i created an account/page on www.flickr.com. mostly because my digital photo printer at work is out of supplies and we wanted something/someplace to print pictures that are more recent than, oh, xmas 2005…so the cool thing is if you make an account and add yourself as a friend/family of me/us, then you can order photos yerself. w00t.
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here are a few of Gavin relaxing at home, showing off his big smile for Mama and the camera and then reading with Dad.

here’s Baby G watching someone arriving at our front door

and one of him making a silly-happy face

and here are a few of our visit with Chris’ parents…opening late Christmas presents

and excitedly watching Grandma demonstrate the correct use of his new Sesame Street Guitar!

Well, we’ve been busy here. Gavin’s been climbing and walking and singing and he’s even started dancing! I’ve been running after him. He’s signing lots of words and is starting to make word-like sounds for specific words too. He says something that sounds alot like “this” all the time when pointing at things. Every night when we get ready for bed, Gavin helps take off his clothes and then hurries over to the hamper to put each piece in. Sometimes he’s not ready to be done with the laundry fun and finds other things to go in like a bowl or a belt or even a book.

We just got back from visiting Chris’ parents in California. We all had a good time. He was happy to see Grandma and Grandpa and some new toys and especially their singing/dancing trout on the wall. He showed off his walking skills and his babbling and a little bit of signing. He even gave a babble speech once, reminding me of his Daddy when he’s very excited about something. Gavin had a great time getting Grandpa to make the wall-fish sing over and over and he even danced to the fish’s music sometimes. He got to see lots of animals at the zoo and lots of fish up close at the aquarium which he was very excited about. He signed fish alot as he watched them swimming. He was also very excited to show off his flap book that shows animals and their “sounds” about thirty times to Grandma, Grandpa, Daddy, Mama, and anyone else he could find. At the airport waiting for our flight home, Gavin adopted another grandpa. He saw a friendly looking grandpa person and went over and sat on his lap and showed off his toy toucan. The guy was very pleased to be an instant grandpa.

We’ve been doing pretty good with the food concerns lately and are gearing up to try some things that have been a problem before to see if they still are. We’ve been experimenting with goat cheese in the last week or so and we haven’t given Gavin any yet but he doesn’t seem to react to my eating it. I have to be careful though because many varieties have rennet in them which is a dairy product. I’m hopeful that goat cheese will be okay for him which will really open up quite a few possibilities…macaroni and cheese sauce being the foremost in my mind, but salad with some feta sounds really good too!

Oh, and we received a very nice little video camera from Chris’ parents and Chris has been trying it out already so there may be some moving clips of Gavin’s antics soon as well as some still shots I’ve been meaning to get up on here.