Catching up

Gibson's first tooth started to appear last week. There wasn't enough there to take a picture of but now you can see it when he smiles.


He's also started to talk all the time, dada this and dada that. It's so cute. My favorite time of day is when he first wakes up in the morning and I can hear him talking to himself and playing in the crib. It's priceless!


We also took him to the zoo for the first time over the weekend. He seemed to enjoy it, although it's hard to know how much he sees from the stroller. Paul did pick him up a few times to see some of the gorillas and monkeys and it looked like he was following them with his eyes. I think that was the first time I'd been to the LR zoo and actually saw the majority of the animals. We even got to see this giant turtle with his head poking out, and he was letting people pet him on the forehead. It was so cool.

And we saw a silver-back gorilla playing chase with a baby gorilla, all the big cats were out playing and laying around, and the chimps were hanging out.

Gibson was most interested in the water features at the zoo though. We caught him checking out the running water features in the exhibits more than the animals. What can I say, he's a water baby (he even had on his Aquarius onesie that day)!

Gibson's 1st trip to the Beach

Well we successfully returned from our first beach trip with baby in tow. Gibson had so much fun playing in the sand, rinsing off with the water hose, and splashing around in the pool.

He even had his own kiddie pool to play in at the beach, thanks to Barret and Tricia! Surprisingly, he loved those sunglasses too. He never tried to pull them off.

He loves being wrapped up in towels. I think he enjoyed having the sand washed off more than he enjoyed playing in the sand.

We were able to get a few really nice pictures our last night there, right as the sun was setting so it wasn't too hot outside.

Paul might look a little funny in these pics because he was setting up the camera with a delayed flash and then running to get in the picture real fast.

But I think the family pics still turned out great!

(Just in case anyone is wondering why my arm looks so awkward and out of place, it's because Gibson spit up right on my boob and it seems like everytime Paul is taking a picture of me around the house, I've got spit up somewhere on my shirt. Such is the life of a mom...)

We had so much fun and we're glad we got to spend the week with our good friends, the Flaggs. Gibson and Brook played so well together, even though Brook's almost a year older.





We look forward to many more family vacations!!!