sum-sum-summahtime!

ahhh where to start? so many memorable moments...

hanging at the beach...


life is good!!!!
(after about 20 applications of sunblock!)


taking a break from the heat!


checking out the scene at the park...


mama, i hide!
yep, more hiding! this hide-and-seek took place
when mark and gav came to visit me at work...
gav thought it was super fun to hide in all
of the rounders in employee purchase...

just taking a moment to stop and smell the flowers...
(which now happens with every flower we see...)


once again, sheer bliss!


showing how he can kick, kick, kick!!!


gathering water balloons with sophie
at kian's birthday party!



yummm!!!
ice cream sundaes!!!
all is GOOD!

...until the brain freeze!
poor guy. first time for everything!!!


..."i daddy"...


getting ready to cruise the cul-de-sac!


a new friend?
(if you look closely, you can see the caterpillar on his right knee)


4th of july...
ok, i was a bad mamarazzi...
for some reason, i didn't have my camera for most of that day.
the pix that i did take weren't all that worthy!
here is a shot of gav enjoying the bubbles at our friend brian's casa...

catching up on june!

gav and sophie after many hugs!

daddy's day! 

father's day at the aquarium of the pacific!

playing with the starfish

gav had a blast!!!! loved the fishhhhhhies!

bonfire at the beach!
wahoooooo! having a blast with our pals

the rogers and the van dorps!

ahhhh... life is perfect....

hmmm.... ponder ponder....

what is going through that head?

puddle-jumpin!

such little boys..

getting some cool lessons from kristie!

(kian's mommy)

the night is drawing to a close...
going in for a kiss on keilani!

ohhhh sleepy guy.

one too many s'mores!

on a sunny sunday afternoon 

at the Van Dorp's casa....

Lakers Game 5 !

(post-jacuzzi!)

building tracks in the dirt...

does it get any better?


i guess it was bound to happen...

a doggie incident!

gav got in the middle of some speed racer doggies! 

(between mack (our newfie) and roxie (golden retriever 

from next door...) all was fine, just a big bonk on the head, 

tears and a little scratch. (nothing that yummy apples don't fix!)

 

where did my baby boy go?

this night marked the moment when i first
caught a glimpse of gav as a little boy...
i had to look at the camera 2 times,
maybe 3, after i took this picture.
i thought, who is THIS lil' guy and
where did my baby boy go????

again, wearing mark's shoes....


just a couple of shots of gav hanging with his "babies".
...and, trying to help mack wear mark's shoes...

giving karson a blanket and pillows...
(because he was brrrrr and wanted
to go nigh-night,according to gav.)


"hiding"
gav:"mama, look, look... i hide!"
me: "gavin, where are you? where's gavin? mark, do you see gav?"
mark: "nope, i don't see him anywhere! where is he?"
(ignoring the very front and center little toes...)

priceless. :)

The choo-choo life!

We are all about the choo-choo life...
Whether it's building new tracks,
taking about 25 trains with us wherever we go,
helping the choo-choos go nigh-night,
reading choo-choo books or just
a good ole dvd (over and over)....
YEP. ALot of quality choo-choo time!

Happy Happy Mama!

Gav definitely understands the whole birthday deal now!
The morning of my birthday, he stood in his crib
and said "Happy Happy Mama!"

I loved it, of course! :)

We went to fondue for my birthday... YUM!
Here we thought, cool, this will be fun for him to watch.

Ummmm no. even with all of his cars, motocycles,
coloring books,etc.,of course the non-toddler-appropriate
fondue sticks were much more appealing.



...after fondue....

just a pic of "the gurrrrrrls" from my birthday weekend in SF...

sunny May days....

hanging at the park with Dad...

at the beach over Memorial Weekend

checking out all of the cool critters...

at the Beach Club by our house.

loving these fountains!!!
yummmmm! yogurt!

a new routine....

one of Gav's new fav things to do....
this is how it goes:

run up the driveway,
go through the doggie door,
out the front door,
over to the fence,
touch the fence,
repeat (at least)35 times!