The way Daddy sees him

Latest batch of pics from Josh

Playing at the park with Lindsey and Sophie:



























Josh's pictures of Andrew's new sweater:















And the kicker:


Here is a vintage picture from a few months ago that I just had to get on here:

My boys

Lisa got Andrew a dump truck for Christmas last year thinking he would just love it, but he has been sort of ambivalent about it. Until now. Now all we hear out of his room are truck sounds:

Andrew and I followed Josh, Ben, and Adam to play frisbee golf. Andrew ran the entire course. He also has a pretty decent throw, especially considering he has a foam frisbee.

I think this video is so sweet:

This is Andrew's new favorite song:

New Things

Nana has discovered Pintrest, which means she has new cool things to do every time we go over there, like fingerpainting in a plastic bag:





Or 101 clothes pin games for toddlers:

Or games with sliced-up pool noodles:

He tried the dropping game again when we got home but I didn't catch it. His balance in this video is amazing though.

I made Andrew a new fall sweater. We went out to eat with Aunt Shawn last week while she was here and Aunt Emily made him a napkin hat to match.








If the sweater looks familiar, it's because it is the same one I made him last year. It is even the same size, just longer.
Grandpa has great restaurant games:

Andrew watched a Western with Papa Robins and this was his reaction to the horses charging.

Last weekend Eric's family came to meet all of us and talk wedding plans. (oh yeah, you all heard Aunt Sara is engaged, right? Yay for Sara and Eric!) We went to the corn maze.


Sara got to try on a wedding dress. I can't show you a picture of that, but I can show you what showed up unexpectedly in the window to say hi to Eric's niece Saffy:

My nana loves...

My mom taught Andrew to say "Me!" when she say "My nana loves...". This is very cute except now when I try to teach him to say "I love you." it goes like this:

Andrew got a baby doll on a recent trip to Walmart. Believe it or not there are no boy babies at Walmart. The pink doesn't seem to bother him though.


He picked this one because it has a pasie, as all babies should in his opinion.



We also took our first trip to the library. I don't think Andrew even realized there were books because there was a train set.





Lately it is all about the latest cute thing Andrew says:

Haha! "Fun"

Patty Cake

For the past month, this has been Andrew's favorite movie on my phone:

It is he only one he asks for by name : "Nana, stick-it, moomee"

So today we made this movie to honor her:

Big Bites

It drives my mom crazy, but Andrew eats with humongous bites. He gets especially enthusiastic about cantaloupe. He is getting great with fork though.

Cheese!


Owen, Andrew's friend from the church nursery, has been teaching him about block-building. Up until now he has mostly been honing his knocking-down skills.

Church is a really happy place for Andrew. He comes with me a little early while I get ready for my Sunday School kiddos. During that time he has become the mascot of the Children's department.

Do you know what I see? A whole generation of adoring babysitters. Just for the record, I did not organize this circle.

Our visit to Western

We decided to have family night at Western this week since half our family is there now (Adam, Robin, Sara, And Eric).
Momma brought the stuff for lasagna and we ate at Adam's apartment. It is perfect for him, but a little small for a 19-month-old. Andrew's favorite part was the bedroom door:

Adam's bed sits almost right in the floor, which is perfect for Andrew. He ran up to it and immediately said "flop?"

Baby translator: he says "two" during the countdown (the only number he can count. He misses one and three) and calls for "Eric" at the end.

We played in the sandbox today and he just looked so beautiful.








Of course he is very busy and the famous photographer was at church, so none of the pictures really show it just right.

Then we made popcorn.














Blurry, I know, but that grin is so sweet.

We were getting ready for bed and he said "Movie! Jump! Cheese!" so we made a movie of him jumping. Presenting Andrew's first cinematic production:

Then Daddy came home. He makes everything seem exciting.