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We received a video from another one of the parents at the holiday celebration - you can see Andrew’s show-off moves for yourself.

And now the waiting game begins… (counting down the days to 9/2/09)

It’s nice when kids learn to entertain themselves (in this case, with the help of a computer).

Apparently Andrew is not quite over the holidays yet. He made this holiday card this weekend… (yes, that’s a purple star on top of the tree – his way of saying he wants one for next year…)

Translation:

The card shows Andrew’s Christmas Party, with a tree, flying ornaments, gifts, and Andrew, Dada, and Mama opening a present. It’s signed “Ducky and Dog!”

What a difference a haircut makes! Andrew is looking a lot more mischievous with his “Q-tip” haircut.

Andrew’s fascination with letters continues. We found one of his doodle pads laying around the house this afternoon. If you can’t read his bubble letters, they say (from left to right, top to bottom): Andrew, Jakob, Michael, Andrew, Mama, Dada, Mama. (There’s also a non-bubble letter mama that’s crossed out).

We spoke with some of his teachers at daycare this week, and they said that boys don’t usually start drawing bubble letters until the second or third grade. We are constantly being surprised by how fast he’s learning… (but strangely, he’s not all that interested in numbers or math…)

After more than a year of thinking about it, we’ve finally made the shift from Blogger to Wordpress. For now, the blog is using a template that maintains consistency with the look-and-feel of the Blogger site. However, this change will give us a lot more control over the blog, and hopefully lead to bigger and better things to come. Already, a search functionality and improved archive navigation has been implemented. Enjoy!

For the seventh year running, we spent New Year’s eve in downtown Denver. It’s become quite a mini-tradition. This year, we decided to try the new Sheraton hotel in Denver (formerly the Adam’s Mark) instead of the Westin. Word to the wise… stick to the Westin. The only advantage of the Sheraton was that the fireworks were being shot off from its roof, so it was a good show. This was one of the warmest new year’s eves we’ve had, and we were able to catch the 9pm show outside. We were so close to the action that as the shells exploded, we got rained on by bits of paper used to wrap fireworks. It wasn’t fun to have that stuff rain down and getting in your eyes! Andrew had a blast, though – he really like the loud booms!

We stayed in the room for the midnight show, and got this image from the window.