Playtime at the Tomlinsons!

Gavin is having tons of fun playing around! He is sitting up almost on his own (just has a pillow behind him).

Yes-he has a fohawk!



I put him on his back on the mat, went to change the laundry, came back and found him here!



The weather has been nice enough to go for lots of walks! Gavin loves chewing on the buckle strap!




He takes his drum playing very seriously!


Trying out a frozen teething ring (he liked it better than it looks!!)





Gavin & Daddy -not sure if you can tell but they have matching fohawks! This is Andrew's hairstyle of choice for Gavin!


"Oh look-my shoes!" (and no-they didn't stay on!!!)



My first tractor ride with grandpa! We love John Deere!



Yay-daddy's home from work!!

The Latest

I realized that I pretty much only put up pictures of Gavin and talk about him every posting (which I know is all people really care about!) so I thought I'd update everyone on what's going on in mine and Andrew's lives!
I am having such a blast being a mom. It's so much fun! I love having Gavin with me all the time and taking him everywhere. He's my little buddy! I'm also plugging away at Arbonne. It's going great and I'm getting more and more busy with it. It's been the perfect thing to be able to build a business and work it around my family. I love helping others and seeing the products and company make a difference in people's lives! Between that and being a wife and a mother, my days are pretty full! I'm also working out at the ymca several times a week now (there's a beautiful brand new one 2 miles down the road!). It's been nice to get back in shape!
As for Andrew, he's working hard with his dad in construction. Their business has really been growing. God's really blessing them and providing! He's still on the waiting list for the Rochester city fire department and is in the process of joining the volunteer department in our town. That will be good because they pay for him to get his emt. There are several suburb areas that have payed departments here and they higher through the county who is offering the test in June. Andrew will be taking it and getting on that list too. We'd actually much rather be in a suburb area (and they also pay more). We'd appreciate prayer about that! It's looking like the city will not have any possibilities for openings for at least another year, so hopefully something will come about sooner with the county.
We have still not settled into a church. Which has been very hard because that means we still haven't gotten and group of friends. We have a few up here and of course our families but we're still searching for something even close to what we had in Jacksonville for church/friends. Though we will never replace you guys!
The weather is finally getting warmer (in the 60's and 70's) and the buds are coming out! It was a long winter and the sunshine and blue sky are feeling good! It's great to get out for walks with Gavin!
I guess that's about it for now! We'll keep the updates coming!

5 Months

Well Mr. Gavin has been quit the busy boy lately! Now that he's 5 months old he has so much more to do! He's not just eating grain cereals anymore, he now enjoys bananas and green beans as well (more to come!). He'll also reach for your cup to drink out of it ever since grandma taught him how!

Not so sure about bananas!



Gavin is also sitting up more easily (still not on his own unless he's in a chair). He seems so much bigger now that he sits in his little highchair and stroller without his car seat. Today we went for our first walk in the stroller like a big boy-he loved it! He insisted on leaning forward and sitting straight up rather than leaning back ! It was so cute!


He's becoming much more active on the floor- rolling more, scootching and kicking. He loves to tell story's and thinks mommy and daddy are hilarious!

Notice his spikey hair! It's like that all the time! So cute!

"My dad is stronger than your dad"!



And I can't forget to tell you he has two teeth! They have both been all the way through for a couple of weeks now. You can see them when he smiles sometimes. He also officially finally discovered his feet within the last week or and can't get enough of them!




That's about all the activity for now! I'm sure we'll have much more in the next couple of weeks!