COLLOSSAL CATCH UP PART 4

RANDOM FUN FROM JANUARY AND FEBRUARY

Gavin has really changed over the last two months. His personality has really come out and he is ALL ENERGY!! He runs, jumps, plays, laughs and discovers the world all day long. Jason and I have to watch what we say because Gavin is mimicking everything! The boy is a talker!

BALLOONS!

Gavin LOVES balloons! The day after we came home from our Utah visit I had minor surgery. Here is Gavin rolling around on the ground with the Get Well balloons he and daddy got me.


OUR LITTLE CLIMBER

Gavin is a PRO at stairs. We no longer have to keep the gate up because he is strong enough and has figured out how to tear it down. Here is Gavin taking a little rest on the stairs before more mischief I'm sure! :) Launa came to spend a week with us at the end of January which was tons of fun. One night she let Jason and I go out on a date while she stayed and watched Gavin. About 10 minutes after we had left we get a picture sent to our phones of Gavin sitting on top of the piano! In the split second that she had turned around, Gavin had climbed up on the piano!


ROCKS + RAIN = GAVIN AND TONS OF FUN!

In January we got a LOT of rain. It turned all our grassy areas in the community to lakes. Here is Gavin and I throwing rocks in the water by our house. Gavin still LOVES the outdoors (he can't get enough, the kid could live outside and be in hog heaven!) and LOVES rocks and LOVES throwing anything he can get his hands on.

COUCH POTATO

Gavin has discovered TV and movies. I guess it was inevitable with us exposing him to the Signing Time videos since he was 6 months old. But he communicates really well through signs and so I have to take the bad with the good. But Gavin wakes up every morning wanting to watch a movie. His favorites are Toy Story & Toy Story 2 (he calls them "Buzz and Woo-ee"), Kung Fu Panda (he calls it "Po"), Ice Age (he calls it "baby" after the "where's the baby" game that Diego plays), Mickey's Clubhouse (he calls it "mouse") and My Friends Tigger and Pooh (he calls it "pooh"). He also LOVES the chair Jason and I got him for Christmas!

BUZZ, WOODY AND THE RACES

Here is Gavin with his best friends Buzz and Woody. I loves to race in the house. He starts at the front door, runs around the kitchen and ends up back at the door. He loves to have Mommy, Daddy and Sugar join him. Although he is such a cheater because he starts running and then yells "GO!"

OUR SILLY BOY

What a cheeser! Here is Gavin saying "cheez" and smiling for daddy and the camera during dinner! What a ham! Daddy took like 10 pictures!

FORT GAVIN

Since coming home from Utah Gavin has made the area between the bathroom and the coat closet and behind the playpen his little FORT! (Side note: We used to use the playpen for time out, but can't anymore now that he just climbs out of it! Actually the kid climbs on EVERYTHING! The week after getting home he started climbing out of his crib. We were SHOCKED when we heard a big "THUMP" and then there was Gavin coming downstairs after we had put him to bed! That first night (Sunday) we had to lock the door to his bedroom and wait until he fell asleep on the floor by the door to put him back into the crib. The next day we had bought a crib tent that keeps them in.) Back to the FORT: he brings toys to his little fort area and then drags either Jason or me or both to sit on the ground next to him and just hang out. Then he YELLS at the top of his lungs for "PUPPY!" to join us. Gavin gets so upset when Sugar gets bored and leaves the fort. He's up like a flash and yelling for her again to come back! It is so funny. Here is Gavin playing with his toys in his FORT.

OUR BIG HELPER

Gavin has become such a BIG helper! In the first photo he is helping daddy put the leaf to the table away. I think he even grunted a few times acting like it was heavy to carry! hehehe. The picture above is Gavin helping Mommy vacuum. Apparently I don't vacuum enough for him because almost everyday he gets out the vacuum for me and then gets really upset unless I actually vacuum the family room. The other day we were eating in the family room on the couch. I was done and at the sink doing the dishes. Daddy had finished but was still on the couch with his plate. All the sudden, Gavin goes over and takes Daddy's plate from off his lap and brings it over to me in the kitchen! We were both terrified he would trip and fall and cut himself. But he made it safely, with a little grunt at the end I might add. He also loves to throw things away for you!

YUM! PUDDING!

Here is Gavin eating chocolate pudding for the first time. Do you think he likes it? I can't tell.