Happy New Year!

Christmas break was great and I was barely on the computer yeah! So I am back in the saddle and updating our blog. I can't post pictures since our hard drive is full. We are awaiting a 500GB external hard drive so we can post more pics.

We had a great time up at Nik's house for Xmas. Gavin hardly cared about opening presents. He must not have gotten the gift gene that I have. He was just playing around the house all morning and not paying attention to opening presents. Maybe that will change next year. We hung out for the week then made our way back to SLO and had a nice long week at home off as well. We say Elephant Seals and went to the Children's Museum. We went to the beach and the park. We celebrated New Years at home with a nice dinner. We made it to midnight but barely. We were in bed by 12:20. Sometimes it is nice to just stay home and not worry about driving.

Gavin has a bunch of funny things he is saying these days. The latest is "I'm sorry, I can't do that mommy, I am watching Backyardigans". He loves playing with his "pie gadgets" aka spy gadgets. The pie gadgets are an old cellphone, old digital address book and dead palm pilot. He is getting really good at playing by himself. It is fun to hear what he says to his little trains..."come on everybody. I got you. let's go". I have to smile when I hear some of the things he says.

We got the word factory dvd at xmas and he can sound out a lot of words. We went to the train station and there was a sign for AMTRAK. He said "AHHHHH" (sound for A), "MMMMMMM" , Tapped his toe and made a T sound, said "Pa pa pa" for R, we will work on that one, then screamed "AHHHHH" again, then said "C, C, Cold" for K. Pretty good for not being two yet.