Talking and crawling

Last Thursday Gavin said his first legible string of letters.  He said "Da Da"  I was crushed!  But it made me feel better that he called me Da Da also so obviously he hasn't quite figured out what it means.  Shortly after that he started saying "ki ca" which I assume he is repeating kitty cat, again he doesn't look at the cat when he says it so I assume he isn't sure what it means.  He is quite proud of himself though and talks even more than he used to, which is hard to believe.  I have no idea what he is going to be when he grows up but if it doesn't involve a great deal of talking I will be super surprised.  He is very fascinated with the sound of his own voice :-).
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Gavin has been so close to crawling for so long that I was beginning to wonder if he would ever do it.  Then when we got home Sunday afternoon and put him on the floor we could tell that he had made some significant progress.  I honestly thought that he would crawl before he went to bed but alas he did not.  So last night while we were watching TV Clay got down on the floor with him to practice and low and behold he did it!!  And we got it all on camera!!!  I am so excited for him but also a bit sad because he is growing up so incredibly fast!
Below is the first video we got of him
 

Below is him crawling a little better since we took his slippery pants off.


Also for a first in a while we got some pictures of him smiling.  Believe me when I say that it is super hard to do.  He recognizes the camera immediately and gets this blank stare on his face 99.9% of the time.  Apparently last night he was just tired enough to be giddy and not care.