Well, he was recently introduced to Daddy's workout: P90X. Boy does he LOVE that!! That is a very intense workout. Andrew is so perceptive, that he has picked up on it quickly and also does well with the parts he choses to try and do. You should see him run in place - he's fast!! He also likes to try and do pull ups on daddy's bar too. We're gonna have one buff kid if he keeps all of this up!
He's kind of outgrown his little four-wheeler. he still loves it, it's just too small. His feet have always been too big for it, but I think he's getting too heavy for it now too. He's 30+ pounds now. Anyway, I found a little go-kart of sorts and thought it'd be a good replacement. He does NOT like it. Not yet anyway. He goes a few feet and then wants off and nothing to do with it again.
He does, however, always want to "jump on the wood."
I am blown away by how his vocabulary and speech is developing. He can speak so well - his answers at the meeting are spoken so clearly you'd think he's much older. And he reads all of his comments himself now. He can even say big words clearly, like in a recent answer "descendants" - perfectly said.
His reading just gets better and better. When we do our family study on Monday nights, we have him read first. We read from the Learn From The Great Teacher book. He can read 95% of the words in it and we do have to help him here and there, but he impresses us both when he tries to sound out a word he doesn't know. He gets pretty close!
He practices for the meetings every day too. He'll find toys to be his microphone and will repeat answers he remembers giving. This week it's been "tenderness" which was one of his answers last Wednesday. He takes it very seriously at times. He calls on himself to answer, answers, then thanks himself for the answer. Then he'll come to me and say, "Ms. Hagler" put the microphone to my mouth and wait (if I wait too long he whispers what I'm supposed to say) and I say, "Tenderness." He gets a big grin on his face, "yes, thank you." He walks away.. "Uh. Mr. Andrew. (pause) Tenderness. ... yes, thank you." I'm not sure where the Ms. and Mr. came from, but he's so perceptive in picking all of that routine up. Over and over again during the day, he'll practice giving answers at the meeting.
At the meeting.. he constantly asks for an answer. I tell him yes that we have an answer for him and he immediately looks around and asks "microphone?" If he raises his hand and doesn't get called on, we're left scrambling to find another answer he can give. This past Sunday it took three times, and the sister sitting behind us waving her watchtower to get the conductor's attention to look at Andrew! Last week, when I answered and he hadn't answered yet - he got so upset that I didn't give him the microphone when I was done and started crying and saying "Andrew's turn!! Andrew's turn!!" and Ted had to take him out of the auditorium for a few minutes. He really wants to answer! And when he sees others answering and he's patiently waiting for his turn.. he'll say, "Miranda's turn with microphone. Barry's turn. Nick's turn." (or whoever it is that is answering when he knows their name.)
You should hear him pray.. he's such a sweetie pie. When we're eating and daddy is praying - Andrew is praying right along with daddy repeating everything daddy says. When I'm putting him to bed at night, I say a prayer for him first.. and then he says, "pray for....." Usually it's Dawson up first, then Dylan and Carrie. So I just go ahead and mention every individual in our family. Then he starts getting creative. We've prayed for Nana's house and Uncle David's truck too. I figure those are still appropriate. Well, tonight, January 16th, after saying two prayers for him.. when he asked to pray I told him to go ahead. He prayed for the ceiling fan, the sprinkler and swimming pool, the curtains, the lamp, for juice, and even Corvax who is a cartoon character on his Muzzy dvd. He also prayed for Mommy, Daddy, Grandma... and Grandpa got mentioned three times in there. I love that he wants to pray for everything. He says, "Dear Jehovah.... uh ... thanks uh... (enter whatever it is he decides to pray for) .. in Jesus... amen."
last Friday night, I think he might have been sleep walking. Something startled me awake and then I noticed our bedroom door closing really slowly. It totally freaked me out.. and Ted was still in bed. I got up and our door was unlatched so I knew for sure my eyes were not playing tricks on me. Even over the monitor though I could not hear Andrew rustling in his bed or his room, didn't hear him open or close his door even after being awakened. THAT scared me too because my brain was telling me that it must not have been Andrew!
Well, the next evening, we were still up when we heard a thud in his room. We went to his door and listened. We heard a little bit of rustling but no whimpering or cries.... then silence. After the escapades from the night before - I told Ted I wanted a video monitor in there. We had a spare video surveillance camera and Ted asked me if I could sneak in and plug it in. He opened the door for me and I took a couple of steps inside Andrews room and waited for my eyes to adjust to the dark so I could see and analyze his room. There was a dark square on the floor directly in front of me that I just could not focus on enough to figure out. Finally, Ted turned on a light in another room to give me more light to work with... that dark square was Andrew's pajamas! If I had taken one more step I'd have kicked Andrew in the head! Andrew was all curled up on his stomach, asleep on the floor. I stepped over him and moved some toys to get to an outlet where I could plug in the monitor. Andrew didn't budge. Then I went and got the camera but it was too dark to focus. So I turned on the light... he never flinched. He was out!
