A Visit From Grandma and Grandpa

This weekend we got a special visit from Marc's parents. Andrew was so excited to see them. Grandpa Jebb was his new best friend and Andrew followed him EVERYWHERE! At first he was calling Grandma Kate, Grandma Patsy and then he switched over to calling her Grandma Cake. It was soooo cute! We had a busy weekend. We went golfing on Friday, the Fort Worth Zoo on Saturday, and Texas State Fair on Sunday. We had a blast!!!! I know he is already missing them.

You know Andrew, he had to show Grandpa his golfing skill.

Riding in the golf cart with Grandpa and Grandma "Cake"

His face in this picture is just too funny.
I think he was looking to see if ball went in the hole.

The Fort Worth Zoo has a really neat bird house

where you can get a stick and feed the Parakeets.

Andrew got a few to land on his stick. I don't think all the birds

had waken up yet and so they didn't get real active/hungry until we left.

Of Course he kept trying to touch them and then they'd fly away.

I think we have found the trick to the State Fair. We got there about

an hour before it opened, the gates were opened at that time, and took all our pictures

and visited the animals. Which was about the only thing open at that time.

By the time it got crowded we had seen/done everything we needed to do.

Andrew, Grandpa and Grandma in front of Big Tex.

Kate and Jebb also got their first taste of the famous Fletcher's Corny Dog.

It was nice to get into the petting zoo early. There was maybe 10 people in there

total including us.

Getting ready to go up on the Farris wheel. Grandpa

doesn't like rides, so he waited at the bottom. I have to say

this is a really good picture of Marc and Andrew.

Here we are close to the top.

If you look hard you can see the tiny

cars in the background.

Andrew really wanted to ride some rides this time.

We did let him go on a few. I have a really cute one

of he and Marc coming down the
big slide, but I will save those pictures for another post.

Andrew Anecdotes

Here is Andrew with my (our) cousin Matthew, who is

Andrew's new BFF.

It feels like it has been forever since I posted, but nothing has been going on lately. But here are a few funny things Andrew has done or said. First off, his school sends out a newsletter each month and one of the sections is "The Cute Things Kids Say". I am pretty sure one of their quotes came from Andrew, though I may never know for sure. It was introduce by telling us how one of the teachers was talking about eating dinner and all the good things we can eat. She then turns and asks the kid next to her what was their favorite thing to eat for dinner was and the kid's response was "JUNK!". The reason why I think this is Andrew is because when I tell him it is dinner time or he has to eat dinner first he tells me "I don't want dinner! I want junk!".

Sometimes he is just so observant. We were waiting in the carpool line for his school one morning. There are several flowering bushes that line the drive way and they are always swarming with bees. Andrew likes watching the bees from the window and told me "Hey look, those bees are playing Hide-n-go-seek." And you know it did look like that's what they were doing. It is just so cute the way their brains work and how they see the word.

Andrew Anecdotes

A quick funny story about what Andrew said the other day. How we got on to this topic I can't quite remember. But we had a conversation about breast feeding. Yes, I know what you are thinking. Any way we probably got onto this topic because several of our friends have had or are having babies. So, I was explaining to him how some babies drink milk from their mommies and of course he asked how. So, I told him how some mommies get milk in their boobies for the baby to eat and how that's how he ate when he has a baby. I could then see the wheels turning in his brain as he thought about this. He then puts his ear on me and says "I don't hear any milk in there". That was the funniest thing and we both laughed and laughed. Only Andrew....

Not so Wordless Wednesday ~ Poor Andrew

Monday night just before bed, Andrew was running full speed and tripped on something. He flew, Superman style, straight into his little table. It was one of those that you know is going to happen and you just can move fast enough to stop it. Needless to say he got a HUGH bump on his head. We were pretty lucky, it looked like it was that close to being split open. So glad we didn't need a trip to the ER for stitches! He was such a good boy and only cried for a tiny bit.

Andrew Anecdotes

Andrew has been saying some pretty funny stuff lately. The other day we were at Half Priced Books looking around and while GAM and I were looking at the shelf we hear a big clatter. When we turn around we see Andrew holding a record sleeve and a record on the floor (luckily it didn't break). Andrew then tells us "Oops! I dropped that big CD". We laughed so hard. Not to bad for someone who has never seen a record before and has know idea what it is for. Later we went for lunch and an Asian restaurant and Andrew got his chopsticks and raised them over his head, banged them together and went "one, two, one, two, three, four", then proceeded to hit them on the table just as if it were a drum kit. Where he got that from, I have no idea.

Yesterday, I saw a fire ant hill next to our driveway. I was trying to tell Andrew to never go near it because those ants are really mean and will bite him and that it will hurt very bad. So he then asks me why the ants are mean and I tell him that they just are. Like any typical 3 year old, the why, why, why follows, so I tell him God made them that way. He thinks about it for a little bit then tells me "Well, Jesus needs to make them happy". How cute is that!!! When we do talk about Jesus he always asks "The Jesus in my heart?", awwwww!

When we were in El Paso, Andrew and I went to my sister's house for dinner one night and they were watching Amadeus. Well, at every scene when Mozart was conducting the orchestra Andrew would stand in front of the TV and pretend to conduct too. It was pretty cute. He really liked that movie and watch most of it intently. Especially when the music came on. I know some of the songs her recognized from Little Einsteins, but a good portion of the songs he had never heard.

Wordless Wednesday ~ First Day of Preschool

Andrew Anecdotes ~ Robin Hood

Andrew had been watching Robin Hood a bunch before our trip to El Paso and he told me that he wanted me to get him a bow and arrow. So like any mom would do I told him he had to wait and ask Santa (in hopes that he'd forget). After I told my mom this, she did what any good grandma would do, she went and got him one to play with when we visited. He, of course, was thrilled! Well, he had been playing with them for a while chasing grandad around. Next thing we know he comes out from the back of the house with the arrows sticking up from his shirt, just like it was his quiver. It was so cute, and he did it all on his own.