November 21, 2014 (2 Years, 9 months)

Andrew was a penguin for Halloween. After his brother got a hand me down penguin costume from his cousin, Andrew decided he wanted to be a penguin too. He enjoyed lots of Halloween activities including the Fall Festival in Baraboo, Trunk or Treats, and trick or treating in our neighborhood.

Andrew sometimes has a hard time deciding what he wants, when he is given two options he usually wants both. "Andrew, do you want to play upstairs or downstairs?" "Upstairs AND downstairs!" "Andrew do you want your dinner hot or cold?" "Hot AND cold!"

Andrew likes to dance, which to him means run around the room in circles until he falls down laughing.

Andrew continues to make us laugh with his unusual sleep positions.

Andrew had his second dental visit, the dentist said he has very nice teeth! He was scared by ended up doing really well.

Andrew has taken more interest in learning his ABCs and 123s. He can sing the whole alphabet song; he usually gets distracted before he gets all the way through and sometimes sings out of order or misses a couple letters but he does know all parts. He can count to fourteen. He is also starting to be able to recognize and point out some letters and numbers when he sees them in world on signs, toys, etc. He usually correctly identifies A, I, O, S, W, 1, and 8 and sometimes others.

Andrew is getting much better at putting together jigsaw puzzles and is really proud of himself when he is able to put one together without any help.

Whenever Andrew is given the choice of what color he wants, he almost always chooses pink. Pink plate, pink marker, pink cart at the grocery store, pink paper, etc. The only exception is when it comes to his vitamins in which case he insists on purple.

Andrew isn't letting the cold weather get him down. If I tell him its too cold to play outside he replies simply that he'll just put on his snow pants to keep him warm. He also insists on wearing both his hats that his aunt crocheted for him last year.