What a difference...

...5 months makes! G will be 6 months in about 10 days and I can't believe how fast the time has gone. It seems like it was just yesterday that we were bringing him home and I felt so lost. I seriously wanted to move in to the hospital so they could take care of us. Seriously. The food wasn't that bad and the nurses were AWESOME! But we feel like most days we've figured this whole parenting of a baby thing out. Watch out, I'm sure things are about the change!

The plague

We just can't seem to make it past what we are calling "The Plague" around here. I got a cold on NYE. The Gavin got one after going back to daycare AKA The Petri Dish. Now I have another one that has made a nice happy home in my lungs. At least I don't have to suck snot out of my nose with a bulb like we have to do with G Man.
I don't have any pictures that have to do with our snotty noses so here's something random. We thought we would see what G does with a cup. I guess he likes it!

A few other things

While we were in Texas Gavin got to try out having a bath in the "big kid bathtub". He loved it! He also tried out oatmeal cereal. He decided cereal is for babies and moved right on to veggies and fruits, starting with prunes. A word of caution...be careful how many prunes you give a baby. Or give him prunes and send him to daycare for the fallout with a couple of changes of clothes. It's not pretty, but he loved them! He has now tried sweet potatoes, carrots and peas, all with great success.
One of our biggest highlights so far of 2009 was our friends Stephanie and Caleb coming to visit from California. They stayed with us for a weekend and Caleb is only a few months older than Gavin. The babies played and Stephanie and I got to plan our futures as inlaws, provided our next baby is a girl. She will have her pick of one of Stephanie's three sons as her future husband.

Christmas!

Wow, Christmas! It seems like it was a long time ago! We spent Christmas Eve at home, just the three of us. We opened Gavin's gifts and a few of our own, put him to bed and then opened the rest of ours. We had to get up early to head to Texas to see Gavin's Nana (Josh's mom) the next morning and Gavin got to have his first plane ride! He did so well, we were really proud of him. We were in Texas for 5 days and came home just in time for New Years. G didn't make it to see the ball drop but that's OK.