Happy Halloween

This video captures the first time Vince says Happy Halloween! Or Happy ween! (you may have to play it twice to hear). He loves this video on the computer... it's a Jib Jab one... where you can upload pictures and it puts them on dancing characters. This one in particular, Vince calls.. "aaaawwhooooo", because of the howling. It has my dad, David, Warren, and me in the video. I tried to capture the video but it didn't turn out great on the screen. My mom makes these every few months of different occasions, like Christmas, etc.

Jessica's Wedding

My sister got married a couple weeks ago at The Tribute Golf Club in the Colony. It was a great affair. Everything was beautiful and perfect (with the exception of the shuttle driving stranding guests, but I digress). Jess had a beautiful dress, picked a fantastic wedding site with an outdoor ceremony and had awesome live entertainment. Vince was a little under the weather this day and was taking a nap while we were getting ready… I didn’t know whether or not to wake him or let him sleep… Jess had the brilliant idea of getting the babysitters she hired go to the room and take care of him… I was really nervous about Vince waking up with strangers there and how he would feel… but I had bigger things to worry about as the wedding drew near, so I they ended up watching V through the whole ceremony! Turned out to be one of the best decisions of the night…

After the ceremony, David went upstairs (we were staying there) and dressed him… I don’t think we got any good pictures of him all dressed up with his tie, but we did capture a few throughout the night… It was so funny when the music really started and Vince just found his way to the dance floor.. There was a reflection in the window of himself that I think he was trying to dance with which you can kind of see in one of the below pictures..

I really don’t have any pictures of myself… Jess will get the photographers ones soon, but here are some random pictures that were taken throughout the evening…

And here are some great shots from the rehearsal dinner… First, here is my grandma, “Memi” with my sisters.
Then there are pictures with all my girl cousins, we are a family of girls, and some aunts in the 2nd one…

Lastly, here’s a picture of some of Jess’s dear friends and me. Most of these girls went to Jess’s bachelorette party in Napa with us… they are some crazy folks!!

Random Sept Pics

Here are some random pictures from Sept since I didn't really bother to write a blog this past month!!!

Our little boy loves computers... he even has a handle on the mouse right!!!

Haha.. here he is on his friend's tricycle... notice how the actual seat of the tricycle is where his hands are... he's sitting on the back step! This was at a baby shower for our friend Norma who is having another baby boy... who's due on the exact due date of her first son 2 years ago... and the picture below he's trying to sneak in some cake without anyone seeing!

Here's a random park picture. He's doing great going up and down the slides...

CARS, CARS, CARS, he can drive these cars up and down the house... he's learned from his big cousin Warren... he is in love with Cars and Trains.. which he calls Coo Coo's. (which also happens to be the word for cookie monster and cookies!)...


The Video below is the picture above in action!!

Vince and David like to wrestle... boys will be boys I guess!!! and the picture below is of a toy that you balance on a stick, but Vince had his own idea of what to do with the toy...

Words, Hats, & Purses

Vince is learning & learning… he observes what we do and tries to do it. He is also a little parrot too… starting to repeat words (note to self, use only good language!). Only a few words stick and are added to his list of words he can say. But sometimes he surprises us and see’s something and just spits it out! He is really trying to put his sounds together. I have been meaning to jot down the words he can say… so I’ll try now… (dada, Leila [said ola], baba [I consider this a word], hello [said hewo], hi [he says to everyone], bye, eye, eyebrow [minus the r], hot, hat, baby – and probably a few more I can’t think of).. glad I went through that…

In the mornings he usually watches a little sesame street while I get ready for work. The one we have been watching lately has a contest to see who can wear more hats, Elmo or Rosita. I noticed last time we watched it that Vince went to get one of David’s hats and put it on. So this time I put a few hats at his feet while he was watching and he kept trying them on while watching…

Also lately when it’s time to go somewhere and I get my purse, Vince gets one too… I consider these blackmail pictures when he is older J. Well maybe not, but so far I have caught him with two different poses. I know he is only doing what I do, but it’s still quite funny and cute. My mom and I let him take one to Walmart one time!

Anyways, that’s the latest and greatest. He is also doing wonderful in his 3rd week at school… oh yeah… he can say school now too [said scoo]. He doesn’t cry when I drop him off. He eats everything they put in front of him (however, we do get reports of him leaving his veggies alone… ugggh). He does really well during nap time… just goes to his cot and sleeps for a couple hours. When I pick him up I stand back and watch him play until he sees me. So school is a big success. He goes mostly 4 days a week but this week he’s only going 3 since he was sick one. We are all so happy that this is working.

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?!?)