Our little helper

Recently, Andrew has been wanting to do everything by himself, from turning off the lights, to serving his own food, and climbing into the car seat. When he wants to do something, he’ll say “I want to be the helper!” He makes his point clear with the above Play-doh creation.
On a side note, he is really interested in letters and words. His new passion is cutting them out of paper. There are scraps of paper everywhere around the house, but you can’t really get mad at him because he’s so cute. He’s almost learned to cut all 26 letters out of paper (including the little triangle from the middle of the A and the holes from letters like B and D), and he uses those letters to spell words. He’s also typing on the computer keyboard, and learning to read. We’ve been told by the teachers at daycare that he’s doing pretty well with words – not sure how best to proceed from here, but suffice to say that we hope he continues to learn and not lose interest!