Grampa and Nana Barney came up to visit us and we went out to lunch at California Pizza Kitchen. We also got Gavins Nine month pictures taken. Gavin is very mobile! He's crawling great and can walk while holding my hands. He even pulls himself up into a standing position and can stand by himself for around 10 seconds. He does a few baby signs for milk or eat and has been talking a little more baby gibberish lately. He understands who Nate and I are but hasn't quite put together that I AM Mama instead of mama just being a word he occasionally says. He knows when he's not supposed to be doing something already, He'll crawl very quickly to the stairs put two hands on them and then look at me to see if it's ok or not. He gets this very guilty look on his face when i catch him about to pull the lamp down too. He's quite the problem solver. We have a little entertainment center and I put all the movies into tubs so he wouldn't pull each individual movie out, so he figured out how to pull out the drawer and then pull each movie out. He also is very fascinated by the dvd player and after pushing it back as much as we can, he now pulls the movie drawer out and stands on them to try and grope for the dvd machine. He's definitely going to keep me on my toes.

Here are some playtime pictures. Spring keeps teasing us up here in Utah, it will be a wonderful few days of sunshine and then more snow. So Gavin and I try to get out while we can. However, on days we can't go out, he discovered the washing machine and will just sit and stare at it while it goes through the cycles.

Well i've let things slack again. These are some pictures of when Gavin was 8 months. Tub Time with Daddy. Nate works in the evenings so it isn't very often Gavin gets a bath from Dad.