4 More, Yay!

Gavin is getting four more teeth! Poor little guy! And he has a cold and he doesn't like the formula and wants to nurse. He is having quite the week. I feel so bad for him. Tonight was my last time nursing. I thought I would be so happy to be done but I'm actually pretty sad. Now hopefully I'll loose some more weight! This is a really fuzzy picture but I'm hoping to illustrate what my week has been like ... little baby following me around whining. I hope this doesn't go on too long :)

Back to School

I started school last week. I'm taking 4 classes, almost full time. I'm really trying hard to stay on top of all of the reading and assignments! I am really enjoying myself so far. Richard was saying how it felt so weird to be sending me to school and not going himself. Hopefully I'll keep up!

GavMan

Here are some of my favorite Gavin pictures!

Isn't he darling!

She Thinks My Tractors Sexy

In an effort to tackle the immense amount of weeds, Richard brought over his mom's tractor. We find that attempting to pull out 7 foot weeds with our hands wasn't really feasible. Who knew? :) I came out one morning to find Richard and Gavin on the tractor. Gavin loves it! If he's not squealing in delight then he is asleep from the lull and the rhythmic vibrations. Don't my boys look cute?

Fear Factor

Yesterday while I was reading Harry Potter, Gavin was upstairs taking a nap. I was listening to him on the monitor and could hear the rhythmic hum of his swing (shame on me for letting him sleep in a swing). I was reading a particularly intense and scary part of the book when the swing upstairs stopped and I started hearing noises in the monitor. It sounded like Gavin was waking up but I was already tense from the book and I was sure that someone was up there ... why else had the swing stopped? So with much fear, but a drive to protect my child I grabbed a huge chef's knife and headed up stairs. As I walked up I was shaking with fear and opened the door to his room to find ... Gavin smiling up at me in glee. The battery was dead on the swing. I felt embarrassed about my knife and was glad that Gavin is not old enough to realize his mother is a lunatic. I think maybe I shouldn't read Harry Potter when I home alone!

Oh, life

Teething, oh teething! My little Gavman in getting his first two teeth. What a wonderful experience (if only you could hear my sarcasm). I probably shouldn't share this story and ruin your perfect perception of me, but hear goes anyway :) Yesterday was a challenge. Gavin screamed a good portion of the day and I was low on patience. By the time evening came Gavin was really out of control and I was trying to make dinner. Richard had to see an emergency at the end of the day and didn't get home till later, my dinner was not working at all and Gavin was screaming. Richard finally called and said he was on his way home and then 30 minutes later I called and he said, "Now I'm leaving." With real enthusiasm I said "YOU HAVEN"T LEFT YET?" When Richard got home I was freaking out about my stupid dinner not working so I abandoned the burritos! I turned the stove off, left everything sitting on the counter and went and got a pizza. By the time we got home with the pizza I was much better. We sat on the porch overlooking our weeds and enjoyed pizza and a diet coke. Now thats my idea of therapy!



I put this picture up to remind myself and anyone reading this to not worry ... we are a happy little family even though I flip out on occasion :)