Summer and Fall Adventures
Life sure never slows down in the Prebble house! 
The past few months have just flown by and have been jam packed with all sorts of new and fun things.
Gareth was quite the fish this summer and spent any free time paddling around the pool in his boat. He would’ve been the whole way under water if we had allowed it! Maybe someday, kiddo! <%popup(20051121-pool1.jpg|640|410|Happy Swimmer)%> | <%popup(20051121-pool2.jpg|640|425|Riding in the boat)%>
Gar decided to assert his independence a bit over the past months. He likes to do more by himself now and is trying to do all sorts of new things. One night he surpised us by letting us know he could put himself to bed. He started in the living room and rolled the entire way back the hall and into his bedroom. He used the wall to kick himself around and he crawled a bit through his doorway and then rolled to his bed. From there we just needed to lift him into bed. We were so impressed! <%popup(20051121-rolling.jpg|640|459|Heading back the hall)%>| <%popup(20051121-almosthere.jpg|640|425|And into the room he goes!)%>
Gareth had lots of fun at Keegan’s 4th birthday party this year. He chose to be in his walker for most of the party, and so he was able to run around like all of the other kids and take part in more of the festivities this year. It is a wonderful thing to watch Gareth interact with other kids and have fun in typical kid activities! Here he is <%popup(20051121-batman.jpg|362|640|enjoying the pin the bat on Batman game)%> and <%popup(20051121-scooter.jpg|640|435|riding in a cool scooter.)%>
It has become quite clear these days that Gareth is becoming a big boy. He’s very much into typical boy things now–superheros (check out those Halloween pictures!), basketball, playing video games with Trav, and big boy toys. Trav was delighted when Gareth decided that sword fighting was a fun activity. They play a fighting game video game (Gar uses a huge joystick and actually holds his own!) and they have fun with Gar’s plastic sword. <%popup(20051121-sword.jpg|415|640|The Prebble Boys Joust)%> I can’t believe my little boy is now into this stuff! Guess it had to happen sooner or later.