Counting!

Andrew has been big into counting this week.  He struggles a bit with four, so he usually skips over it.  Still, we're VERY proud!

Christmas!!

Another Christmas is down in the books.  It was a great one here at the Rembert house.

Last week we went to see a big yearly Christmas display at Life Christian University.  We had to wait until dark, so it was a little later in the day.  When we got to the university, we looked back, and Andrew was passed out in his car seat.  After a little discussion, we decided to go ahead and wake him up.  It was lucky we did, because he was incredibly adorable and had a wonderful time.  Pictures and a video from that night are below.

This is just about the cutest video ever.

Christmas day brought quite a few new presents for Andrew.  He had a blast playing with all of them all day.  And he actually played with the toys rather than just the boxes or the paper.  And he barely touched any of his old toys during the day.

Santa's Cookies were not safe.

Stop taking pictures!!!

Grabbing the next present.

New play kitchen from Papa and Grancy.

Farm sounds barn from Santa.

Drawing on the MagnaDoodle from Poppy and Jaja.

A Thomas the Tank Engine train set from G and Grandpa Bill.

Banging on the xylophone.

Testing out the harmonica.  It took  few tries, but he got it down.

He Knows His Shapes??

Today, Sam was playing with Andrew on the floor with two of the puzzle pieces from the puzzle in the post from yesterday.

Sam randomly said, "Hey Andrew, can you go get me the heart?"  He didn't actually think anything was going to happen, but instead, Andrew stood up, walked across the room to the puzzle, picked up the heart, and brought it back to Sam.  It had to be a fluke.

So sam asked, "Can you go get me the star?"  Andrew went back across the room, and brought back the star.

This happened four more times, with Andrew picking the correct shape each time.  By the time it was done,  he was six for six with no misses!!

This was completely out of the blue.  We had no idea that Andrew seems to know his shapes by name. We'll try this a few more times over the next couple of days and see what happens, but for now, we are two very proud parents!

We are learning!

Andrew has made great strides in the past few weeks, and can now place puzzle pieces correctly in a puzzle, and even say some letters when they are written.  He's currently got about 10-12 letters down. Watch the two videos below!

Andrew reciting letters as Sam writes them.

Sorry the video is blurry.  The phone did it like

that and Sam couldn't see the screen while recording.

Andrew placing some colored shapes in his new puzzle.

Thanksgiving in Alabama

In November, we packed up and went to Foley, Alabama (just outside of Mobile), to visit Sam's mother and step-father for Thanksgiving.  The weather was great and we had a lot of fun, including Andrew's first real visit to the beach, a chat with Santa, and some playtime with family and at some great playgrounds.

Walking to the water with Grandpa Bill

Playing in the sand.

Toes in the water.

Absolutely loving the beach.

Every little boy loves seaweed.

Andrew got so dirty and wet that no one wanted to hold him.
He was also determined to stay at the beach.
This was the only way we could get him back. He was NOT happy about it!

Riding a Carousel on Thanksgiving.

Meeting Santa and discussing present ideas.

Drawing with Grandpa Bill. Even learned to say "circle"!

Andrew's grandmother loves flamingos.

Singing and dancing ones are no exception.

This video doesn't have audio, but you can see the

flamingo dancing and singing, and Andrew starts dancing with him.