Some Random Pictures and a Milestone

After the whole house buying fiasco, the rest of our weekend has been pretty anticlimactic; save a scene from our local park, and Vince starting to pick up his own food. We stayed home for Valentine's Day and watched a Netflix movie while eating left overs, how depressing is that! We were thinking over the fall through of the house, but we are keeping our hopes up. We did manage to go on some nice walks as it was sunny outside although very cold with the wind!

Here's a great picture of Vince completely bundled up for our walk. He's got his winter hat, winter jacket and pants, and he's wrapped in his bundle me.... with a blanket under there too! Needless to say, he fell asleep during the stroll while we shivered through the park and ran for the sunny parts and out of the shade. We had fun trying to help this guy retrieve his inter tube from out on this frozen swampy part of the park. He had the bright idea of tying a rope to his car jack... and then throw it out to the tube in hopes of getting it inside the tube. Then he could reel it in. Well that didn't happen. He threw the car jack, it missed the inter tube and crashed through the ice like an anchor. He couldn't pull it out, even when Mike and he both pulled on the string (why didn't I get pictures!). We all went looking for rocks to throw and break the ice and the next thing we knew he was walking out there, breaking through the ice, and getting knee deep in ice water! I watched him fall at least once. It was like a scene from dumb and dumber.... he ended up getting his car jack and inter tube back though, but had to run for the car to keep his legs and toes from frostbite.

Getting Ready to Brave the Cold

Then on Sunday I was commenting on how big Mike's feet are and how small Vince's are... and I decided to get a comparison shot for the record. Is it possible that Mike's feet were ever that small!?

Mismatched sizes

Then last but not least, I captured a little milestone of Vince's first attempts at using his pincer grasp to grab little rice puffs and feed himself! Something again, we as parents are excited to see our son doing... but may not be so entertaining for the rest of the world. Here is the video if you are one of those pincer grasp enthusiasts. We think it's pretty cool. I tried to do it with little pieces of avocado as well but that didn't turn out so well. He just squashed the avocado in his hand and proceeded to smear it over the high chair. We'll try it again in the future!

Vince Shows Off His Opposable Index Finger