April

Gavin:  Such a character!

I always have stories to tell on him.  

Gavin really wants to learn how to blow a bubble.  He was getting frustrated and decided making a mustache would do instead.

This kid is our shoeless wonder…. It is nearly impossible to keep shoes on him.

Every night he requests for us to sing the "Temple" song.  As I was singing the song one night, I would pause every couple words to have Gavin fill in the blanks.  The end of the first verse sings, "This is my sacred duty."  I sang, "This is…." and paused.  He ended by saying, "Shake my booty!" Did he really think those were the words of the song?    We both got a good laugh at that one.  Shaking our booty at the temple!

Gavin has a fascination with the garbage man and his truck.  What little boy doesn't?  Trash pickup is not done by the city here.  We have to hire a private company.  Well, with 4 different companies, we have 4 different trash pickup days in the neighborhood.  Every time a truck comes, Gavin is out there watching them.  Well, his fascination just went a little too far today.  After the trash was emptied, Gavin went straight upstairs to play.  It wasn't until I heard a few bangs that I went up to inspect.  He decided to be a "trash man" and dump out all the toys that we own into a pile!  So much for organization….

We all can often tell when a little kid has to go potty….. by doing a potty dance.  Whenever Gavin starts doing a dance, I tell him to go potty.  His reply, as he livens up his dance, is " I don't need to go potty, I just like to dance.  La da da!!!"  

Baseball season is among us.  

I have seen a lot of improvement with Jordan in his second year of playing.  His favorite thing to do is slide into home base.  I'll have to try and capture it.

We did a hula hoop contest one night.  We found out Jordan has a hidden talent.  He really knows how to move those hips!