I know the quality is poor at best, but I just loved this picture of Clay and Gavin going through the Your Baby Can Read book. Clay is making Gavin repeat each letter of the word and then sound it out with him. As you can imagine this takes FOREVER, so I lose patience with it pretty quick. Good thing Clay doesn't or Gavin might be in trouble....
We have been trying to stay inside as much as possible unless we are in Gavin's kiddie pool, which is a site to see, since it has been a million degrees outside! But we have ventured out a couple of times and two weekends ago we headed down to Lake Park for the Heirs family reunion which is the smaller and shorter of the two family reunions Clay's family attends each year. Normally Gavin doesn't do well with the onslaught of affection and attention his older female cousins give him in their attempt to play and entertain him. Usually he says something like "Go Away" and he runs and makes me pick him up.... Thankfully this time for whatever reason, he was all into playing with them and letting them attempt to carry him around and play chase. So he was wonderfully entertained while we waited what seemed like forever to eat (Gavin and I were both starving when we got there) and then after lunch well past his usual nap time. He was also joined by his favorite boy cousin Landon, who is so sweet and patient with his much younger cousin who adores him.
And then this past weekend, we were supposed to go spend some time with Papa and also get Gavin's hair cut. We had arranged with Clay's Dad to come down to Lake Park that Saturday after Gavin got up from his nap and I assumed we would hang out and eat dinner that night since Gavin hasn't really gotten to spend much time with him lately.
As you can see from this picture, Gavin also desperately needed a haircut.
Well like all good plans, this one went south before it even got started. Clay's Dad called about 30 minutes before we left to tell him that some chain thing had broken on one of the ice machines and he needed Clay to come and help. So me thinking we could still salvage the visit agreed to come along with Clay and entertain Gavin while they worked. Let me just tell you that the ice machine offers ZERO shade and it was hotter here than the surface of the sun last Saturday afternoon. So after coloring, trying to kick the soccer ball around and not get into traffic, and keeping Gavin from interfering with the progress in the ice machine for 45 minutes, I gave up. Gavin on the other hand screamed bloody murder because he didn't want to leave his Papa and Daddy.
Luckily when he realized we were going to Leapin Lizards, an indoor bounce house place, he quickly calmed down. This was our first time going here since we live less than 2 minutes from the other one, Jump N Jacks. It was a whole lot less crowded, which I am sure they don't like, but it did make the experience a whole lot more enjoyable for Gavin. He didn't have to worry about all the big kids in the bounce houses so he was much braver and did things he would normally make either Clay or I help him with. As you can see from the pictures below, our boy is quite the little climber!!
Turns out, Clay's Dad had plans that evening so we had to reschedule our visit and haircut for Sunday. That was a complete disaster..... Gavin already hates having his haircut but when you add that on top of the fact that he had just woken up from his nap, disaster doesn't even begin to describe it. Clay's Dad didn't want to wait because he had a tennis lesson scheduled in the neighborhood next to us in 45 minutes and when he brought out the clippers the squalling began. I ran up the road to the gas station to get a sucker for him to see if that would help. When I pulled up to the house 5 minutes later, Papa was packing his stuff in the truck and heading out, while poor Gavin was still crying. So we got the haircut accomplished but still no visit....
After that we put on our bathing suits and played outside in the kiddie pool and water hose for a little while and it was all smiles! Clay keeps trying to convince me that he can build us our very own pool in the back yard with only a backhoe and some Quickcrete! Although it has been easy to say ABSOLUTELY NOT so far, if it continues to be this hot, he may eventually wear down my better judgement and reserves. So pray for my will power or that Publisher's Clearinghouse decides to stop by and award us the big prize!!
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