They grow up so fast

Liam has decided that he can read books to himself. He will say "I'm gonna read books" and go to his room and sit in his blue chair with a book. It is the cutest thing because you can hear him "reading" outloud to himself. He has such a good memory that he can remember lots of words and phrases that are from the books we read often. Some he even knows by heart and if you didn't know he was just reciting from memory you would think that he was actually reading! Yesterday, Dane told me that he walked into the living room and Liam was reading The Very Hungry Catapiller to Gavin.

It is fun to catch these moments when he doesn't know we are watching

For the last almost 8 months, Gavin has laid in his crib staring at this fish mobile above his crib. Last weekend, Dane and I lowered the level of Gavin's crib now that he is semi-mobile. I figured that since he will be pulling up soon, we should take off his mobile permanently as well. I set it on the floor while we were putting the crib back together and he scooted right over there and was enamored with this mobile. I guess to finally be able to touch something that you have spent a lot of time looking at would be a big deal. It was pretty funny to see his reaction.

These next two pictures are just of Gavin. Although his expressions show how animated he is these days, what you don't see is that Dane is playing hide and seek with him from the wall behind where Gavin is sitting. Dane would crawl around the doorway and Gavin would go nuts. Then as soon as Dane would be out of sight, Gavin would bend in half to look for him.

Found you Daddy!