Presents from mommy and Daddy

After we got home from Seattle Andrew got to open his presents in our freezing cold house. He was very excited, he had been wanting it to be his birthday for days. We let him open the presents from us on his birthday because we knew he would have a lot of presents to open at his party.

A Curious George movie

He loves Curious George!

(He doesn't watch t.v. that much, but sometimes he wants to watch Curious George and he's just about the only cartoon that isn't 'on demand' on our cable.)

"Ooooh, a big one!"

A scooter!

On to the next present
"It's Percy, and Thomas, and Salty."

Thank you mommy. Thomas the train bath toys to squirt you with....and he has. :)

"Ooooooh!! Another big one!"

This is what he kept asking for, a computer, like Ethan's

Daddy made him an ice cream sundae and he blew out the candles

Trying out his scooter inside

We decided to take it outside even though it was a little dark and rainy....notice who's riding it. I was trying to show him what to do.

Pushing Andrew back to the house (he wanted me to ride it though, he'll get the hang of it.)

Happy Birthday Andrew!!

Happy Birthday to you,

Happy Birthday to you,

Happy Birthday dear Andrew,

Happy Birthday to you!!

Happy birthday sweet boy of mine! You are a cute, adorable, funny, smart little boy. I love you to pieces! You are growing up so fast! You will always be my baby even though you say you aren't my baby. You're a big boy now.

Here is my special Andrew song:

(to the tune of "You are my sunshine")

"You are my Andrew,

My only Andrew,

You make me happy when skies are gray,

You'll always know dear,

How much I Love you!,

Please don't take my Andrew away"

It was snowing on Andrew's birthday when he got up, and we had no heat! He was shivering!! I said, "Andrew, you're cold." He said, "Nooo, I'm w--a--r--m," as his teeth were chattering. We let Andrew pick where he wanted to go on his birthday and he picked the Seattle Children's Museum. He had wanted it to be his birthday for several days, we'd been talking about it. We also took his best friend Ethan (who's 2 1/2 yrs. old) with. The boys had a blast!! The whole drive up there I heard, "Where are we going?" about every 2 minutes. They also played the yes/no game. They went back and forth and back and forth. Thank you Kelley and Donivan for letting us take Ethan with.

The birthday boy getting ready to go

Andrew loves to drive this car

Cheese!!

Chillin' in the boat

Cooking in the kitchen

Calling 'Muh'

Andrew pretending to sleep in the Japanese house (I happened to snap this picture with his eyes closed, usually he puts his hands up to close his eyes and then opens them right away)

Andrew drinking his milk and he pretended to pour more

in Cog city they used the plastic golf balls to do all sorts of things

He put the golf ball on the conveyor belt and then turned the wheel to make it go up

Andrew, mommy, and Ethan

the REI tent

Andrew and Ethan having a sleepover :)

Ethan really liked the water table, Andrew played in it for a little bit

Curious George's rocket ship slide, which Andrew said was his favorite part. I had to convince him to go up the stairs at first. :)

They put blocks in and turned the wheel to make them go up the conveyor belt and come down in a pile

My adorable "big" little boy

Shopping in the grocery store

Driving the big METRO bus

Fireman Andrew, he was wearing his fireman boots too

Best buds!

Look at those mischieveous little boy smiles :)

Thanks for a fun day Andrew and Ethan!

Brrr....it's the North Pole

It was oficially the North Pole at our house....or a meat locker this last week. On Sunday (3/29, and yes it snowed this weekend) our furnace was not working and we had to turn off the gas to it, and conincidentally daddy turned off the gas to the hot water heater too!! We found out that it was going to be really expensive to fix and it was old so we decided to have it replaced. So on Monday they came and put a new one in and Andrew had gone to the grandparents' house in the afternoon and stayed all night. We went out to dinner and when we came home it was pleasantly warm. We didn't realize until Tuesday evening that it was not working AGAIN!! The brand new one!! After Andrew went to bed I thought it was a little cold and wanted to turn on the heat (it was 64), wouldn't come on. Well, the next day was Andrew's birthday (I know the post says 3/31, but I'm writing this on 4/11, trying to catch up :) and we were supposed to be gone all day to Seattle. My dad very generously came and sat at our house to wait for the repairman. They tried to switch out a very expensive blower and motherboard and some fuses. When I came home and saw the furnace taken apart in the garage still and they were gone, I was about to cry. They had to call the factory rep. to come over from Spokane that night. I slept with long underwear, sweats, and down slippers under my down comforter. When I had gotten Andrew up on Wednesday morning to go get his friend Ethan I said you're cold and he said No, I'm warm...as his teeth were chattering and he was shivering. Poor boy!! They promised me they would have it fixed by Thursday evening. They tried to change a lot of parts out and finally replaced the guts of the furnace. After 5 days of no heat, I was ready to be warm. Ironically, this week our heater has not been on much. :) It did snow on Andrew's birthday though.

