Andrew

Andrew is six.  He’s in kindergarten.  I love his little personality that is evolving.

He’s doing very well in school and starting to read lots of words.  He likes to go to the library and pick out Star Wars books.  He is getting good at sounding words out.  The other night I got in bed, and there was note on my pillow that said:

Mom biy me sum ribs.

Andrew has been begging me to make ribs for dinner for the past couple months.  So he thought he’d write me a note to remind me.  I love how he loves “grown up” food and prefers it over PBJ or chicken nuggets.  He’s always been our good eater!

Andrew LOVES to play the Wii.  In our family we don’t play electronics or watch TV during the week…only on Fridays after school or Saturdays.  He lives for those days that he can play.  His game of choice right now is Star Wars Legos.

Andrew has made several little friends at school, and a couple of them ride the bus home with him.  A couple weeks ago these little friends started giving Andrew little toys and trinkets to “borrow” for a couple days.  He’s always very good at taking care of them and returning them when he’s done.  I realized this trading thing had gone too far the other day when one of the little girls gave Andrew a big bottle of lotion to borrow.  A bottle of lotion??  I can see her needing something to give him and quickly grabbed the first thing she saw and stuck it in her bag…I thought it was hilarious.  And to make things even more funny…Darrin borrowed Andrew’s back pack to take to his soccer game.  When Darrin was ready to leave for work the next morning he realized he had left his wallet in Andrew’s back pack.  We waited for Andrew to get off the bus, and luckily he still had it.  He did admit that his friend asked to borrow the wallet and take it home, but Andrew said “no.”  Can you image if he had let him???  I just laughed and told Darrin maybe he should buy his own soccer bag.

Andrew is going through a “worry phase” right now.  He often can’t sleep because he lays awake worrying about fires, robbers, bad guys, and who knows what else.  Hopefully he’ll be past this stage soon.  It breaks my heart to see him worry so much.

Andrew claims he doesn’t feel cold and refuses to wear long sleeves.  He also refuses to wear a coat, but luckily here he can get away with just wearing a hoody.  He hated jeans for awhile and wouldn’t wear them, but he recently changed his mind about that, although athletic type pants are still his top choice. 

In Nov. Andrew quit Taekwondo but had a great experience doing it.  We loved the studio that he went to and Master Null was great.  Maybe some day he’ll get back into it, but right now he’s super excited for spring soccer to start.