This week

In the last week of August Drew:

• displayed his love for peanut butter

• ate a lot of blueberries

• fine-tuned his fine motor skills (we didn't teach him this, he figured it out on his own)
  

• learned the signs for hot (daddy's coffee), cold, wet (the wading pool at the park), up & down, (although I think he thinks up-down is one word, since he only ever does them together), boy & girl (he previously referred to all children with the sign for "baby" and all adults with the sign for "grandma" or "grandpa" which was starting to get embarrassing; this week we'll work on "man" and "woman")

• continued to be bossy about hat wearing (certain hats for certain tasks, everyone MUST participate)

• happily tried multiple olives, but continued to refuse red fruit

• developed a strong attachment to an empty baking soda container

I will no longer be asking for his help in taking out the recycling. Last week it was an empty milk jug that had to accompany us on a picnic at the playground:

• Found Mama's old running watch in the night stand and insisted on wearing it everywhere

(In other news, we are finally remembering to take the camera along more often!)