Preschools

Well, we went to check out preschools last week. I think we might send Andrew to our church in Sumner. It is quite a drive for me and I can't come home while he's at school but we really like it. We checked out a co-op and the people were very nice but the building was kind of run down and they couldn't have the heat on during the day because it was baseboard heating. I also would have to work in his class and serve on committees and on the board. I want to be involved in his preschool some but with working full-time it would be a lot of work for me. Pray for us that we would choose the right preschool for him and for us.

Bath Time Fun!!

Andrew and I were having a lot of fun at bathtime (3/22/09) so I decided to take some pictures. We play with his firetruck and fire boat a lot and crash them together. He put another boat up there and the hippo in between and he said that the boats were getting the hippo. I turned around for a minute and next thing I knew he had lined up all the bath toys on the tub.

Silly boy!

All the toys

It goes right here! (Bossy boiler--it's from a Thomas the train book)

Here's my boat!

Debbie's 30th Birthday!

We went to Round Table Pizza on Saturday (March 21st) to celebrate Debbie's 30th birthday (one of my very good friends). Andrew had a lot of fun running around the tables. He was very excited to see Debbie's sister Jackie, every time she left, he wanted to know where she went and followed her around. :) He also very excitedly announced to everyone that he had gone pee on the potty and poopy on the potty. :) Good thing we were amongst friends. :) (He's still excited aobut going places other than home)

In his pajamas before we left, so he could fall asleep in the car.....only that didn't happen. Yesterday my aunt bought him a little Easter bunny when we were shopping, he named it "bunny" and he has to take it EVERYWHERE!! He didn't fall asleep because he was talking to "bunny" the whole way home. He didn't go to bed until 10:40!! And got up at 7:30 the next morning!!

Debbie's friend Beth, her sister Jackie, Debbie, Matt, me and Andrew (I didn't see at first that they were giving her bunny ears :)

Everybody from the previous picture and our friend Dana too

A Day with Auntie Barbara

On Friday, March 20th, Andrew and I went to the mall to spend the day with my Aunt Barbara. Andrew had fun picking out his clothes and toys for his birthday presents....even though he wasn't going to get them for two weeks. He was very well behaved and he got to play on the cars and in the play area. He is doing very well at using the potty, he went at the food court bathroom, at Wal-Mart, and a few other places. I think it's become a novelty now, as opposed to when he told me he would only go at home. :)

Andrew 'riding' the fire truck. I offered to put money in but he didn't want it to 'go up and down.'


The little fireman

We usually just let him play on the cars without putting quarters in but this time I did, he was a little scared when it lurched forward but then he liked it.

The hot dog van driver

The green race car

Smile!

Andrew and Auntie Barbara reading the book he got for doing so well at potty-training.

He loves this play area! He got to go 2 or 3 days in a row, lucky boy, that doesn't usually happen.

Riding one of the doggies. He's a lot more independent with climbing on things now

Sitting in the hippo's mouth

At this point in time there were a lot of kids younger than him there, so he decided he needed to crawl because they were. :)

Happy St. Patty's Day!!

Andrew's thumbprint four-leaf clovers

(the bigger ones are mommy's)

The artist

We didn't do anything special for this holiday except to wear green and we tried to make thumbprint shamrocks and then Andrew ended up painting a green and orange picture. :) We had green paint out and then he asked for orange paint, I don't think he knew that was the other St. Patty's Day color.

SNOW!!!

We went on Monday (the 9th) to visit Ethan and his mommy Kelley and to meet Ethan's new baby sister Eliana! I held Eliana for quite a while but I forgot to take any pictures of her! :( Ethan and Andrew had a lot of fun. It was snowing like crazy....and sticking. Ethan and Andrew would sit on the back of the couch and say "It's snowing!! It's snowing!!"

Hi Ethan (I wanted to get a picture of both boys looking out the window but one of them would always turn around)

Hi Andrew!

Now after going to Ethan's house Andrew really wants a baby sister! :)