Playing around

Hi friends!  The Perry's are getting really excited for Christmas!!!  Santa Claus is going to be visiting Lake Charles tonight so everyone is already in bed awaiting his arrival.  Brooks, Gavin, and I are in Lake Charles for the weekend celebrating Christmas with my family.  Brooks is off of work until the New Year so we are extremely pumped about getting to spend some quality time with him.

Brooks and I are amazed at how fast it seems that Gavin is growing up.  All of a sudden he has become a lot more aware of things... he soaks up everything like he's a sponge.. he mimicks us, he uses his sign language ALL the time (saying please, more, eat, cup), and he's started to speak actual words.  Today, we were wiping his nose with a kleenex and he blew in it (how cool is that?)  He LOVES blowing on food and saying "hot".  He really emphasizes the "h" sound.  It's precious.  He has officially figured out how to climb on EVERY single chair, couch, stool, step, coffee table, etc.  He's really good at it and we learned that we can't leave him in a room alone because he will end up climbing on the tallest item in the room.  He has heard us say sit down so much that he started repeating it back to us.  He's sooooo cute and fun to play with everyday.  We had some presents for him the other day that we let him unwrap and he really unwrapped them.  It was really fun to watch him understand the concept of ripping off the paper and finding something underneath the paper to play with.  Needless to say, we think Gavin is really going to enjoy Christmas this year.

In order to get ready for the many different days we will be celebrating Christmas with family, I decided to upload all the videos from my video camera onto my new computer, so that I could make more room for all the videoing (is that even a word?) that will be going on.  I am trying to learn the video software that comes with the MAC and I realized that you can create "movies" with your videos.  I decided to play around with a short clip and created this.  I thought it was cute of Gavin.  Hope you enjoy!