A Dose of The Daniels': Hot Springs and Drew's News

This past week has been busy! I had to do an overnight trip for work and then Andy and I went to Hot Springs for the weekend with our family and friends. Drew spent the weekend with my parents, so I don't have a ton of pictures, but I do know that Drew learned to growl like a bear, cover his mouth when he coughs and shake hands while he was there. He was working on a couple of those things at school, but with the help of Mimi and Poppy, he definitely perfected them while we were gone!

When we got to the horse races on Saturday morning, I told Andy I only wanted to bet on Drew's birthday. The first race, third horse. So, we blindly bet $10 for him to win and he won! We were so excited and this was easily the coolest part of the day.

We had such a great trip, but we definitely missed this sweet boy...

Just over the last week, Drew has started recognizing certain colors (blue, green and purple as far as I know), showing us his eyes, nose, mouth and belly, shaking hands and making certain animal noises (bear and monkey). I am hoping to get a great video to post of him doing his monkey impersonation... it is hilarious! I don't have pictures of all of it yet, but here are few...

I know this is gross, but I had to add it for later. Every time we ask where his nose is, he does a great job pointing at it and then somehow ends up doing this...

Shaking hands with Dad...

I did an earlier post of Drew reading, and it is still one of his favorite things to do. "Brown Bear, Brown Bear" is his favorite book if you can't tell. I think it's time to invest in a hard book for this one...