Our Boy

I thought I'd post a few pictures and tell you what Andrew has been up to lately. He's 16 1/2 months and acting more and more like a little boy. Now... he's definitley still my baby, but it's amazing to see how quickly he's learning and growing.

One of Andrew's newest accomplishments is learning to climb. He started this a couple of weeks ago. This skill is lots of fun for Andrew, but now quite so much fun for me, as I never know what he will try to climb next - and as you can imagine, this makes me very nervous! I heard a noise in the kitchen a couple of days ago and looked in to find what you see in the picture above. Andrew had pushed his chair to the cabinet, climbed onto it, and was pushing the button to open the microwave door. The noise I heard was him repeatedly opening the door, then closing it, opening and closing... I guess he knew how to do it from watching Wilson and me. He was pretty proud of himself for this! And aside from being scared to think of what he could have gotten into, I was thinking about what a smart boy he is.


Andrew loves his chair that Ganny and Papaw gave him for Christmas! It is so cute how he knows it's "his chair" and we love seeing him sit in it while he eats his snack or while he watches "Baby Praise."

Another picture of Andrew climbing...He has no trouble climbing into the rocking chair in the new room that we are working on for him. The nursery is going to stay the same for the new baby, and Andrew is moving into a semi- big boy room. I say "semi" because we've decided to keep him in a crib for now rather than try the transition to the toddler bed. I don't think Andrew is quite ready for that change just yet - and I'm not either! But his new room will definitely have more of a little boy look that he can stay in for several years... red furniture, primary colors, cars and trucks... It's coming along well and I'll post some pictures of it soon.


Another of Andrew's new skills this month - eating with a spoon! He's really very good at it, too. He loves applesauce, yogurt, pudding, and oatmeal; and he loves feeding himself with his spoon!