Browning Boys: The weekend - Long Post (sorry)

So last week I made my first trip away from both Gavin and Clay to head to a tax conference in Atlanta. I happened to get a stomach virus immediately upon arriving so instead of moaning and groaning about missing my boys, I moaned and groaned about how bad my tummy hurt :-( I guess it served its purpose. So of course all I wanted this weekend was to spend crazy amounts of time alone with them and that is exactly what I got!! I was so worried that Gavin was going to start doing all kinds of neat things while I was gone but Clay promised that he didn't. I guess he was waiting on me to get home to introduce his new moves/sounds because Friday night when I was changing his diaper he looked up at me and pursed his little lips and buzzed them. So of course I thought that was super cool/funny and did it right back to him. He looked at me kind of funny sort of like he was thinking, "hey, I thought I was the only one that could do that". After getting over his initial shock, we did it back and forth a couple of times.

Saturday he decided to try it a little different. He would stick out his lips like Donald Duck and then buzz them, it was so funny looking. He would get this super serious face right before he did it. So Clay and I laughed and laughed at him and he enjoyed the attention and kept performing.

He also came up with a new sound this weekend. He has now learned to gasp, really loud. He mainly does it when he is lying on his changing table. It is so funny, I have no idea where he learned to do that, but he finds it very odd that we, Clay and I, can also do it. He is such a funny little guy and he loves to hear his own voice. He makes sounds and "talks" all day.

I guess he has been so busy concentrating on his vocal repertoire that he just took notice of his toes. He didn't start that this weekend, but it has been really recent. He now tries to stick his feet in his mouth no matter what position he is in or what is on them. I worried about it for awhile because all the books say that he should have done that months ago, but he is so far ahead with everything else, I guess he just forgot about them.

He will kill me one day for posting this but he has also just recently discovered his man parts. Every time you take off his diaper his hand goes straight for them, like he is checking to make sure they haven't gone missing. You have to be really careful though when he has a poopy diaper that he doesn't get a handful of that instead.

One other thing he has just started - He clasps his hands together and shakes them from side to side, kind of like he is standing on a stage and just won a big award. I know I'm not describing it in any kind of discernible way so here is a picture, albeit not a great one, to illustrate. The problem with him doing this is, he keeps hitting himself in the face! I'm afraid he is going to blacken his eye and we are going to get child services called on us. I think it might be part of Gavin's master plan since we keep feeding him peas :-).

From 2010-10-23

So a couple of months ago we broke down and finally decided to try Net Flix since our favorite movie store in town closed it's doors and last summer we had started getting the DVD's of 24 trying to catch up so we could watch this past season on TV. Well we got distracted and gave up around the end of season two. So in between Net Flix mailing us our movies we noticed that we could watch all the old seasons of 24 instantly online, so we have been hooked ever since. That is pretty much all we do on the weekend, when UGA or the Tampa Bay Buccaneers aren't playing. So I was trying to watch Jack Bauer save the US once again from terrorists while simultaneously feed Gavin his cereal last night. Bad Mommy, I know, believe me! Well I paid for it as you can see from the funny pictures below. Every time I would turn my head he would rub oatmeal/rice in somewhere else!