some pictures

What Gavin did during Mommy's shower

Caught!

Grilled cheese and tomato soup, Gavin style

Gavin LOVES his truck book. He gets so excited by trucks, especially the scraper and the telephone line repair truck (we can't figure that one out, but he adores that one!).

We've had a busy week. Gavin started swim lessons Monday. We had a lesson each day, Monday through Thursday. For half an hour we bopped around the swimming pool, splashing and singing silly songs and practicing blowing bubbles. The first day he was very unsure, clinging to me something fierce. By the end of the lesson he had warmed up and was having fun. The next day when we walked through the door and he saw the pool, he had a ginormous grin on his face and giggled. We have another week of lessons next week. Jason is planning on going into work late one day so he can come watch, and maybe he'll get a couple of pictures while he's at it so you all can see the boy in the pool.

Wednesday was Jason's birthday. We went out for dinner Tuesday with his grandparents to celebrate. On Wednesday I cooked him a birthday dinner of roast beef and red potatoes and baked him a Boston cream pie (although something went wrong with the cake and instead of being spongy it was denser than dense -- still tasty though). After dinner we met my mom and sister and her family for ice cream at Cold Stone Creamery.

Gavin has been talking up a storm. He now says mommy, and says it all the time, usually while whining and tugging at my shirt or shorts. I feel like a mother more than ever when he does that (eyes rolling). He also says daddy, but since he learned the sign for daddy, he prefers to use it instead of the word. Everyday it seems he says a new word, though like many of his words, they are often one-time things, or he'll say them a lot for a day and then not again for weeks.

He's learning new signs quickly too. It seems as if learning the sign for nursing set him off and running on signs - he learned he could actually communicate what he wants with them and that makes him so happy. He will now watch intently while we make a new sign, and then practice it. His recent new ones are cracker (the cookie sign), banana, daddy, car, and thank you. He's not doing all of those independently yet, but he's well on his way.

Posted by allison at July 30, 2005 10:14 AM