Gosh, it's been a while since I've updated. Now that Gavin is awake so much more during the day, it's harder to find time to type updates or do anything besides process the day's photo shoot!

The biggest news is that Gavin's Grandmommy was diagnosed with breast cancer two weeks ago. Her surgery yesterday was a success and the cancer was localized and didn't spread to the lymph nodes so her prognosis is excellent. Please continue to pray for her! She was finally able to visit last week and Gavin was more than happy to drool and smile for her (more on that later!). Now we just have to wait another month until Gavin takes his first plane trip to Raleigh to visit the rest of the Zillers and Matthewses. We are all excited for the trip and a one-layover plane trip with a three-month-old should be interesting ;).

Lately, I feel a little sad already packing away clothes that Gavin is growing out of and realizing that the daily routine has already changed so much since January. Our baby isn't a newborn anymore! That became very apparent today when he finally lost his cord stump. I think he was trying to go for a world record or something! Seeing all of the new things he's doing, though, makes me more excited for what lies ahead instead of missing what used to be.

Days go by now without the Moses basket getting any use. Gavin slept in it for hours every day during his first few weeks. Except for a few short cat naps, he is awake most of the day from 8:00 to 8:00 now. And he's not content to spend those waking hours just sitting around. It seems that Jeff is always moseying into the den where I work from home during the day with Gavin strapped to his chest facing forward in the Baby Bjorn. Gavin loves walking around, that's for sure! It's nice to know that he's able to see distances now and his eyes are maturing so he's not going cross-eyed all the time anymore!

Gavin's newest hobby is licking. He'll lick and slobber on anything that comes within inches of his mouth. During Gmommy's visit, he also fell in love with the activity bar on his bouncer. He would smile and stare at it in awe. Now, he's developed a fear of the monkey on the bar. He won't be able to take his eyes off the monkey and will start crying. It looks like he inherited his mom's strange fear of monkeys. :)

He's starting to show more interest in his activity gym although after a few minutes of play, he grows bored and wants to be walked around the apartment again. We try rolling him over on his tummy for the "tummy time" but he just gets frustrated. He still hasn't lifted his head while on his tummy, but he gets plenty of time strengthening his neck during the hours that he is held by us every day!

Gavin is also "talking" now and trying to laugh. He makes all sorts of babbles like he's trying to carry on a conversation and will "talk" more whenever we talk back to him. He even imitated Jeff a few days ago and they were sticking their tongues out at each other for a while. It was too cute. Gavin is also becoming quite a ham in front of the camera. Most days, I'll put the camera up to my eye and he'll immediately start grinning and smiling up a storm. Check out a new video to see a smiley photo shoot from last week when Gmommy was visiting (you'll have to register to see it since Jeff has all of the videos except for the most recent one locked down now). He gets so excited and starts pumping his legs up and down when that big black camera is out.

Just as cute as smiling is Gavin's pouty face. I have yet to get a good picture of it but Jeff has it on video. I feel guilty laughing at him whenever he pouts, but I can't help myself - it's so adorably funny!

Perhaps the only thing that I don't miss is being woken up by a crying Gavin at 3:00 AM! He's asleep in his crib by midnight and will sleep until at least 7:00 AM now so Jeff and I are sleeping quite well these days.

I'll try to post sooner next time. Gavin's two-month checkup is in a week so an update will definitely be posted by then.