Funny Things About Drew

I realized that I have zero posts on Drew. Poor baby! So, I thought I would just post here, for posterity as much as anything else, some funny things he has done.

1. We are now in the "No" stage. He says "No" to everything in a very emphatic voice, even when he does not mean it at all. "No!"

2. Drew loves swings. He can stay on a swing for literally hours. But, he likes to stop periodically and get the rush feeling of that first swing again. He will tell us "More! More!" while he is swinging -- and that is his way of telling us that it is time to stop and let him get that rush again.

3. Drew got into Brooke's wallet the other day, pulled out his debit card and stuck it into the slot on the front of the dishwasher that is meant for heat from the drying cycle to escape. Fortunately, Mommy witnessed this whole event from afar -- and he was pleased as punch that the card fit into the slot and disappeared. Daddy had to take the front off the dishwasher to get the card out again.

4. One of the things that I remark about Drew is that he is (still) a very efficient speaker -- he learns a word, and if it could be applicable to whole lot of different things, then that's good enough -- he does not seem to feel the need to learn additional words, at the moment. For example, he learned "shower" (which he calls "show-show") -- and that applies not just to the shower, but to sprinklers and fountains and the car wash. At least we can see that he is processing things by finding commonalities between them, but, I continue to be amazed by the number of things that can fall into Drew's general categories.

5. Drew has a great sense of humor -- he plays tricks on us and the dog and loves to make us laugh and to laugh himself.

6. My son loves tie-dye. He has two tie-dyed shirts and the boy would wear them constantly if they did not need to be washed. He also loves trains -- he talks about trains constantly -- choo-choo! -- and if tie-dye is not available, then he wants to wear one of his outfits with trains on them.

7. We are so pleased to find that Drew loves reading. He likes to read with us all the time -- as a result, we have read "Walter the Farting Dog", "Thomas and the School Trip", "Click Clack Moo", "Chicka Chicka Boom Boom", and "Goodnight Moon" more times than we would like to admit. He will usually choose three or four other books each day to supplement these standards, so we do get some variety in any case. But, he loves to go through the books and point to the pictures and hear the funny voices we have for the characters. It's pretty cool.

8. The other day, Mommy was wearing her big floppy hat to work in the garden (we live in the South now, so, I get to wear a big floppy hat, if I want) and Drew wanted to wear a hat too. He has this adorable baseball cap that Daddy got for him (it says, "What's up, dog?") and so, I squished it over his curls and darned if he did wear that baseball cap for a full day, straight! Such a funny little guy.

9. Oh, and we have definitely been experiencing the terrible twos for some time now. But, we have the many-times-a-day FUN of dealing with Drew's tantrum when we go inside the house. In Drew's perfect world, he would be outside all day long -- stomping in puddles and playing with sticks and dirt and being pushed in a swing. So, anytime -- and I mean ANYTIME -- we go from the outside to the inside, Drew falls on the floor in an absolute fit and cries and cries and cries. If we fail to get his shoes off during this initial fit and take them off later, then that is a separate fit of crying. Brooke and I just say that we will remember this when he spends too much time INSIDE when he's older and will use it to justify kicking him OUTSIDE. :-)

I think that's enough. My little Drew Caleb.