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!!!