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Friday, April 10, 2009

Early Easter



Gavin was excited to get an early easter gift in the mail from G-ma and G-pa Deverman. (An extra thanks for the easter grass!) He got some tractors and a tractor movie. For the boy who doesn't love TV he absolutely loves this movie. The whole time he points and asks what the tractor is doing and where the tractor is going. His two favorite questions right now!

Friday, April 3, 2009

One last day at the beach....



Gavin loved the beach so much that we went one last time the day before we left. Notice he has the rake in his hand ready to destroy the sand castle the second he gets the go ahead. He is not so much into building yet....he just likes to destroy. It was pretty windy that day so the waves were huge.

Thursday, April 2, 2009

Imaginarium


We took Gavin to a museum called Imaginarium. He learned about Newton's Law of Motion and got to pet a sting ray. We took him to an animal show and he could have also petted a baby alligator, but he didn't want to. I don't blame him.....I didn't want to either. : )

Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Lakes Park

He was stepping on one of the sprinklers and then he would say, "where did the water go?". He loves to hide anything and ask you where it went.
I am not sure what Jason has been teaching him, but he quickly made friends with this topless little girl!

Tuesday, March 31, 2009

A day at the beach...



Gavin loved the beach! He told me today that he wanted to get back on the airplane and go to the beach. Lucky for him both sets of grandparents live on lakes with a beach right here in Illinois. Now if it would just stop snowing so we could go to the beach.

Tool Time Tim

When we had down time at the condo Gavin had fun playing with the toys g-ma & g-pa got for him. Between all of our outings, going to the pool and going for walks he didn't have much down time.

Sunday, March 29, 2009

If you're good.....

Gavin has discovered the ride on toys that you put a quarter in when you are good at the store. The only problem is that now they take at least 3 quarters.

Friday, March 27, 2009

The Shell Factory





This was Gavin's first trip to the shell factory. He loved it! He got to 'drive' a race car, sit on a fire truck, see some dinosaurs and lots of other animals. And of course he got to pick out a shell. I am not sure what Gavin and Pa-Pa are looking at, but I thought this picture was pretty funny. It looks like a Forest Gump moment. : )

Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Vacation 2009 - Pool Time!


Going to the pool on our first full day in FL.... Gavin loved the pool, but I didn't take very many pictures. I took mostly video. He really got into jumping and kicking around. I think we might have a little fish on our hands this summer. : )

Sunday, March 22, 2009

Helping Dad

Gavin was helping Dad get caught up on some work. He is just very helpful these days!

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Tent Bed

Gavin wanted Ali to lay in his new tent bed for a picture, but she apparently didn't think that was a good idea. : )

Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Tractors and Trucks


Gavin had his class at the museum this morning. The theme was tractors and trucks, so he loved it. He made a tractor and painted some tractors. Of course, the highlight was playing in a bucket of dirt. After his class his cousin Caleb and their other buddy Brady met us at the museum. It was a little crazy because all 3 seemed to want to go different directions, but I was able to snap a picture of Gavin and Brady at the paint wall.

Thursday, March 12, 2009

Close enough?

Gavin just became interested in small doses of TV. He wanted to get his chair as close to the TV as he could. Sometimes it is hard to see Clifford. : ) No worries....he doesn't watch nearly enough TV to hurt his eyes by being this close. ; )

Thursday, March 5, 2009

Big Helper!

Gavin loves to 'help' me cook, so we made rice krispie treats and he got to measure the marshmallows and the rice krispies. I turned my head for half a second and he had dumped the remainder of the bag in the measuring cup which wasn't quite big enough to accommodate all that was left. He also learned that he loves marshmallows, but doesn't like rice krispie treats at all. I guess we will save ourselves the time next time and just eat the marshmallows. : )

Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Quack-Quack! Ribbit-Ribbit!


We had Gavin's monthly class at the discovery museum in Normal. This was the first time I had to take both of the kids and thankfully Ali was good the entire time and slept through his class. Gavin was tall enough to climb up in the combine this time. Not quite tall enough to drive, but he was happy just to get up there!
Gavin weighs 4 gallons now! He also milked cows this time, but I didn't get a picture of that.
Loves water play!
He had a great time in the new pizza parlor. He made a pizza with lots of seasoning and worked the cash register. He even drove the delivery truck (which I failed to get a picture of).

It isn't a trip to the museum without driving the tractor. However it wasn't quite as exciting this time since he also drove the combine.
His teacher had a variety of activities this month and his favorite was scooping bird seed around. Go figure! He did do some of the art projects too, but this was the highlight. He painted a frog and made a duck with LOTS of feathers. : )

Thursday, February 19, 2009

Helping Ali go to sleep

Gavin was trying to help Ali go to sleep this morning while I was getting ready. He kept putting her paci back in her mouth when she spit it out and bounced her chair. She actually went to sleep eventually and I was able to get ready without wearing her in the sling! I had to watch him very closely because his bouncing would get a little rough sometimes. : ) You can see in the picture he is demonstrating to Ali how to open her mouth. He would say, "open mouth ali, like dis"......he is too funny.

Saturday, February 14, 2009

Happy Valentine's Day

It took us awhile to get here, but we finally got a good picture of the 2 of them. : )
Here are a couple of the other attempts!

His shirt says, 'Single and Loving It'! He looks like a typical man here lounging back in his chair. Now all he needs is a remote. : )

Thursday, February 12, 2009

"My hold Ali"

Gavin wants to hold Ali all the time now. She tolerates it, but usually not for very long and when he decides he is done he just pushes her off. For those of you who don't know...Gavin refers to himself as "my" or "mine", which explains the title.

Tuesday, February 3, 2009

Checking on Ali

Gavin is doing a fabulous job of being a big brother! Anytime Ali cries he runs over and tells her, "it's ok Ali". When I put her in the crib he pushes the stool over to keep an eye on her.

Monday, February 2, 2009

Let it snow!

Gavin gets bored inside so when it is too cold to go outside I have to get really creative (which isn't always easy for me). He wanted to play out in the snow so we ended up making "snow" inside and this kept him busy for over an hour!