Busy little boy!

Since my last post, Gavin has been a busy little boy.  He celebrated, well not really, Valentine's Day; had his first table food; started drinking from his sippy cup, sort of, and moved up classrooms. The first three happened all on the same day!  He is also increasing his daredeviledness, which is giving me ulcers.

I was worried that Valentine's Day would sort of suck this year for two reasons, one it was on Monday and who in the world feels romantic on Monday, especially during tax season. And number two, although I love Gavin more than life itself, a child does not add to the romantic mood, in the least :-).  But I should have known that Clay would go above and beyond as always and make me feel super special and loved.  We had a good time sharing our "romantic" dinner with Gavin and seeing how much he enjoyed his first table food and dinner sitting with the family.  Clay and I had tilapia and crab cakes with green beans, Gavin had to settle for green beans, cheese and fruit.  Not that he knew he was settling.

This boy LOVES cheese.  We had to start weaning him off by the end of the week because he pretty much stopped going to the bathroom :-).  Guess we went a little overboard, imagine that!

 I was really excited that he started to eat regular food because that meant that we could start eating together as a family at the table and not stuffing our faces from the couch while watching TV.  Don't get me wrong, I LOVE to watch TV, but lately I feel like that is all we do from the moment Gavin and I get home until we go to bed.  I don't want to be that family that has no idea what is going on in each others lives but could tell you the entire familial history of certain TV characters.  Clay thinks I am over reacting a bit but he is fully supporting me.  Which is CRUCIAL since it is he who cooks our dinner and now has to have it pretty much ready as soon as I get home to keep Gavin from melting down from hunger/impatience.

Gavin's favorite table food so far has been tilapia, cheese, black eyed peas, asparagus, and Smokin Pig BBQ :-).  These also happen to be some of my most favorite foods!  He still eats his fruits, but seems to be most interested in meat and veggies, also like his Momma.

Thought this was a funny picture of him with asparagus in his nose!

This is just a really good and cute picture of him and his favorite playmate Daddy!

Look at that shirt, isn't it adorable!!

Gavin also moved up classrooms last week, on Tuesday I think, not that it really makes a difference.  Apparently Monday he was trying to play with one of the babies that was in a bouncy seat and almost flipped him/her out!  So he got to move up to the creepers room, which made me sad because we all LOVE Ms. Amanda who has been keeping him since he started, she treats him like he is one of her own and has tons of great advice.  A plus to him moving up is Ms. Mae who has also kept him in the late afternoons since he started and we all LOVE her also, now she keeps him from 12:30 on. In fact Gavin loves her so much that he has separation anxiety if she leaves before he does in the afternoon!  How sweet!! Although, he doesn't even do that with us, so what does that say???

 An unintended downside to him changing rooms is that he has pretty much quit napping.  Normally he sleeps from about 9 - 10 and then from about 1 - 3.  His morning nap has completely disappeared and his afternoon nap was down to a whole 30 minutes yesterday!!  This is not going to work, I am not sure what the problem is but it MUST be resolved!!! I put Clay in charge of talking to them about it this morning :-).  I need my good napper back because there is no way we can deal with him getting into this habit and then not napping on the weekends either.

The weather has been so wonderful lately that we have been able to go on walks on the weekends and let Gavin have play time outside better known as Gavin eating grass time. Isn't he precious!!!  

One other thing I have failed to mention in previous posts is Gavin's love of his toothbrush which I count as a huge blessing.  He is stubborn though and likes to do it, or chew on it, himself, but what the heck, at this point I'm just glad that they are getting brushed at all.  Clay and I don't look so hot in the pictures but Gavin is so cute with his toothbrush, I have to post anyway.