Happy April!

When I started this blog entry a week ago, Gavi had just started getting his knees up beneath him. Now he constantly rocks back and forth on his hands and knees. I don’t know the progression, but I suspect we’re not more than a few weeks from crawling. Oy! Like things aren’t insane enough already!

The most fun thing of the last week is that I get to make baby food again! MAN, is that fun! I don’t know what it is about it that makes me so happy, but I literally get all giggly just thinking about it! Gavi started out as not a fan of either the peas or carrots, then the carrots started to grow on him, and now I mix the two when I can’t get him to eat the peas. He sure eats a LOT!

Caleb has started to do the classic older sibling thing of speaking on behalf of the younger. However, he has to preface everything by explaining why he’s doing it: “He doesn’t talk.” I’ve heard that phrase about three dozen times a day for the last week. Anytime I say hello to Gavi, Caleb retorts, “He doesn’t talk.” Anytime a stranger coos at him, Caleb butts in, “He doesn’t talk.” At this point, I’m looking forward to Gavi talking just so Caleb quits saying that he doesn’t!

But they’re very sweet together. Caleb will scotch down on the floor and offer Gavi his hair to play with. And I gave Gavi a small bottle with some juice, and Caleb helped him hold it. They’ll pull up to the mirrors in our living room together and just laugh at each other for a long time. In about six months, my job is going to be SOOOOO much easier, because my two littles are going to be totally self-entertaining!

We went to Casa Bonita for a birthday party. Goodness gracious, I will never do that again without an entourage whose sole purpose is to watch Caleb. Even though every adult there was so gracious and helped – there was only the birthday boy, Caleb, Gavi, and a sweet baby girl two months older than Gavi – I still felt completely wrung out by the time we left. I actually LOST him at one point. The terrifying thing was that it was while we were watching the cliff divers, so we were right next to the water. For about a minute, I ran around frantic until my friend spotted him at the top of the stairs. That little booger can really move!