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.

A visit to Memphis

In late October, the family packed up and headed to Memphis for a weekend of activity.  Sam has his high school reunion, and there was a 90th birthday party for Sam's Step Grandmother's birthday.

During our time there, Andrew got to go to the zoo and the children's museum.

Scare-Drew

Riding on the carousel with Emily. 

Pandrew.

Playing Tic-Tac-Toe at the Children's Museum.

Shopping at the Children's Museum.

Not sure what's up with the volume.

Andrew with with grandparents.

Andrew coloring with Jaja.

Again, volume is bad.

Andrew got ahold of a birthday balloon.  It was just about
the best thing ever for 30 seconds!

Best Playdate EVER!

My friend is demolishing her house and rebuilding on the same lot.  They've moved all of their stuff out, so they invited all of the kids to come and destroy the house.  They had paint, crayons, and markers.  The kids could color on the walls, floors, windows, wherever they wanted to.  Nothing was off limits.  Some of the older kids lost interest after a while, but Andrew was in heaven!  He stayed and colored on the walls, inside and outside, for two hours.  He would have stayed all day and night, but we needed to get home so he could have dinner and a bath before bedtime.

It's a shame that circumstances like this don't happen more often.

Uh oh!

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November already?

Time flies when you're having fun, I guess. Sam has our nice camera in Philadelphia, and it has all of our good photos on it. While we wait for him to upload some of them here, I'll post some pictures from my phone to tide you over.

For Halloween, Andrew went as a 1950's greaser, and I was his pink lady. I even put flames on the little push car he rode around our neighborhood in.



We had a lazy day yesterday. Andrew was being awfully sweet and snugly. Every once in a while, everybody needs to spend a day in their pajamas. If they're footie jammies, even better.



Making faces after bath time.



And coloring a picture for Sam. I might have helped him a bit. Andrew LOVES to color lately. He'd do it all day long if we'd let him.


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