Busy People

Ok, so this is my 4th attempt at posting this blog post so let's see how it goes. Wow... we have been busy people lately. I just don't know where the time goes and why it has to go so fast. I started full-time college a few weeks ago and it is definitely keeping me on my toes and very busy. I am taking Anatomy & Physiology, Anatomy & Physiology Lab, and Nutrition and have already had three quizzes and have three test in the next couple weeks. Although these classes seem like they are going to be very time consuming and difficult I do think I am going to learn a lot and take many things away from them. In January I will be starting the Nursing program and I am very excited to enter that phase, scared a little, but I have faith that I'll make it through it.
Aside from school, our family has been staying busy by attending two 1st birthday parties and a baby shower. By the time we got to the baby shower and Gavin saw balloons he said "birthday party... eat cake"... why wouldn't all kids think that when they see balloons its for a birthday party especially since there were 3 parties in two weekends. We all had fun at all the parties and the birthday boys did so good with their cakes and both had such a great turn out that you could feel the love. At each party Gavin really thought it was for him... its so hard to convince them at this age that the presents, cake, and balloons aren't for them... ha.

here is his sporting some glasses party favor from Jaxon's birthday party... I love this picture.

We have been throwing around the idea of changing Gavin's bed into a 'big boy' bed for the past couple months. He has been sleeping in a full size bed at the babysitters for quite some time so we couldn't decide if we wanted to buy a twin bed or just convert his bed into a toddler bed for the time being. His bed converts to both a toddler bed and a twin bed so it wasn't about buying the actual bed but about getting the mattress. With the annual Stokes trip fastly approaching I figured it was as good a time as any to make that transition. He did so good the first night and with only had a little hesitation about falling asleep but he has a routine of wanting multiple water drinks before bed so really it wasn't anything out of the ordinary. Of course I was worried that he'd get up in the middle of the night and go outside because this child can open every door in the house and has been able to since shortly after he could walk, example, he lets Patch in from outside all the time without us knowing. He has done so good with staying in his bed and he is so proud of himself. Since then he has fallen out twice but hasn't any since the first week and is sleeping really well. Every morning when I go to get him out of bed he is sitting in his bed reading a book, it is way cute. He knows that when it's dark he needs to be in bed, so last week one night he was rubbing his eyes around 7:00 and I asked if he was tired and he said "yes" so I asked if he needed to go to bed and he looked around me and out the window to see that it was still light out and looked back at me and said "not dark, no bed time". Here lately he has just grown up and is thinking more logical... it's very interesting and cute.
Lastly, I took him fishing with a friend of mine and her kids and although his fishing pole is at my mom's house he used her sons and actually reeled in a fish on his own for the first time. I was so proud of him. He thought it was cool but then kept pressing the release button which would then slam the fish into the ground. It was kind of funny but I did feel bad for the fish.

reeling it in...

helping him show it off...

Our summer has been filled with many things and is coming to an end and we are welcoming fall with open arms, it can't get here fast enough. All in all, we have had a great end to our summer. I know it was a long post and I have more pictures to share but at this point, I'm just happy that I was able to update everyone on a few things and just share a few pictures. I'll really, try to get better about the blog... just bear with me :)