Our new Daycare at NDSU is a wonderful place and we are so happy with the care there. I thought that Andrew would have no problems adjusting as he is only 10 months. That hasn’t quite been the case. He’s been a finicky eater there (which isn’t the normal) and hasn’t taken many naps (which is nothing new) but it has made him a little crabby in the evenings. He is cutting a tooth, too, so maybe that’s part of the problem. Hopefully the adjustment period will be over in a few days and he will be back to his happy disposition. He has gotten happy faces on his daily report cards, so he hasn’t been too unbearable for them. Thank goodness. We like the little daily report cards. One day it said, Andrew enjoyed exploring the room and all of the toys and another day it said that he like popping the bubbles that the older children blew.
I went to a Baby Signs class, so I am starting to use the signs with Andrew. They said that it might take 2 months for him to do the signs back, but it really helps the children communicate at an earlier age and even helps with spoken language later on.
Andrew has started to clap now. Of course we get all excited when he does it, so he thinks he is pretty cool. Andrew is on the brink of doing “so big.” He kinda gets it now, but sometimes one hand at a time instead of two. Andy likes to copy what he sees (clapping, us raising our arms like soooo big.) He has also really gotten into music. When he hears a song he likes or the band playing at a basketball game, he bobs his head with the beat. Andrew really likes to play with cars (or any toy that rolls for that matter). He likes to push them along. One of his cars was tipped over and it wouldn’t roll. He picked it up, spun the wheels with his finger and figured out that he should put it down on the wheels to roll it. I was impressed. Books are still a favorite. He loves when someone reads to him, but likes to turn the pages and look at them himself, too. This comes in really handy at church. He had a really fun time watching daddy out the window today. Ryan was doing some work outside, and Andrew thought it was fun to watch. It was still -1 degrees, so we couldn’t join him for some fun in the snow. We have a little sled for Andrew, but it has not been nice enough to be out at all this winter. I guess we might have to wait until February or next year to use it.
On Friday, we took a little roadtrip down to South Dakota to watch the NDSU men’s basketball team take on their rival South Dakota State. NDSU won in overtime, so that was fun. Rumor is that Andrew was on TV during the game. Grandma and Grandpa saw him…did anyone else see him?