TWO!!

Can you believe Gavin is TWO??? We celebrated his birthday last week and since his party has been enjoying all his fun gifts. He mows the lawn probably 5 hours a day and gives us many concerts on his guitar. Since the party he has learned to say "cake" and chants it every day. This morning all I heard on the monitor was "cake, cake, cake, cake, CAAAAAKE (in a high pitch scream which he has also learned and will hopefully unlearn soon)......cake, cake, cake....". He had learned to say Aunt Kate a couple of weeks ago, but since then she has become Aunt Cake. I think the child likes cake.

The cake- Didn't Aunt Nories do great??

Birthday Boy
Thanks to Jon for bringing the construction hat

Gavin's cousin Olivia, such a cutie and she had just had her birthday so she helped Gavin figure out how to open presents
Jude and his granddad

Maddys BFF Annerson
We are off to family vacation tomorrow so I wanted to get a quick post in so I would not have tons of catching up to do when we come home.

On another note, Madison now has 2 teeth and learned how to say Dada. I think Camren taught her that at their playdate.

SUMMER!!

Gotta protect the eyes!!

She just melts my heart

Gavin LOVES the water

Already picking on his little sister

I love watching him have so much fun and doesn't this just capture how he runs?? He has his arm swing goin on.

I am so glad we have been having such pretty, warm days. Hope everyone else is enjoying it!

Jude Wootten

Yesterday I took some pictures of Laney and Jon's sweet baby Jude. I haven't had time to upload them all, but I wanted to post a couple for them to see. Isn't he precious??


Had to post a smile.

Just Madison

I love this girl!!!

I Love Canon

This weekend was a fabulous one. My sister had her first wedding shower in Hobbs and the kids and I were able to see my grandparents, Nanny and DeDad. The Clarks came into town and we had a wildly great time. There is nothing like having 4 kids ages 2 and under. It was so fun. Since my new camera stuff came in, we took LOADS of pictures.

I haven't learned how to edit yet, so maybe I will edit them later and re-post. If anyone is a pro on photoshop I am up for a tutorial.

Corbin is adorable and is so easy to take pictures of, he practically poses for you.


Needs to be cropped, but isn't she adorable?? Check out those eyes.

Mom, my bow is so big I can barely hold my head up! Brooke taught me how to make bows this weekend. Very fun.


Hope everyone had a good weekend! Ours ended with a fun birthday party for our cousin Nick. We will blog about that tomorrow.

Quote for the weekend:
She is not that greasy. On a greasiness scale of 1 to 10 she is like a 3.8.

Gavin's first Easter egg hunt, oh and I never want to be 17 again.

Gavin had a wonderful Easter. He really got the hang of hunting easter eggs and had also had a great time playing with his older cousins Nathan and Brianna. Jordan and I loved seeing everyone and played a new game, bananagrams. If you are gamers like us, you will love it and can get it on Amazon.

Enjoy the video!


Gavin Easter 09 from Jordan Gray on Vimeo.

Isn't my husband talented???

I am sure everyone is wondering how Seventeen Again was. If you enjoy sitting in a roomful of tweens who cheer and squeal everytime Zac Effron comes on screen, then you should definitely go. So of course Jordan had an awesome time. But really, the movie was cute. Rent it and watch it at home with no thirteen year old girls.

P.S. Thanks to The Justin Cofield Band for the music for the video. Look them up on itunes and buy there CD it's worth every penny. You'll love it.

Nana Fridays

Well, my Mom usually comes over on Fridays, but not this Friday. I know you are having grandkid withdrawals not seeing them, so here are a couple of pics.




Tonight Jordan and I are going to the movies, I am very excited. We are going to go see seventeen again. Yes, that is the movie with Zac Effron, and yes, I do really want to see it. Who wants to bet we will be the oldest in the theatre??

Easter

From "It is well with my soul":

My sin, oh, the bliss of this glorious thought!
My sin, not in part but the whole,
Is nailed to the cross, and I bear it no more,
Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, O my soul!

Drink anyone?

Madison and Gavin had bathtime together for the first time and Gavin has learned a new trick. He gets his frog toy, turns it upside down to fill it up with water, and then proceeds to drink the bathwater. Excellent. Oh, and he enjoys feeding this water to Madison also. I turned my head to grab a washcloth under the sink, turn around, and to Madison's extreme delight, Gavin is pouring water in her mouth. She had a huge smile on her face and drank it up. I am definitely not encouraging the drinking of the bathwater. After all, you do know the first thing that babies tend to do when you put them in that warm bath water.....
On a VERY exciting note....drumroll please....Gavin has been using the potty!! Not at all close to being potty trained of course, but sit him down on his potty, give him a good book, a piece of candy, his sippy cup in reach and he is good to go. He is pretty proud of himself and we are too.

