The World of Curtis Gibby – My Blog

Tonight when we were coming home from Grandma Gibby’s house, we were playing games made up by a 5-year-old. (Audrey said, “Let’s play a game called, ‘Let’s see if you can sing a song that you know’. How you play is, you sing a song that you know.”) When we got to the game called […]

Nathan has gotten the hang of several words recently.   He’s had “uh-oh” down pat for quite some time, but now he’s branching out: “Wa-wa” (water), “Na-na” (banana, his most-requested food), “Apo” (apple), “Da-da”, “Hi”, “Up”, “Anen” (at the end of prayers, with arms crossed nonetheless), and my favorite — “E-I-E-I-O”. He also really likes […]

At ten months, Nathan has been learning to stand on his own. At first, he didn’t trust himself on his feet.   As soon as he realized he was up alone, he’d immediately sit down — but it was a controlled sit.   So we would distract/bribe him with a treat or toy and he’d […]

Based on real events of the morning of Nov. 1, 2008 What’s this? I’m awake all of a sudden.   Judging by how dark it still is, probably about 4:30 in the morning.   So long as I’m up, the rest of the family might as well be.   Let’s start wailing to see if […]

My family’s always had an affinity for the film Young Frankenstein — we’d always get a laugh by saying “What knockers!   Oh, thank you!” or “Frau Blucher {horse whinny}”.   I even caught myself mentally referring to a kid dressed up like Frankenstein’s Monster as a “little zipper-neck” at our ward party the other […]

You’ve all been asking yourselves, “Where’s our 7 and a half month old update on Nathan Gibby?”   Right here, that’s where. Nathan has become a very busy baby.   He got into the commando scoot about a month ago, but now he’s full-on into crawling, and he’ll go anywhere in the room if you […]

This morning Sarah woke up at 2:15 with pretty strong contractions. She got me up soon after, and we called for Becca (her sister and doula) to come help with the labor. We looked out the window and saw that it had snowed quite a bit overnight, so the roads were pretty bad. Becca and […]

I got the chance to laugh at Sarah the other day while we were tossing around names for Baby Brother. (A few weeks ago, we were pretty much settled on Nathan, but we’ve since backed off it.) Our neighbors have a son named Stockton (after Utah Jazz great John Stockton), so Sarah said, “We could […]

We’ve got a big announcement for everyone! We’re happy to tell you that we’re expecting a little boy — at our ultrasound today the tech told us that Sarah’s probably due at the end of January 2008. It took them a while to officially determine the gender, but we’re pretty confident in the results — […]