Locomotion

Lately, Vince has been learning new ways to get around. He started walking with support last week, and he gets a huge kick out of it. Here's a video from Memorial Day in the park:

Notice that about 2/3 of the way through the video, he starts prancing like a show horse! We're not sure where he learned it from, but he sure loves to do it.

After a couple of months of doing the commando crawl, Vince started to crawl on all fours today. We're not sure what spurred this, since we were convinced that he would just start walking. Here's a video of him crawling that we took today:

Here are a couple more photos from Memorial Day that we really like:

More of Vince's Bad Behavior

Our friend Tim captured this on video. We're not sure where he learned it from!

On another note, Vince is teething again. He has four more teeth coming in, his first set of molars. From what I've heard, molars are the most painful. They're not coming through the surface yet, but we can feel them. If the last two nights are any indication, it's not going to be fun.

The Last Couple Weeks

Right now I'm sitting on the couch with the computer in my lap, while Vince is emptying out everything from under the television cabinets: CD's, DVD's, records, you name it..... it's all being thrown across the floor into a random mess (hey kid, have a little respect for Bob Marley!). The most upsetting part of it is seeing all the giant balls of dust and cat hair that are getting dislodged and taking flight all over the living room.

I haven't had much time the last couple of weeks to update the blog, and I suppose I see proof right now of NEVER having time to keep the living room free from dust and cat hair. Oh well, now that I have a minute why don't I just forget about the dust and update the blog, it's more fun than getting rid of dust that will just come back anyway!!

ok.... that was a couple of days ago, ran out of time... now I'm back... gotta finish this post!

quick side note before moving on: Mike had the great idea of securing a piece of plexiglass in front of the TV cabinet to keep Vince's paws off all the tempting materials. It's been endless laughter watching him try to figure out why he can see all the stuff he has been able to grab at in the past, but now cannot get to because of this clear plastic in front of it!

PART 1: MOTHER'S DAY

My first Mother's Day was so amazing and wonderful!! After being able to sleep in, I woke up to find Vince in the kitchen directing Mike to make me a bagel with salmon and cream cheese, complete with capers and red onion (my favorite!). I didn't have to lift a finger, my two men took care of everything. Then we went to the Arboretum in Jamaica Plain where they have Lilacs in bloom this time of year. It was a gorgeous and warm sunny day, so we headed out early and spent time walking around and smelling the wonderful aroma of Lilacs... while trying to get Vince to smell their scent as well. He mainly wanted to pull off the flowers though (I think he wanted to give me one for Mother's Day). I remembered to bring lots of baby sunblock and lather Vince up so he'd be protected from sunburn, but of course I completely avoided protecting myself... and ended up with a pink face and neck by the end of the day. Here's a few pictures of the bright and sunny day:






After we were done exploring the Arboretum, I went to my massage appointment that Vince (and Mike... thanks baby!) had organized for me, my boys know how much I LOVE massages. We ended the day by going to my favorite local place to get Mexican food and margarita's. Wow, I could get used to this Mother's Day thing once a year!

PART 2: AARON'S FIRST BIRTHDAY!

happy birthday little man!

Vince getting a little crazy at the party, all the babies were letting loose

No, there was not any beer left in the bottle in case you're wondering!

Here he is, sitting at the big kid table! Vince was happy to discover he could push all his watermelon down the black hole in the middle of the table

Fun on the swings

Aaron has lots of super fun toys, take this tunnel for instance... oops, this is actually for the dogs to practice their training for obstacle courses! Oh well, the kids loved it. Maybe we'll put Vince in for a few competitions against the dogs

HAPPY NURSES DAY!

Don't forget to hug your nurse (or nurse practitioner) today!

Practicing Word Sounds

Vince is a very talkative baby. He's always babbling and practicing different word sounds, consonants, etc., and goes all out quite often with screaming at the top of his lungs just to hear himself do it. The yelling mainly happens when he's in the tub and is usually accompanied by vigorous hand movements through the water and in the air, ended by a long giggle. Of course we as parents, again, think this is the greatest thing we've ever seen or heard.

Well, not too many days ago Vince started putting some of his word sounds and consonants together and he came up with something a little too close to sounding like the word: bu@lsh%t! And NO, I didn't say it in front of him... sheesh, what do you think I am? He started out practicing bu bu, bu and then sh sh sh... and then before you know it, he added the t at the end... (again, only something that a genius baby could figure out) I tried to get a little clip of it but not sure if you'll be able to hear it (or even think it sounds like what we think it sounds like...)



I've since been working with him to turn that word into book, or bottle, or something a little more useful (it's actually morphing into Buddha)... but it was hard at first because every time he would say it we would start cracking up! That's not a good response if you don't want a kid to do something....

I'm afraid this blip about Vince cussing is the best I can come up with in terms of updating the blog about Vince and goings on. We did get an offer accepted on another house (it has a pool!). We're still in the process of inspecting it, found some mold that needs to be taken care of. I'm definitely not has excited about this place as I was about the other one. I don't like the layout that much, and it certainly needs A LOT of cosmetic help. But we'll see.