Random November pics

We've all had coughs and colds this month and have been laying low.  I have some random pictures to share...

The first one is Gavin after his swimming lesson. He decided to comb his hair (something he never does) and this is the result. Isn't he CUTE?!

This is a floor puzzle map of the world from Grandma Cordes, which he loves to put together and then lay on. Go figure! We do discuss geography while we do this puzzle. He knows exactly where Japan is (I had to look it up) and he also knows that all the land on Earth used to be one giant continent called Pangaea.

Blast From The Past

From May 2010:

At age 2.5, Gavin only said five words: Mama, Dada, go, up, and no.

But after he passed that age, he started talking in leaps and bounds. It's like the words were all in his head, but he wasn't going to try to say them until he finished learning how to climb the couch or drive his Cozy Coupe.

I was so excited I wrote all his words down (also, I needed to let the speech therapist know). I recently found the list. I won't list everything - I stopped keeping track at 177 words - but here are his first 50 words:

Mama

Dada

No

Up

Go

Stop (“op”)

Nana

Grandpa (“Buh-pa”)

Dirty ("dah-ta")

Bye bye (“buh-buh”)

Oh no

Bump

Oh gee

There

Moon

Slow

Bee

wow

Pop

Poop

Yum

Cow

Toot

Two

Down

Pee

Blue

Pink

Shoe

Four

Burp

Dark

Arm

Knee

Purple

Beep

Black

Gray

Red

Home

Flower

Green 

Out

Water 

White 

In

Key

Hole

Fly

Juice (“jutch”)

Halloween

This year for Halloween, Gavin went as Clint Eastwood from the Dollars Trilogy movies.

We went trick or treating in downtown Naperville, and thank goodness they had it on the Sunday before Halloween. The weather was PERFECT.

It was super crowded, but at least we weren't cold!

 

 Showing me a piece of candy:

On the actual day of Halloween, the weather was horrible. It was 36 degrees and really windy, and the wind chill was 25 degrees. Gavin chose to not to trick or treating! We still had a fun day, because I got to volunteer at his class Halloween party.  I was in charge of the "Spider Bozo Buckets" game in the hallway. (We tossed plastic spiders instead of balls.) It was a fun afternoon!