February Photos!

It's been way too long since we've done an update.  Sam just got home after being out of town for three weeks.  While he was gone, Atlanta got hit with snow and an ice storm.  Andrew and I spent a lot of time inside in our pajamas.  We jumped at every opportunity to get out of the house and play because we were both suffering from cabin fever.

Andrew's first real snow!  He loved it, for about five minutes. 

Once he realized that snow was cold, he was
done and wanted to go back inside.

Business casual Andrew at My Gym.

The ONE day we were able to get out to the playground!

I took Andrew to a new indoor playground. 

This one has all sorts of new things to play with!

Bouncing around at the playground!

Just some giggles before bedtime.

Any time the temperature was cooperating,
we'd take the wagon for a stroll around the
neighborhood.

In an attempt to avoid the ice and power outages,
Andrew and I headed to Hilton Head for a few days
this week.  Papa let him pull out all of the pots
and pans.  Andrew was so happy, since he's not
allowed to do this at home.

Great progress!!

Andrew is showing more and more signs of learning, some of which blow us away at times.

The first is regarding his number blocks:

Now, he's known his numbers for a while, and loves to count.  But, what he's doing with the blocks is a whole different scenario.  He knows which block is which number, by color.  So, if we ask him to get us the number 2 block, he goes and grabs the yellow block without having to look to see if it's number 2.  Ask for the number 6 block, he grabs the purple one.  He knows all ten of them.  That's mind-boggling.

The second is with his farm animals:

He knows them by name.  We ask him to grab the pig, he grabs the pig.  Ask for the horse, he gets the horse. And while he doesn't know how to say their names yet, he knows some of their sounds.  He's gotten better since this video was taken, but it gives you an idea:

So things are looking good!

How is it January already?

Time flies when you're having fun, I guess. Things around here are busy, for sure. I don't have much of an update right now, but I figured if share a few photos.




Swinging at the park. The weather has been brutal lately. It always seems like it's too cold or too wet, so we jump on every opportunity to get outside.


Andrew and his friend Claire watching a puppet show.


Andrew got stuck underneath our chair. Of course we had to grab a photo before we got him out.


Andrew swinging at the gym.

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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.