He lost his second upper front tooth just a few days after the last one. I didn't realize it was that loose! He was messing with the punching bag in the garage and it came back and hit him in the face and kind of jammed that tooth on angle. But I was letting him run around outside the school and saw him smile and realized he was toothless on top!!
He is enjoying the swing and partial treehouse. He can climb pretty high up the rope of his swing, especially if someone holds it still for him. But he still needs some help getting back down. He also likes taking the swing up to the platform of his treehouse and swinging from there too!
He loves to sing. I love hearing him sing. I think his favorite songs to sing on Rock Band are "Ring of Fire" by Johnny Cash, and "All Star" by Smashmouth. But when he is playing, he makes up a lot of songs. I love it.
Andrew was being testy one morning and on the way to school I told him "You're not smarter than me, ya know." He asked me if I was in advanced classes when I was little and I told him no. "Well see, then I'm going to be smarter than you when I'm older." lol I told him advanced classes weren't offered to me until High School and by then I could decline taking them because I didn't need to take the classes. He told me that he was going to go to college to get a good job and I told him that I didn't even go to college and had my own business. I explained that even if he actually was the smartest person on earth for real - if he isn't kind and humble, then Jehovah is not going to accept him into His organization and his life would mean absolutely nothing. That he doesn't need to strive to be the smartest person on earth, he needs to strive to do what is right in Jehovah's eyes and be loving and kind and humble. Jehovah will train whoever he needs to to accomplish his will - and it won't be the smartest person on the planet. By then we were turning onto the street the school is on, so he just thought about that the rest of the way.
Andrew asked me if I'd buy some pipe cleaners for him to do crafts with. Tuesday November 24th, he was out of school so Ted took the day off and they went snow boarding. I went to a craft store to browse for fabric and saw pipe cleaners. I bought a bag of 100. By the next morning, there were only 11 left in the bag - and I had all sorts of pipe cleaner creations all over my house! I loved it, but couldn't believe he'd pretty much used them all already!
He enjoyed his snow boarding experience. They got there around 11:30am and left around 3. Ted said he picked it up very quickly and when he did fall down he popped right back up and kept going.
November 25th - we were expecting it to start snowing in the afternoon so I thought I'd take him to the park while it was still sunny and I thought mild. The temperature dropped 6 degrees in 40 minutes and the ice-cold wind was picking up. Usually being in the sun is enough to keep you warm even in sub freezing temperatures here - but the wind is another story! 40 minutes was all I could handle, but he thoroughly enjoyed the new park I took him to. The monkey bars wrapped in a semi-circle back to the platform, there was a climbing wall, a tunnel made of circular bars to climb, a ladder that curved to the side making the top more tricky, and some weird shaped objects to climb on among other regular playground equipment. Pretty neat. We can go again when it's warm.
I think thats the evening the Waggoners all came over and spent the night too. We played rock band and hung out all evening and stayed up late.
November 27th we had a few inches of snow and a Tweens and Teens Party to get ready for at our house. Andrew was great at helping shovel snow off the sidewalks and vacuum. Andrew enjoyed the party with all the big kids, even though it was a Star Wars theme (not my choice). They played games like Stack the Cups, throwing a ping pong ball at bread with peanut butter hoping to get the ball to stick, balancing dice on a Popsicle stick (Andrew beat everyone at that!), threading penne pasta onto spaghetti only using the mouth, trying to get a cookie from the forehead to the mouth only using the facial muscles, and shaking beans from one 2 Liter bottle to another fastest. We also had a bunch of long balloons blown up, and pizza and snacks. At the end of the evening, they played Rock Band.
Monday, November 30, 2015
Tuesday, November 10, 2015
Building a Treehouse
November 1st was very pleasant weather. So before the meeting, he got
to help put screws in the decking for his treehouse being laid by
Dwayne and daddy. Later he was playing in the huge pile of leaves and
decided to bury himself. You could barely see his head peeking out.
Charlie came around to investigate and as soon as he spotted Andrew, he
went running around the pile and stuck his nose on Andrew's head. That
got Cara excited so she came running. Andrew disappeared under the
leaves giggling. He can't hide from the puppies!!
