A Post of Pictures

I realized it’s been awhile since I have updated the blog.  I thought why not do one big post instead of many little posts. So here you go, some pictures to enjoy:

At the last craft fair at Beasley this fall, there was a booth that was selling these letter trains.  Andrew loves trains and I had to get one for him.  I was going to save it for when we moved him into his big kid room, but I was in the other room and I heard him say “wow, cool.”  I came out and he had hooked some of the letters together and he said “cool train, mom.”  We worked on spelling his name and putting it in order and he drove it around the coffee table.

The was a lady bug in the utility closet.  Andrew crawled after that bug for quite awhile and then we put it outside to join it’s family.  This boy loves all creatures, whether it is insect or animal.

This is Andrews new way of watching movies.  He pulls both chairs from his table in front of the coffee table and sits and watches the movie. 

Aaron has been working on Christmas projects lately.  Andrew enjoys helping dad in the garage.  This picture makes me laugh since he is in his jammies with his shoes on, working in the garage with dad.

We were eating dinner one night (ok, we eat dinner every night).  Andrew had finished eating dinner and was lying on the bench.  I thought he was just hanging out there, but nope he was sound asleep.  

Grandma Mertes made Andrew’s day!  She stopped by to give him a Cars lunch bag and Cars key chain with keys and a remote on it, as well as a flashlight and lanyard just like hers.  Andrew loves playing with her keys and now he has a set of his own.  He takes them everywhere with him and wears them in the store.  He even hangs them on the hook by our keys so they don’t get lost. 

We put up the Christmas tree the weekend after Thanksgiving.  We put it in the playroom and now under the tree is a great place to play with cars.

Andrew has really gotten into his kitchen set lately.  I hung the apron that I had when I was little by the kitchen set and now every time he goes to play with it he has to put his apron on first. Grocery shopping and cooking can be messy.

The other night I ran upstairs to do some emailing and came back downstairs.  We had a Christmas bowl with candy cane kisses in it and there was 12 or so left in the bowl.  Well when I came downstairs the bowl was empty and there was a pile of wrappers on the table and floor.  I was surprised he ate all of them.  He has been good about running over and having one or two and then going back to playing.  I didn’t think he would eat them all in one sitting. 

Whenever I turn the music on the TV, Andrew runs over to behind the couch and grabs the Rockband guitar and starts playing along to the music.  He will stand there and dance and sing with the guitar too.  We may have to get him one his own size for Christmas.  He loves music and playing any type of musical instrument.  One of these days I am going to get him a harmonica.  I think he would love playing that.

Now for a funny story….today we went to mail Christmas presents at the Post Office.  I drove into the parking lot and Andrew said “ohhh the temple.”  I asked him if we were at the temple and he said yes.  I told his this is the Post Office and we took a little tour and talked about what goes on at the Post Office.  He then started saying Post Office.  When we got into the car to leave he said “bye temple.”  Oh brother.