Where's Gavin?

Gavin has really been into playing peak-a-boo lately. The way he likes to do it is to hold an object in front of his face or duck behind furniture. We say, "Where's Gavin?" and then he removes the item or jumps up and laughs. Lately he's gotten creative. Last Sunday at church he used the bulletin to hide his face to play peak-a-boo. Also, he now thinks that when he ducks down in his crib we can't see him between the slats. He crouches down looking at us between the slats until we say "Where's Gavin?" Then he jumps up and laughs. This morning Gavin finally played peak-a-boo the correct way. First thing this morning when he stood up in his crib he took his hands and covered his eyes. At first Jake and I just kinda stood there puzzled. Then I realized what he was doing and said, "Where's Gavin?," much to his delight. He removed his hands and laughed. Maybe he dreamed of the correct way to do this. The only problem is Gavin thinks he can just put his hands anywhere on his head for this game. He tries putting them both on his hair, one on his eye, one on his ear, etc. We are trying to teach him it only works when he covers his eyes.

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Monday Gavin had his 3rd haircut. He looks so grown up!

Grandma and Grandpa's visit

Jake's parents were in town this week and Gavin enjoyed going fun places while they were here.

Rocking with Grandma and Daddy at Lane Orchards:

Gavin really liked watching the fish at Bass Pro Shop:

Petting the goat at Yoder's:

Watching otters at Dauset Trails:

Pointing at a pig at Dauset Trails:

Gavin with Grandma and Grandpa Cross:

Easter weekend

Trip to the park on Saturday:

Sunday afternoon Jake put plastic eggs all over the yard, but Gavin was not at all interested in walking in the grass to get them.

He was, however, quite interested in eating his chocolate bunny:

FHE

This afternoon before Jake went to work we had our family home evening. For our lesson we usually read one of Gavin's church books and talk about it to him. Gavin often likes to wave his arms up and down while we sing our hymns, it kind of looks like he's conducting the music. For our fun activity for family home evening Gavin went on an Easter egg hunt in our living room. He did a good job of putting the eggs in the basket, then emptying it and doing it again. I'm sure we'll be playing this game a lot the next few days. When it warms up we'll have to try it outside.
This past Saturday Gavin learned another trick while I was at work - how to climb up on the couch by himself using the footstool.

Gavin has been interested in utensils lately. He throws a fit when we use them around him until we give him one to play with. He sometimes even gets the food in his mouth.

Better late than never

Jake reminded me today that our digital camera takes videos. Wish I had remembered that sooner. Anyway, here's a video Jake took of Gavin's new and improved walking skills this afternoon:

Little Drummer Boy

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Our little leprechaun:

Gavin likes to rock out with Jake:

Last week I taught Gavin how to feed the puppy:

Our day

Today we had our first actual open house, so we had to vacate the premises for a couple hours. We took Tyler with us and went to the park on base to play and take a walk.

Gavin after church:

Gavin fell asleep in the car on the way to the park so we found a shady parking spot and let him sleep. It was a beautiful day and it was nice just sitting in the car with the windows down.

Gavin exploring the park:

Do you believe in signs?

Our first open house to sell our home was scheduled today. It snowed. It was 72 degrees yesterday. It hasn't snowed like this here since 2002. It was just raining a little when we left for church this morning. It started snowing during sacrament meeting. During sunday school all the classes for the teenagers and kids went outside to play in the snow. It was really neat to see the kids getting so excited. They were scraping the snow off car windshields to make snowballs. The teenage girls that wear sandals to church were running around barefoot in the snow with red feet. When we got home from church there was a message from our real estate agent asking if we wanted to go ahead and cancel the open house. It didn't take us long to change from our church clothes into our pajamas. Better luck next week.