Counting

This picture was actually taken a few weeks ago, but it's not often that Drew looks so directly at the camera, so I had to include it! I can't let good pictures of Drew like this one go to waste :) Whenever we talk on the phone Drew reaches over to push the buttons. He doesn't have much to say on the phone, but he loves the buttons (and hanging up on people for us!). Drew will be chatting away while we're on the phone, but if we hand it over to him, he immediately clams up and listens.

Drew's been busy at daycare lately, which means we've had to push his bedtime up a little. He's a tired boy at night!

Drew has been eating everything in sight lately (due to another growth spurt?) and we've been working on table manners . . . like keeping your mouth closed while you eat, saying "please," "thank you," and "you're welcome," and saying "done" to ask to be finished. Here, he's doing a good job of keeping his mouth closed . . .

and here he isn't doing such a good job. Drew!!

Every night now one of Drew's favorite toys is ANY book he can get his hands on! He literally looks at book after book taking them off the shelf and babbling about them. He loves the blinking fireflies in this book by Eric Carle.

Jana is playing one of her favorite games with Drew: "Monster Kisses." Drew giggles and laughs until he's red in the face, but he'll keep coming back for more. It's a lot of fun to watch the two of them enjoying each other!

Look at that grin! Drew does a good job of keeping a smile on my face and Jana's face each night!

Drew is very adventurous. He'll climb anything and he leaps from object to object (much to our horror!). We've had to train him not to open doors because he's figured that out and loves to get into everything. He also has figured out how to pull up a kitchen chair to reach whatever is on the table. If it ever gets too quiet, Jana and I immediately perk up to figure out what he's doing! Put that pen down!

Drew has been reading "Ten Little Ladybugs" a lot lately. He can name "Brown Bear" by calling it "brown," and now he's started saying "ten" when he wants to read "Ten Little Ladybugs." "Ten Little Ladybugs" counts backwards from 10 to 1. Speaking of counting, whenever we count to three now, Drew says "go!" (one . . .two . . .three . . .go!!) Also, if you ask Drew how old he is, he'll respond "nine!!" We have no idea where he got that from. Finally, if we ask Drew if he's one or two, he says "two" with a mischievous glint in his eye. Where does he come up with this stuff?!!