One thing that Kristee and I have both taken notice of is that fact that Gavin talks a lot more than Halee did when she was 1. We think that he probably does this due to the fact that he has to compete with his big sister who is now not only a big talker, but also a loud talker. We all know who she got that from, and that is also why we like to call her little Kristee. And on the note of talking Gavin says a lot of things that is definitely baby talk, but one word that he is saying consistently and finally using it correctly, is DADDY. He will actually come up to me and say Daddy when he wants me to pick him up. Obviously I am an extremely proud Daddy. Another note about Gavin we noticed today is that he is now showing separation anxiety. When we dropped him off at the nursery at church he immediately started crying, he really hasn’t done that before. He will generally go straight in and not even think twice about where his parents are. Halee on the other hand is getting to the point of enjoying going to the nursery. She gets all excited when we are walking into church once we got to her room she walked in a little hesistant, but no crying. When church was over and we went to go get her she was sitting at a table with a few other kids and didn’t even act like she was ready to leave. Isn’t it amazing how many different phases they go through in just 2 years…

I just wanted to add a post to document that Gavin is officially walking. He is walking all over the place and although he still crawls occasion his first instinct is to attempt to walk. He has been very successful the past 2 days at walking across the room, catching himself if he starts to stumble, and standing in place with very good balance. It is so exciting watching kids learn to walk, he really gets excited when he successfully walks across the room. Of course he has to deal with his big sister bumping him over or attempting to help, but ultimately getting in his way. I guess this just means that he will be getting into more stuff and learning to climb things next. Oh well, I don’t mind it is a blast to just watch them go through so many changes.

Well, this post is merely to document something I have been waiting for, not that anyone cares. Gavin has slept all night long the past 2 nights and I am excited. Now that I am making this post about him sleeping through the night, I will probably be up with him tonight. Oh well, it is definitely a sign of the good things to come. Also one more thing about Gavin, he is now getting a lot more independent in his eating. He really isn’t the biggest fan of having us feed him baby food anymore. He likes to have a little bit of what we are having to eat, but the most important thing to him is that he wants to feed himself. I guess that just means that he is that much closer to being a lot more independent, especially when he is watching his big sister who thinks that she can do everything.

An update of Kristee’s finals, she is doing very well and getting good grades on all her finals and doing great in her classes as she wraps up this semester. She only has 2 more left and then it is break-time and I know that she is very excited about having some time off from school. Talk to you later.

Today Kristee and I attended the Discovery Class at the church that we have been attending here in Lee’s Summit, it is Summit Woods Baptist Church. The class basically covered everything about the church. The pastor was the teacher of the class and basically gave a background of the church and what the church was all about. It was quite interesting, the church is only 7 years old and it started in a small office building, then moved to a commercial warehouse for the majority of their existance. And the just moved into their new building only a year ago and there are plans for adding onto the building. The pastor has been with them for 6 years and he is in his early 30’s. Kristee and I both thoroughly enjoy his sermons and the worship experience. The church has a lot of young people with a lot of kids that are Halee and Gavin’s age, which is a big plus in our opinion. They both have a good time playing with all the other kids their ages. We found out today that second to adults, bed babies through preschool kids are next largest group in the church.

Today we had an interesting experience with Mister Gavin. The church has the beepers for the parents, just in case the parents are needed during the worship service, ours went off mid-way through the service. Kristee got up and went to see what the deal was and he was balling his little eyes out and they could not get him calmed down. But, the minute he saw momma he was a happy camper, apparently they had been trying everything to get him calmed down and nothing was working. We both thought that was pretty funny, really he was just wanting a nap and there was too much going on in the room for him to take a nap.

We are glad that we have found a church that both Kristee and I enjoy and more importantly one that the kids enjoying going to. Anyone that is interested I have added a link to the churches website. It is incredible that this is the one, considering it was the first church that we attended.