Time to Par-tay like a 3 yr old!!!

We had a fun Saturday making our way to two different 3 year old birthday parties that were scheduled at the same time! There was a bad storm going on when we arrived at our first birthday party so I forgot our camera in the car while running from the car to the house. But Vince had a blast at party #1. If you ask him what he did, he says, "eat cake"! And he wasn't kidding... the second they brought the cake out, he ran to it, and stuck his finger in it to taste the icing. Bad manners! You would think his mom would have taught him better... lol... but we did get mad of course but he still got to eat a piece.


We had to cut that party a little short after cake and presents to dash 20 miles to another party. We were just in time to hit the pinata. Well, Vince was, I sat and watched! After the pinata was... more cake! But I managed to stuff a hotdog in Vince's mouth before he got to eat cake #2.


Next was some fun activities... a potato sack race where David helped Vince be a great hopper... (but I got a good picture out of it)...

Then there was musical hula hoops, like musical chairs but you have to jump in the hula hoop when the music stops. Vince got the hang of it real quick.

Then he had fun just playing with the hoop!!

All in all it was a fun fun day. I can't believe our baby will be 3 soon too!!!

Vince - still the fish

Today at swim class, I was a good mom and made sure to bring my camera and video camera to try and capture Vince's progress. But I wasn't a great mom because I didn't think to check either for batteries :(. The video camera had no batteries... BUT, I did have a few minutes of battery to take some pictures before the camera went out too...

Vince is 33 months old next week. Today I realized he's been in swim classes about half his life... 16 months! It's the little extracurricular activity that's been a constant for us and doubles as learning a safety skill. Check out the First swim post I ever posted about his swim classes in January 2009, he was one year old...

Recently, Vince's teacher has been concentrating on letting him swim and then roll over on his back and float as well as jumping in and turning to grab on to the wall. Two things I would really love for him to learn. Here are some pictures of those activities.

Next class maybe I'll remember a charged video camera so I can finally post a video of him actually swimming!!

It's a girl!

I’ve been m.i.a. from this blog lately. Sometimes I look at some of my friends blogs, see they haven’t updated it either, then don’t feel so bad :)

A lot has happened recently. I am almost 4 months pregnant and we just found out Vince is going to have a little sister! I think he half way gets what’s going on. He knows there is a baby in my belly. At first he used to tell me there was one in his belly too, but I think he’s over that. Sometimes he wants to get in my belly and join the baby… he takes a head-dive to my belly and lifts my shirt before I can stop him.

Now that we know we are having a little girl, we are so excited to buy girlie things! We visited Baby’s R Us last night and it was so fun to see David excited over pink things. Everything is just so darn cute. I’ll admit, having a boy would have been a whole lot cheaper… we wouldn’t have to buy anything but disposable items…and we would of course been happy with a boy, two little boys running around, becoming best friends, sounded like a delight… but we wanted a girl and are blessed that we get to learn what the other sex is like really soon.

I feel a little bad I haven’t documented this pregnancy like I did Vince’s so I’m going to throw in posts here and there that are just about how this pregnancy is going along so I can have them for her.

I have no idea how to take care of a baby girl, but we’ll learn. Heck, when Vince was born I didn’t even know how to take care of a baby. At least we have some experience now. I know it will be hard being a working mom with 2 little ones, but I know it will make us all the more happy sharing our lives with one more soul. Right now we get a kick out of watching Vince grow up each and everyday… he says and does the darndest things while looking cute in the process… he gives us so much joy and I just can’t wait to have that joy times two. See you soon little mama.