Go Wildcats!

Don't they just both look great in purple... and what a great way to kick-off the first weekend of college football. Well, Gavin and Daddy watched the NU (Northwestern) football game - (nice first win for the Wildcats) while mommy went shopping... now that was a great Saturday!

** Check out those NU shoes (thanks Beth and Karl) & NU t-shirt (thanks G&G Gillard). Just the perfect attire for the big game today!

Family weekend

We had our 3rd annual family weekend in Cincinnati last weekend. It was great. Grandma and Grandpa Cross, Uncle Ryan, Grandma and Grandpa Gillard, Uncle Tom, Aunt Heather and cousin Ty were all here to hang out and have some fun. We went to the zoo, grilled out and have a great time. Family is really the most important thing in life, so we were glad to share some quality time with everyone.

Speaking of quality time, here is Gavin and Ty in the bath tub. Ty is splashing more than Gavin can on his own and that really cracks Gavin up

For more photos of the weekend, here are selections from Heather and Tom, G&G Gillard and G&G Cross, the first web site is a shared family photo sharing site, so others photos on there too

http://gillard.shutterfly.com/

http://share.shutterfly.com/action/welcome?sid=2Cbt2bRwyYvYg

http://photos.walmart.com/shareethumbnailshare/AlbumID=31671600/albumcount=1/p=670251219709993631/l=13741645/g=6643957/cobrandOid=1011/otsc=SYE/otsi=SALB/pns/share/p=670251219709993631/l=13741645/g=6643957/cobrandOid=1011/otsc=SYE/otsi=SALB

Baby Yoga

So, Gavin is now much more mobile and nimble than he was before. A steady progression of being able to do more and more from sitting up on his own to crawling. Once he could crawl he could also go from crawling to sitting up with a little practice. But you can totally see him trying to figure different things out along the way, like pulling himself up on things, standing up with help and many other movements and positions. Probably his favorite, that also looks cool, is what you will see in the video below. When others observed they asked if we taught him yoga and specifically downward dog or down facing dog position. Of course the answer to that is yes and here is the fruit of our labor...

August 19.

Officially crawling

Here is some crawling action from August 17. Finally off our stomach and on our hands and knees, most of the time anyway. Cruising around like crazy, moves pretty quick now, faster by the day...

Pushing on popper

One of Gavin's favorite toys to play with, even more so now that Grandma Cross helped him to learn how to push it down, is his ball popper. He likes it so much he has two, one upstairs and one downstairs.




This video is from August 12.

Army Crawling

Good video of the pre-cursor to all out hands and knees crawling: army crawling. Or something like that. Pulling with hands, pushing with feet (only left one though for some reason) and wiggling any way I can to move around. Also, some good cup banging and sliding and of course, Mommy commentary.

This is from August 10 and had been doing this type of moving for a few weeks and in a week or so, was officially crawling. Video coming soon...

(Not) Mimicing Mommy

Some of the videos that fans of the Gavin Blog tell us they love most are those that highlight Mommy (aka Stacy) interacting with Gavin in very special (and very hilarious) moments. Like talking to one another and mimicing each other, or sort of anyway. Well, we have a few treats for you:

First video is from July 28 and second is from August 10.