Wow, 1.5 years old! I can't believe it!! I don't have any pictures to post due to my being sidelined medically and in no condition to snap pictures on Saturday or any day thereafter until yesterday. However I do have some pictures from his first Ice Cream truck experience a week prior. I apologize, they were taken with my phone, so the quality isn't great.
I am happy to report, that Gavin is a lover of Orange Push-Ups just like his Mommy!!!
Gavin also had a super good report at his 18 month well visit on Tuesday. He is at 90th percentile for weight as usual at 29.5 lbs and 75 percentile for height at 32 inches tall. Dr. Griner says that at Gavin's current height he will be at a minimum 5'11 to 6 ft tall which is what we figured since he seems to be taking after my brother who is 6'4. Gavin's vocabulary is also expanding daily, and his comprehension is outstanding, in fact Dr. Griner said that it was so good, we should notice him giving us clues in the next month or so that he is ready to be potty trained and that he expects that he will be completely potty trained by 2 years old! I am scared to even get my hopes up just a little!
One thing he has started doing is saying I love you, without us saying it first, which is so wonderful, and makes our day EVERYTIME!! Just like on our way to school this morning, we were both being quite, lost in our respective worlds when Gavin said, "I love you Mommy"! Aww, I sure do love that little boy!!!
There are so many things that I know he has done this past month or that I wanted to say but for the life of me, it just isn't coming through right now, must be leftover fog from all the medications I took over the past week. Anyway, this weekend,Auntie Jenn and Emma are coming to visit, so I should have lots of pictures next week and lots to report!
We did not wait until the last minute this year for Gavin's costume, in fact we had it like 6 months early! Gavin's Granny Kay, a sweet lady that works with me, has a grandson a little older than Gavin but a lot smaller. So she gave us his costume that he wasn't able to wear last year because it was so stinking hot. Well our prayers were answered and it was really cool, cold in fact this year which is fairly unusual.
We started the festivities out on Saturday with Gavin "helping" Clay carve one of the pumpkins. Gavin got bored pretty quickly as toddlers always do and started hindering the process more than helping. But it was a nice bonding couple of minutes for my two favorite people.
That afternoon we went to watch the GA/FL game with some friends who ended up missing most of the game because one of their sons had broken his wrist and they were at Youth Care. I guess the Lord felt sorry for them because GA actually won this year!!!! We closed up the evening at a Trunk or Treat party where Gavin got to try out his costume. This video below is right after I wrestled him into it
Meeting one of the other puppies. This is one of his "girlfriends" Hailyn, she is so cute and sweet. It's like they are silently telling each other, I can't believe they got you in this costume too! I thought you were stronger than that, you poor sap!
This is the closest we could get to all three puppies being in the same picture. None of them would hold still for even a second!
Gavin and the real puppy, checking each other out.
Isn't Clay super talented?!? This is the pumpkin he and Gavin were working on earlier.
Sunday we went to the church's fall festival. I was so excited about Gavin getting to ride the pony. Apparently he is of the mindset that dogs do not ride ponies, and how dare we even attempt it.
We didn't stay there long. Poor Clay had an eye infection and he was miserable! We also didn't get many pictures because I was working the registration booth and it is impossible to take a picture of Gavin while also chasing him around, you definitely need two people.
With Halloween being on Monday this year and Clay having a meeting he had to be at, we decided to stay at home and not go trick or treating. I wanted Clay to be with us the first time Gavin got to go. So I got Gavin dressed up and we sat out on the porch and handed out candy, by this time he was actually enjoying being in his costume and all of the attention he got. Well luckily Clay got home in enough time for us to hit our 3 closest neighbors. One of which has a precious little girl who is about a year younger than Gavin. She dressed up like a cat and we got a couple of cute pictures of them together.
Don't you try and take my candy!
Did you see her try and take my Skittles!
Will you please make her give me my Skittles back....
Thankfully I have several years before girls become more important than candy to Gavin :-). All in all, it was a wonderful weekend, minus poor Clay and his eye infection. I think next year Gavin will be ready for some serious trick or treating so watch out everybody!
Well we started this year out just like last year with a last minute trip to the Pumpkin Patch at one of the local churches. This year, Gavin was way more interested in the pumpkins than he was last year, although he kept calling them balls and then trying to throw them.....thankfully I caught most of them...... But just like last year, he was super uninterested in getting his picture taken and refused to look at the camera unless it was by accident.
Announcer: "He is looking at the basket, before attempting to make the shot. Ready, set, catch it Mom before you have to pay for it!!"
1st attempt at a posed picture
2nd attempt to get a picture, results worse than the 1st attempt
Third attempt......
Finally this sweet man, felt sorry for us and came and took a picture of all three of us and I guess because he wasn't Gavin's parents, Gavin actually looked at him when he asked him to. Oh well, beggars can't be choosers!
So we left with 3 pumpkins, one for each of us. Gavin had already broken the stem off of his before we even got out of the parking lot.
