Gavin's 1st Birthday Party

Gavin's birthday party finally happened!! He had a wonderful time wripping the paper and playing with this cousin, Jackson.

As you can see, there was no hesitation with the cake and he quickly dug in. He was such a good little boy and barely made a mess on the floor at all. His hands were a different story, however. He also said his first word this week which was the sign for "more". We think he's starting to get the sign for "dog" as well.

Postponed B-day party :(

Well.....Gavin was supposed to have his first birthday party today and we were all very excited (not that he knew it). Instead, the poor little guy got sick and we had to delay everything. We were disappointed, but hopefully he'll be feeling well soon. It is definitely not the sickest he's ever been so that's good.

We're pretty excited he made it this long without getting sick at the new daycare full of new germs. Here are some pictures from Brody and Eli's (cousins) 2nd birthday party from a couple of weeks ago though.

Mid January update

Wearing his "lil' stinker" shirt Grammie (my mother) bought him for Christmas. Very appropriate.
Pretending to talk on the phone. He basically puts just about anything up to his ear and waits for us to say, "hello". He thinks it's pretty funny.
Wrestling with his bear (which is bigger than him). It's really cute.


Everything is going really well here. Just this past weekend Gavin really started walking (not just taking steps). It's pretty exciting and he is really proud of himself. We also started a new daycare yesterday because St.Vincent (where I work) just opened up a brand new center. It will be a little tough to get used, but we're very happy with it. It is just a block away from where I work, is cheaper, brand new, and has a sick room (staffed by a nurse) just in case we can't pick him up w/in the hour that is necessary or can't take the day off work.

They said he did really well on his first two days and has come home exhausted so it must be good.

Well.....to keep up with the Jone's I guess we've got to get a blog. Allen set this up this summer, but we never really updated it since we were sending out monthly pictures. Anyway, we'll be better from now on. Most of you have seen the X-mas pictures, but I wanted to at least post a few here.

Gavin had a wonderful time at Christmas. We spent Christmas even with Allen's parents, Christmas morning with my parents, and Christmas night with Allen's grandparents. He thoroughly enjoyed ripping the paper (of course he's had lots of practice helping with the mail).

By Christmas night though he had a cough and by the next day he had a fever and we had to miss Christmas with my father's extended family. Unfortunately that ended up being his 2nd big illness and he was miserable for the next full week. Luckily he is better now and back to his perky self.

June 9th - Outside in the yard

Outside in the yard. I just got done working on some odds and ends around the house and Megan wanted to work on the flower beds. Gavin and I decided to chill in the yard.