here’s Gavin thinking hard about something

and here’s Lilah posing in the block house

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Gavin has been sick lately…two colds in a row!  It’s gotten so bad that his upperlip and mouth are cracking, red, raw and obviously hurting.  If he let me put chapstick on him, it wouldn’t get so bad, but he absolutely refuses and wipes it off if I do.  Finally, the last few days I figured out how to get past this.  The only way I can put chapstick on Gavin is by kissing him!  So, I load up with chapstick and then kiss it onto him and he is fine with this and doesn’t wipe it off.  I’m amused and very relieved that I can help his poor skin now.

Last night I was lying next to Gavin waiting for him to fall asleep and was annoyed by him tossing and messing around trying to avoid sleep.  I told him that he needed to go to sleep Now and he turned and said “love you too”.  

I told Chris later on that I think I’d forgive Gavin almost anything when he says “love you too” with such incredible feeling in his voice that makes his words glow.  There’s really nothing better.

got a cheap new webcam which came today.  gavin had to try it out.  so, back after a long hiatus, the gavin vlog:

it’s been so long since we were able to post photos that the last photos we did post have been moved off the front page.

well, we can’t have that.

let me first take this opportunity to plug gavin’s photoblog, that looks like it was taken by a 3-year-old, because i just posted some pics there as well.

so here’s some pics that we did *not* take on our la selva trip:

gavin & daddy

what's that?

the 4 reynolds'

gavin

chris is making wild hand gestures again...

gavin discovers the exercise bike...what do these knobs do?

...so these pedals turn the wheel...

wait...you sit on it?!

and here’s some pics we didn’t take at christmas:

erin & the kids

erin & lilah

49er lilah

G with his sweet new hat (he gets the most compliments about this hat...)

that’s all folks.

Gavin was playing with some toy people this morning.  Here is the conversation he made up between them.  

person 1: “Come back! Come back!”

person 2: “Okay.”

person 1: “What are you doing?”

person 2: “Firetruck!   FIRETRUUCK!”

My mom found a bunch of dolls clothes from when Meara and I were kids for Lilah to play with.  We brought them home tonight and she’s been trying to put all ten to fifteen outfits on her babydoll at the same time.   And hugging and rocking the doll in between.

that looks like it was taken by a 3-year-old

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photoblog coming soon to a browser near you…

this is just a quick note to say that we’re working on the kidsblog.  i’ve uploaded the site to a new server so it should load faster now, which is good considering how much multimedia content we put up here.  ever the intrepid technologist, gavin got a digital camera for christmas, and has been actively photographing his world.  so, hopefully in the next few weeks i will be setting up a new photoblog to showcase gavin’s photography.  the proposed title is that looks like it was taken by a 3-year old! — gavin’s photoblog.  i’m going to take a bit more of an active role in keeping the blog updated which will hopefully mean more stuff, more often.  

don’t worry, there are pics, we just need to get them all together and will be posting them soon!

happy new year!

note from erin:
gavin got a little matchbox car for christmas this year and decided to use small puff cereal pieces as the driver and passenger, which lilah has been eating out of the car.  then gavin asks for more cereal people for his car.  we’ve been very entertained.

Lilah has been hugging and rocking her baby doll tonight.  Very sweet!

Gavin likes to make sure that Lilah gets her juice too and will point to the kitchen and tell me “juice”… “wawah” to make sure I take care of her too.