Catching Up.

Here are some pictures from our week.

Gavin loves Audra and taking care of her and holding her. The other day he brought me went and sat on the couch and grabbed the boppy pillow and put it around his waist and started saying "bebe" "bebe". When I let him hold Audra I put the boppy around his waist, that way she lays on the pillow and he just holds her head up, so it was cracking me up when he got himself all ready to hold her. So here is Gavin holding Audra. He is always so proud of himself when he gets to hold her. Too funny. Love that face.

I think Audra is questioning my judgment in letting Gavin hold her.

Audra's mouth cracks me up in this picture, because of his milk stained tongue.

"Cheese"

As we all know Gavin loves his cell phones, so he has started training Audra in that same love. He would put the phone up to Audra's ear and the gingerbread man up to his ear and have a conversation with her, it was hillarious.

Audra was not so sure about Gavin touching her face.

The other day I was taking pictures of something else and Gavin ran over and sat in the chair and said "cheese". He has a few favorite words that he says all the time, "cheese" being one of them. So funny story from the other day, I was not planning on going anywhere that day and it was late morning and Gavin was getting restless. He is quite the social boy these days. So he kept bringing his shoes over to me and shoving them in my face and Audra's face begging me to put them on him, he says, "shew" "shew mama shew". When I was done feeding Audra I put his shoes on. He then went and found my flip flops and brought them over and put them on my feet, and went the diaper bag and grabbed the keys. He then heading toward the garage was saying, "keys mama key bye bye. bye bye mama bye bye." He apparently had different plans than me, he was ready for us to hit the town.

What a cutie!

Audra's First Swim

Today we had the chance to visit Graunt Kathy and her lovely pool in our efforts to stay cool. Gavin was able to relax and enjoy himself much more this time. He also found a fun new place to play in the water.

He had so much fun playing in the fountain.
Audra also had her first swim in the pool, well she didn't actually swim, but she did sit in the water for a little while. And she seemed enjoy herself, as well as Gavin loved her being in there as well.

Gavin loves his sister so much and is so very protective of her.

All tuckered out from a hard swim at the pool.

And look at that adorable swim suit from Auntie Mandy (thanks again)!

National Cheesecake Day!

I'm not sure if you were all aware, but Friday was National Cheesecake Day! And you all know how much we love cheesecake, so it was defiantely a day for celebrating. So in honor of NCD, we went to Cheesecake Factory (where they were having half off cheesecake in honor of the special day, woohoo!).

I think this may have been Gavin's first taste of cheesecake and needless to say he of course loved it. Although I think that he enjoyed the whipped cream a whole lot more.

Yesterday we had a playdate with some friends at the Anthem Park Splashpad. The kiddos had so much fun playing in the water, while I sweated away in this humidity.

Gavin's favorite animal to play on was the whale, its a slide, and throwing rocks of course.
Gavin, Charrisa and London all sitting nicely together.

And Audra of course slept most of the time, this picture kinda makes her look like she has a lazy eye, but she has had a little bit of a goopy eye the last couple days.

The Pool

Yesterday I took the kiddos over to Graunt Kathy's house for a little pool time. Gavin enjoyed himself much more this time than on Sunday. He found lots of fun bowls, and cups, and measuring cups and measuring spoons to play with and entertain him for hours. We had a wonderful afternoon relaxing by the pool and enjoying a wonderful lunch. Thank you Kathy for all the fun.

Had to put this one, how can you resist that face.

Gavin's lunch time spread, all of his favorite foods: hot dogs, fruit and pickles.

I had intended on Audra experiencing her first pool time, but she had other plans and slept the entire time.

On Sunday we went to a friends house (who are out of town and kindly let us use their pool while they are gone) to cool off in their pool. This was one of our first times in the pool this summer and in the pool since last summer. Needless to say Gavin is so not sure of the water these days. We got a lifevest a while ago, but he is not too fond of it. As the afternoon went on he warmed up to it a little bit. We had a wonderful afternoon relaxing and staying cool and Audra spent it sleeping.

So when Audra was first born I thought I was holding a little Gavin in my arms, she looked just like him. Then as the weeks passed I felt like she looked so much different than Gavin. And now I was looking at these pictures and she looks just like Gavin again. They change so much at this age.