So That's How His Jammie's Got so Messy

This is what happens when he's learning to feed himself.

Gavin Meets Kiera

She's checking out his teeth & wondering when she's getting her very own.

Christmas Day

We opened presents at home, had a waffle breakfast, took a nap and a walk on the beach then dressed up and went to our friends, Dave & Donna's, for a wonderful Christmas feast!

Christmas Shopping in Union Square!

Joyce did her anual shopping trip to Union Square with her old friend Dave Santori. Dad & Gavin joined them for dinner and sight-seeing to get in the spirit of the season! The staff at the restaurant loved Gavin and toured him around the kitchen.

Tiffany and Gavin playing in Gary's backyard 

Joyce and Gavin walking on the beach

Merry Christmas from us!!!

We hope you've had a wonderful weekend 'cause we sure did. More pictures to come (we promise...) 

2005 Dicken's Fair

Well, we should have gotten more pictures of the day, but we were having too much fun to pull out the camera. But yesterday we went to the annual Christmas Dickens Fair and Gavin was a big hit - especially because he was wearing his Santa Hat and his "John-John" jacket.

Greetings from sunny New Hampshire

(It may be sunny, but it was also 9 degrees this morning when we left to fly home to California...)

Here is a picture of the west coast Turners and (most of) the east coast Turners visiting Gavin's grandmother's memorial site in Exeter, New Hampshire this last weekend. Saturday the 10th was the first year anniversary of the passing of Sharon Kay Polkinghorn Turner Buchanan-Parker, and although Gavin missed getting to meet her by two months, it was very important that he got to go back and meet his new cousin Charlie, visit his grandmother on the Turner side and experience butt-cold temperatures (and snow) for the first time.
"Better eccentric vagaries than commonplace dullness"

Here's some other pictures from the weekend, and more will come as I download them from the video camera:
Above are two of the most important reasons why we went to the east coast: Gavin's 11-year old cousin Avery and 3-month old cousin Charlie. Charlie is becoming quite the baby bungee bouncer as well, and we got to go to Avery's first-ever school basketball game.

We went Christmas tree hunting one day and Gavin got to wear his new one-piece down outfit. He was the puffy dough-boy, but he was warm and happy.
Note his young cousin Charlie in his mother's arms in the background, with either a broken neck or fast asleep (he was fast asleep of course - he is also known as Charliezzzzzz).
Gavin and Jackie get to know each other and become fast friends in the comfort of Aunt Lori's lap

Jacob and Gavin at the park

Here is a picture of our young man playing at the park with his best friend Jacob. Look at the maniacal grin - they're gonna be trouble! (Picture courtesy of Gavin's other best friend, Laura)

...because we haven't posted a good bathtub shot lately...

...or any shot actually... 

 

Happy Thanksgiving!

Hey, we hope you had a great Thanksgiving! We sure did. We all went up to Nevada City with Gavin's Uncle Brian and had a wonderful little family time.

It's about 2.5 hour drive up to the Sierra's, and here Gavin and JJ are getting ready for the drive (They both slept all the way up and almost all the way back)
We got some great hikes in. Here Joyce and Gavin are bringing home the tools from a burnpile we had on the back part of the property.
We visited with our neighbor's horses (and cats)

One of Gavin's favorite games is "throw me up in the air" ("and catch me"). Yeah, that lasted as long as Dad could keep his breath...

We forgot to take up Gavin's little mittens, so we had to put some adult size gloves on his little hands. As you might imagine, he stayed warm but looked kinda funny...

Here's a picture of Gavin and Dad,

and here's a good picture of Uncle Brian (Note to our single, unattached, female audience: the kid is not his, he's still available, yet he clearly has family-potential.....)

And on a potty note....., things progress well on the infant potty training scene - young Gavin is batting about a 50% average on his little toilet. He was entranced by the wood burning stove. So much so that it became an excellent place to set him down upon his thrown to contemplate his task at hand. (are we oversharing again?)

Baby Bungee Bouncer #2

Somehow, Gavin let's us know when he wants to bounce. And then when he gets in his bouncer, there is no stopping him. Here's a couple of video's, from front and back, of our little dancer:
http://www.youtube.com/?v=5B5G4iUrEKk
and
http://www.youtube.com/?v=ixRilY2A82E

Little boy in a box

Doesn't it always figure. Gavin gets a new present (in this case, it was a baby toilet) and all he wants to do is play with the packaging...