7 and 21 months old!

July’s monthly birthdays for Easton and Gavin have come and gone but that didn’t stop me from using our stickers and taking pictures of this sweet faces.  Better late than never!

Sweet and Sour! Just kidding.  They are both sweet!

  Gavin loves his “Easty” and is a lot more gentle with him.  Easton loves to watch Gavin to see all the crazy things he is up to. 

Easton’s 7 months was on the 16th of July but we were driving home from the beach.  He is sitting up great but now actually wants to get on his belly so he can scoot and attempt to crawl.  Like I said before he is now mobile!

 

He is non stop smiling and talking.  Mostly “Da, da, da, da, da!” Rub it in why don’t ya! His hands and feet move a mile a minute with excitement all the time. 

He does like to put his hands in his mouth too and chews on all toys he can.  I still can not feel any teeth but he must be trying to relieve his gums. 

At his doctor check up he weighed 19 pounds and is 26.5 inches long.  His head was 43 inches in circumference which is only the 20th percentile.  His height is the 19th percentile and his weight is the 67th percentile of all babies his age.  So I guess that makes him chunky and short with a little bobble head!

 

He is eating baby food AWESOME now and loves everything he tries.  He is at that age where he screams for finger foods he sees his brothers eating because he is interested but I am weary because he can still choke on a lot.  He sleeps really great now and has started taking longer naps in the crib instead of just falling asleep anywhere. 

Now onto this little rascal.  Gavin turned 21 months on the 21st! He is lovingly crazy this one.  We love watching all his mischievous antics and then the total opposite loving side.  It goes from climbing in our bed in the morning and saying ‘moommyy!’ with so much loud excitement and laying on me and hugging me to figuring out how to climb over the gate to the stairs.  He know has hurdled that obstacle.  Their is no baby proofing full proof enough for this guy. 

  Some fun new words we have noticed him saying are: “time out” (he actually put himself in time out yesterday), “sorry,” “bite,”  “cool” and “I fall” or “it fall down.”  Normally he throws it down and tries to tell us it fell.  Really?! He says “cool” at new things he discovers!

He has been on our sh*t list lately because of his tantrums.  He will literally scream and turn red with purple and not breathe  until we give him what he wants, or that is what he is attempting to happen.  The first time this happened at a restaurant was an eye opener.  He also bit Brad this week too, so like I said sh*t list but we are disciplining him.   

 

This may be a bit of the Terrible Two’s before two but how could you stay mad at this face?  As my Grandma said jokingly on vacation “you almost need to give him a sedative or something!” This coming from my 85 year old grandmother was hilarious! This is the life and times of Gavin and we are loving every kick, scream or bite along the way! Thank goodness he has all those other wonderful treasured qualities about him!

Mommy and Daddy love you G and E!

Our Week after Vacation

We have been having fun indoors mostly this week.  Once we got back home Daddy and the boys fell right back into horsing around together.  They were both excited to show Daddy their new cap guns and cowboy gear. 

Gavin screams and gets so excited to play “ball.”

Playing catch with a squishy ball inside. 

Bradley has always been so tough.  He actually asks Brad to throw the balls or pillows at him and he thinks it is funny. 

Easton has had so much fun playing that I found him rolled over and napping in his seat.  This boy smiles 95% of the time!

   

Monday, Wednesday and Thursday I watched Pia and Chase.  Chase is really excited to be walking so here he is showing me his skills. 

When Brad gets back from class and the babies are sleeping I have been taking Bradley and Pia to the park.  It has been so hot that 1 hour is about all we can handle. 

Gavin is still a character all the time.  He loves hats. 

Since we have been home he also found a new trick.  He has always been a jumper and daring but he finally got over “the ledge” fear.  He now jumps off the coffee table.  He does it as his own little sport now.  I think he gives himself points for landing on his feet.  I have thought about battling the coffee table situation but this is one I am willing to lose.  It is solid wood and it is low to the ground and they have made it their stage so they always shine so how could I take that away.  

