Uh oh. Mom's falling down on the blog. Heh heh. Here's what's new with Gavin: All he does now is crawl, crawl, crawl! Once he figured out how to get his little body from here to there, it seems that's all he has an interest in doing now! Gavin gets into everything now - and it's hard to find 10 minutes to just sit and relax while he's awake now.
I will always remember the day Gavin learned how to move. I mark it from the first time he moved forward across an open space. It was like the worm, though, a funny-tummy-up-down-crawl. Some might not have marked from that spot - we do! His hands and knees crawling was more gradual so I can't pinpoint a day that began. But the first day he crawled, Dan and I were grinning ear to ear and just followed him. Don't you know it - he first crawled to the lamp and put the cord in his mouth. Then he crawled over to the junk mail/shred bin and started pulling everything out and putting it in his mouth. After this, he moved over to the toy bins (yay - we thought that was safe!) and crawled right through the back and grabbed the cords to the stereo components. And soon after, we found him over at the desk, messing with the CD tray of the computer and grabbing cords there. We had a long ways to go to babyproof that room!
These days, Gavin's life seems very fun. He is busy with some fun foods (Cheerios, turkey, bites of whatever we're eating, and lots of fruit) and some fun activities (swimming at the wading pool; walks and runs with Mom and Clyde, the wonderdog; and going to the park to crawl) and some terrific friends who also have kids around Gavin's age. We get together several times a month. We walk around GreenLake and invite the Dads too! Last weekend we had an impromptu bbq with everyone here at our house.
At Gavin's 9 month appointment, we learned that he (at 27 pounds) is as far over the top of the chart as the chart is tall. So we take that to mean two things: we grow a good baby and he's in the 200th percentile. He's long too, at 31 inches. He's off the charts for height too, and his head size is in the 95th percentile. For a teeny little early man, he's doing much bigger and better than we expected! The doctor said he looks great and she'll see him when he's a year old. Yes!
Gavin loves to drag furniture across the room. He loves to hide and seek. He doesn't like to be left alone in a room when he's sleepy/crabby. When he sits in the tub, he does anything but sit... he stands, crawls, turns around, plays, lays down and wiggles. He throws Cheerios on the floor and watches Clyde eat them. Clyde crosses the room to get a few Cheerios at a time, and Gavin throws more to get him to come back. When we go outside, Gavin puts the same type of weed in his mouth every single day. He hates peas but loves pea soup.
