quick update

Hey, hi, how are ya? We are here and everything is fine. I've been trying to update all week but I've been exhausted and Gavin doesn't give me much chance to gather my thoughts for an update while I'm sitting in front of the computer.

We've had a lovely weekend. It was a long holiday weekend, and in the manner of long holiday weekends, it was over too soon. Saturday actually wasn't so nice - I ended up in bed most of the day pretty sick. But yesterday and today were fine. We had a graduation party for my uncle yesterday, who just graduated with his MBA, and today we went to Shannon's and had grilled steaks and homemade ice cream (yum!).

Gavin is quite the expert climber now, zipping up onto just about any chair or other surface around. He has discovered he can push a chair to what he wants and get at it by climbing onto the chair. He hasn't learned that chairs slide on the tile floor when he's leaning forward pushing on the wall (playing with light switches), and has taken a few tumbles.

Just this weekend he started using "mamama" and variations (like mememe and ma-me-my-mymymy) to mean me. It's so sweet, makes my heart go all squishy... even if he does only do it when he's upset. Which he has been a lot lately. His fourth molar finally poked its first point through. The end of teething is in site, albeit temporarily.