And oh yeah, it’s been over a month and a half since my last post. Oops! Well, here are some pictures and a few details about our lives for the past few months! In reverse chronological order. 
Gavin’s favorite thing about his stocking (made for him by Biba), was trying to stick the cloth hanger in his mouth:
Between them, Sean’s mom and grandmother have made all 3 of us Christmas stockings:
Our christmas tree this year is a Grand Fir (supposedly the best smelling kind of tree!) (and the picture is crooked, not the tree!). Sean liked it because it was a lot lighter than the noble fir we usually get. Since we no longer have the truck, we were lucky enough to be able to pick up our tree at the beginning of the month with Sean’s mom’s truck when she and Steve came up to see us. You’ll notice that the tree just has lights, but no decorations. This is because I’m a terrible mom, and after Sean put up the lights and said “ok, now you do the decorations” I somehow never got around to it. Oops.
What’s this?! A rubber ducky! (We later put it in the baby bath tub with him, and he wasn’t terribly interested.)
If Gavin was a bit smaller, we could have tried to stick him in his stocking for a cute picture. I guess we should have tried that back in July or August.
We love you, buddy!
Here we are, surrounded by stuff!
I realized after looking at these pictures that there are none of Sean! Oops. Next time we need to trade off on the baby and camera a bit.
On Christmas eve, we went to Davis to have dinner with Connie and Sergio and family. We got to see Imala again and a bunch of them got to meet Gavin for the first time. Both babies were super cute!
Who are you?? You look interesting! Incidentally, one of these babies is 10 months old, and the other is 6.5 months.
Imala kept wanting to touch and poke Gavin.
More baby gazing. Imala felt so light and small in my arms! Although Gavin weighs about 21 pounds to her 14, so maybe that’s why!
Monica and Gavin:
We had a great evening, and Gavin was perfect. He was smiley and happy for awhile, and then when we sat down to dinner at 7, we brought him upstairs to a portable crib that Connie had set up for him in her bedroom. We laid him down with his blankets and his seahorse toy, and he fell asleep and stayed that way until we left for home at about 10ish.
Prior to Christmas…
We have a jumper thingy for Gavin that Paloma gave us, and we’ve just started using it for the past month or so. Gavin *loves* it! The second we put him in it he starts bouncing away.
Conchita and Steve came up to visit us at the beginning of december. They brought us a tent-trailer (thanks!) and got to spend some time with Gavin.
Such a cutie.
Everything goes in the mouth:
He looks so shocked, I’m not sure why!
Sean, Gavin, and I were all sick for Thanksgiving, so we didn’t go to see Sean’s family in Atwater like usual. We stayed home and made a small Thanksgiving meal for ourselves – cornish game hens, brussel sprouts, mashed potatoes, and salad. It was quite tasty!
He always squiggles off of the mat now when we put him on it! Very cute, though.
The little guy is growing up so fast. He sure seems to be alert in the pictures. He is going to be a big boy.
Comment by Grandpa — December 28, 2009 @ 2:26 pm