“I’ll Sing a Song”

Garvey is playing baseball in my living room against my wishes.

I said, very specifically, “Garvey, do NOT throw that ball around in the living room”

Garvey says, “Ok Mommy” but of course, continues to throw the ball.  Well, the ball ends up in a corner where he cannot reach it.

He tries everything. He climbs up along the wall unit to get a long backscratcher, in hopes he can use it to scoop it out of the corner.  He tries to lower himself into the corner, but its too small. He begs for my help, to no avail.

Then he says, “I’ll sing a song and make it come out!!”

So he very skillfully arranges his pedastal, grabs his make-believe guitar aka the back scratcher (he broke the other one), and decides to sing a Michael Jackson song. This time he chose “Remember the Time”

Of course, the ball didn’t come out, but it was a nice effort

Honing in on Talents

As Garvey grows, so develops his skills and talents.

Gymnastics class has definitely helped improve his strength, coordination, and confidence. He is more willing to try new things. For a long time, G seemed scared of EVERY thing. He didn’t want to go anywhere, be around people, etc. Now, he is eager and excited to do everything.

Music has become easily one of the centers of Garvey’s world. I’m not surprised because he comes from musically inclined parents.  What’s interesting is the speed at which he is developing this love and appreciation for music and his abilities.

Garvey is so in tune with instruments both how they sound and how they are played. He can pick up anything from his keyboard to his guitar, to make shift cymbals to a harmonica, and he knows just how to play it. Some of it he learned from Noggin, some from music videos, others seem to be a natural inclination.

When he turns four, my first order of business is to enroll him in musical lessons of some sort. Did I mention he sings too? I don’t want to be one of those mothers who over-schedules her child. But there are just some times, you have to really look at your child and figure out what he/she is really good at and go with it.

Music seems to be his calling. And who knows… maybe he will pick up where MJ left off

Christmas morning

Garvey has wanted a guitar all year long and so, he got a guitar

Opening his gift…

Enjoying his gift

The Holiday Season Has Officially Begun

Lots of wonderful things going on in Garvey Land these days.

It’s that time of year again and Garvey and his sister Janniyah are enjoying all of the fun that comes with being young and carefree.

Tree-Trimming

Garvey prepares to put ornament on tree

Garvey shows off his new favorite PJs

This is the beginning of a great season

Garvey “Reads”

I have never put much stock in those miracle gimmicks geared at making your kids smarter. I believe that children learn through every day experiences and picking up the things they see and hear.  I read to my son just about every day. If I don’t read to him, his father does or his babysitter does. He picks things up very quickly. And I don’t have to shell out tons of dollars.

 

Garvey: At The Close of Year 3

Since Garvey has been around, I’ve been making annual montages of him from over periods of time. This year is no different, it’s just late because I was without a home PC for a few months.  Better late than never… Here’s myPooh Bear

Halfway There!

Garvey’s gym class had their mid-semester “Show Day” where parents and friends could come out and participate and watch the kids and see what they’ve learned

Garvey makes his way over the bar

Garvey Gets a certificate for the halfway mark at Gym Class

The Entire Class

Garvey the MC (2 videos)

Garvey loves the Fresh Beat Band and thinks he is shout. In this video he is announcing himself in an imaginary show. In part 2, he encourages crowd participation.

Once again, it took me forever to grab the camera lol

Garvey Gets Reading Help From Big Sis

This is a crude video of Janniyah reading to Garvey. It took me too long to get the video going, so I only caught the second part. But its cute!

Garvey the 3 Year Old

I haven’t updated this in a while because my PC was on the fritz. But now it is fixed and we’re back up rolling.

Things have been going well for G.

We had his 3rd birthday party at Chuck E. Cheese, per his request. In true Garvey fashion, however, he was terrified of Chuck and it took him about an hour to warm up to being there. He tried everything to leave. But eventually, he had fun. Here are some pictures:

 

 

The cake came from Costco. We were going to do a big, expensive cake, but for what? LOL He loves Thomas the Tank Engine this year, so we focused on decorating with Thomas decor. I just took some stickers and put them on tooth pick lol

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Garvey tried his hand at Skee Ball. I think he did ok. He even got the ball to go up the ramp a bit and into the bottom area to score some points. This was the one game he really seemed to love.

 

Then he discovered the cars. If there is one thing he loves, it is cars. Of course, daddy had to man the pedals, but he was steering his butt off and doing a great job!

 

 

 

 

Finally, his cake time. G actually posed for this picture. I asked him to put his fork in the cake and hold it for a picture and he did. impressive lol

All in all it was a great time!