Our little boy is growing up and really getting to do more "big boy" things. For example, Andrew has been doing quite a bit of playing video games and apps on the iPad. James and Andrew just started playing Cars 2, Super Hero Squad and Batman on the Wii. And in terms of iPad apps, Andrew's favorites are Smurfs and Bakery Story.
He still enjoys watching Curious George, but he has added Super Hero Squad into the mix. As for movies, he watches Madagascar and Madagascar 2 on the iPad the most. And he loves listening to the Lorax soundtrack especially Let It Grow and How Bad Can I Be? as well as the Madagascar 3 soundtrack. His two favorite tunes off that CD is Firework and Afrocircus.
His favorite LEGOs right now are LEGO City police and super heroes. He never tires of playing where the good guys get the bad guys. Usually he has the bad guys robbing the bank and going to their hideout and then the police come after them like one of the LEGO books we have.
Drew's eating is still pretty hearty. He definitely is very much the carnivore--eating lots of thit nuong and Mongolian Beef when he can. His favorite two vegetable are broccoli and corn on the cob. He still does a very good job of eating fruits including blueberries, strawberries, and grapes. His most requested breakfast is kolaches by a landslide, but he still likes to eat Eggo waffles and Toaster Strudel
Daddy has been letting Andrew drink more Gatorade and Vitamin Water. Andrew likes to pick out the flavors usually picking lemon lime or fruit punch Gatorade (sometimes orange and grape). As for Vitamin Water, he will pick red or pinks ones and I am not quite sure why that is.
We are still having Andrew practice write his letters and numbers. He sometimes does them backwards like S and J as well as mixing up lower-cased b and d. In regards to learning how to read, he is pretty proficient on knowing what sounds the letters make. However, he is still having a harder time with blending the sounds together to form the word, but is starting to get the hang of it. He has memorized of how to spell and read words like exit, stop, map, etc.
Andrew's independence continues to increase. He is much better at dressing himself though he still can't do buttons and zippers. To be honest, I don't even make him try. I guess I should so that he can learn it all the more quicker. And lately, he has been wanting to open and close the doors to the cars. I don't have a problem with opening the doors, but I am not too thrilled about closing them. I tell him to watch his fingers and so far he hasn't slammed any of his fingers...yet.
Speaking of clothes, he asks to wear t-shirts now instead of polo knits. And of course, his most prized shirts are his super hero ones. I can still tell him to wear polo knits like for nice occasions and church, but if it is like school or routine places, he is all about the tees!
He is fairly good about helping me clean up when I am tidying up a bit and especially likes to clean up his toys when that happens. One day, I was organizing his toys and took out quite a few baby toys to be put in storage. And he was on board helping me pick them out. He even tells me that we should give some toys away to Goodwill
Also, he is still pretty good about putting himself to sleep. He will still come out or yell to us from his room, but it is not near the amount he did it beforehand. And there are lots more nights where he doesn't come out at all.
Andrew was very much ready to go to summer camp this year and it's been totally seamless having Mr. Sanchez and Ms. Edgett again along with some friends from last year's class. He loves when they have Messy Day--he looks forward to that part every week!! Which is funny considering he was tentative at first about it saying he was scared about getting too messy or too muddy. I told him just try it out and that it was okay if he didn't do anything he didn't feel like doing. And sure enough, after the first one, he was hooked. Ms. Edgett said he totally had a blast!
And speaking of Mr. Sanchez, Drew loved having him as a babysitter and asked when we can have him again. I am so glad that we found a really great babysitter (who is not a relative).
Our little fish enjoys swimming, but still says he doesn't want to go to swim lessons. I told him if he does well during the summer with Daddy and me, then we won't have to go this summer. So, we shall see how that goes.
Drew keeps talking about his next birthday and Christmas. He will go around the toy section and tell me what he thinks he might want for gifts. Luckily, he is complacent with waiting until Christmas or his birthday for whatever he has picked out--usually the bigger sets of LEGOs.
He also talks about what theme he wants at his party. The usual suspects are fire trucks, Madagascar, airplanes, or pirates. And he asks when he is going to be five even though when I turn it around on him and ask him, he knows it's "February 24" (as opposed to February 24th).
Andrew's most desired destinations are currently Disneyland (for Cars Land that just opened up recently), New York (to ride the subway again), and Korea (to visit Papa).
Uncle Hung was doing a tune up on the truck so we had borrowed Papa's car so we didn't have to go without a car for the couple of days he was working out. Andrew has always liked Papa's car, but now he really loves it. He totally wants to put the top down even it's too hot outside. He even insists on pushing the buttons to initiate the top going down or back up.
Andrew has been thinking a lot more about what he wants to be when he grows up. Some days, he says he wants to work at Rice with Daddy. And then there are other days, when he says he wants to be a fireman and usually talks like he will work at the fire station close to our house. One afternoon, he told me that he would go to work at the fire station, get off work, and then stop at HEB to buy groceries for dinner. I love how he thinks that we will still live in our house all together even when he grows up. Oh, there have been a few times when Andrew says he will build houses and build us a bigger house for us to live in. In addition, he was very adamant about telling me that "there can be two daddies in the house" meaning James and him. He said he wants two kids.
One not-so-great thing he does lately is gets a little attitude. There have been a few times when he will blow a raspberry at me when I reprimanding him--which normally gets him into even more trouble.
