverence?

Sit quietly and fold my arms

Updates II

Hopefully this will bring me up-to-date and I will be better at posting things when they happen!

Andrew's Preschool Graduation Party

Playing at the Ice Cream Party.

Arya and Andrew

Waiting for the ice cream sundaes

Andrew's 5th Birthday Party (Pictured from left to right: Tyler, Jaden, Evan, Trinity, JJ, Ethan and Asher)

Evan pulling the pinata strings

Picking up the spoils!

Blowing out the candle on his race car, strawberry cake that Cesar decorated!

Opening his present during the family party.

Waiting patiently to open his present.

Watching the Boom Box Parade 2011

On the plane to Utah!

Andrew with Lulu and Abuelito

Andrew and Cesar (I am not in many of these pictures because Lucy was 7 weeks old and was not too thrilled to be in Vegas. So we mainly stayed in our hotel room and nursed/slept)

Abuelito, Andrew and Lulu

Abuelito, Andrew and Lulu (Andrew wore this hat EVERYWHERE in Utah and Las Vegas! He called himself "Pachuco")

Cesar and Andrew

At one of the many buffets we went to (Lucy is under the brown and green cover-up).

Andrew in a little amusement park on top of a Vegas hotel (I forgot which one).

Darth Vader, Andrew and Cesar

This is a series of family photo shoots the day we left Utah. Pictured with Andrew and Lucy are his cousins Pete, Panzas and Dante.

Lulu, Lucy, Andrew and Abuelito

Lulu and Lucy (Lucy's middle name is in honor of Lulu's mother)

Lulu, Lucy and Abuelito (Lucy is in her blessing dress)

Abuelito and a yawning Lucy

The whole family sans Miguel and Edna :(

Claudia and Lucy

Claudia, Lucy and Andrew

Updates

Here are some recent (and not so recent. I have not been very good at updating) pictures of Andrew.

Cesar and Andrew shoveling after the big snowstorm(s) of Winter 2011!

Andrew's preschool class from back, left to right: Mya, Andrew, Tyler, Jenelle, Matthew. Front: Corbin, Trinity, Seraphin, JJ, Quin and Arya.

Christmas present from Tio Miguel and Tia Edna.

Andrew in the snow.

Andrew next to the Toyota Camry.

Me and Andrew at the Ashford Easter Egg Hunt 2011

Cesar and Andrew shoveling snow

Playing in the snow.

Playing in the snow.

Relaxing in the snow.

Andrew at his preschool presentation

Andrew and his colored eggs

Andrew hunting for eggs

Andrew hunting for eggs (he made sure to get me a special pink-polka-dotted one!)

Andrew at his preschool presentation

Andrew's first time holding Lucy (pure joy on his face--he had been waiting so long for her to come!)

Doing hand movements to a song

Andrew telling the audience that he would give someone a present in order to "fill up their bucket".

Andrew sleeping with his babies (He only has 2 babies left as the other 2 have been taken out of commission because of leaking filling).

He LOVES his babies!

Opening presents

As a shepherd (with a homemade yarn beard).

The Nativity

Opening presents (with weird wonky eyes)!

Opening presents