Gavin likes spinning his wheels . . .
The boys are appraoching 14 months old and are BUSY. Gavin is on fire with his walking. He has begun to stand up by himself without using anything for leverage. It usually takes a few tries (and he's usually whistling while he does it - really) but he is able to steady himself and then off he goes!
Brady must have decided that even though he was last to sit up by himself, crawl and pull up, he was NOT going to be shown up by Aidan and Gavin AGAIN. It's like his light went on this week and he is a walking FOOL. Where Gavin would steady himself and slowly take one step after another in a very deliberate way, Brady has adopted a different approach. He will steady himself, and then make fists out of his hands as he laughs LIKE CRAZY at what he is about to do. He will then walk for 8-10 steps giggling and laughing the whole time. You can't help but laugh - it's just too sweet! Aidan is happy holding a finger as he toddles about. He has begun to get more brave himself and you can see him deciding if he will try to walk to the coffee table from the loveseat, or crawl. Most of the time he will walk toward a soft object (i.e. coffee table to loveseat) and crawl toward a harder object (loveseat to coffee table). Smart kid. He is our climber though. As you can see from the photo below, it is the end of the swing. Curt was showering and I left the boys in the living room as I went in the kitchen for approximately 2 minutes. I come back to find Aidan having climbed into the swing and standing upright. I HAD to take the photo before I got him down. Is that awful of me??? To compromise his safety for a funny photo?
The beginning of the end of the swing . . . Aidan climbs . . .Tonight after dinner the boys were playing together. It was so fun to watch i didn't even bother to get the video camera. Curt had tossed a blanket over Aidan's head after he climbed on the couch, then anotehr on Brady as Gavin and Brady played peek-a-boo with each other burrowing their heads into blankets and then popping up and laughing at each other. Aidan then threw all of the burb cloths off of the back of the couch one by one, because, hey, that's pretty fun to see them fly!
This morning we came into their room to see that Brady had thrown ALL of the items in his crib onto the floor. His blanket, his small blanket i made for him, his stuffed dog, his stuffed giraffe, his snuggle frog. . . and his pants. Yes, he had taken off his PJ pants and tossed them on the floor. I SO wish we had a camera in there to have seen that little display. Tess reports that during nap time she will peek in and see Gavin and Brady holding hands and laughing (their cribs are closest) and talking while Aidan lays in his cribs and moans about wanting more sleep. We moved Gavin out for about a week since he likes performing for his brothers so much (i.e. waking them up) but he was also beginning to be upset he was by himself. Maybe we will move Aidan this weekend so the kid can get some more sleep since Brady and Gavin don't seem to be bothered by earlier wake up calls . . .