Easton also has a new trick since we have been home.  He is getting on his hands and knees trying to crawl.  He rocks back and forth and then gets on his feet and pushes off to scoot.  He has made it all the way across the house so we now have three mobile boys on the loose!

 

Bradley sitting with Easton playing the guitar for him. 

 

   (Bradley @ 7 months)                  ( Easton @ 7 months)

I put Easton in this 9-12 month Gymboree outfit today that has always been one of my favorite little rompers.  Daddy keeps the air conditioning cold so we don’t mind wearing our longer things indoors.  I had to compare these two since E reminds me of B as a baby very often :)

  

Yesterday when I realized I could do this to Gavin’s hair and he looked like me when I was almost 2.  We decided to go get him his first in salon haircut.  The lady tried to show me what a Justin Bieber style looked like.  Although he looks so cute I knew Daddy would flip a lid and Gavin doesn't let me comb his hair without screaming so I wasn't going to attempt to style it.  In later pictures you will see how his hair actually looks and unfortunately his curls are gone.  It is a little wavy like Bradley’s, but the ringlets are gone! I hope they grow back a little before his next haircut. 

That has been our week in pictures.  On another note for those of you who know Bradley is a very picky eater we have been cracking down and he is doing so good.  He no longer throws his food up when it is a new thing to try.  He has eaten chicken, turkey, hotdogs, spaghetti with meat sauce, broccoli, pizza, mac & cheese and we are still moving along.  He had pretty much not eaten meat or vegetables since out of the can when he was a baby and he didn’t like any kid friendly food that you normally see at parties. 

He also still knows how to manipulate and make mommy forget about him being bad.  I was writing my grocery list and he was being whiny for something that I told him he couldn’t have.  He said “Well, I have been good!” and I said “Actually you haven’t been good this afternoon.”  He paused and then said “Mom, can you help me draw a heart?  A heart of God’s love!”  I smiled and he laughed.  He knows exactly what to say that one!

Who knows what next week will bring! 

Family Beach Photos and Frontier Town

I always have higher expectations of my family pictures and as usual I was disappointed.  I guess I need to learn with kids of this age it is to be expected.  Everyone waited until the last minute so we had to do it in the morning at 9 when the sun was already hot, too many umbrellas were already on the beach and future evenings were planned already and could not be changed.  So here is what we got.  It was an experience to never be forgotten but I am glad we still took them so all the kids and grandma were in the same picture.  Whether or not they were crying, running away, whining or rubbing their eyes, they are in the picture!

Andrew, Jen, Aubrey and Olivia.  I love this one of Aubrey looking up at her daddy. 

Nathan, Joanie and Jackson.

The “big” kids!

After Gavin hit me in the head with a rock and I got pissed and scooted him away, we regrouped and got this only keeper.  Gavin had to be the king with his cup and that is the only way he would sit still. 

Aunt Dar, Grandma and my Mom.

Gavin getting Diet Pepsi for a pick me up.  My Aunt Dar always comes prepared with his giant cup.  It has gradually gotten bigger as I have grown up. 

Katelyn in Disgrace.

Allison and Katelyn with their Grammy.

After that we went to Frontier town for all the shows and went to a water park they have their too.  I didn’t take any pictures at the water park.  I just relaxed in the lazy river and had some fun going down water slides.  My mom took Gavin and Easton back to the beach house so I got to spend fun time just with Bradley.

Getting on the Carriage ride and we were given a bag of gold and along the way we got held up by outlaws trying to rob us at gunpoint. 

This was Bradley’s face when the guy held out his gun.  He kept it cool but later he told me he was scared. 

OK Corral reenactment on Main Street. 

By the end of the day he got a cowboy hat and a cap gun and a leather holster with his name engraved on it.  He really felt like a western cowboy. 

Watching the Rodeo

He broke this stick out of the girls mouth with his whip.  I would never want her job!

Getting swung by a pony that is pushing them around.  That was the way it used to be. 

Panning for Gold.

The ultimate way to play guns and robbers, in the dust of a wild west town and running in and out of the saloon and other stores while shooting the bad guys with their cap guns.