gavin isn’t scared of very many things. the only things he’s really scared of are being apart from mom, some very loud sudden noises and sometimes after he gets hurt and weird smells.

he’s not scared of the dark, or of the cats swatting at his hand when he’s going for the tail, or of falling. he would dive off a cliff if he saw a cat at the bottom, i’m fairly sure.

i wonder when he will learn to be scared. will it be alot of things all at once that will become scary? will it be one thing and then later something else? will he be scared of the dark? is fear of the dark learned? and do people who live without electricity fear the dark?

i hope he won’t be scared of too many things later on and that he will learn to be afraid of falling off the bed and couch soon…or at least understand it’s a definite possibility.

when i was a kid, i remember being very shy. i still am, really. i don’t know if i was always that way, or whether i grew into it after we moved a couple of times. right now, gavin seems very outgoing. i’m really glad and hope he continues being so social. he likes strangers when they are interested in him. he loves animals. we will have to be careful when he starts walking that he doesn’t run up to some dog in the park that is not as friendly as gavin expects.

he still doesn’t sign, except for his own special sign, created by the one and only baby G. to date, the known meanings for this sign are: i see a cat! i’m excited about that thing over there! i’m happy. i want that! i want to be picked up now. i’m hungry. i’m upset and want you to do something about it. he gets very interested when chris and i make his sign back at him. i think that he might be working on his delicate hand coordination. maybe we’ll see some other signs soon. he does seem to understand some of the signs we use when we talk to him, like walk and eat.

gavin sure does love to eat butternut squash! mmmmm. i think he’d eat the whole squash if we let him.

meara and gavin on mothers day…that’s not his hair, that’s a wreath on the wall behind him. i swear it’s true!

here’s gavin standing on his very own toy chest from Grandma and Grandpa Reynolds. he will try standing on just about anything these days. he stood on his own on the couch for about one and a half seconds two days ago for the first time.

we saw so many waterfalls, with all the snowmelt. it was nice weather too, so we really got lucky with the timing of our trip.

here’s a view of the top of “bridalveil fall” with the sun catching the spray. there was so much water when we were there that we couldn’t get within 100 feet of the bottom of the fall without getting completely soaked.

the rivers were really full and fast. this one was bright green…very pretty.

here’s one of my favorite pictures from the park.

here’s gavin in his car seat…he spent alot of time in it around yosemite.

these are gavin and daddy in front of a sequoia with a hole cut in it. i think it was called the “tunnel tree”.

here’s one of me on some of the boulders.

daddy and gavin at the mariposa grove. gavin had a great time on hikes. all the trails were easy for him!

mama and gavin by a waterfall on the mariposa grove trail.

the whole family by the same waterfall (minus cats and bird)