Not only does Drew help me pick out items off of the grocery store shelves, he helps me put them away! Actually, he has been very excited about doing his "chores". When he is finished with a drink, he goes to the sink and puts his cup in. When he spills his juice on the floor (which is pretty much anytime he has a cup) he points it out with an "uh-oh" and then I give him a paper towel to wipe it up. He goes right back to the spot, cleans it and then runs to the trash and throws the paper towel away. He takes cleanliness very seriously.Drew has become quite the little talker lately. He is learning new words every day. He usually makes attempts at saying what we request of him. His favorite words right now are "apple" - which he says every time I open the refrigerator, requesting some juice. "Help" - sounds a lot like apple, but he asks for "helpa" when his toys go under the couch or he needs help with his puzzles. "Binkidy Bink" - his new name for his binky...he usually repeats several times in a row and is hilarious. "Hewow" (hello) - He has a plastic phone and one of Andy's old Blackberrys that he walks around with up to his ear saying "hewow?" "heeewow?" I have been working on manner words and he says please - "peas" and sometimes thank you, but we are trying really hard. He knows that there are signs for these words so he usually just waves his arms around thinking that will be good enough. Please is catching on quicker than thank you because with a cup of "appa" juice in front of him there is incentive to learn.
We are having some landscaping work done by our friend TJ, and Drew is just fascinated by him. He drives a truck and has a "digger"(excavator) and a "goggie"(dog) - who is cooler than that? Every morning, he goes to the front window asking for "TeJa". Every time we come and go from the house he asks for him, actually just about all day he wants to go see "TeJa".
I am shocked at his puzzle skills. He has one puzzle that is the entire alphabet with pictures on the letters (like a zebra on the z). He can get almost every letter very quickly. There are just a few toughies that he cant get completely in (the Q is tricky) and he will ask for "helpa".
Ok, I will stop bragging now.
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Brag away! He is so smart! Oh a little trick I have for getting the "thank you" to follow the "please" is to have him say please when he wants the juice, then you put the cup in his hand but don't release it until he says thank you. So when you put it in his hand, ask him "what do you say?" and then release it to his custody when you get the right answer...he'll catch on quickly I am sure!
And then there's my fave - "Auntie" (or as Drew says, "Aunteee")
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