Mostly Gavi update...

We’re now calling Gavi “Pearly Five.” He went from having two teeth to five teeth in less than two days! To celebrate, I fed him bananas for the first time in two months. He ate ‘em! Of course, I had been mashing them up, but now I gave him tiny chunks. That may have made the difference.

I’m getting ready for a garage sale! (The transition is that Gavi is pulling everything out of boxes and making an even worse mess of my house than it already was!) Ohmigoodness, it’s such a hoot! It’s fun to feel like I’m doing something tangible to contribute to the family’s financial well-being. Shopping wisely with coupons and budgeting is sort of intangible. Of course, Jonathan is so tired of the whole thing that he’ll just be glad when it’s all over. But a lot of my family has contributed things, so I’m hoping to make a bucket o’ money. Sorry to sound greedy.

I’m only apologizing for SOUNDING greedy. Not for actually BEING greedy.

Swimming and playing are still our biggest activities of the day. With MOPS and Bible study being out for the summer and Caleb being too big for the gym, we don’t really have any structured outings right now except for church. It makes my life easier AND harder, because we don’t have a set schedule, but I do miss the ability to say, “I don’t have to plan anything for right now because we’re going to be at such and such a place.” But it’s cool because we get to go swimming every day. In this stinking heat – we were ten degrees hotter than ARIZONA yesterday! – I thank God daily for the access to a pool. And Caleb is so self-sufficient that I only have to worry about my little Gavi. It’s a good time to be a mom!

The bad thing about this phase is that Gavers is SO adventurous! He keeps climbing up on things that he can't get down from. We have stairs by Caleb's bed, and he keeps climbing them and then crying because he can't get down. Also, with the garage sale stuff laying around, he'll crawl up on a box, then just sit there hollering because he doesn't know how to get down. He also goes through a box of biter cookies a week, which means I do a LOT of laundry. But he's SO cute that I just can't make myself care about his sticky, icky little hands getting everything dirty.

 Jonathan Fashbaugh replied...

Here here! Gavi is such a cutie.