My firstborn baby...already four and a half! Andrew continues to be the happy-go-lucky free spirit of the Gonzalez family. Life is good and school is cool. I don't think Andrew would mind if school was 7 days a week! He's really into playing with Sam and I've even caught him reading his little brother a book...one of the best mommy moments yet! He's got a laugh that would cheer up anyone and a smile that's almost contagious. This little cuddle bug of ours is such that I want to keep a little Andrew like this around forever, yet I know its inevitable that he will continue to grow and become a big hairy, smelly boy like his daddy! (chuckle) Speaking of growing, Andrew is doing so by leaps and bounds lately in his development. We've noticed over the past few weeks, he's starting to use more new words and entirely original phrases without prompting from anyone. For example, while Andrew and Daddy were looking for a favorite bedtime toy, Demel kept saying "where's Tad, Andrew...where did he go?" To which the Andrew just two months ago would have most likely just echoed what Daddy said, shocked Demel when he commented back, "I can't find him." Trust me, this is a HUGE milestone and cause for celebration. Things are starting to happen and to say that we are ecstatic is an understatement!!! Amazing things that Andrew is doing.... reading, counting to 100 in sign language and into the hundreds verbally and can read numbers such as 689,342 with ease, appears to have quite an ear for music as he can carry a tune and stay in the same key that he started in (mommy is sooo proud of this), and can identify about eight states and can locate them on a globe along with locating the United States of America and Africa.
This ball of nonstop energy is going to appropriately be a race car driver for Halloween. I guess for a boy who loves to do anything but be still and loves going in circles, the actual race car would have been a better reflection of him, but I suppose the costume might have been a bit more complicated and cumbersome.
Monday, October 29, 2007
All about Sam
Okay... already. Here is what my two and a half year old is up to these days.
Sam continues to thoroughly enjoy school and is quite the lady's man with a handful of girlfriends. Let's see, there is Ashlyn from school; Ashlee from KidsClub at the gym; Katie, his good friend and first love, and Miss Debbie, a friend of my mom's whom Sam seems to have fallen for. He continues to test me daily and challenges my simple requests of him with a "no" and a sly little smile. He is however a sparkle in my daily routine and usually puts the first smile of the day on my face when he wanders in to our room in the morning and says, "Hi, mom...I'm awake!" I was so excited last week when I won a radio contest of sorts. It was the family name game on our local Christian radio station, and the name of the morning was Samuel. I was the right caller and "won" the opportunity to go on the air and "brag" on my son. How fun was it to get to tell the thousands of listeners all about why my Sammy is so special to us. It came to me as I was talking how perfectly made Sam is as a brother for Andrew. I realized that the areas that Andrew needs strengthening (speech and language, social skills, emotions and empathy) are the very areas in which Sam seems to be gifted. Just goes to show you that The Creator knows all and what an incredible example that is in these two brothers!
I really hope I can get some pictures up soon, as Sam is choosing to be a Care Bear for Halloween. I tried to sway him to be a ninja, or Thomas the Train, or Tigger. "No," says my little boy, " I want to be a Care Bear!" .... how fitting;)
Sam continues to thoroughly enjoy school and is quite the lady's man with a handful of girlfriends. Let's see, there is Ashlyn from school; Ashlee from KidsClub at the gym; Katie, his good friend and first love, and Miss Debbie, a friend of my mom's whom Sam seems to have fallen for. He continues to test me daily and challenges my simple requests of him with a "no" and a sly little smile. He is however a sparkle in my daily routine and usually puts the first smile of the day on my face when he wanders in to our room in the morning and says, "Hi, mom...I'm awake!" I was so excited last week when I won a radio contest of sorts. It was the family name game on our local Christian radio station, and the name of the morning was Samuel. I was the right caller and "won" the opportunity to go on the air and "brag" on my son. How fun was it to get to tell the thousands of listeners all about why my Sammy is so special to us. It came to me as I was talking how perfectly made Sam is as a brother for Andrew. I realized that the areas that Andrew needs strengthening (speech and language, social skills, emotions and empathy) are the very areas in which Sam seems to be gifted. Just goes to show you that The Creator knows all and what an incredible example that is in these two brothers!
I really hope I can get some pictures up soon, as Sam is choosing to be a Care Bear for Halloween. I tried to sway him to be a ninja, or Thomas the Train, or Tigger. "No," says my little boy, " I want to be a Care Bear!" .... how fitting;)
Christa's Top 10 Reasons for not Blogging
In no particular order ....
- It hadn't been that long since the last post
- The computer was in the repair shop...really, it was!
- The boys were sick
- I was sick
- I felt better, but had a lot of chores around the house to catch up on
- Why bother if I can't add a picture...a result of the computer problems
- I'll just wait 'till Demel orders the new laptop
- I'd rather go to bed
- I'm just lazy
- It hasn't been that terribly long since my last post
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