one,two,three . . . go!

I don't have time to post a lot of pictures at the moment, but here are a couple of videos to show some things Drew has been doing lately.

Drew is RUNNING all over the house now. The other night he did 17 laps around our living room while we cheered him on. He used me lying down on the ground as his marker and he ran around me with us cheering him on to faster and faster lap times. Needless to say, we accomplished our goal and had a nicely tired boy for bedtime :) Drew also likes to get his back up against our front door like a starting block and then run forward at the count of the three and the command to "go." He did this right after finishing his 17 laps, so you'll have to excuse the poor camera work due to me being on the floor. You'll get the idea though of what he was doing.

Drew has been learning how to wink, but he's not that great at it yet. The other night he climbed up on me while I was sitting on the couch and proceeded to make some moves for the camera. Upon seeing that I was filming him he started to "wink." You'll have to use your imagination a little because they look like slow blinks because he can't keep one eye open! To help a little with translation, he says "down, please," "down," "Tina" (for his Aunt Christina), and "thank you" in this video. As the video cuts out Drew says "peek" for peek-a-boo. There is also lots of Drew's heavy breathing. Jana and I have giggled repeatedly over Drew's loud breathing on this video! (Mark's note: This video hasn't been working well, but I'm working on it. It should be working soon.)

A different night Drew was across the room playing with his Duplo container when he saw me with the camera. First, he waves to me and then he comes over and starts to wink again! How cute!

Jana has been working with Drew on saying "thank you" and "you're welcome." In this video Drew hands me his hat, gives me a little reminder to say "thank you" (he's teaching ME manners!) and then responds with a "you're welcome." Another phrase that I'll have to try to get on video is that when Drew can't reach a toy because it went under the couch or something, he turns to us and says "help, please." Jana worked hard with him on that one too so that he can use it at daycare. We prefer him using his words to get something over crying or pointing!