Twenty-two months old and two months to two years old! Gavin is certainly keeping us our our toes and thoroughly entertained!

Gavin can still sit at his LEGO table and play for up to an hour. Nothing else keeps his attention that long besides reading!

Gavin likes to fake talk. We tell him to talk and he'll start yapping on and on with all sorts of syllables without putting together a single word. He finds himself quite amusing when he does this. He understands everything we tell him, can pronounce every vowel and letter but still won't say any words. I suppose he doesn't see the point of real talking yet!

He is making lots of connections between real objects and pictures in books. When he sees a picture of a cat, he'll point to Burt or Doozer if they're in the room. One book has a sand box so he always points to the back patio where his sand table sits. Any time he sees a monkey, he has to find Monkey and lay him right on the book over the picture! After pointing to any plane in a book, he always looks up and points at the ceiling.

Gavin says, "uh-oh!" whenever something falls on the floor (even when it's another customer dropping something at the supermarket!) or I say, "oops!" I've realized I'm more of a klutz that I originally thought since I hear "uh-oh" after all of my "oops!"

Gavin is a master hider when playing hide-and-seek. At the end of the day, he knows that certain sounds upstairs mean that Mommy is coming down to the living room so he hides from me with Daddy's help while I "try" to find him. While his hiding places may not actually hide him so well, he remains remarkably still and quiet while "hidden." His best hiding places to date are in a full laundry basket and under my desk behind the chair.

Gavin requires company briefly when falling asleep for his nap or for the night. Mommy or Daddy lay on the floor beside his crib for a minute or two while he settles down. Occasionally, he reaches a hand between the bars of the crib for a hand to hold. It's incredibly precious!

He loves to wear mittens.

Gavin loves any Berenstain Bear book right now.

Another favorite book is a DK Publishing's Finding Nemo book (we love DK Publishing books!). He likes Dory, Nemo, Marlin, Bruce, and all of the popular characters but his favorite, by far, is Pearl the little flapjack octopus. You know, the character that is in the movie for all of five minutes at the beginning as one of Nemo's new classmates who accidentally "inks"? Yep, she's his favorite. His face lights up and he giggles as he points to her in every picture on the page. Only after he points to every picture of Pearl will he let me start reading the words on the page!

Gavin was recently prescribed his first medication. He went to the doctor two weeks ago and was diagnosed with a sinus infection and minor ear infections (never ran a fever, though) so he was given amoxicillin. He loved it and eagerly looked forward to taking his medicine twice daily for the past ten days. He'd often say, "mmmm!" as it went down his throat! Figures that a kid who's as picky an eater as Gavin would actually love nasty medicine!

Nothing is more frightening in Gavin's world than the THX sound intro on some movies. It's gotten to the point where he starts wimpering whenever we insert a DVD into the player.

Gavin's new favorite snack is peanut butter and graham cracker sandwiches.