My sweet little Drewski, oh how I love thee. This kid is just awesome. His personality is really shining through and he is so freakin’ hilarious. Drew cracks himself up all the time. He laughs all the time and loves to imitate his brother and sister. He no longer walks anywhere, it’s full sprinting or not at all. He is so sure-footed though that’s it’s not as scary as when Paige used to run. (I still don’t know if it was her eyes that made her so off-balance?) He’s very into books now and will sit and flip through some several times a day. He has one or two favorites that we read before nap and bedtime and he can spend forever pointing to the various animals on the pages. He loves his popper (thanks Cindy again, god knows what we’d do if we didn’t have three!) and will bring poppers around to those without when he feels like cruisin’ and poppin’.
What else? He loves his little Fisher-Price farmhouse which is kind of funny because the other kids never really showed that much interest in it. He loves the new Thomas train table. He dunks basketballs about fifteen times a day…and I know Eric is thinking NBA. When he makes a basket he says in his super-deep voice “Dunk”. He likes whatever the other kids are playing with. Weird story: he likes to sit on an Elmo potty when the other kids are on it (hence we have three so we don’t have to fight over Elmo potties). Anyways, tonight he had a really big poop and before he let it out he went over and dragged an Elmo potty to the center of the room. Was he trying to let us know he needed to poop on the potty? Smartest baby ever??
Okay here’s the bad part: Drew is incredibly smart. He knows what we want from him but most times he is the least cooperative of our three kids. If we say “let’s get in the car” he’ll run down the driveway. If I ask him to stay close, he’ll run away. The other day we were at Petsmart and he started running away from us laughing his giddy laugh and we lost him in the store. When we found him, he wasn’t freaked out, he was LAUGHING. Oh geez. Another not so pleasant thing about Drew right now is that if he doesn’t get his way and he tantrums, he flails his arms and hits. I’m not sure if he’s meaning to hit or he just flaps his arms and sometimes my body is an innocent bystander. Either way it’s not pleasant when Drew doesn’t get his way. He is in a phase right now where he is very non-tolerant of Moxie. I should mention that Moxie has gotten a little out of hand lately herself. She is now stealing food directly out of the children’s hands and that is a big no-no. And Drew can’t stand that. He whines and yells whenever he’s eating and Moxie goes by him. I’ve had to lock the poor dog out on the back patio in the heat until he’s done eating.
Drew is finally sleeping all naps in his own crib (for probably the last month). It took a long time getting there but now we’re going down for naps and bedtime happy and awake. He really has taken a liking to the blankets my Grandma (their G-G-ma) has made for them and when I lay him in his crib he just snuggles up with his blankie and is happy happy happy. My Grandma rocks for making the boys something they look forward to going to bed to get. Now if only Paige would find security in her blankie instead of still waking me up 2-3 times a night……
His vocabulary is HUGE. I honestly don’t know how many words Drew can say but if I had to guess I’d say in the 40 word range. He still can’t say Paige which is funny because he can say Mommy, Daddy, Cole and Jessica (our girl in the afternoons). One of his new words which cracks me up because it is so random is octopus. Weird, huh? Reminds me of when I was learning Spanish in college and we’d learn stupid phrases like ‘wash the plates’. Okay, maybe that wasn’t that stupid of a phrase…but you know what I mean.
I still haven’t figured out what special mommy and me activity Drew and I are going to do when P and C are in preschool. I want to do something that he’ll love and something that I never got a chance to do with two babies before. I know it doesn’t matter what we do as long as we hang together it’ll be awesome. I’ll figure it out, I still have five weeks until school starts.
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