The Gavinator!!!!

Gavin
aka:  The Gavinator
aka:  Dennis the Menace
aka:  G-Baby
aka:  Gav
aka:  Gavy
aka:  Chen (Conor has called him this since we were in Ukraine and Gav would eat a million chenyas (cookies))

This boy is NON STOP!!!  Really!  I am having a hard time keeping up.  He is like a real human tornado just flying from room to room doing as much destruction as he can.  It is CRAZY!!!!  He has found his new freedom to be pretty fun for sure.  I have found it to be EXHAUSTING!!!  Unfortunately he finds him self hearing "no" about a million times a day and he doesn't fancy that word at all.  So a fit usually follows.  A throwing him self on the ground, kicking, throwing his arms and crying kind of fit.  The fit can last anywhere from 30 seconds to 15 minutes.  The good thing about the fit is that I can clean up his mess real quick to prepare for the next derby.

The above is a picture of  "A Gavin Fit" and Belle trying to figure out why he does it so often.

Okay - his SMILE!!!  That darn smile seems to give me serious memory loss.  Example:  I was changing Belle's diaper and Gav took the wipes (which I didn't see) and he went around the corner.  With in 2 minutes he had a full package of wipes all over the dining room.  When I found him and the gazillion wipes all over, I was furious but that little stinker just looked up at me with the evidence in hand and SMILED.  That's it - He Smiled.  And I was mooshy puddy!!!  Ugh!!!  Not Good!!!!  So then when he did it the second time just 2 hours later - Yep, I wasn't so mooshy puddy, I was more "Gav - that is naughty - you are going to time out".  He smiled at me, I closed my eyes and carried him to time-out.

 The Smile

 I am pretty certain Gav had some intense training in SMILING

The only health issue we have had with Gavin is H-pylori.  That's it!!!  AMAZING!!!

His heart is PERFECT!!!  Oh Thank GOD!!!!!  We have an appointment with the urologist tomorrow and then that's it.  We are done with appointments for Gav for awhile.  Woo Hoo!!!!

Gavin had his evaluation for school and therapy.  He qualified for PT, OT and Speech.  YAY!!!  He is actually going to start pre-school in April.  He will be in a class with 6 general education students and 6 children with varied special needs.

Gavin is a SPONGE - he is learning so very much so very quick.  We (Dave & I ) strongly believe that he will benefit greatly attending this program.  He is already saying 9 English words so I can't even imagine how much he will be talking after attending the program.  So excited!!!!!

"Where is your nose Gav?" 

 "Good Boy"

We put Gavin on the potty yesterday for the first time after he woke up.  He sat on the potty so well - I was so proud of him.  No results but lots of gas as if he absolutely knew what he was suppose to do.  So today we put him on again after he woke up and GUESS WHAT?????  He Pooped!!!!!!  OH MY!!!!!!  Can you even believe it????????  Only twice on the potty and he did it!!!!!  We were all jumping up and down screaming!!!!  Not him of course - he was still on the potty.   WOO HOO - GO GAVIN!!!!!!!

We are BLESSED beyond belief to have this super crazy little man in our lives!!!  We are so so so so GRATEFUL that GOD chose us to bring him home to be a part of our FAMILY!!!!  We Love him endlessly and can not even begin to imagine the AMAZING things that Sir Gavin will CONQUER AND ACCOMPLISH!!!  I just hope our house can hold up!!!