My Little Tigger

Gaven was born in the year of Tiger so it’s only fitting that he is Tigger for Halloween.

Actually, we’ve been wanting to dress him in a Nemo costume. We couldn’t find the costume at the store anymore, I think it was discontinued. Then, Janet worked very hard to get him the costume from her work after asking around at work. It was the only one that they have and it is an 18 month size. It is a tad bit big on him so we just kept it for next year. Fortunately for us, we were able to snatch up the Tigger costume from Babies R Us at clearance for a mere $8+.

We realized we didn’t have a pumpkin for Gaven’s first Halloween. We have been so busy for the past few weekends that we didn’t have time to carve pumpkins. So I ran to Nancys Ranch after work to pick Gaven a pumpkin. We decided to just carve 1 pumpkin since we would not have time to carve 3 pumpkins, one for each of us. Also, to save time, instead of doing a fancy schmancy design, we just picked his little hand prints as the design. I got this idea from one of the blogs that I follow.

It only took John 15 min to carve it. I think it took us longer to have him sit still with his hands on the pumpkin. Definitely a 2-person job. We could have easily carved 3 pumpkins that night… but oh well, next year we will be more prepared. Gaven loves his pumpkin!

Here’s Gaven sitting on our doorstep with his pumpkin. The other 2 are fake lighted pumpkins that we got from Big Lots.

We set up a simple Halloween décor for our house.

Next year, Gaven will be able to go trick or treating!

Pumpkin Patch at Lombardi’s Ranch

I’ve said before, holidays are much more meaningful now that we have a kid. I was so looking forward to Halloween and it instantly became one of my favorite holidays. 1) I can dress Gaven up 2) I love kids at the pumpkin patch! They look so darn adorable surrounded by a sea of pumpkins.

We took Gaven to a pumpkin patch this past weekend. He had a blast… I think? Or we did?

His bib kind of ruined the pictures above. Regardless, he still looks adorable.

We gave him a little pumpkin to hold and he put it in his mouth! John quickly pulled it away from him.

Aww… my little man.

Finally, a family pic!

9 month update

Gaven’s 9 months milestones… here are a few I could think of.

1) BYE- Gaven started waving BYE! He first did it with Janet. She moved his hand in waving motion while saying bye. So when she said bye, Gaven copied. He waved his hands. He doesn’t do it on command Only when he feels like it.

2) Door- Gaven knows how to open the door!

3) Kisses- He knows to give kisses too. Actually, I wouldn’t call it kisses exactly. He puts his mouth against your cheek with his mouth open. So you are covered in all the slobber and drool… eekkk! But it’s still wonderful. He only does it when he is in a very very good mood. Most of the time, he turns his face away. Feel so rejected….

4) Talking - Just a a few days ago, he started saying words like “pa pa pa pa”… constantly. I wouldn’t call it his first words yet because it doesn’t seem purposeful yet. He blabbers all day long. However, I see this as an improvement to his usual high pitch scream. I can also tell that he tries to mimic our word sometimes. The other day during dinner, I said to him “mum mum” while doing sign language of eating. He studied my lips and he said “pum pum pum…..”. So seems like he is able to say words that start with “P”.

5) Drinking- He is able to hold his own bottle now. I think he learned this from Penny. I was in for a surprise when one night while feeding him, he held both hands up and took over. However, he still prefers me holding the bottle for him. He will only do it if I make him.

My little munchkin getting into mischief….

I can’t think of anything else? He made more progress in the speech development side but I will leave that to his 10 month update since he is past 9 months and it should be listed as his 10 month update.

Garbage Disposal

Our garbage disposal failed on us couple weeks ago. We noticed significant leaking from under the sink cabinets. After some investigation, it was determined the garbage disposal was the culprit.

We did some research over the internet and decided to go with this. We initially couldn’t decide if we should go with this. After reading some reviews, we decided to get the WasteKing. Price is significantly lower and I love ordering from amazon. Free 2 day shipping and no tax?! I’m in!

Here’s our old disposal… looking pretty bad…

After about an hour of work, the new disposal was installed. John said this is probably the easiest project he has done so far…. probably cause the other 2 projects that he did turned into months long projects. I still need to blog about those… coming up soon, I promise!

The old disposal had been leaking for awhile before we noticed it. The bottom shelf was wet for a long time I presume. Look at the sunken in board! UGLY! John is talking about cutting out the board and replacing with a new one…. when he finds time.

Holidays!

Holidays mean much more when you have a kid. I can't wait to celebrate little munchkins first Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas!