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We had our anatomy ultrasound today for the new baby! If you don't want to know what we're having, don't look at pictures 4 & 5.

Picture 1: the skelator picture...
Picture 2: what a cute profile!
Picture 3: profile is still cute! The kid's face is right up against the placenta - guess we've got a snuggler coming.
Picture 4: I don't think you even need the label and arrow to tell you what you're looking at here.
Picture 5: see? no arrow, and it's still pretty apparent :)
It was so freaking cool to watch the baby moving around during the ultrasound.

Gavin has just started saying his /k/ sounds lately, though most of them are still pronounced as /t/. His r's are still more like w's in some words, though he pronounces them in others. Listen to him say "fork" as he practices his new sounds. He says it twice in this video, and the 2nd time was especially funny to us.

He is also working on being quite the ham when I take his picture. He was saying "cheese," until riiiight before the camera took the picture, when he turned into demon baby. Priceless.

sick baby. again.

Poor Gavin. He's finally kicking the sinus and ear infection, and along comes the fever virus. The only symptom is a high fever, at least, so hopefully no more snot or coughing will accompany this round. I'm hoping he's feeling better soon. I'm also hoping that, once he's healthy, he stays healthy for a good long while. His mother's day out class will forget what he looks like!!

Tomorrow is the anatomy ultrasound for the new baby. I will not be keeping it a secret, so if you don't want to know what we're having, stay away from here tomorrow! I'll post pictures as soon as it's possible to do so.

shenanigans

Gavin decided to take his pajama shirt off himself this morning. In the kitchen. So it stayed on the kitchen floor until mommy was awake and decided it needed to move to a more appropriate place. Like the hamper.

The early morning shirt shenanigans resulted in a half-naked baby boy eating his Cheerios at breakfast. I guess the bright side in all of this, aside from Gavin's general, all-around cuteness, is that his PJs don't smell like milk now.

Grammy, I promise that the book you gave Gavin does get used for more than just a step stool.

See? Told ya! He loves lifting out the pieces to see what's underneath. We just need to work on putting them back where they belong before we lose them all :)

Jake was being extra cute today, so he got his picture taken, too.

We went to the new Salt Lick restaurant that opened a few weeks ago in Round Rock for dinner tonight. It was good! At least, I think it was - my head is all stuff and I can't really taste much, but everyone else thought it was yummy. Gavin felt warm afterwards, and sure enough, he's running another fever. Poor kid! It sounds like he has what one of his friends had last week, which was a fever with no other symptoms at all. He was warm, and snuggly, but otherwise his same little Gavin self. Hopefully this will pass faster than his sinus/ear infections last week. I want my healthy self and baby boy back!!

good times

Kelly gave Gavin some clothes that Blake had grown out of. Gavin really enjoyed the box she sent them over in.

He also spent some time playing drums on the box, but I was too busy playing with him to take pictures or video of that!

We flew to Madison, WI last weekend for my cousin Ryan's wedding. Gavin enjoyed swimming with his daddy in the hotel pool. The camera turned itself off right before Gavin went underwater - must remember to bring batteries next time!!

He also developed a fever sometime between the wedding ceremony and wedding reception, poor kid. Finally, today is a fever-free day, but Gavin was a trooper through the whole deal. Even with fever-eyes, he's pretty darn adorable!


He even showed off how he's learned to say "cheese!" when having his picture taken!

I took some video (tried, anyway) of Gavin playing in the living room the other day, but it was impossible to get anything good when he kept trying to come to my side of the camera and see what I was taping. Exasperating, but still cute - for now, at least!

Now that Gavin's feeling better, he's eating better as well (slowly but surely his appetite is making a comeback). We had cheddar and jalapeno sausage for dinner tonight. I'd cut pieces for him to stab with his fork, but that took too long, so he just shoveled them into his mouth with his hands. Then we put a couple of "spears" on his plate - pieces we'd not yet cut up - and he grabbed one and starting taking bites off the end. My little carnivore.

He was so excited about his yogurt tonight that he used 2 spoons. Silly.

I'm working on updating things regularly, but failing miserably. Being sick myself doesn't help! At least I can admit to my shortcomings :)