9 month checkup

Well we took Gavin in for his nine month check up at the doctor's office. He got an all clear and a clean bill of health. The only thing the doctor brought up was that we need to be concern about safety around the house. Since Gavin is at the age that he will start getting into to things. And boy does he now get into things. I upload a bunch of photos of him getting into things. So you'll have to check them out. We have also grabbed some quick videos of him crawling and babbling baby talk but I haven't spent any time trying to figure out how to upload them.

mama mama mama

"mama mama mama..." is now a common phrase that we hear from Gavin. Though we don't think he is truly saying Mama, but it is still fun to hear that come from his mouth of babble. He seems to be no longer sick, while I still have some "being sick" left in me. Tonight during bath time we took him out of the baby tub and just let him play in the big tub. He did really well, so tomorrow I'll let him take a shower. (Just kidding) Still no signs of that sixth tooth dropping down, and the drooling has subsided so I think it may be a while. He did excellent yesterday in the mall, rode around in the stroller looking at all the funny-looking people. It seem like the people that go shopping at Wal-Mart at 3:00 AM where at the mall on Saturday. (Present readers excluded from that comment if you happen to shop at Wal-Mart at 3:00 AM.) Oh well he will be going on many more shopping trips as we attempt to buy Christmas presents for our family over the next few weeks. Just think he'll be almost 11 months at Christmas and might be walking by April 2007, and starting school by September 2011, driving a car by 2021, graduating high school by 2023. Oh and I can retire by 2042 (unless they push it back by then.)

Halloween Pictures

Tiggers like to pounce,
originally uploaded by satterfield.ben.

Well even though he wasn't feeling good we still put the costume on him for a bit and took some photos. (Can't tell from this photo) After about ten minutes he was not digging being in the hood outfit. So I took some photos of him and even upload a photo from the other day of him eating.

Getting Better

Well Gavin's fever has come down, but he is still cranky. Hardly slept at all last night, keeping the whole house up. At some point in the middle of the night I even got fed up with him wailing. It is good to have Heidi and I swap him off when we can't deal with the crying any more. I'm amazed at single mom's, cause I would have gone insane by now or been a horrible parent. But he's not a bad kid at all, just he's been sick and not sleeping well. Oh well Halloween is tonight and we're going to stick a costume on him. I'll grab a photo and throw it up on the site tomorrow.

Weekend of Sick

Well Gavin was sick all weekend with a fever, ranging from 101 to 103. We spent most of the weekend comforting him and trying to make life easier. Heidi went to the doctor on Saturday fearing that he might have another bladder infection but the test came back OK, he just had a viral infection, (if that could be a good thing). I also got sick and lost my voice, I feel like crap but haven't had a fever so I'm at work today. Heidi some how managed avoiding getting sick, guess the JuicePlus is working for her, might have to start taken them myself. Anyway they are home today, last time I talked to her she said his temperature was 99 degrees, so a lot better than all weekend.

Cheerios

Gavin has discovered that he likes to eat Cheerios, but he hasn't mastered the skill of getting them to his mouth. He can pick them up, but they somehow resist being eaten. They end up sticking to his face or falling to the floor. If we only had a dog then we wouldn't have to clean it up after every meal. The cats took interest at first, but after a sniff they didn't care so much. The most I could get Bristo (our cat) to do was bat them across the floor and under the furniture. Also Gavin is sitting in high chairs at restaurants, which really shows how quickly he is growing up. Well tomorrow we are taken him to Apple Festival in Bedford, should be fun.

First cold and some new teeth

Gavin got his first cold. On Tuesday night he started coughing and had a runny noise. That night was a long one since he couldn't sleep well, he kept waking up and Heidi got up like five times. She took a sick day for Wednesday just in case he was running a fever. He never did, but Wednesday night was a little rough. I ended up sleeping on the Living Room floor so I could get some sleep, since Gavin and Mom were in bed.

Anyway tonight we were using the nose sucking thingy to extract some boogies and I noticed that his top teeth are poking through his gums. I am suprise that his teeth are coming in so early. From what I had read it said that teeth could come in as last as 14 month and he has his in less than 9.