November 2 - on the way to school Andrew asked me, "What is polly jammus mean?" Miraculously I realized he was asking about "polygamous" and explained it. Then came to my senses, "What on earth are you reading??!" He replied, "Imitate Their Faith" whew! He told me that Hannah was in a polygamous marriage and the other woman hated her. He then asked what Polygamy was so I explained they were the same words in different format. I gave a couple of examples, and when I said, "when you grow up, instead of having one wife, you have five - that's a polygamous marriage." He said, "oooh man!" like it was a terrible idea. lol A minute later he asked, "What does barren mean?" So I explained that her body didn't work so she couldn't have a baby. He got upset, "I don't want to read this!"and he tossed the book aside. I explained to him that if he read the whole story, he would see how much Hannah loved Jehovah and asked for help and Jehovah answered her prayer so she could have a baby. But I guess the concept of having multiple wives and a woman not being able to conceive was a bit too much for him at one time. lol
Tuesday November 3rd, I asked him to show me how loose his upper front tooth was. Just a few days ago it was so loose we thought for sure we could pull it out, but there was one little piece that would NOT let go even though when he pushed the tooth inward you could see inside part of the tooth. I even tried bribing him with a new toy if he pulled it out because it was bothering him eating and so loose. So while we were in the school parking lot waiting for the bell to ring, I asked to see it. I pushed it inward and then pulled. I had to pull pretty hard and he was not pleased - but it came out!! And the root that wasn't letting go of it hung down. It had retreated by the end of school, I wish I could have had a photo. He took the tooth inside to the office to get a treasure box for it - and as she opened the box, Andrew dropped the tooth on the floor. Well, the floor is a bunch of white speckled rectangular shapes amid black and gray too. I sent him to class and I crawled on my hands and knees for a few minutes until I finally found it. We are all very glad it is out!
Thursday the 5th - he had a class field trip to the Littleton Museum. It sounds a bit like an agricultural center. He very much enjoyed it despite the cold and wet and it being partially outdoors. His favorite part was the Blacksmith who was making a bird thing for his garden apparently. He thought the old schoolhouse was neat and a bearskin on the wall that still had the claws. He did not like the stinky, smelly pig. When I picked him up from school, the music teacher was nearby. She told me that he is VERY good with all the instruments and seems musically inclined. She enjoys having him in her class.
Over the weekend he was very eager to help daddy work on the treehouse. It has all 4 walls framed! It's coming along nicely. Andrew has enjoyed climbing all over the framework too.
November 2 - on the way to school Andrew asked me, "What is polly jammus mean?" Miraculously I realized he was asking about "polygamous" and explained it. Then came to my senses, "What on earth are you reading??!" He replied, "Imitate Their Faith" whew! He told me that Hannah was in a polygamous marriage and the other woman hated her. He then asked what Polygamy was so I explained they were the same words in different format. I gave a couple of examples, and when I said, "when you grow up, instead of having one wife, you have five - that's a polygamous marriage." He said, "oooh man!" like it was a terrible idea. lol A minute later he asked, "What does barren mean?" So I explained that her body didn't work so she couldn't have a baby. He got upset, "I don't want to read this!"and he tossed the book aside. I explained to him that if he read the whole story, he would see how much Hannah loved Jehovah and asked for help and Jehovah answered her prayer so she could have a baby. But I guess the concept of having multiple wives and a woman not being able to conceive was a bit too much for him at one time. lol
Tuesday November 3rd, I asked him to show me how loose his upper front tooth was. Just a few days ago it was so loose we thought for sure we could pull it out, but there was one little piece that would NOT let go even though when he pushed the tooth inward you could see inside part of the tooth. I even tried bribing him with a new toy if he pulled it out because it was bothering him eating and so loose. So while we were in the school parking lot waiting for the bell to ring, I asked to see it. I pushed it inward and then pulled. I had to pull pretty hard and he was not pleased - but it came out!! And the root that wasn't letting go of it hung down. It had retreated by the end of school, I wish I could have had a photo. He took the tooth inside to the office to get a treasure box for it - and as she opened the box, Andrew dropped the tooth on the floor. Well, the floor is a bunch of white speckled rectangular shapes amid black and gray too. I sent him to class and I crawled on my hands and knees for a few minutes until I finally found it. We are all very glad it is out!
Thursday the 5th - he had a class field trip to the Littleton Museum. It sounds a bit like an agricultural center. He very much enjoyed it despite the cold and wet and it being partially outdoors. His favorite part was the Blacksmith who was making a bird thing for his garden apparently. He thought the old schoolhouse was neat and a bearskin on the wall that still had the claws. He did not like the stinky, smelly pig. When I picked him up from school, the music teacher was nearby. She told me that he is VERY good with all the instruments and seems musically inclined. She enjoys having him in her class.
Over the weekend he was very eager to help daddy work on the treehouse. It has all 4 walls framed! It's coming along nicely. Andrew has enjoyed climbing all over the framework too.
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