Meeting Santa!

17 months old!!!!!!!!

Happy Halloween everyone from Andy the purple dragon

Andy's 16 month photo with he bear

My little man is growing up!

This past month he learned to walk up and down the stairs by holding onto the handrail (or my hand) instead of going on his knees. He says even more words ("juice" is a new frequent one), and he just (finally) managed to be able to tilt his sippy cup up and drink from it!

Andy sings "Twinkle Twinkle" (hums is probably more accurate) and "The wheels on the bus...". He loves to read, and be read to, and he can sit through about 30-minutes of a movie or TV show. He loves to put things into other things, and I often find plastic sandwich bags all over the house because of it.

He is wearing a size 6-6.5 shoe, and size 24-month clothes. and he finally keeps a hat on! He LOVES animals, and knows what a puppy, lion, tiger, and a fish say.

Andy plays so well with other kids too! He loves to play dress up, and he tackles Owen pretty good sometimes! And he tickles too - it is so cute! And it isn't just some nasty scratching like it was with Owen (thank goodness!).

But Andy is still Andy and he loves a good temper tantrum. And he has perfected his fake cry, but now when I call him on it he just s,miles and stops. He is such a riot!

Andy's word count

Andy’s words…

1. Daddy (Da-yee)

2. Papa

3. Hi

4. Mama

5. Juice

6. Andy

7. Grandpa (Grak-ka)

8. Cheese

9. I love you

"I love you!"

Grandma came over today, and she and I were saying “I love you” to Andy, and he said it back!!!! He says it “I la you.”, it means ‘I love you’! And then tonight I called her so Andy could talk to her on the phone, and he said it first, she repeated it, and he said it again. How sweet! Andy called his Grandma to say ‘I love you’ to her! What a good Grandson!

at the pumpkin patch

Andy's 1st haircut!

Andy got his first ever haircut at 1st Choice today. Owen got one too, and I went home with both their hair in little baggies.

15 months with the bear

15 months old

Andy is 15 months old! This has been an amazing month! He seems to have really grown up this month.

- Andy got his first haircut (which really makes him look older)

- Andy talks on the phone to people (you still can’t understand what he says, but he jabbers on there all the time and loves hearing whoever is on the other end)

- He is in size 18 month pants and pj’s that are one piece, but size 24 month tops, and 2-piece pj’s. He doesn’t wear onesies anymore. He is a size 6 shoe all of the sudden – I think he wore is size 5 and a half for no more than 2 weeks!

- He is 31” tall and 26lbs

- He says “Mama”, “Papa”, “Daddy”, “Juice”, “Grandpa” (which sounds like “Gradka”, so it might be ‘Grandma’ too, but he follows Dad around the house and says it over and over, so I think it is meant as ‘Grandpa’), and that is pretty much it. He has said “Hi” and “Bye bye” before, but only once or twice, and not for a looooong time now.

- He crosses himself every time he hears us pray, and he LOVES to pray! It is really so cute!

- He sits behind me in the car, in Owen’s old black car seat.

- He has MAJOR temper tantrums when he doesn’t get him way, or when he is tired, and he rarely listens to us call his name or tell him ‘no’.

- He loves to open the kitchen cupboards, and has lately been getting into the drawers in the big room. He also LOVES keyboards and computer mouses. I’ll often come to my computer to find a bunch of weird windows open thanks to Andy.

- Andy still loves to play outside, and always follows Owen around.

- He can ride on little ride-on toys or bikes, and he can go forwards and backwards all by himself.

- He likes to play games and will initiate hide-and-go seek, tickle games, laughing, and copying games.

- Bath times are a lot shorter now as Andy splashes soooo badly, and he’ll often put his head under water until he wants to get out. It’s pretty exhausting!

- Andy loves to dress up in costumes just like his big brother.

- Also like his big brother, Andy has a horrid fake laugh. It is so loud and so fake, but sooo cute!

- He’ll take out his soother, and cluck his tongue to tell you he is hungry.

- He understands a lot – if you ask him to take out his sucker, give something to you, pick something up, put something down, close the door, open the door, sit on his bum, come here, go there, etc. And he knows what it means when I ask if he is hungry, tired, thirsty, and he is pretty good at letting me know the answer.

- Andy and Owen started a new daycare this month, and they both LOVE Joyce! Andy jumps right into her arm when I drop him off in the morning, and she has never really had a hard time with him. Although, when I go to pick him up he usually jumps into my arms and waves goodbye to Joyce. J

- We took down all the baby gates. Andy is great going up and down the stairs. And he is trying to walk down, as opposed to going down backwards. He still needs help with it though. And he goes up the stairs one foot on each stair

14 months with the bear

Doesn't he look so big all the sudden? Well he is so big! Andy is now 31" tall, just under 26lbs and wearing size 24-month clothes, and a size 5.5 shoe!

My little climber!

I find Andy on top of chairs, tables, couches - you name it, he's climbing it these days!

But at a friends' birthday party, he couldn't get up on of anything besides this chair rail.

Spaghetti is bliss!

13 month photo with the bear

12 month photo shoot with the bear

My wee little man is a year old now! And why, do you ask, is his 12 month shoot in pants and a sweater? Well, I say, because this weird weather is refusing to be sunny and nice, so here we sit, inside, with pants and sweaters, waiting for the sun to shine. 

Andy's 1st birthday!!!!!

It is Andy’s birthday today! He is one year old! Yay!

We had a joint birthday party for 3 kids from PG – Andy, Matthew, and Sarah. It was a Curious George theme.

I felt bad because Andy couldn’t have cake or cookies or ice cream today lik

e the other kids, so he got a new food treat today – watermelon! And he LOVES it!

11 months with the bear

ANDY IS WALKING!

Andy took 4 steps to me just now - yayyyyyyy!!!!!!

Almost walking!

Andy now walks when only holding one of our hands! And he can stand on bis own for a few seconds too! It won't be long before he is walking on his own!

Andy's beer bash!

A half drunk can of beer was left on the end table over night. Silly Gabe. So Andy found it in the morning and knocked it over. He wasn't interested in the can, he was interested in the liquid that was now all over him and the table. So he splashed it all over and then began to slurp it off the table as we ran over with cloths and towels. Most of it was absorbed into his short, but the small taste Andy got made him smile! He now goes crazy for all cans!