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KEGG FamilySo much is happening up here...can't wait to share it with you all! May 27 Gavins 1st BirthdayTurns out the second child does get cheated out of a lot right off the bat :( I haven't had a chance to update pics or blog since January...back when Gavin was 9 months old. Sorry buddy. Little Gavin has hit the single digit marker - he turned 1 last week! We had a great little birthday party for him at home with lots of balloons, friends and family. Thanks Grammy and Mike for making the trek for the party. It goes without saying that we have our hands full now with a 1 and 2 year old. Gavin is close to walking, but has no problem climbing up the stairs when we forget to put up the gate (thankfully Big Brother...aka Gabe likes to tattletale already so we get a heads up really quick that Gavin is climbing up the stairs). Personality wise our two sons are day and night. Life will be interesting and fun with these two! Gavin is the jokester already and has a hilarious cheesy smile (see new pics) and Gabe is pretty much ready to write his college entrance paper...alright he can only write A, M, O, P, T and sometimes a Y...but you get the picture. Ahhhh...and Gabe is getting his bilingual skills down - sweet- Thanks Abuelos :) Ken is off enjoying his first guys trip and I'm doing so much home redecorating while he is gone; hope he doesn't trip over the new furniture! I'm still working (thankfully) and have gotten a chance to do a bit of traveling for work, which have actually been nice little vacations from diapers and bottles. I cut my hair super short - not loving it, but it wil grow out. I'm just happy I got the nerves to chop it all off once in my life. Hope you enjoy the pics...and as always drop us a line to let us know how you are doing. February 19 No fair...time is flying byGabe turned 2 last month and lil Gavin will be 9 months tomorrow. How can time be going by so quickly? Was I just not crying my eyeballs out to get out of maternity clothes (for the first time in 2 years) and now I'm lugging around two 20lbs+ kids up and down the stairs at home. Oh my! Gabe is such a sweet boy, I must admit. He is very tender hearted towards his brother - puts his smoothie (pacifier) in his mouth for him, gets him baby toys, and is even willing to try and pick up the car seat - with Gavin in it! - but says 'heavy, heavy'. At most his terrible twos have amounted to screaming like he is being abducted when we are in public, but thankfully that doesn't last too long. No body slamming on the floor (yet?). He is just precious. I can say that, he is my son. Then our lil tubby Gavin (said with only love) is doing really good. He has the backward moon crawl down pat, has the BEST belly laugh I've ever heard and is mesmerized by his big brother. I know you are not supposed to compare you kids as a parent, but there are almost no similar 'milestones achieved' by both of these brothers. What it took Gabe a year + to do, Gavin is steamrolling past them at about 4 months earlier. Like he already sprouted his first 2 teeth, is rolling/crawling around everyone and can sometimes share his brothers 18+ month clothes. Our little tubby will see many days in the Sears Husky dept. I love you Gavin...just don't read this when you are older :o) If you want to know how my parents are doing up in WA...well, let's just say I was wondering today if there is any chance I can ask them for a brother or sister now. Someone to help take the load off of me for awhile. What do they call this stage - the sandwich generation? Taking care of my own children and my parents (to a certain extent) is a bit overwhelming. But you know me...I will do it with a smile and a glass of wine in the other hand. If you read this and love me, just say a little prayer for me - I would appreciate it. Ken told me today we might be heading down to Cali in May for Grandpa Hernandezs' birthday. This could actually be very cool - Gabe and Gavin's great grandparents (all 4 of them) are in Cali and we can take once in a lifetime pics with them. Oh yea..and see all of you guys in CA! November 05 The boys are growing...growing....growing!We are almost to the six month mark with Gavin and Gabe is going to be 22 months - the time is flying by!!! Halloween (or as I like to refer to it as Fall Festival...Kenny hates that I say that) went great. Gabe was a magnificent looking Dinosaur and little Gavin was a tiger (geez...I wonder where I've seen that costume before??? oh yea...last year it was Gabes costume). Check out the Halloween pics! And if you check out the first album Gabe 10-12months, you'll see Gabe in the same Tiger costume last Halloween. Speaking of Gavin wearing his brothers clothes...it looks like