Little Underwood, Big Harte

A few weeks ago Gavin moved up in his gymnastics class! When Stefan and Gavin got home, Gav ran up to me and handed me this paper ... all proud and smiling!  He now goes in by himself with the other kids. There are about 8-10 of them with two teachers. It is pretty cute to watch. He still can't do the forward roll like the little girls (apparently the center of gravity is different), but he is so cute trying then flopping to the side. He will miss a month when we go to MI, but hopefully he will pick it right back up when we get back.  We also went picking muscadine grapes at our new fav fruit picking farm in AL by Libby and Shane's house. We picked like 12 oz in no time and then shared with everyone at Stefan's work. Pretty tasty!  Then we got to meet Henry Tyler Wilkins, Ashton and Tyler's baby! We threw them the Baby-Q in June so may remember the names. He's ever so tiny and precious.  Libby and Henry Gav, me, Libby, Henry and new mom ...

Its taken me awhile to get our Canadian travels documented on the blog - turns out after vacation there is always a lot to catch up on at work and in life! We had a fantastic trip! Not only did we get to see our immediate family (although short-lived with Michael and Katie), we visited with Great Grandpa Underwood, cousin John and met his wife and son Vanessa and Tyler, cousin David and met his wife Katie, cousin Patti and her family, Aunt Joey, cousins Liz and Ali, cousin Iain and Auntie Bette (who turns 98 this Nov!)! We did have some hard travel, mostly the flight to get there. Instead of arriving at a reasonable time with a toddler, we made it to our hotel at 10:30 p.m. and we were lucky to have gotten there then! Gavin was awake the whole time including the long wait at customs, the organization of our bags, terribly long wait at the rental car place, and the hour drive from the airport to the  hotel. I think he was just excited to see some of his people! Overall he did awes...