Just another weekend

I ran 5 miles on Sat morning with Team in Training. Only 21.2 miles to go to run the San Diego Marathon in May… man that sounds scary. 5 wasn’t a cake walk. Anyways, I was tired when I came home so I followed Vince around while he explored the house and got the camera out. I was really trying to catch him do this new thing he’s been doing… when standing up… he puts his hands on the ground, followed by his head and looks through his legs upside down. I’ve tried before to get a picture of this and got as far as the picture below.



Instead of doing his little headstand, he decided to play in the ball crawl… followed by playing with the remote and changing channels… followed by removing all my pans from the cabinet.





On Sunday, I got my camera out to catch him messing with Leila’s food. He always tries to mess with her food and water. If he is carrying anything when he is in the laundry room, it ends up in Leila’s water. We usually close the laundry room door, but I was doing laundry, so he started messing with her food. It started out innocently enough…

He went on to get Leila’s food all over (first pic). I watched him carefully as I was doing laundry to ensure he didn’t eat any of it… but it was worth it to keep him busy… I got to fold a load, put a load in the dryer and one in the wash. Leila ended up cleaning up and I just had to wash V’s hands.

Vince is ONE!

So I started writing this blog this morning, and stopped quickly because I almost totally forgot about Vince’s 1 yr old appt. It was 10:47am and his appt was at 11! I was supposed to pick him up… but thankfully my mom ended up meeting me there.

His 1 yr old stats are:
30.3 inches - 75%
21 lbs – 25%

He is lean and mean. But he was sick last week and is still recovering, so I think his weight is lower than normal. He was 22.5 lbs last Weds at the Dr’s.

Anyways… Vince turned 1 this past Saturday!!!

We had a small party and invited all Vince’s little friends (well… he only met some of them that day… but they are still his friends :). He had a great time, pounding on the ice chest with his buddies.

He thought blowing the candle out was too easy, so he put it out with his hand, which made him sad.

But then we gave him ice, and he enjoyed that before digging into his cake.

Later, all the babies, bigger kids, and Vince took turns hitting two different piñatas.



And the night ended with some quality time spent with Vince’s buddy, Damien.



All in all, everyone had a great time. We were all tired after a full day and fell asleep before we got to catch Saturday Night Live. A few more pictures from the party are below.

Vince the Fish

Vince’s last swimming class was this last night. We have been taking swimming classes for almost 5 months now… since he was a little over 6 months old. We had not been to class since before Christmas, so we were a little worried that he would forget how to hold his breath, but he surprised us and didn’t miss a beat! He had such a good time last night. He was kicking and kicking when he was in his motor boat chasing balls.




He also held his breath for 10 seconds under water! He started at one second when we first started going and have been adding seconds ever since. Yesterday was the first time he did 10!





We will probably sign him up for more classes sometime in the next couple months. We want him to be really comfortable with the water since we have a pool at home.

Changing the subject… this past week we bought this neat soccer ball field blow up thing for Vince. We say it’s for his birthday party, but I think we just wanted to buy it. It came with 25 balls, but Vince loves, loves balls, so we made a trip to Toys-r-us Sunday morning and bought him 250 more! The balls were making his hair very staticy as you can tell in the picture.

In other Vince news... he found that if he puts things in his mouth, he can crawl easier.

New Kicks

Vince got his real first pair or walking shoes! It's a pre-birthday present from my mom....

I can tell the shoes are already helping support him walking.

Speaking of walking... he is getting more courage! You can see in the video below how he walks from thing to thing (after beating up Leila).

More Christmas

It’s been awhile… so much to catch up on… first, some pics we took at the house...

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!

Christmas fun

Countdown to Christmas is underway… it’s coming so fast! The thing I’m really looking forward to is time off! I’ve probably complained on here before, but it’s hard hard hard to work and keep a working/clean household. Thank goodness we don’t have anything planned tonight… that may give me enough time to finally get to our laundry! Isn’t it funny the things we look forward to.

Last night I got together with a few friends from work... David took Vince home early and I got to stay out past 10! On a work night too! We all had a good time. It's nice to visit with old friends...

Vince can walk!!

Vince can walk! He took a couple steps last week, but hadn't done anything since.... So last night I was at a meeting and David was video taping and got him taking 5 or 6 steps several times! He looks a little tipsy ;) .