Happy 4th of July!

Hope everyone had a great 4th of July weekend! We had a great weekend in Iowa. On Friday morning Ryan and I got a new car. We are very excited to finally have an SUV! Then we spent the rest of the day at Jen and Jason's and Gavin got to play with his cousin Avrie and we also got to see Jess and some other friends. On Saturday we took Gavin to his first parade in Urbandale. He did a great job. Got startled a few times by the firetrucks and police cars but other than that loved looking around and taking everything in. Saturday night Ryan and I were able to sneak away and see a movie and then got home in time to catch some fireworks. Gavin was up to catch a few of them and we were surprised that the noise didn't bother him at all. My cousin Megan and her husband Doug welcomed little Jack Douglas on the 4th as well. Congratulations to both of them and we can't wait to see pictures and meet the little guy! Tonight Gavin tried his first real baby food sweet peas and loved them! It's going to be fun to see how he does with all the other foods. It's hard to believe that he is going to be 6 months in a week! Enjoy the new pictures.

5 months!!!!!!!!!!

I can't believe Gavin is 5 months old today!! He’s been a busy boy! We’ve been practicing sitting up and look forward to meeting that milestone. He doesn’t have much interest in rolling over right now but is starting to bring his legs up when on his tummy and scootches around so we’re wondering if he’ll just skip rolling over and go straight to crawling! We bought him a jumper the other week and although he hasn’t quite figured out how to jump on his own yet he loves having you bounce him in it. He is quite the talker now and started saying da-da a couple of weeks ago. Lately his favorite time to chat is early in the morning which is hard for mommy and daddy when we want to sleep but also too cute to ignore! I keep trying to get a video of him chatting away but every time the camera gets close he stops and just stares at the camera in amazement. One big milestone is that Gavin tried cereal for the first time today. He did a great job and was very interested in this new food and loved sitting in his high chair. I included a video below of him trying it for the first time and some new pictures of the last few weeks.

4 month check up

We had Gavin's 4 month check-up today and he is quite the growing boy!! In good health and weighed 19 lbs, 5 ozs which was 95th percentile and was 28 1/4 inches long which was off the charts :)!! We had a great Memorial day weekend in Iowa visiting friends and family and will be back again this weekend for another wedding. This month has been crazy for us so we are looking forward to June and July which will bring a little down time to get some things done around the house.

Here are some new pictures from the last few weeks:

Welcome Addison Joy!

Congratulations to Derek and Jenny who welcomed Addison Joy at 4:41 today. Gavin can't wait to meet his new cousin.

4 Months!

I can’t believe that Gavin turns 4 months old this week. Its crazy how fast these 4 months have gone and how much he has changed and grown. It seems like every day I come home from work he has gotten bigger and learned some new skill. We are having so much fun with him! He loves sucking on his hands and smiles/babbles all the time now. He’s very interested in everything around him and gets very excited when trying to reach for objects above and around him. For the most part he can hold his head up on his own and loves being able to sit up on your lab and watch everything around him. We have his 4 month check up in a few weeks and I can’t wait to see how much he has grown. I am guessing that he is going to weight between 18-19 pounds! Enjoy the pictures below showing how much he has changed over the last 4 months. I also included a cute video of Gavin playing and a slideshow of recent pictures.

Our newborn




One Month




Two Months




Three Months




Four Months




Slideshow of pictures from the past month:


Cute video of Gavin playing with his rattle:

3 months

Today is Gavin's 3 month b-day. Here are some new pictures from the past few weeks. We had a fun weekend in Iowa and got to see lots of family. Gavin had fun 'playing' with his cousins Avrie and Will. Gavin is finally starting to catch up to Avrie in size and they were pretty cute together.

New pictures

Here are a few new pictures from the last 2 weeks



visiting Daddy for lunch at Crown Center




me and daddy


yea bath time!




"what a rough day! I'm exhausted."


"Mmm.. my hands taste good"