April Update!

It has been a while since my last post. Just been busy with work and doing stuff on the weekends. Working on the computer all day makes it a little hard to want to come up to the office again and post. But it is fun to document all the funny things that happen so here goes... hope my memory is up to par today.

Easter 2009: Great weekend. We took Good Friday off and headed up to Carmel early. Gavin as always was a good little traveler. Very excited to see Nana and Papa and Bailey. He also couldn't wait to see cousin Coleson. He is started to talk about Keaton more too. I am sure once she gets a little bigger, she will be their little playmate too.

Saturday morning we headed down to the Lions Club Easter park special. There were Easter games, egg tosses, face painting. Perfect games for Gavin and Coleson. Uncle Aaron did the sack race since the boys were not into that one. It is very fun to watch the boys have so much fun. They each got little toys and loved the plastic eggs.

Sunday we all looked for easter baskets and their eyes got very big looking at all the candy and treats. Nana still does a basket for the big kids so that makes it very fun for all. We went to church then came home for the easter egg hunt. It was great weather and the boys ran around the courtyard scooping up their eggs into their basket. They found them all. Coleson scored the most but Gavin was only a few behind him. Very fair little hunt. haha.

Last weekend, Steve's brother Dave came into town and they had a surf session. We got a sitter Friday night and had some drinks with friends at Blue. Great time and fun to get out. Our sitter is great too. Sat the boys did dawn patrol and Gavin and I hung out. We headed over to a birthday party with the day care kids and then cruised to Avila barn so Gavin could feed the goats. He is into it now and laughs when they take the lettuce. Gavin says "Oh, oh, I know.... I got an idea!" and then says something funny to do.

Gavin is doing great. He sits on the big potty, gets dressed by himself... very mature little guy now. Maybe it is the grown up haircut? We are working on the listening skills and the whiney voice but I think it is a typical 3 yr thing.

He says "I love you" a lot and says "I'm sorry" if he hurts you (by accident, usually). He loves to walk into our room in the morning and say "Good morning,mommy. What are you doing?". My typical response is "sleeping". haha. He also says "Yeah, yeah, yeah, sure sure" a lot when you ask him something like... do you want something to eat?.

We are using a bedtime chart for him now so he stays in his room after we leave. After we leave the room and say good night, if he stays in bed, he gets a happy face on his chart. If he gets up, he gets a sad face. If he gets 5 happy faces in a row, he gets a toy. Works like a champ.