Whisks are fun toys and so are bath crayons from the looks of the wall

Gavin prefers drinking out of the purple frog
Madison makes this face everytime you put food in her mouth
Pretty Girl

Check out those eyelashes

Getting my March post in

We have been busy the past month! I have to start out my posts like that because it makes me feel better about not posting in so long. But, really, we have been busy. I had an awesome surprise birthday party and really was surprised. We went to Hobbs, my parents came here, and Russell, Susan, Zack, and Phillip were here. Also, we now have a beautifully tiled bathroom (thanks Dad!), new living room furniture (thanks Jordan), and grass in the backyard (thank you Jay, Jason, Diana, Chuck, and Debbie). It has been amazing looking out in the backyard everyday and going from very discouraged looking at a big pile of mud, to now looking out and seeing big patches of tall-ish green grass. It really is amazing!
The kids are great. Madison is BIG and I mean 17 pounds big. She is a chunk! It's so cute. She is sitting up for short periods, rolling over, scooting across the room, sucking her thumb, smiling and cooing, spitting and blowing bubbles, eating cereal, bananas, sweet potatoes, prunes, and puffs and loves all of them. She accidentally got a little crumb of cookie and REALLY loved that. She also loves to pull off her socks, play with her feet, and always wants to hold your hands and stand up. I think she is ready to be able to chase after Gavin, she adores him. Gavin is running all over the place, climbing on things, and talking! He babbles sentences that are hard to understand but is using lots of words correctly too. The cutest thing is the the way he waves and says buh bye. It's worth coming over just to leave and hear it, it will melt your heart. I have several funny stories but I will save them for another day. I want to post pics before they both wake up and whereas I like to think of myself as being computer saavy, it takes me way to long to post pictures, I am not sure what I am doing wrong.

the kids with their adorable cousin Zach, of course they are all looking in different directions

We had dinner with some fun friends, Michael and Evan, who have a cute son and daughter and before we left they dressed up as cowboys and shot us all.

*Just so you know these pictures posted quickly. We recently switched from safari to firefox and I think it just might have been safari gettin' me down.

A Few Favorites

Gavin loves his Uncle Landon and we all love choppy bobs from Triple J

Gavin + Spagetti = Love

Daddy and Maddy

Smiles from Madison

I thought I would take the time to answer some questions I always get.

Is Gavin jealous?

If jealousy involves Gavin pointing at Madison, whom I am holding, and then pointing at the ground, then yes, he is showing some jealousy. He also has a new found interest in his former swing, bouncy, and Maddy's pacifier, which is really interesting considering he did not even like his own.  

Are you able to spend enough time with both kids?

Yes!!  It's my good friends internet, tv, and sleep that don't get as much attention.  Oh housework misses me too.   

 

Gavin learned to take off his pants and diaper yesterday and that is a disaster waiting to happen so I am getting ready to potty train him.  If anyone has ideas or suggestions let me know!

Gymkhana: Simply Amazing

This is how you drive a car people. The longer I work for Subaru, the more I fall in love with them. Ladies and Gentlemen, meet Ken Block, he is one of our rally car driver's. Watch.... be amazed........ and take notes.

P.S. To do this you'll first have to come buy the STI from me.

ENJOY!!

Pope Gavin the First

Every parent is guilty of it.  I am sure all of you remember your parents doing it to you.  Jordan and I have already started it.  I see Gavin playing with a tractor.  "Gavin do you want to be a cotton farmer??"   He is doing puzzles and is really good at it.  "Oh Gavin, you are definitely going to be an engineer, aren't you?"  He seems slightly interested in the episode of House we are watching on tv.  "Gavin don't you want to be a diagnostician so you can take good care of Mommy and Daddy when we are old and decrepid?" Seriously, why am I already trying to put career ideas into the mind of an 18 month old??  

This is our "conversation" with Gavin the other day.  Apparently we can stop trying to persuade him, he has decided on his future career.

Me:  Gavin, do you want to be an architect?

Gavin:  No.*

*this,of course, is a nonverbal no.  Gavin still chooses to communicate only by nods "yes" and "no", by pointing, and of course his signature grunting.  This actually proves to be a very effective mode of communication and  so he might never speak.

Jordan:  Gavin, do you want to be an actor?

Gavin:  No.

Me:  Gavin, do you want to be a lawyer?

Gavin:  No.

Jordan:  Gavin, do you want to be a teacher?

Gavin:  No.

Me:  Do you want to be an artist?

Gavin:  No.

Jordan:  Do you want to be a Catholic Priest?

Gavin:  Yes.

Jordan and I:  Laughing.

Gavin:  Has his serious look on.

Me:  Gavin do you want to be a dancer? (this is a trick question I am thinking he is just saying yes now)

Gavin:  No.  (not falling for it)

Jordan:  Gavin do you want to be a Catholic Priest?

Gavin:  Yes.  

Our future little priest.

I think he might have gotten this whole idea from Annerson.  Maybe he just digs the hat.