Thoughts on life, love and faith by Plasticmind.

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As a birthday present for my mom (and myself), we flew Jessica (the other one) and my beautiful little nephew Gabriel up from Kentucky. He's getting so big, I hardly recognized him--those huge eyes haven't changed though! For my birthday they bought me a precious t-shirt with Gabe's picture and "I Love Uncle Jesse" on the front, by far the best present I've gotten so far.

And in true keeping with the Gardner form, he's a nerd. Upon first arriving at the house, he buried his head in mom's shoulder. I broke the ice by handing him a cell phone, which he immediately snatched from me, opened and began scrolling through my phone book (he's eighteen months). At Christmas he even stole Deannie's phone and dialed one of her college friends. I tried handing him my old stuffed bear; he went for the laptop. The only thing more exciting than his cell phone was my camcorder.

He's talking now, barely. His intonation is that of a charismatic preacher, but I can only understand one in one hundred words. He babbles on and on, with sweeping gestures and earnest facial expressions, and every now and again I hear my name. Either that or the word 'disease', can't quite tell.

Anyway, on to the good stuff. For all of my lazy readers who come only for the pictures, songs and videos, I put together a fun little snippet of this, the cutest baby ever. Enjoy!

Download the GabeDance Video