Browning Boys: Catching Up

Wow, I can't believe it has been 3 weeks since I have posted. Life around here has been super busy/crazy. I thought work would let up once tax season was over but instead it has just gotten busier. Thankfully though I am only working a normal 40 hr week though. Since my last post, Gavin has celebrated his first Easter, spent the night with Clay's parents so we could have some alone time, met his future wife Emma, gone to Cheehaw Park, and had his 1yr birthday party (save for another post). He has also started biting kids at school, just this week!! His teacher told us not to worry, that it was just a phase and they would work with him on it, but it still freaks me out a little.

So, Easter was kind of crazy. We got up and went to our normal church service at 8:45 but then instead of going to Sunday School afterwards, we came straight home so that we could celebrate our risen Lord with my parents, by eating tacos :-). Cheap, easy and tasty so I couldn't complain. They stayed and hung out for a few hours and then it was off to Clay's parent's for an after lunch Easter egg hunt. I really didn't think Gavin would have any idea of what to do or what was going on but Clay helped him pounce on a few and then eat them. His Nanny-Ma also gave him his first Peep, which turned his mouth blue and his attitude sour, but what are grandparents for but to feed them sugar and then send them home?

He also got a swing from his grandparent's and he really loved that!

After that we headed over to Aunt E's house for dinner and another Easter egg hunt. Gavin did exceptionally well considering all the sleep he didn't get and all the sugar he did. He had a great time playing with all of Jackson and Clare's toys and meeting all of the new people. He also had a much better idea of what to do this time for the Easter egg hunt so Clay put him down and let him get to it.

No pictures from the stay with Clay's parents but from what I hear they all had a great time. And so did Clay and I, we got to go to Jacksonville and lay by the pool, go have a great dinner and do a little shopping. It was so nice to have some time just to us to talk and catch up. After our fun in Jacksonville though, we all came down with the stomach bug and spent the next few days as miserable as three people can be! Luckily we all recovered in enough time to take Gavin to meet Emma and have dinner with some really great friends. I also have no pictures from this, because I forgot our camera again. Hopefully I can get some from Aunt E and Aunt J soon enough.

Gavin has been teasing us with the walking. According to one of his teachers, Ms. Mae, he does it quite frequently at school, but it is a rarity at home. Just a couple of steps here and there and never when we want him to :-).

I took the day off on Friday so that we could go with Aunt J, Uncle P and Emma to Cheehaw Park in Albany. The ride was pretty boring but it gave me and Aunt J some much needed time to chat and catch up with each other and the babies some time to nap. The adults were way more impressed with all the animals than the babies and Gavin was much more interested in crawling whenever we would let him and finding pieces of wood to chew on.

I am afraid my kid is going to grow up to be one of those guys that eats things to get into the Guinness Book of World Records!! He also thought Emma's ride was way cooler than his so he gave it a try and let her wear his hat in return to keep the sun off her face.