These are the Days to never forget: Andrew's Fall Break

Since Labor Day, Andrew has grown 1.5 inches and a whole shoe size!! We mark his height every time he comes home, it's pretty much the first thing he does when he walks through our front door. He heads right for his closet door. I can't get over how tall he's getting! He's also put on some weight, his Nana's cooking must be good!

Let's see what else has changed in a month??

Ben 10 has taken a backseat to the Angry Birds...I think I foresee a Power Ranger phase following quickly behind. I'm thinking Power Ranger birthday party next time he's home.
His favorite top 40 songs are "Dynamite" and "Barefoot Blue Jean Night." He even sang karaoke at La Carretas, our local Mexican restaurant! It was hilarious I'll have to post the video.
He's going through a "scaredy-cat" phase. The kid hollers if you even call his name from another room, and walk into a dark room...nuh-uh it ain't happenin'! Wednesday night after his umpteenth "I don't want to go to the bathroom by myself!" fit, I finally held his hand and turned off the light in his room and bathroom and closed the door. Of course he freaked out and latched onto me for dear life. I told him to wait a minute and let his eyes adjust. Then we walked around his room and I showed him that everything was exactly the same in his room with the lights off or on. He sort of giggled at himself after that. Then we found all of the light switches from his room to ours in the dark, so that he wouldn't have to walk through a dark room. Of course his room and bathroom have nightlights...but "Sometimes that's just not enough light when I'm sleepy." He did better the rest of the week, but it's something I think we'll have to keep working on until he grows out of this phase. (Sigh.)
His favorite colors are still black and yellow.
His favorite food is still his Dad's BBQ Chicken Pizza. Which he requests every single night, on night three it was time to eat something else!
He likes math, "but only because I'm good at it."
His favorite game is Monopoly, the version with the credit cards. Oh my gosh, it's so much easier to be the banker...which of course is always Andrew. It's still a good game to work on your math skills, but he doesn't like to play by the rules. He wants to put houses on everything, even if he doesn't own all of the properties of the same color. Drew and I didn't have much luck trying to convince him otherwise. Buy it and build on it...so far that motto has worked out for his Daddy! ;)
Phrases: "Sa banana hula-hoop!" It's kind of like his "Woooah!" But from what I could gather, it's from some squirrel proof bird feeder video he and his Willie watched together. Like I said I'm still a little cloudy as to it's origins.

Our week was pretty busy: family pictures, pumpkin carving with Mimi & Erin, visiting Brady and his family, dinner with Poppy, Willie, and Aunt Syd & Co., dinner at Mama Days, visiting Susan & Cole, sleepover, Boo at the Zoo, and Michaela's birthday party...Plus all of the little things we did in between.

Here are some pictures from out busy, busy week!