Turkey Festival

We went to the Turkey Festival and Gavin played the "Pick a Duck" game. He got enough points to win a small stuffed animal. As you can see, he was thrilled! If only we could keep his expectations so low. : )

18 month photos

Gavin was a big cheese for his 18 month pictures. They turned out really well. We hope he continues to do so well with pictures!

Children's Discovery Museum

Gavin's cousins from VA have been visiting for the last couple of weeks so we took them to the Children's Discovery Museum in Normal. Gavin loves it and the other kids had a great time too! Gavin loves driving, which is a new talent he learned since our last trip to the museum. Not sure how he learned to drive a tractor.....must be all of the yellow blood in our family. We learned he weighs 3 gallons and we won't tell you how many gallons mom weighed. : )

At last.....he is in bed!

After Gavin goes to bed Abbey takes over his chair. It is just her size.

Surgery

Gavin did awesome with his ear tubes. He was so busy playing and watching the nurses that when one of them came to take him to surgery he didn't even cry; he looked at me to make sure it was ok and then he was off. He has not had any problems with them so far and hopefully he will be a very healthy boy now.

A Visit to Great Grandma Sophie

The Janitor

If college doesn't work out it looks like Gavin has an alternative career ahead of him. He is quite the little helper now. Sometimes too much! He loves to throw things in the garbage so anything his level or below is fair game to go in the garbage. Needless to say, the garbage must be checked often because he can be very sneaky.

Ouch!

Gavin is extremely clumsy, but usually gets pretty lucky and doesn't have any major injuries. Last Thursday he didn't get so lucky.....he wiped out in the kitchen and hit the side of his face on a corner. You can see that he has a line all the way down his face. : (

Playing outside!!!!

We finally had a nice day and I was able to take Gavin outside to play with his new water table. He loves being outside so we spent several hours outside this day.

Grocery Shopping

Gavin loves to play with pretend food and pretends like he is cooking all the time. We cleared a cabinet out in the kitchen for him to put his food in. He has his grocery cart completely full of food (and a few other misc. items) as you can see the cabinet is nearly empty. : )

Going Home : (

Papa took Gavin for a walk every morning. This was our last day and Papa and Gavin were able to get one last walk in before we left for the airport.

The Beach

Gavin was a little slow to warm up to the beach, but after he learned what it was all about he had a blast. He sat in the sand for over an hour just playing with the sand and a bucket of water! The last picture was taken on Sanibel Island.

Vacation!

Gavin had a great time on vacation! He loved swimming in the pool and wanted to do it all by himself. He would push us away, of course, not realizing that he doesn't know how to swim. : ) We got him this float to wear so he could be on his own a little bit, but still needed a hand on him at all times. He is quite the little dare devil!

Ready for vacation!

Gavin tried on his new swimsuit today. Jason had to hold on to him because he wouldn't hold still for the picture. We are all ready for vacation!

Smarty Pants

The bib speaks for itself!

Easter Egg Hunt #3

Gavin was very excited to see that the easter bunny came to grandma and grandpa's house too! He had his third easter egg hunt and as soon as he discovered that the easter bunny who came to grandma's house had put cookies in the eggs he was all about it! He found every egg there was to find!

Easter Egg Hunt #2

Gavin had his second easter egg hunt at church. He found one egg and that was the only one he cared about. He was ready to go after that!

Gavin's Chair

The easter bunny brought Gavin his very own chair with his name on it. He loves it and always sits in it to "read" his books. Abbey has discovered the chair and thinks it is just a perfect size for her to lay in, but as soon as Gavin sees her in it he runs over and tells her , "no, no, no, no" and pushes her off. We have yet to master the concept of sharing!

Easter Egg Hunt

We celebrated Easter with the Devermans on Good Friday. Gavin and Caleb had an easter egg hunt in the back yard. Gavin ended up not finding any eggs on his own because the grass was mushy and he wouldn't walk on it. Just one of his many quirks!

Being good!

This was Gavin's behavior for the entire party. He was so good! For him to sit and listen to a book just like that is very out of character. : )