Our good eater.

My Monday morning blog… almost forgot to do it! (making that extra effort!)

Anyways, I have been taking a lot of pictures lately from my phone of Vince since I always have my phone handy… not the best quality of pictures, but glad I have it to capture these moments!

Vince has been making us laugh so much lately! One of his latest things is saying “uh oh” for everything. He’ll pull a page out of a book and say “uh oh” or drop something on purpose and say “uh oh”. I keep telling him he can’t do things on purpose and say uh oh… but he doesn’t listen!!! I wish I had my camera or phone the other day in our restroom when he took off his shorts and put them on his head and walked around!

I didn’t get that picture… but I managed to get some other good ones this past week. Including this one where he stole my wrap! I can’t have a sandwich in front of him without him stealing it from me. He’s eating a lot more lately. Non-stop eating really. He runs around saying mama… meaning, GIVE ME FOOD and not mommy!!! He’ll go to the pantry and open it and just look around (similar to his mommy and daddy) and go to the refrigerator and try and open it. If anyone was around they would think we don’t feed him! Anyways… here he is eating my wrap and his mac & cheese.

And he is getting a lot better eating on his own. He LOVES cereal. It gives him a chance to practice eating on his own. However, he gets tired of eating it bit by bit and tries to sip the milk… but the way he does it is by sticking his face in the cereal… straight to the point. It makes for a dirty face (notice the cherrio in the 2nd pic on the forehead)!!

Lastly, Vince got a haircut last week…. I counted them up… and this is his 5th haircut!!! Wow… he’s only been around 19 months (today he is 19 months)… didn’t have a haircut for his first 6 months… which means he has one on average every 2.5 months. David usually takes him but I did this time. I was so surprised at how well he did… my little boy is growing up!

Vince the star student, superhero, & builder

Vince started school last week… tear L. Tear on both our parts. He’s still crying when I drop him off, yet today (day 5), he only cried for 1 minute after I left. I know because I wait by the door until he stops crying. Last week, the first couple days Vince cried so hard… and conned me into staying around and playing for awhile. But that did no good as he cried just as hard when I left. The first day it was 45 minutes straight of crying and me calling every couple hours to check on him. We have come along way since. Little crying and one call a day from me J. Maybe this week I’ll go one day where I don’t call. It was really hard last week to see him crying, knowing all he wanted was me. But I have to be the bigger person and do what’s right.. leave my baby to grow. However, I will say that although he doesn’t love school yet, he seems to be doing great once he calms down. He is socializing well with the other kids, eating well, and napping well. The eating part is surprising. At home he refuses almost everything we try and give him. There, he eats everything… sloppy joes, chicken alfredo, French toast! I’m so glad he’s getting introduced to more foods. As far as napping goes, I had to see for myself. One day during my lunch I went over there knowing it was nap time and Vince was asleep. I caught this pic. So precious! He sleeps on a cot with his blankie. I still can’t believe he goes to sleep right when he is supposed to and am glad he is doing well. It’s so hard to let go.



This past weekend we went to Austin for 2 things. 1. For fan appreciation day at UT

and 2. For a party for some of our friends birthdays.

We took Vince to both. He was such a sport hanging out at UT all day. We must have worn him out because he fell asleep on the way to the birthday party around 8pm and slept through it all. It was loud too! Although I like that he slept the whole time, I did kind of want him to wake up because we had him dressed up as Spiderman. Oh yeah, it was a Superhero and Villan party. I’m sad I didn’t get a picture of vince dressed up asleep.

When we got home, Vince and I were hanging around the house and I was reading a magazine, he was playing with toys. When I looked up, I saw this! I grabbed my phone real quick and caught him in action!

More blogs to come in the near future

I realize I’ve let my blog go…. Not writing about our family vacation to Hawaii, Vince’s first days of school… I know, these are important… if only for documenting our lives for my own purposes. I love rereading my blogs and thinking about how I was feeling at the time or what we were doing… if I don’t do this, how will I remember these moments? So I’ll try and make an effort going forward… it’s just so hard to find time between work and dealing with Vince and keeping up the household.

Sooooo.... more blogs to come in the near future... (well, maybe not so near, next week?!?)