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 :)

dance party

Gavin loves Rage Against the Machine. It's loud, angry, and, for some reason, it's just the thing to get Gavin dancing like a crazy man.

in the backyard

It was really nice outside this evening, so we spent some time in the backyard. We'd been anticipating rain and wind from Ike to come our way, but we didn't get a single drop of rain. It was windy, sure, but no rain. So we took advantage of a breezy, not super swelteringly hot evening outside.

Scott was reading for school.

Gavin enjoyed climbing and sliding. Apparently, someone has taught him to say "cheese!" when his picture is being taken, which explains why he's making a silly toothy face in some of the pictures.

He's very independent when climbing now, which is awesome. He used to want one of us to hold his hand or be there at all times and now he couldn't care less where we are (as long as he can see us!) while he's clambering all over the place.

It wasn't terribly hot, but it was still warm, as evidenced by Gavin's sweaty head. Ah, boys.

Scott took some video of Gavin on the slide. The camera cut out in the middle, so we have part 1 and part 2.

Part 1:

Part 2:

1st day of school

Gavin had his first day of "school" yesterday. My baby's a big boy now!! He is going to a Mother's Day Out program 2 days a week. He even has a little backpack! I didn't get a picture of him with it before he took his backpack to Kelly's house, but I'll try to get one to post soon. So cute!! Kelly told me he had an "okay" day, whatever that means :) He didn't eat much while there, which doesn't surprise me with his history of hunger strikes in new situations, but I'm sure that will work itself out as he gets more comfortable with Ms. Janine and the rest of the Jellyfish class.

I feel terrible that I wasn't able to take him to his first day. I still haven't met his teacher! This working thing gets in the way.

finally!

Now that school's back in session, I just never seem to find the time to get on here and post anything. So, here it is, the big fat update of what's been going on with us here in Durham-land.

The week before last, I felt the baby move for the first time! It's such a wild feeling, and it's what I missed the most about being pregnant. This past Friday was 15 weeks. We have our 16 week appointment on Tuesday (so it's more like 15.5, but whatever) and hopefully we can schedule our anatomy ultrasound at that time. Yes, we do plan to find out the sex, and yes, we will be shouting it from the rooftops. Don't worry!

Gavin will be starting a Mother's Day Out program this coming week. Kelly will drop him off and pick him up (her kids are going there too) every Tuesday and Thursday, 9am-1pm. I'm excited to have him in a class with other kids his age. He's wary of new people, especially new grown ups, and it's going to be weird for me to hear all about everything that goes on at his school third hand, but oh well. I'm sure everything will be fine, even if there's some adjusting at first, and I know he'll end up having a blast.

Sorry, I guess I'm making you read a bunch (if you're actually reading and not just scrolling down) before getting to the Gavin gallery. Here you go!

Here Gavin and Scott are watching TV. Male bonding, baby - especially now that football's back!


One of Gavin's new favorite things to do is washing his hands. Whenever we go into the bathroom, or use the sink in the kitchen, or just walk past the sink in general, he rubs his hands together to ask if he can wash his hands. Good hygiene starts early! Oh, and so you know, Gavin went to the library the day we took this picture - that's a stamp on his hand/wrist, not a bruise!

They don't just watch TV on the couch. Here are Gavin and his daddy enjoying Gavin's "DOG" book.

Could he be cuter? Nope, I don't think so either :)

This is video of Gavin in his highchair. He wanted pizza for dinner (as you can tell) and was reading his daddy's bike magazine. Though we didn't get footage of it, Gavin can now point to the pedals, handlebars, wheels, seat, helmet, and probably more stuff I'm not thinking of. He's a bike lover, just like Scott. I'll have to get video of him riding his own little bike. Note to self.

And here he is in our closet. He was doing pull-ups on the bar before I got the camera, but when I returned to take video he got all shy and refused to do cute things, aside from just being cute in general. Oh well. Enjoy it anyway.