Ready. Set. Baby Proof!

Who's this big kid?!

Ok. So back in the day as in when Gavin was a little peanut, I couldn't wait until he could crawl, laugh, interact, play, and all of the fun things that come along with having a little mover and a shaker. Now is it bad that I wish I could have all of that BUT with him staying in the same spot the whole time?! My life in the last few weeks has turned into racing him to the cat dish, stopping him from climbing the stairs, and trying to get him to play with his toys which are sooo uninteresting in comparison to the outlets, lamp cords, and curtains. GAVIN your mom and dad have bought you plennnnty of toys, books, blocks, and fun yet you refuse to even look at them. Ok I take it back. You Looooove your little Baby Einstein table which is great, but I feel so uncool going to the gym with the numbers and letters song stuck in my head. What happened to the Kid Rock and Britney that I used to go around singing?! Someday I'll be cool again. Granted by then all of these singers will be on the oldies station.

Sticking his tonuge out and blowing bubbles and he begins his climb.

Real Class Act Gav.

The Newest Baby Einstein...We now find the sitting bouncer to boring so on to this one...

The noisy one.

I'm saying all of this half complaining but not really. I mean I love, love, love this stage. It's so funny playing peek a boo, and chasing him so he tries to crawl faster and than squeals because he's laughing so hard. Seriously I'm loving every single moment. Now work is slowing down a BIT so it's not as crazy so I can find time in the evenings just to relax and not think about anything but my beautiful little babe and my favorite Brybear. Life is good. Well minus bed time. It's such a fight because he wants to stay up and hang out. We lay him in his crib and now that he crawls and stands up he crawls to the side of the bed and then stands up and screams and screams. In some ways it's funny so I laugh, then I feel bad, then I pick him up, and then I try to convince Bryan to let me bring him back downstairs to snuggle, then I can't so I have to put him back down and walk away. The funny thing is he's normally out like 2 minutes after I walk out the door. I think I hinder his progress when it comes to this bedtime ordeal. I should just put him down and walk away. But yeah that's not going to happen.

Life is also about to get A LOT easier. We just hired a cleaning person to come in and clean every Friday. Thank God. I literally felt like when I wasn't working, or playing with Gavin I was cleaning. Granted I'll still need to keep the house picked up and vacuum obsessively since Gavin finds the smallest spec of anything on our floor even if I just vaccummed- he finds it. But, I won't have to worry about cleaning the bathrooms, fans, vents, floors, kitchen, windows, etc. Whew. I feel like I'm going to get part of my life back. I feel kind of dumb because I have one child, and it's not like I live in this huge house but honestly I feel like I just can't keep up. I think this will help relieve some stress so I can focus more on spending time with my GaveyGava and not running around like a cleaning freak everytime he's sleeping.

I'm not sure if I"ll get a chance to update this weekend. Ok. I guess I am sure. It won't happen. BUT we have a few cute Halloween costumes for our little man! I'll need to take pics so I can add them for Gavin's first Halloween!! Woo hoo! How sad is it that I know once Baby Two comes along we won't be doing all of this, and if he's a boy he'll probably be wearing Gavin's costumes. Ahh. I'll own it. This year we're the nerds who dress Gavin up in Halloween clothes during the week of Halloween and send him to the gym and daycare. Yep we are those parents.

Alrighhhht. I guess that's it. Bryan and I have an exciting evening of wine and movies. We went to our favorite restaurant Dusty's the other day and decided it made sense to join the wine club so now we're doing a little wine tasting night and watching ok I lied, not movies but Grey's. We haven't watched it at all this year and it's sitting on our DVR just begging to be watched. So I think it's time to get this exciting party started! Woo hoo. Let's end on a few of my favorite pics of the week!

Just hanging out shopping with mom. Perfect day!

Just hanging out with Schmesh watching the cars go by



It's a lot of work for a little guy