Sunday, August 19, 2012

Miles's First Birthday

Well I think Miles's first birthday was a success. Preparations were a little more challenging, with pearl first stealing the cake mix. Then Allen and Gavin were making bacon with a stool and I was putting Miles to bed when Pearl climbed the stool and got on the counter to eat the cake. I could help and it was not put away which Lapearl up on the counter to eat the cake. So I had to make a new one, but was out of eggs so we use the sprite substitute using sprite from the soda stream home soda maker.

Miles also got his first haircut and lost his crazy curls he look so big! Otherwise things went well and everyone seemed to have a good time. Miles wasn't really willing to try his cake. Oh well.

Gavin helped open presents and seemed to enjoy them about as much as Miles did, if not more.

I can't believe my baby is one!!!

Tuesday, August 14, 2012

Prekindergarten vacation

Gavin starts kindergarten tomorrow, so I gave him a five day vacation beforehand by taking off Friday Monday and Tuesday. He got to pick something fun to do each day.

Friday – children's museum
Saturday – gymnastics and playground with cousins Brody and Eli
Sunday - playing at home, got some new shoes, and had ice cream social at school
Monday – state fair. He pretty much rode rides all day, had a blast
Tuesday – had to come to work with me for a couple hours, play some video games and went to trampoline place with cousins brody and Eli

He is very excited to start kindergarten, especially riding the bus.

Monday, August 13, 2012

Bedtime

I'd say Gavin was a tired boy. This is how he fell asleep last night in the middle of books.

Wednesday, August 8, 2012

Kindergarten

Gavin is getting ready to start kindergarten next week, I can't believe it!!! He is a little nervous about not knowing anybody, but pretty excited. We'll be sure to post pictures. I decided to take Friday, Monday, and Tuesday off so that he gets a total of five days home for a "vacation". Now we just have to decide what we are going to do. One day is for the pool one day is for amazing Spiderman and beyond that we are sure. Maybe a trip to Cincinnati aquarium or State fair

Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Camping

We went camping for the first time as a family and yet was a success! Boys seem to have a good time. We went with another family who had a four-year-old boy and one year old boy as well. The older boys pretty much beat each other up while the little boys stared at each other. We went to Mounds State Park in Anderson which I had never been to before. Most people had campers and tents which is not quite the style of camping I am used to but we had a great time. The family we went with also had a camper that the boys played in most of the time.

Here are some of our pictures

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Sunday, July 8, 2012

Beautiful day

Now...if only it would stay 80 instead of starting at 80 at 9-10am.

Check out Mr. Crazy hair

Saturday, July 7, 2012

Taking our first steps

Ok. I am testing out our new blog cause I've been really bad and the old name (gavinmakesthree) just didn't seem right any more.

It has been pointed out recently (thank you Reynolds) that some of us don't keep each other informed of the goings on in our lives. While I intend this to be happy blog (bitching goes somewhere else), I hope to be better at up dating it.

Recent things.... Miles got to experience his first beach ever and Gavin played at his first freshwater beach (Lake Michigan in Chicago). Now though I missed the little critters in the surf, it was pretty damn nice.

We Walked to ice cream afterwords and a sweet older cousin held Gavin's hand as they walked.