Supermoon and Underwater World

This past week was a little different....after Gavin's 2 hours at the daycare, he developed a rash and fever 2 days later. His pediatrician didn't think it was anything to be concerned about since the fever broke after one night.

Then a couple days later the rash changed a bit - instead of covering his whole body, like it was in the beginning, it faded in most areas except for his hands, legs, and feet. Also the spots got bigger and some had fluid in them. I sent pictures to his pediatrician and they think he has a mild form of hand, foot, mouth disease. Luckily he doesn't seem to have any sores in his mouth and he hasn't developed a fever again, but HFMD can last 1-3 weeks.

So instead of putting him in daycare again this week, I decided to take him out to see Underwater World which is an aquarium out in town. I figured he would enjoy getting out of the house and seeing something different! They have a nice walkway with the aquarium forming a tunnel over you, so you can watch the fish swim all over. Then you go upstairs and they have various tanks with a variety of sea life. Gavin seemed somewhat interested.

Checking out Moray Eels

And a big fish!

Seahorse statue

Stingray

Random Carabou sign in tank

Sea Turtle

Moon Jellyfish

I also got a couple pictures of the Supermoon early this morning. Just had my point and shoot camera handy though, so the pictures do not do it justice. In case you didn't get to see it, here's a link to some pictures and info: Supermoon

And for fun, here are a couple pictures of Gavin after enjoying a pasta dinner. He makes SUCH a huge mess but he also REALLY loves pasta!! In the first picture, you can kind of see his two bottom teeth!

So happy!

Ten Months!

Gavin hit ten months old on January 18th and I had a difficult time getting a picture of him with the 10 month sticker. All he wanted to do is chew on it! BTW Gavin now has two teeth (both on the bottom)! He never shows them when he smiles and I haven't been able to get a picture yet!! Here are a few pictures I managed to get:

Gavin has been pulling himself up to stand on anything he can now. Unfortunately he had a little incident with a stool a couple weeks ago. He ended up pulling the stool over on top of himself, so he hit his head on the tile floor and then the leg of the stool hit him in the forehead. Needless to say he was not happy about that! The stool is now out of reach in the laundry room so we don't have a repeat incident! The bruise is now healing but here's a pic of his war wound.

Other than that, Gavin has been continuing to explore new foods. Recently he has been eating rice cakes with hummus which he really likes. He also had his very first day at daycare this past week! I dropped him off for just two hours so he could enjoy playing with other kids his age and he was served lunch as well. According to the women in his class, he is a very good eater!! I guess he was the last kid in the high chair and still looking for food after they gave him the lunch serving of rice, BBQ chicken and apples. He has also been enjoying his Daddy Doll!

Cute pajamas!

In other news, we are delayed leaving Guam by about a month. Originally we were going to be flying out on April 1st but after the boat left, Carlton found out there was a good chance he would not be able to get back to Guam in time to leave by then. So he delayed us to make sure he is home in time so we will all fly back to the states together. Hopefully this also means he will be able to help out with some of the move!! The big pack out with the movers will still be handled by me I think, but he might be able to help with the dogs. We will see.

I decided to get my hairs cut a bit....something a little cooler and a little easier to deal with! Especially since Gavin really seems to enjoy grabbing my hair and holding on!

Christmas and Good-bye's

Before we left for our trip to Tokyo, Gavin had his 9 month check up and he is now 20 lbs 12 oz (56 percentile) and 29.5 inches long (88 percentile)! Carlton had some time off, we took Gavin to the playground for the first time and he got to swing! He really enjoyed it once he warmed up to it!

Since we were in Tokyo on Christmas Day, we decided to open our gifts when we got back home. Gavin got a Daddy doll since his Daddy is going on a fairly long deployment (for Gavin's age), Carlton got a nice cast iron pan, and I got a tablet!

We also took advantage of Carlton's time off to go see a Christmas light display in town. The Governor's mansion always does a Holiday light display, so we checked that out and got our picture taken with Santa!

Guam snow = soap bubbles

I am very glad we had some family time over Christmas because Carlton his now gone for his Winter/Spring underway. We won't be able to communicate with him while he is gone and we are not exactly sure when he is coming home. He is supposed to get off the boat at some point to return to Guam so we can head back to the states. The date of that is still up in the air though and I will be handling the household goods shipment and shipping the truck on my own - should be interesting. For now, Gavin will have his Daddy doll and some videos with Daddy reading books to him so that he remembers his Daddy while he is gone!

We were able to go to the pier and see Carlton off before he left. Here are a few pictures from our goodbye's. We will miss him!!!

Christmas in Tokyo - Day Three and heading home

Our last day in Tokyo we ventured out to see the Tokyo Tower which is supposed to be like a mini version of the Eiffel Tower. Unfortunately the upper observation deck (at 819 feet) was closed, so we didn't get the great views we were expecting. We got to see views from the middle observation deck (490 feet) though. The Tower itself is 1,092 feet high.

Mini shrine inside observation deck

See through window looking down

Base of tower

Family selfie!

Since we didn't get to see the views from the top of Tokyo Tower, we went to nearby Mori Tower (781 feet high). This one went up 52 floors and had great views! At the base of the building they had a giant spider sculpture so we had to get pictures!

See through window

Giant spider selfie!

Giant Spider

Tokyo Tower in the distance

Rainbow Bridge

Tokyo Skytree

Construction for Olympics??

Family selfie!

At the end of the observation deck, there was this cool Nano display!

There was also this funky photo op on the floor that we couldn't pass up!

TIRED!

Cloud gazing

The next morning we had to be up early to get on a bus for a 2 hour ride to the airport. The boys were tired!! Then on our plane, we discovered that the flight attendant who enjoyed Gavin's company on the way to Tokyo was accompanying us back to Guam! So she took Gavin to the back of the plane to visit with other crew members and he had a great time!!

Favorite flight attendant!

Checking out the galley

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