The day after my last post I finally got on the facebook bandwagon. Everyone is on there, so I have had a good time learning how to use it and read everyone’s updates. I downloaded the phone application and whenever I have downtime, I have been looking at everyone’s status updates… that is until I dropped my phone one last time and it froze on me. I knew I couldn’t drop it that much and not reap the consequences. I need to be more careful! I’ll get a new (refurbished) phone this afternoon so I can finally get back in touch with the world. Anyways, back to what’s been going on.
The Sunday before Christmas, my family and I got together for our annual tamale making party. The only difference this year was Vince was around. For about 2 hours I had to watch him and couldn’t join in the tamale making / talking. David finally came for Vince so I was able to participate. Later that night, all the boys joined our party in progress and we ate the tamales!! It was basically our family’s xmas, so we did presents after dinner and had a great time.
Tuesday we took off to San Diego to visit David’s brother Danny who is in the Navy and his family. David went to the Poinsettia bowl the night we got there and I went to the mall with Danny’s wife and kids. It was a bad bad night… I should have known better than to take Vince shopping after his Texas bedtime. The next few days were filled with lots and lots of food! Calories don’t count because it’s the holidays, right? We also spent some time in La Jolla, a little north of San Diego, where David’s aunt/uncle just finished building a beautiful house that overlooks the ocean. The house even had an elevator! It is really nice and we look forward to visiting them in the future.
Christmas morning was fun. It was nice to be with a family that got to open a bunch of gifts! It made me remember old times when I was younger with my sister’s and I opening gifts around the tree. David’s niece is 4 and got a pink Barbie jeep. It was the biggest present ever! You can see it in the picture above all wrapped up behind Vince. He loved it!! I guess we need to buy him a pink jeep …. j/k. Maybe he’ll get a man-ly jeep in the future. Vince knows that your supposed to move the wheel back and forth like your driving. It’s the cutest thing.
Oh… and Vince is walking much more! He took 18 steps while we were in San Diego. He is getting more and more courage. This past Monday he took 30 steps! Of course his steps are really small and he looks like Frankenstein when he is walking. Sometimes, he is going straight and veers off the path accidentally and starts walking somewhere else. We are very excited he is now walking… a little scared… but excited! Hmm… where can you buy those baby leashes?
When we got home, Vince opened a couple of presents from Santa. He really liked his little basketball game until we put batteries in it and it started making noise. He also really liked his new walker. He is walking with it really well!