Gavin may soon be giving Gabe HIS handme down clothes. What you ask??? Gavin is only 5+ months...how can he give Gabe clothes? Well, you see little g packs a punch in lbs - 18lbs at last check and his older brother is only at 25lbs. 7 lbs doesn't sound too bad...but when you figure that Gavin adds 2 lbs a month ~ well it may only take 3 more months for Gavin to catch up with his bro. Oh Geez :o) Gabe is coming out of his shy shell one step at a time. He hangs with his buddies Zach and Joe on Mondays, then is a big boy and goes to church for about 2 hours and plays with the kids (with no crying for mom or dad), and of course loves to spend time with his abuelos! He even had a slumber party at their house several weeks ago. OUr little boy is growing up! And next week, Ken and Gabe are heading to sunny AZ for several days to visit Grammy. How fun! Their first annual daddy and son trip. Mommy and Gavin are staying in WA for a little mommy and son bonding time :o) September 20 The magical 4 month milestone...Yes, I know...what happened to Gavin's 3rd month? - Here it is in a nutshell - wah, wah, poop, wah, wah, smile (finally!). And several many bottles too. So today is his official 4 month birthday!! And all of a sudden he has gotten a personality, is smiling, is cooing, and is more fun...even for Gabe! We have seen some 6-7 hour stretches of sleep in the last couple of weeks...not all in a row...but at least twice a week he sleeps through the night. And tonight I started him on a new sleep schedule to see if we can all get some more zzz's around this place. Wish us luck...we need it. And as I'm writing this I can tell you it's working...at least the last 15 minutes it has :o) KEGG family update ~ Ken turns thirty something this upcoming week, Gabe is 20 months and is still a sweetheart (mushed in with some silly tantrum outburts), Gavin is growing leap and bounds and has beautiful eyes and super chubby cheeks and I just got a huge haircut ~ super short and I love it! We took a gamble on a day trip to Friday HArbor a couple of Saturdays ago...and I say gamble because it was a 13 hour trip (7 hours RT on a boat and 5 on land - with no car...just our feet and a stroller). And thank you Jesus...we all did great and there were no meltdowns...not even from Ken! It was a beautiful trip and the sky and water were a perfect color blue. As boring as that sounds...that was our summer vacation. With a newborn and a young toddler...we just didn't have the energy to plan much else this summer. We did make it to the zoo and also Pike Place market. Super low key, huh? Oh well...there was a lot going on otherwise to keep us busy (work, my parents, my parents, my parents...j/k...kinda). A special KEGG shout out to Grammy Lorraine for coming up in August. I can't really say she was visiting, since the poor thing hardly left our house because she was helping watch the kids while I went down to LA for work for several days. Thank you thank you Lorraine! Well...there is probably lots more I can write about..but you get the gist of it. Kids, work, little sleep, messy house, starting to rain in Seattle, need to lose baby weight, still driving the minivan, etc. We're here...give us a call! July 29 We made it to 2 monthsThat's how we feel...it's been quite a long 8 weeks for us having the newborn scream his head off all day...and almost all night, but we are happy to say that God heard our prayers and calmed Gavin's screams. God and a swing were our miracle cures! We borrowed a swing from our friends (thanks Kangs!) and for 8 weeks we kept trying to put Gavin in the swing. Wah, wah, wah. So we would take him out after 2 minutes. In my sleep depreviated state I decided what the heck, let's buy a swing that sways from side to side instead of just front to back - something has to work so we can put this chunky monkey down for several minutes to get a break. And woulnd't you know it...the first 5 minutes in the side to side swing he fell asleep! I'm not kidding! And where is he right this minute, while I"m typing this??? In the swing - ASLEEP! Amazing..best $75 I will ever spend...make that the next best $75 I will spend after I spend it on birth control (ha!). Gavin blessed us not only with a lot less crying, but we have been getting good chunks of sleep at night and he is smiling and cooing. Super cute! I think Ken and I can now see the ray of hope with two kids. It's not going to be easy... Gabe is doing great. He found his outtie belly button and is proud to show it off! He is now a year and a half and is getting more and more independent. Thankfully no tantrums yet, but we have had to put into practice "time outs" on occassion. Ohh...I hear some crying ~ gotta run! |
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