My 1st Not Me! Monday!

Welcome to Not Me! Monday! This blog carnival was created by MckMama. You can head over to her blog to read what she and everyone else have not been doing this week.
This is my first NOT ME! MONDAY! I am trying it out and we will see how it goes! This is where I spill my guts about this past week and tell you things that I would never do, even though I did it :)
So here we go...
This past week when Gavin started to go pee like a big boy (standing up) I did not put fruit loops in the toilet so he could aim at them, and I certainly did not flush the toilet; 1, to save water and 2, so we wouldn't waste fruit loops for the next time around, Nope, Not Me!!

When I ran errand on Friday afternoon I definately did not leave all the windows open in the house so it rain in, nope, Not Me!!

This Sunday at Taryn and Reagan's 1st Birthday Party we did not leave with Gavin kicking and screaming because he was sad to leave, nope, Not Me!!

I hope you enjoyed my 1st Not Me! Monday!

Date Night

Last night David and I had a date night! It was well over due and frankly we needed it, doesn't every couple?! We went out to dinner and then to the movie 'The Proposal'. It was such a good movie, romantic and hilarious! I highly recommend it!

Gavin had a fun evening with Grammy and Papa last night. When leaving their house to come home we took some cucumbers that they picked from their garden. Gavin LOVES cucumbers, and usually eats a whole one by himself. Anyways Gavin had a cucumber in his hand the entire way home, and he even wanted to sleep with it last night. He didn't let go of that cucumber until this morning when he woke up from the thunder and lightning. Today we had Taryn and Reagan's 1st Birthday Party! It was alot of fun and I will post pictures of that later!

Nightly Prayers.

For about three months now (I know, it should have been sooner) we have been doing bedtime prayers with Gavin. We start out by thanking God for everything that he has given us, we go through every family member and close friends, we then do prayer reguests and after that we wrap it up with asking Gavin if he is thankful for anything else. Every night he usually has 2 or 3 extra things that he is thankful for. And these are all random things! One night he goes, "Dear God thanks you for Mike, he is my best friend." Very Random! He usually always says, "Dear God, Thank you for Lily." And Last night was a different and new one that he has never said before..."Dear God, Thank you for wipeout." I tried so hard not to laugh because we are trying to teach Gavin that prayer time is a serious time. It was so cute and he was so serious! He never seems to amaze me. I need to start writing down his 'personal' prayers and documenting them!

In other news...Until last week Gavin had no idea what a sleeping bag was. He loves his sleeping bag and I wanted to share a few pictures of him playing in it.Also, this week has been Shark Week on the Discovery Channel. I have to admit we are a little addicted to it! We have been catching a few episodes of stuff here and there and everytime we have time to watch it we are glued to the t.v. it is soo interesting!

Brain Quest

This past winter, right after Gavin's seconds birthday, we had gotten him Brain Quest. We started with My First Brain Quest ages 2-3 and then got Brain Quest for Threes ages 3-4. We would do them every now and then but not frequently just because Gavin was never that interested in them. Until now that is, he LOVES them! We fly through them at least twice a day! He has always enjoyed doing flash cards and stuff like that, but for the past week or so Brain Quest is all he wants to do! Fine by me :) I often find him trying to teach himself and I will hear, "which two are the same" or this morning he goes, "I'm doing my homework, mom" That was a new one I've never heard out of his mouth before! Shocker, but cute! Anyways...I highly recommend Brain Quest for little ones!

Our weekend in a nutshell!

The past couple of days have been very nice! Thursday Gavin and I met Kristin and the kids at the Mall. The kids played for a bit, we had lunch, and then went to surprise Mom VV at work!That evening David had a meeting in Middleton so Gavin and I tagged along and after David's meeting we took Gavin to Chuck E. Cheese's! We took a picture of the three of us in the booth again. We took on last year too, look at the difference in Gavin; 6/12/087/30/09 On Friday Gavin and I met Mom VV, Kristin and the kids at the Sun Prairie Pool (aquatic center). We had a great time and will definitely be going there more often!!!On Saturday David was supposed to work, but we were also suppose to get rain for most of Saturday so he didn't end up working!! Saturday morning my Aunt and Uncle stop by to visit and see the house. They also brought Gavin a special gift. Most of you know Gavin loves Franklin the Turtle, so my aunt found a ton of Franklin books and brought them down to him! He loves them! Saturday Afternoon we made a Sam's Club trip and then headed to Mom and Dad VV's for a quick visit. Later that evening we had Mike and Shanna over for dinner!

Today was a nice day too! We went out on the boat and then to Lily's soccer game! Gavin was in bed and sleeping before 7pm and David was sleeping before 8pm! Now I'm going to watch the news and go to bed!!