these were taken at the new playground at the local elementary school. they have a big kids playground and a little kids playground which is just right for gavin now. he tried a few too many death-defying tricks on the big kids one when we were over there once.

he loves the slide and just climbing around the place in general.

he likes it when dad’s over at the slide, but he goes down by himself.
sometimes he goes so fast he ends up on his bum at the bottom!

weeeeee!

gavin also likes help climbing up the top part of the slide.

checking out the drain. you never know what treasures you can find if you just look around. the other day he found a juice box straw. very exciting!

and these are at home.

but instead i thought i’d tell a few anecdotes until i can fix a small problem with those.

gavin’s favorite things these days are cuddling up in mama and daddy’s bed and pulling the covers on top of him. every time we go in the bedroom for a diaper change that’s his first and last stop.

he just figured out how to “twirl” this weekend. chris and gavin and i were all in the living room and then gavin started turning around and around. chris and i laughed and so gavin laughed and twirled some more until he fell down. he’s been doing it since then frequently. i haven’t seen him fall since the first time though.

last night we were all hanging out in the bedroom, reading before bed and i had my chin propped on my hand. gavin reached out for my hand and put my hand to his face and then started saying his version of “Hello!”, which is what he says when he’s pretending to talk on the phone. “EeeeOoohhh!” it was very silly and quite cute. can’t wait to see what he does next!