Week of Fun!

This week was a blast for Gavin and I. He is finally back to his normal self (between a double ear infection and dealing with some abandonment issues from Brooks and I leaving him for our vacation to Belize). Gavin had two rough weeks just being moody, inconsolable, and a little grumpy, which is VERY unusual for him. We worked through it and now he is back to being his happy self.

This past week also brought on a new change-- it was our first full week together-- he is no longer going to the babysitters, which I have mixed emotions about, but I knew it meant that I needed to prepared with lots of things for him to do, so he wouldn't get bored. We did everything--- we swam at our friends pool, we swung on the swing daddy hung for us on the back porch, we did some shopping for his birthday party coming up in a few weeks, we made an art decoration, and we even had another no Worries Wednesday (where Gavin got to eat a bowl of spaghetti all by himself).

Here are a few pics from our week! I'm thinking this little guy is as happy as can be!

Playing in his room with his new monkey chest!
Now that I'm home and not working, I've realized I have time for my hobbies: scrapbooking and cake decorating so I've really started spending some serious time on these. A few months ago, I ordered this cute, cute saying from a friend of mine who has a business with Uppercase Living, it's embellishments and word creations that you can stick onto your walls or on other decorating ideas (coasters, wooden boards, picture frames, etc etc. The possibilities are endless). Let me know if you are interested and I can give you my friends website info. Since I have time to work on my creations and since we're having Gavin's party at our house, I wanted to get some of my projects done so I can put them out for others to see. This particular project required me to paint Gavin's hand, which I musty say, he did a very good job. He loved squeezing his hand and rubbing his fingers together once I put the paint on it and was sad when I wiped all the paint off. He kept touching his fingers like he was looking for the paint.

Here's Gavin helping me get the paint brush ready- luckily I hadn't put any paint on the brush yet.

Voila!! Here is his hand print-- the saying says, "Here is my hand on this very day, Remember me now as I grow and play". I decided not to put Gavin's hand print in the center of this, hoping and planning that when we have more kids, their hand prints will go on the board as well. My goal is to put their hand prints close to their first birthday. Eventually, I will label the hand prints so we can know whose is whose.

Here is another of Gavin's favorite things-- he LOVES the dishwasher. We've never let him play with it until this week, I'm not sure why, I just wasn't ready for him to be messy with the dirty or clean dishes. But, anytime this is opened, he goes right to it. He especially likes the little contraption that holds the detergent- he has learned how to open and close it. Don't worry, we made sure to remove all the knives and sharp objects before letting him play in it!

Next week, we have another project to work on that I'll post later once it's finished. We're also busy planning Gavin's birthday party. It's going to have a monkey theme-- and I must admit, I'm going a little crazy on it, but it's his first birthday!! I have decided to make EVERYTHING: the food, the cake, the decorations, the party favor bags... I mean EVERYTHING! It's fun because it keeps me busy and is giving me something to do! I'm starting to realize school is starting soon and I won't be returning so I'm doing my best to keep my mind on other things!