Playdate with the Fireman

Today Gavin and I went to a mommy's group playdate at the Franklin fire station. Gavin was very interested in the truck but was not at all amused when the fireman came out with his full gear on. My otherwise "happy" child was not about to let this "Yellow Darth Vader" come anywhere near him or his mommy. Santa was no problem but this was not negotiable with Gavin. Here are some pictures.

Walk This Way!

Gavin is walking!!! Well, at least we know he can walk. He still crawls when he wants to go somewhere but he will take a few steps on his own if you encourage him to do so. I'm highly disappointed that I didn't witness the first steps. Here I am, at home with Gavin ALL DAY LONG but on February 21st, I took 90 minutes out to go to bible study and he decides to walk for my mom! Worst yet, my mom actually told me!! I would never have been the wiser if she hadn't told me but alas, she couldn't keep it to herself. Anyway, check out the youtube video. Too cute!

Safe and Sound

Many have contacted me concerned about the tornados that hit our region yesterday. All is well here in Franklin but our neighboring community of Fairview did get significant damage. It was the deadliest outbreak of tornados for Tennessee since 1933. I think the death toll is at 33 and there are still 15 missing. Once these 15 people are accounted for, it may end up being the deadliest on record for our state. We did seek shelter at my parent's house. They live a couple blocks away from us and they have an underground shelter in the garage. Here's a link to the company's website.

www.flatsafe.com

Please pray for those who have lost so much.

Snow Angel!

So we had a light dusting of snow last Wednesday night just before Gavin was going to bed. I put his coat on and we headed outside. He was mesmerized by the HUGE snowflakes. He did see snow a couple weeks prior to this but didn't have the opportunity to play in it. He kept sticking his tongue out at the flakes but of course I couldn't manage to ever capture that on camera! Anyway, I hope the weather is warmer wherever you may be reading this. Happy Tuesday!

More!! More!!!

Our little stinker is signing! I have been working on baby sign language for what seems to be forever. This weekend, he finally started doing it!! Although it's only one sign, it makes my heart so proud!! I started crying when he did it.. and again... and again. It's so cute. He typically does it when he's eating and he wants "more" crackers, juice, etc. However, I noticed he was doing it yesterday when Chad was tossing him around. Whenever Chad would stop, Gavin would sign "more". Oh... so cute. I took some video but I will have to wait to post it. I just wanted to share.

Happy Birthday Gavin!!

So it took me a while to get these pictures up. I am not budgeting my time well at all these days. I don't even have my Christmas decorations down yet. Hhmm... it's 70 degrees today. Do you suppose this might be the day to do it?

Gavin's birthday party was a big production! We had lots of family and a few close friends come. Gavin was getting pretty tired by the time the cake was rolled out. He had quite the time playing in the frosting and then by the end of it all, he was just glazed over, covered in blue, white and yellow frosting. It was EVERYWHERE! Including my woodwork, walls and floor. Idiot me popped a balloon that had frosting all over it... you can imagine the rest of the story. My advice to anyone else who is ordering a 1st Birthday cake... go with plain white frosting for the smash cake. Seriously!

For two days, Gavin had bright green poop... how disgusting... I figured out it was all the food coloring from the frosting. You remember the equation, "yellow and blue make green". Now I have the proof.

Gavin has opened lots of presents over the past couple weeks. It's a bummer his birthday and Christmas are so close together. All his toys will be a year old by the time he gets another round. Oh well, I don't think he is too abused or anything. His favorites are the farm toys and his ride on truck. He just loves the farm stuff so much. He always has a ball in one hand and an "Little People" animal in the other.

Well, must go now. Little stinker is making noises. Below are some pictures from that day.

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Here Comes Santa Claus...

How cute is he??? While all the other kids were screaming and totally freaked out by the man in red, my little stinker went right to him and started messing with his beard! That's Gavin for ya.

This will be a very busy week. Gavin's grandma and grandpa (Chad's parents) are coming to visit from Missouri on Friday. We are going to celebrate Gavin's first birthday on Saturday and then we will have Christmas with his parents on Sunday before they return home.

We went to Missouri for Thanksgiving and Gavin rode the 4 wheeler with daddy. He giggled the entire time. He loved the loud noise and vibration. What a boy.

Well, I will post more after the birthday party!

A Family Picture

We are still waiting for our proofs to come back but our photographer sent us a sneek peek of what's to come...

Pumpkin Pick'n

Here are the pictures from Gentry's Farm this past weekend. He sure loves his pumpkin!

Happy Halloweeny!!

So another 6 months... I really stink at this posting thing. Anyway, so much has happened in the past 6 months. First of all, we moved. Praise God that our old house sold considering the slow market right now. We feel very blessed to be out of the old house and into the new... there are a lot of people out there who can't get their houses sold. The new house is great. It's going to take some time to get it settled but we are loving the yard. For those of you who don't know, we stayed in the same neighborhood but we built a house with a bigger yard for Gavin.

I earned my real estate license. I am very happy to have that done. I never realized how much studying it would take to pass the exam. I am working for Equus Land and Home. Check out their site. http://www.equuslandandhome.com/

Last night was Halloween. Although we aren't big Halloween people, we thought it would be fun to get Gavin dressed up for all the trick or treaters. He was a puppy dog. He actually likes kitties more but I thought it would be too girly to dress him as a cat.

Gavin is VERY sociable. His favorite thing to do is hollar out at people with a loud "Aahh?". That's his "Hi". I am trying to encourage him to use a sound that resembles "hi" but people always respond to him when he does his "aahh" so he figures why fix it if it ain't broke? right?

He's now 10 months old. He knows a few words but isn't talking. I KNOW he knows hi, bye, Gavin, doggy, kitty, shoes, feet, mommy, daddy, nanna, eat, milk, and gentle. He spends a lot of time working at his work bench. How funny is that? Such a daddy's boy. I will post a video of him at his work bench. He's not paying any attention to me.... yep... daddy's boy! ;-)

We took Gavin to Gentry's Farm last weekend to pick out his own pumpkin. He LOVES the pumpkin. He wanted to hold it the whole way home and smiled the entire time. Check out the pictures.

Keep your eyes open for our latest 9 month pics. We should be getting them from the photographer any day!