Andrew's Account

Monday, July 21, 2008

Quickie Update

Sleeps in toddler bed
Gave up his babas so that other babies could enjoy them (he helped pack them in a box and then we put them in the mailbox for the mailman to bring them to the needy babies)
Will lick your face if you ask him for a puppy dog kiss
Is picking up a couple of new words a week. Yesterday he started asking for a "bite" of our food.
Says "mine"
Is in size 2T pants and 3T shirts and size 7 shoe
Has excema? on his knees and thighs, will be seeing a dermatologist in Augsut for a diagnosis
Still loves chocolate. He will eat Cocoa Crispies mixed with a healthy cereal if we tell him he can eat chocolate for breakfast. That is usually the first word out of his mouth in the morning....Goggit?
Is obsessed with cars. In the car, he will say "cao" everytime a car passes us.
Loves to bake with Mama on Sundays. He cracks the egg in one hand and I have to fish out the egg shells.
Will take a taste of EVERYTHING when my back is turned. Tasted the raw egg yesterday from the brownies we were making.
Loves to sing in the nursery and will do all the hand motions and words to "The Wheels on the Bus" and "The Itsy Bitsy Spider"
On Saturday, Sister Sparks looked at Andrew and said, "He looks just like Matt". I have always thought this, especially when he was younger, but I guess it is still true!

Lots 'o Pictures

Swimming in the pool Grandma Derby bought at BJ's

Eating birthday cake

The two bears Sarah got him for his birthday (he sleeps with those two bears along with his regular bears every night!)

Pondering birthday cake

Notice the dipped finger into the frosting (he does that with everything...he always needs "a little taste". In fact, he had to have "a little taste" of the raw eggs we put into the bowl to make brownies yesterday!)

A "BIG" taste!

"Following" the map at Bakerwoods

Loving blowing the bubbles

Bakerwoods

Chasing the ducks at Bakerwoods

Opening presents at the family birthday party

We had to dismantle Andrew's crib because of a recall on this particular model (the slats have a tendency to break, which had never happened to us before, but decided this was as good a time as any to get Andrew a toddler bed...) Andrew looking at all of his bite marks on the edge of his crib

Playing with his toy cars

He calls them "caos"--he still can't prounce his rolled R's

Playing with the pots in the kitchen

Andrew's new toddler bed

His babies taking a nap

Close-up of bite marks

Bite marks again

Opening up presents on his actual birthday

Blowing out candles on the nasty spice cake birthday cake

Posing with his babies

Pretending to sleep

Andrew will now bring toys/books to the table and sit in the chair while we are cooking or cleaning in the kitchen. He will sit there for a long time doing his own thing.

Giving his baby a ride.

Opening up a present from Grandma.

The nastiness of the spic e cake! BLECK!

4th of July sparkler fun!

This looks really dangerous, but he never burned himself--it looks like he is touching the fire!

Thursday, June 05, 2008

Favorite Things

One of my most favorite things that Andrew does is when I ask him for a kiss while he is drinking his baba of milk. He will ponder the question, then pull out his baba and pucker up.

I give him a kiss on very cold, milky lips.

It is good to be loved more than a baba!

Wednesday, June 04, 2008

23 Month Update

Well, Andrew is full of vim and vinegar--like any almost 2 year old is :)

He says egg, light, fish, iso (oso), go (car), I? (for every letter and number he sees), wawa (agua), gracias, ya (stop), goggit (chocolate), jo jo (choo choo), bye bye, do (he says this every time he says bye. I don't know who/what do is), hi, cheese, baba, baby (for any child--they could be a newborn up to 6 years old), nigh night, do (george, Curious George)
He likes to be the ring leader at Nursery. He will start to scream or nod his head and the other kids will copy him
He does a really good job at picking up his toys at night
He went to the dentist last week and had a great check-up (a little traumatizing, but he got over it)
He will still fold his arms for prayer
Every time I ask him who should say the prayer, he says "Dada", even when dada is not there
He LOVES playing outside!
He is a great helper at the grocery store. He will put things on the belt and then when you get home he will help you put the groceries away.
He will play with his bead toy and pretend it is a train and say "jo jo"
He still likes Curious George, but gets bored if they keep showing the same episode over and over again
He likes to play cars with his dad and will make sound effects
He still will not tell us when he has gone poop
He loves to play with his magnets--moving them from the fridge to the dishwasher to the recycling cans
He LOVES chocolate!!!
He loves to ride in the car carts at the supermarket
He is still drinking 3 bottles of milk during the day and then 4 ounces of water when he takes a nap or at night
He still loves his babies (his 2 bears)
He will still give all the sounds to a cat, dog, snake, duck, frog, cow, lion, bear
He will laugh out loud to things he sees on the television, even when he is by himself watching TV (much like his father does)
Calls outside "sno"
He is pretty good at Church and has started whispering when you whisper to him
He likes nursery, but not when other kids sit on my lap--he gets very jealous