Giving Credit

Andrew loves playing with balls, cars and his brothers. His favorite books are "Brown Bear" "Mr. Brown Goes Moo Can You" and a fire truck book. I think that he says book "da" and Adam "a-da" he loves to sing and likes music. He wants to eat anything that I am and that is everything. One of his top teeth has just broke the surface. When he plays with cars he makes car noises and he just turned 10months old yesterday the 21st of Jan. He hasn't stopped smiling and he brings so much joy to our family. One of my favorites is that he loves looking at the family pictures on the wall and his favorite is the Disney cruise family photo with Minni and Mickey.

Snow Monkey

It finally snowed this weekend and Adam couldn't be happier. I think that he has been waiting for it to snow for a long time. the boys got snowball maker/thrower things for Christmas and Adam has been so excited to use those things on Daddy. He has been scheming about who is going to be on his team and what kind of fort he will have. The second time that everyone went out yesterday he stayed out for a really long time just making snowballs and having a good time.

This evening right about the time it was getting dark he decided that he wanted to go outside. I almost told them "no" but why, because they would be cold? So they hopped into their snow gear and played way past dark and had a blast on their swing set/fort. That thing get used even during the winter...great investment. Love it.

things they say

Zachary:

The other day Zach and I were playing on the couch, he poked my belly and asked "Do you still have a baby in your belly?" I explained "No, do you remember how big mommy's belly was before Andrew came? Well, my skin got stretched out. Do you want to see my stretched skin?" Well, yea!" So i let him see and touch my stretched out skin. I totally thought that he would have been repulsed by it but instead he said "ooo, I like your ripply skin mom."

what a cutie! All mom's need to hear that.

Saturday morning was a slow start for me since it was a snow day. Upon arriving down stairs I was welcomed by a topless Zach. I asked "Zach, why don't you have a shirt on it is cold." He explained "Mom, I'm Patrick Star and I don't ware a shirt."
Like it was obvious that he was Patrick Star and I should have known. It made me laugh. He is such a cutie.

Andrew Andrew Andrew

Andrew is now 9 months old and is making a lot of changes! Time really does go by so quickly. I feel like he should still be 4 months old. While Grandma Grandpa Engstrom were here Andrew just really took off. He was getting up on all fours and able to scoot around and sit himself back up before they got here. But this last week he crawled across the room. Jo saw that and said to me "Oh, Jenalyn you life will never be the same." So true. I have friends that have given me all of their safety gates because now it is time to baby proof. Some other big mile stones; he cut his 2ND tooth, pulls up on everything, and has stood by himself for a few seconds.

He has had his first Christmas, first New Year, first statue of liberty trip. Now that he has teeth his face is changing. He is looking more like a toddler. I recently introduced some lil'crunchies and he LOVES being able to pick up his own food and put it in his own mouth. Although he still eats his baby jar food I can tell that he wants everything that we have on our plates. He has learned that if he screams and waves his hands then I will find something from the table for him to eat.

Because Andrew has been our baby that has spit-up and drooled the most Josh has pegged him with this nick name of Goobs. I really don't like it but I have to admit that it does fit him. From the time that he was born until recently he was always throwing up. There have been many lil outfits that have not survived his goo. While Grandpa was here the nick name evolved into Sargent Goobs. Zach got the name Heavy Z (i think because he enjoyed jumping on Grandpa) and Adam remained A-Bomb.

Oh yeah, another change that has come about it he just LOVES books. His favoriet is "Brown Bear, Brown Bear What Do You See" He has to read it every time I put him down to sleep. He has his cute little smile on his face the whole time we are reading. LOVE it!

(I finally figured out that if I ate dark chocolate then that would upset him.) I'm sure that I've missed some thing