Cooking, Mowing, and Coloring with Gavin!

Here are some snaps of a typical day with Gavin and some of his favorite things. 

Cooking. Gavin helps us cook from the moment he wakes up. He helps Daddy make smoothie and egg for breakfast. He helps me make lunch, and then again dinner. He is involved with each step, and sometimes he just has his own pile of food to cook with that we (adults) don't eat...but he has no idea. Why don't we eat it? Do you like OJ on your eggs? Or peanut butter and watermelon toast? Haha he just LOVES to cook...and it does not stop at just stuff on the counter. Gavin knows how to work the blender, food processor, panini press, waffle maker, toaster oven, mixer, and the hand mixer. He could turn them on and off, and change the speeds/setting with his eyes closed. He uses all the kitchen utensils, and will help flip with the spatula, turn with the tongs, stir with spoons, and many many more. Of course, when he is helping us cook on the stove he is watched VERY carefully...same with knives, but yes, we let him use them! He starts preschool next week, and each week there is a "cooking mom and child"...we volunteered to bring and cook snack more than once!

Mowing. We all know Gavin loves to mow. He loves to watch others mowing, and he loves to help his Dad mow our lawn. I am still bummed that he was so sick in Cincy...because he had the chance to ride on the mower with Grandma...and if he was not feeling so bad, I know he would have LOVED it! He rides on his Dad's back, so a real mower was pretty cool...but at least he enjoyed watching it. It does not just stop with mowing. Any sort of edging, weeding or any yard work, Gavin likes. He knows how to edge with the hoe, and he will pull a weed when he spots one...anytime! We will be out playing in the back yard, and all of the sudden he will stop, pull a weed, and then tell me he's going to go throw it in the street. (Yard waste gets scooped up from a pile in the street:) Gavin notices edges everywhere. He notices when someone "needs to edge" and when he is walking on an edge. He loves edges. 

Last but not least, Coloring. Gavin has lots of arts and craft supplies, but markers he did not have yet. He had the kind that only show up on special paper, but he quickly realized that was not too much fun. So we got some real washable markers at Target, and he could not wait to try them out. A LOT more fun than crayons or pencils...and he made some pretty drawings. Most ended up on his legs and bottom of his feet:) He was SO proud when he showed me that the bottom of his feet were orange. Glad they are washable!