We decided on a quick trip to the beach Saturday evening to unload an excessive amount of energy from one little boy - Mission Accomplished :) If we could just harness a bunch of three year old boys together we could probably solve all of our energy problems.
We recently got some playdoh Crayola model magic fusion for Andrew to play with. I think daddy is getting a lot of play out of it too! Andrew's favorite requests to be made are Car's characters and the alphabet of course! Here are some pictures of recent creations. For those of you who have not seen the Disney movie Cars a zillion times, the characters below are a tractor, Lightning McQueen, and a yellow version of Tow Mater. Too bad we didn't take any sculpting classes in school, they may have come in handy here :) For anyone interested - I highly recommend Crayola's model fusion - it is much much less messy than playdoh, and is very soft and easy to work with.
In honor of Labor Day - Alex, Rachel, and Andrew decided to take a break from all their playing and do some laboring while the grownups relaxed.
Alex spent time at a construction site 
Andrew practiced rescue skills.
Andrew and Rachel managed to wrestle a gator.
All that work - wears a boy out!
Taking a break - without breaking anything
Ok.. so Andrew has a bit of an obsession with alphabet letters and building words out of them - I keep telling myself this is a good thing after I have spelled out my 100th word by mid afternoon, He takes his letters with him everywhere.. to the store, to bed, into the bathtub, at the table while he eats. If this keeps up I'm thinking we may need an intervention! kidding of course :)
Andrew had his first day of school today! He started a speech program at a local elementary school and will be attending two mornings a week from 8:00 - 10:30. He was such a big boy when his teacher came to get him and walk him to his classroom, no tears and no fuss. And how did I do you ask? lets just say lots of tears and lots of fuss! thankfully only after he disappeared into the school building. But I recovered after a teary phone call to my sister and another to my mom :) Andrew had a great time and is looking forward to going back, so all is well.
Here is our growing up too fast little boy on his first day of school .
And the ever important "Disney Cars themed" brand new backpack of course. This was actually the first pose he gave me, but I thought I'd like to preserve the memory of how HE looked on the first day... not just his backpack, LOL.
This is the inside of his classroom, this was taken during the school open house last week. The two boys are giving "Buzz Lightyear" a ride in the Barbie jeep! Not sure that would have been Buzz's choice of transportation, LOL.
