A collection of cute Drew stuff from our holiday trip to Las Vegas...
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Around 5:00 one evening Drew approached Grandma in the kitchen and asked what she was making for dinner. Grandma replied that she was not making dinner yet, but instead was making some snacks (We observe cocktail and appetizer hour pretty regularly at Mom & Dad's). This did not seem to satisfy Drew as he responded: "Why are you not making dinner?"
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On Christmas Eve and Christmas morning, before we began the present-opening, Drew harnessed his excitement over it being almost time to open presents by picking up present after present after present and showing them to Uncle Johnny. As John sat in the recliner next to the tree, Drew picked up each present and said "Uncle Johnny, look at this one." "Uncle Johnny, see this present?" He occasionally would point out the color of the bows or Santa or other pictures on the wrapping paper. We were also impressed with his ability to recognize people's names on the tags. He, of course, recognized the letters of his own name, but he also started being able to tell Uncle Johnny when presents were for Grandma (G), Katie (K), and he'd occasionally guess a few others correctly. It just cracked us up that simply picking up and showing off the presents to Uncle Johnny amused Drew for so long.
Drew points out the green bow on this present to Uncle Johnny
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Aunt Katie got Drew the Melissa & Doug Band in a Box gift set for Christmas, which included a kazoo and harmonica. As you can see, he didn't catch right on to playing them, but was highly amused by others giving them a try. Uncle Johnny eventually taught Drew to play the harmonica from one side to the other, which provoked lots of giggles again.
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One morning before breakfast Drew and Daddy were playing with a deck of cards. The night before Grandma had taught Drew the basic card game of Red beats Black, so he was sort of in tune with paying attention to the shapes on the card. Daddy tried teaching Drew about hearts, diamonds, clubs and spades. The hearts and diamonds were easy, but clubs and spades were a little more difficult. As Daddy asked Drew about what number of hearts Drew had on the card he was holding, Drew looked at his 9 of hearts and said, instead of 9, "Look at all these hearts Daddy!" A little while later Drew was holding the 10 of spades. He said "10 Daddy." Daddy looked at the card and told Drew "Oh, you're right Drew, that shape's a tough one." So instead of saying spades, Drew exclaimed that his card had "10 tough ones."
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Drew served as the caretaker (and sometimes policeman) of the Christmas lights at Grandma & Grandpa's house. Each morning, before I could convince him to go to the bathroom, eat breakfast, or get the newspaper, Drew's first job was turning on the big Christmas tree. As soon as he started to see the sun set in the afternoon, he would run to retrieve the remote controls that my parents' outside lights were connected to. And whenever we were getting ready to go somewhere, Drew happily ran around to all the different switches and turned the Christmas lights in the house off.
Drew would get very upset when cell phone chargers or laptops were occupying outlets that window candles were supposed to use. He voiced his displeasure to whoever owned the offending cell phone or computer.
The best example of Drew's Christmas Light policing came on New Year's Day. Daddy had taken Drew to the theme park inside Circus Circus where they enjoyed junk food, multiple rides on the bumper cars ("Hit #15 Daddy!"), the merry go round, and the pirate ship (which I don't even like and can't believe he was brave enough for). Anyway, it was after 4:30 by the time they returned to my parents' house, which meant it was dark enough that my mother had turned on the outside Christmas lights already. As soon as they pulled in the driveway, Bill reported that Drew asked in a very accusing tone "Who turned on these Christmas lights? Daddy, I will find out who turned these Christmas lights on."
A few pictures from Drew & Daddy's adventures at Circus Circus
Drew on carousel
Drew patiently waiting for the bumper cars to start
Drew enjoying some cookies & cream flavored ice cream dots
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A few days after Christmas, one of Mommy's gifts arrived a little late from Amazon. While Mommy was very happy with Aunt Katie's purchase of her perfume gift set, my excitement could not be matched by Drew's absolute thrill with popping the bubble wrap that had surrounded the perfume. I snapped a few photos, but they just don't do his excitement justice, so here's two videos. In the first, Drew goes with the traditional method of hand popping the bubbles.
Then he got an idea and began jumping on the bubble wrap.
Drew definitely provided lots of laughs for everyone during the trip. Still a lot more pictures to come. Stay tuned.
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