Andy at 22 months...

It's so hard to believe that my baby is just a few months away from being 2! We ae so grateful for you - you have brought so much joy to our family.

You at this stage -

• you are talking so much. you are speaking constantly. you will say whatever we ask and putting two words together. you are learning to use your words to communicate with us. some of the words you say are: hoe (show), juice, eat, side (outside), dog ... usually followed by 'woof woof', cat, cow ... usually followed by "moo", see (means - follow me and I'll show you), mommy, dada, beh (ben), wii (will), ganny (granny), beep beep (which means I want to get in the car and pretend to drive), k (are you ok?),
• you are sleeping from 8pm - 9am. you take 1 nap usually at 2pm that lasts anywhere from 1-3 hours.
• you are ALWAYS happy. you seldom cry unless you are hungry or tired.
• you are wearing size 4 diapers. we think you are ready to potty train and we have tried a little. you actually used the potty once (see an earlier post). you do know the sensations, and you want your dirty/wet diapers off immediately.
• you wear size 18 - 24 months clothes.

some of your favorite things are:

• playing outside,
• getting in the car and going "beep beep",
• your blanket and clifford pacifier which you call "baby". if you are unhappy or need comfort. you call for your baby and go looking for them. it always has to be the pair together;
• watching barney, leap frog's letter factory and word world;
• playing with your brothers. if they are playing rough, running and chasing - you have to be right in the middle. if they are playing with swords or lightsabers - you grab one and play along;

what i love about you:

• i love when the barney song comes on "I love you, you love me" - you have to find me and give me a big hug and a kiss;
• i love that with any situation you can laugh and giggle contagiously;
• i love that when you are playing rough and you think you may have hurt me, you lean down to my face, pat me on the back and say "k" wanting to know if I'm ok. i love that you do this!
• i love that everytime someone gives you something you say tank you (thank you);

daddy and i are so thankful for your sweet, happy personality. we hope that you never change. daddy often says that you remind him of papa b/c you love to joke and make people happy.

Fake cell phones and all their rage

All the kids in the neighborhood (at least the ones our boys play with) are all excited about cell phones and playing with them. We found out that if you go to Best Buy and ask for their "fake/demo" phones they'll give them to you - for the kids to play with. It's just a shell, not inside parts - but you can get any model that's currently being used now. So the kids just love them.
I took the boys to Best Buy to get some ... I think we ended up with like 12.
Ben and Will were at school and I was doing laundry, cleaning ... and came in the living room to find Andy putting all the phones in his pockets. I thought it was so funny. They were so heavy - it was weighing his pants down. He didn't care though - he wanted to get as many in his pockets as he could.

Don't you love the diaper peeking out. I love these kind of shots .. no matter what it is - I love seeing the little diaper.

Feburary Header

Got the format fixed and uploaded the new header... It's pretty simple but I liked the picture - so there... Let's see if it can make it through February.



And here's to all of us making it through February as well...

Dave

January Header

The header for January sure didn't last long - or is 2009 already flying by like 2008...


...and I mangled the format... maybe i'll get it fixed or just wait until Kate chooses a different one. It's hard to hit a moving target.

Dave