2014...amazing year so far!!!

Hello! We have had such an amazing busy year so far in 2014! We found our house!!!!! We put in and offer on Feb 1st after finding a house that we loved!! It needed some updating, but we could see the potential!! Our offer was accepted! So then we had 30 days to sell our condo! Whew, that was stressful, but after only 1 weekend of open houses our condo was sold too!!!! We are very blessed! We closed escrow in March and spent a few weeks updating.

It was a lot of work to update the house! But we are so grateful for the wonderful help of our amazing family! We painted everything!! Inside, outside, ceilings (after popcorn was scraped), doors, baseboards, EVERYTHING!!! We totaled 43 gallons of paint and primer used on the house. We had almost all of the flooring ripped out and replaced!! New carpet, replaced vinyl in the bathrooms w tile, added tile to the walls, new vanity cabinets, granite counters, sinks, new mirrors, new lights, new faucets, towel bars, new toilets, and the list goes on and on! We added 6 ceiling fans (1 in each of the 5 bedrooms and 1 in the nook), and still ended up adding central AC. Wow! It was all so worth it!

We are so happy and comfortable in our new home! We have awesome neighbors who were very pleased with the update of the home. 

The project we are still working on is the backyard. Wow, plants and trees are so much work! Everything was so over grown when we moved in! We removed about 40 potted plants and 30 cement paver tiles (free ads on Craigslist). Now we are trying to thicken the grass, trim the trees and make the space move livable! Gavin is sure enjoying riding his scooter on the patio!! Well, time to go add more grass seeds to the bare spots! 

Enjoy your weekend!

Merry Christmas!

We are truly blessed to have the most amazing family and friends supporting us and cheering us on in the journey of life! We had such a wonderful Christmas! It is so amazing to watch Christmas miracles and surprises happen through Gavin's eyes! It is amazing to see how excited he gets to open gifts and play with toys! He was so happy to know that Santa was coming! 

Gavin 2 year checkup

2 Year Doctor Appt

 

At the 2 year old baby check up doctor appt, there are a variety of tests done to check where babies are developmentally and physically.  We are happy to report that Gavin is healthy and developing wonderfully.  His percentiles (meaning he is in the __ size percentile for boys his age):

Weight: 12%

Height: 50%

Head: 57%

He is still on the skinnier side, but growing at a steady pace.  He is gaining weight, he just gains it slower because he is so busy running around and burning off calories, lol.  Average height and head size, so he is doing great.  They told us to keep him on whole milk, so he gets extra calories (I guess normally they switch them to low fat milk to prevent obesity).  Sometimes we give him Pediasure shakes too, and he really likes them.

 

His speech and vocabulary are doing AWESOME!!! He is supposed to be able to make 2 word sentences like “big ball” and he makes up to 8 word sentences.  When the doctor was talking to him, he even told her, “I want to go over there”.  She was very impressed J  He is also doing well counting and knowing his colors.  He knows red, purple, brown, pink and green.  This morning while we were getting ready, he looked in the mirror and said, “Mama, I have brown eyes, brown!” And I said, yes, you sure do have beautiful brown eyes, good job!”. He surprises us every day with the things he knows. 

 

His favorite activities are playing with cars/choo choo trains, coloring, play dough, playing learning games on the ipad and reading books. He also loves to play “Rawr Rawr”, which means riding around on your back pretending you are a Tiger, lol. He loves playing that game with Dada!  He is doing a good job with the early stages of potty training.  He will go on the potty if we catch him before he goes in his diaper.  We just need to work on getting him to tell us before he has to go.  He is very excited to get to wear his big boy underwear soon. ;)

 

Gavin loves his daycare and has a lot of fun there.  It is a small group of five kids, and right now all five are boys! Three of the boys are older than Gavin, and he is learning so much from them.  They do fun school type activities, sing songs, play games and have FUN!

 

Overall, Gavin is doing great!!!!!