MORE ON MORRELLS: February 2013

This crazy kid is growing up way to fast! Just FYI, the two month post didn't have pic's cause I wasn't able to upload. It now has pic's and they are cute! You should take a gander.

Gav and I had a very eventful month. For Christmas we had given our parents a pic of Gav and a card that said we were coming to visit! I was so nervous to fly by myself with a baby. Not only was I nervous about carrying everything myself but nobody ever wants to sit by a baby on a flight. Gav's a little angel and slept the entire way there and back! Best kid ever. Funny thing was, our flight to Utah was pretty empty and when we were ready to leave everyone around us went and sat somewhere else so we had nobody near us and he didn't even make a peep!

While we were in Utah we stayed with Grammy and Grampy. Gav met so many new people!! It was so fun!!! Our first day there mom and dad had to work and Kait was at school so we hung out with Tanner all day! Gav loved Tanner! The three of us went to the grocery store and while checking out the cashier asked tanner how old his baby was. After looking at me for a second with a baffled look all he did was look at me and say its her baby. Needless to say the rest of the time we were there was very awkward. We went and visited Grammy at work and let her show off her cute grand baby, then went to Great Grandma Palmer's house. There we met Auntie L and Aunt Janae Grandma Palmer and cousins Jack and Ella. When Grammy got home from work we went and visited Auntie Arvonne in Kaysville. That evening we went to Dada and Papa's house and visited with them, Katie, Shan, Mike and his cute little cousins. It was a lot of fun to see everyone and catch up again. The next day we went to lunch with everyone at Cafe Rio! Miss that place. And it was so good! While we were at lunch it started snowing!!!!! I haven't seen snow, real snow, in way to long! Yeah it snowed in Texas but its just not the same. We spent the rest of the night hangin out, playing games and quilting. Kaits makin a quilt for her boy. Not sure if it ever got done. It was still snowing! On Friday we spent the morning doing the same old same old. It ended up being a snow day in Davis County so my mom and Kait didn't have work/school and got to stay home and play! We got kinda stir crazy and decided to tough it and go shopping. It was still snowing! By this time it had been snowing non-stop and the snow was so deep! Tanner Kait and my mothe had been shoveling every couple hours and there was still snow on the driveway! Oh how I miss Utah winters. That evening we had planned a little get together with the Jackman's and Robinson's to catch up and show off cute little Gav. It was a big deal, cause it was still snowing!! Yeah, still. It was awesome. We all got there safe and sound and everyone got home okay. It was so much fun to see everyone again! Saturday we hung around the house and didn't do much, just visited. On Sunday we went and visited with everyone at Dada and Papa's house after church. Crue was so cute with Gav! Crue always wanted to hold Gav and wanted to play with him, and he has the sweetest little voice. Tate was so fun!! I couldn't believe how the two of them were playing with me and weren't shy or anything. I loved it!! Sad that Jake couldn't be there with us. I know he misses all of them. We got to go visit Grandma Dot too! I was so happy and so excited to go see Grandma Dot. I miss her so much and couldn't wait to have her and Gav meet. Love her. The rest of the week we spent with family and tried to spend as much time as we could with everyone before we had to leave. It was hard to come back to Texas after having so much fun with everyone.

Didn't do much when we got home. Just the usual. Our good friends the Lee's we're getting ready to move so we had to spend as much time as we could with them before they left. We sure miss them! Jake and I had our Birthdays and didn't do a whole lot for them but it was fun. Jake had to work on his birthday so we celebrated when he got home and we went out to dinner and gave him his presents. Gav gave him the cutest gift! I've uploaded a pic so you can see it. Jake took the day off for my birthday, which was awesome, and helped out with Gav. We went to the mall and went to dinner that night. It was awesome to have help with Gav. Best present ever!

So this month, around 10 weeks old, Gav started figuring out what his hands are. It's the funniest thing to see him stare at his hands when he notices them. He is starting to grab at things and it kinda makes me feel bad when he is trying so hard to grab something and he can't quite get it. I'll have a toy in front of him and his arms stick straight out to the side and his hands go nuts grabbing! He loves playing with his toys now. His favorites are his rattle, a music toy with a caterpillar (He loves the smiley face on it and just smiles back), and his musical light up star stacker toy. It is so fun to see his face light up when you play with him. I've sat him in my lap with the star toy in front of us and started the music/lights. He'll sit and smile and after a min wants to get it so bad he starts leaning towards it to get it. He finally held a toy the other day!!! I have to stick it in his hand and hold it there for a min and the second he would grab hold he would drop his hand and won't move, like its to heavy or something. This time he grabbed onto his rattle and was shaking it and smiling and got it in his mouth!! It was so cute!! My little baby is getting so big! He constantly wants to play with somthin now, and he always has to have somthin in his mouth. I'm sure he's going to be a thumb sucker. His hands are always in his mouth and I've caught him a couple times with just his thumb. If its not his hands its whatever he can grab and shove in there. He's a super smiley boy now. Always so happy. He started laughing, just little giggles here and there, and it's been so fun! He loves bath time and the other night he was in the tub just giggling. Cutest thing EVER!! He's very talkative! He'll be sittin on the couch just jabbering whether I'm sitting there talkin with him or he's just by himself he loves to talk! He can go on forever too! I've tried to get videos but he's still camera shy. He loves his dad. Every day when Jake gets home he stares at dad and gives him a big gummy grin. He likes to watch football with his dad too. He likes to watch anything really. I turn the TV on just to have noise in the house and he watches way more than I do. Probably not a good thing but its kinda funny. He's still not to fond of tummy time. The longest it usually lasts is 3 or 4 min if that. Its a work in progress but he holds his head up really well so we're not worried about it.

Gav went to the doctor twice this month. The first time was his 2 month checkup and he weighed in at 14 lb 7 oz. That's my big boy :) The second time we had to go get some shots done but they took his weight anyway. Only 3 weeks later our big boy had gained over a pound! He weighed in at 15 lb 12 oz. Holy crap kid! He's going to be giant! But we love him. Cutest little "big" guy ever :)