Loving the spring time

After last week of him being sick, we were glad to be out this weekend. He helped me in preparing our garden. Mainly pulling dirt out of my garden boxes and dropping it on the ground or attempting to eat strange things he found in the dirt. Gavin likes to hand me things that he finds on the ground, like; White Oak leaves, acorns, and twigs. I dug up a worm and handed it to him, he dropped that too. I guess he doesn't like worms. But in all he was my little helper this weekend, and will be for the rest of the summer.

Look who's Walking

We're in trouble now. :)

Five Steps to a Whole New World

Well we have heard reports from the baby sitter that Gavin took a few steps the other day. I noticed on Friday night he took an unaided step from the coffee table to the table. But on Saturday night Gavin took five steps from the couch to me. It was a wobbley (sp?) stagger but he did it in front of Heidi and I. Of course we hadn't been able to reproduce it again. The most I can get him to take is two steps before he wants to drop and crawl. But it should be soon. Maybe next weekend we'll work with him more. Also we discover his "I want that!" look when he sees balloons in the store. He also points at things now, kinda funny.

He is also either sick or teething in more teeth, most likely both. This weekend we have a very cranky baby on our hands. If he walks again I'll tape it and throw it up on the video section.

Standing Up

We are seeing glimpses of Gavin standing up without aide of the furniture. Though it is for only a brief moment, it still really cool to see him do that. He is acting more and more like a toddler and less like a baby. Balloons are his favorite toy at the moment, but since he likes to bite it, we have to take them away if we are not playing directly with him. He still wants Heidi's hair brush if he sees it. Climbing up stairs is nothing for him now. He'll even climb down if we let him. The last time I took him outside he was too young to really crawl around, so I'm excited for the temperature to rise so we can play in the dirt/grass.

Birthday Party

Gavin celebrated his 1st birthday by traditionally consuming and/or playing with a birthday cake. He didn't tear the cake apart as fast as I thought one would do, but actually I felt he was a little confused about what was in front of him. But after a little bit he a full on mess. We just did a small birthday party with our family. I put photos up on our Flickr account and have a video on Youtube.

Almost a year

Well we've been busy with this and that. I noticed I didn't even post pictures from Christmas. He got a lot of toys. It is really neat to see him develop and start to play with his toys differently. He'll babble a lot more now, and if I imitate him, it can go on for a good twenty minutes. Bath time has become a splashfest. If I put a little too much soap in, we get lots of bubbles, but he tries to eat them so Heidi disapproves too much bubbles. Anyway we are going to celebrate his 1st birthday this weekend. I'll post the always famous "cover in birthday cake photo" when it happens.

Talking Gavin

I got a video here of Gavin in the bathtub speaking his own little language. Going to upload some more photos next.