Vince just had his year and a half medical visit yesterday, I've been dreading it because I knew it would mean several vaccinations. Luckily Mike is the one who could take him to the appointment. We got our report of his height and weight and head circumference and I wanted to share the latest stats. Our boy is only in the 7th percentile for weight! I couldn't believe that number, but also know I shouldn't hold too much to those numbers. Still, 7th percentile?? I swear we're not starving the kid. He did manage to gain some more head circumference however, and is now in the 71st percentile for that. So all his 7th percentile weight must be from his head! He managed to grow a couple more inches as well, and is now in the 39th percentile at 31.1 inches long.
He received 4 vaccines yesterday and from Mike's report he was a complete champ about it. Only whimpering a bit when the MMR was given (which can given lots of stinging). He was given the "healthy kid stamp of approval" overall... and our provider wasn't really worried about his weight. He eats when he's hungry and we always offer good foods for him to choose from.
Other latest goings on with our little man is that he's getting so good at walking; he just cruises all over the house like the little biped that he is. The waddle that he'll strut when he's walking around will forever melt the hearts of his Mom and Dad; I watch him every day as he gains words and talents and am amazed at how much he's grown. I wonder where the time has gone, and feel like it was just yesterday that he was being fed solid food for the first time! Slow down already!
Last week I looked into 3 different daycare centers down near our house, thinking it was inevitable that we'll end up switching him. The choices were great and I loved one in particular, but when Mike and I talked it over, he came to the conclusion that he'd now miss Vince too much in the morning if we commuted on the train without him! I do admit it's a great time to sit with him and read books and just hang out until we all have to go our separate ways. It also cuts down on the total time he's away from us and in daycare. So.... we decided in the end to just leave him at the daycare he's at... and enjoy him while we can every day while we're on the train together.
This morning Mike drove into work, so he dropped me off at the train and I commuted in to work alone. I was a little excited to be able to just sit and read my book for the commute... not having to keep Vince from throwing his sippy cup all over the train car (I know. I'm supposed to be enjoying this time with Vince... but give me a break). As I was reading, and the train became more filled up with every stop.... this man sat down next to me. After a few minutes he looked at me all surprised and said "oh! is your boy sick today? I was looking around for the couple with the little boy and here you are right next to me!" I said "Hmm, are we that noticeable on the train?" he laughed and said that he's just happened to be in the same train car as us so many times that he feels like he's gotten to know us, and he went on to complement us on how good we are with Vince and how cute and well behaved he is. It was nice to hear.... I admit it was a little creepy at first but I quickly realized this guy was completely harmless; and it was a nice complement. I'm sure we put on a pretty good show for people in the morning while we try and keep Vince entertained during the trip. He'll play peek a boo with the other passengers, and anyone who even slightly acknowledges his existence he'll want to interact with..... many times offering to give them his half chewed, soggy cookie that he's been gnawing on. Luckily most people decline the offer ha ha!
This weekend we look forward to having Nancy and Nori and their dog Quincy come and visit (these are our friends that just got married two weekends ago!! yay!), and we'll all be going to a co-ed baby shower (no, not Nancy's haha!). We're also starting to pick out tile and materials to fix up our bathroom, thank God, because I get grossed out whenever I shower in that little stall. We'll see how long until we actually get the job done.
October 21, 2009
October 19, 2009
Did We Skip Fall?
Dear Mother Nature,
I know you meant well by giving us so much extra rain this summer, and you probably figured we wouldn't need all that Summer anyway (thanks for being so thoughtful)...... after all, water is a life giving necessity. But I have to think you are playing a cruel joke now by cutting our Fall as well! What was that snow storm all about this Sunday!? I don't want to see anymore of this skipping fall business... no more snow until December please!
yours,
Lisa
This weekend we actually stayed home. I know, total miracle. We managed to get more boxes of stuff unpacked; but for some reason I feel like there's less places to put all this stuff than there was in the condo. I really don't get it. We started putting all our pictures and trinkets up on the walls everywhere (Mike's Dad would love it- as it looks like a $%*dam museum again). We didn't account for Vince being able to pull stuff off the walls, so we may have issues with the African spears and swords being a little bit too low. We'll fix it before we find out.
The weather was pretty horrible on Sunday, (see above letter to Mother Nature). On the bright side however, it allowed me to use our new fireplace for the first time! I have been super excited about the fact that we have a fireplace and couldn't wait to begin using it to warm up our house. What better way to inaugurate our first use of the fireplace but when it's snowing outside. And it was great. I put in enough duraflame logs and wood to kick up a roaring flame and then pretty much sat in front of it until it completely died several hours later. Mike and I curled up next to the warm flames and could have slept there all night!
I hear Mike's Dad used to make such huge bonfire's in their fireplace that everyone had to leave the room because it was so hot. I say bring it on! I love the heat, hopefully Mike gained that talent from his Dad, but so far he hasn't proved his bonfire abilities in our fireplace.
We spent part of Sunday braving the bad weather to help celebrate our friends twin's 3rd birthday party. It was held in the barn of a farm north of Boston
I know you meant well by giving us so much extra rain this summer, and you probably figured we wouldn't need all that Summer anyway (thanks for being so thoughtful)...... after all, water is a life giving necessity. But I have to think you are playing a cruel joke now by cutting our Fall as well! What was that snow storm all about this Sunday!? I don't want to see anymore of this skipping fall business... no more snow until December please!
yours,
Lisa
This weekend we actually stayed home. I know, total miracle. We managed to get more boxes of stuff unpacked; but for some reason I feel like there's less places to put all this stuff than there was in the condo. I really don't get it. We started putting all our pictures and trinkets up on the walls everywhere (Mike's Dad would love it- as it looks like a $%*dam museum again). We didn't account for Vince being able to pull stuff off the walls, so we may have issues with the African spears and swords being a little bit too low. We'll fix it before we find out.
The weather was pretty horrible on Sunday, (see above letter to Mother Nature). On the bright side however, it allowed me to use our new fireplace for the first time! I have been super excited about the fact that we have a fireplace and couldn't wait to begin using it to warm up our house. What better way to inaugurate our first use of the fireplace but when it's snowing outside. And it was great. I put in enough duraflame logs and wood to kick up a roaring flame and then pretty much sat in front of it until it completely died several hours later. Mike and I curled up next to the warm flames and could have slept there all night!
I hear Mike's Dad used to make such huge bonfire's in their fireplace that everyone had to leave the room because it was so hot. I say bring it on! I love the heat, hopefully Mike gained that talent from his Dad, but so far he hasn't proved his bonfire abilities in our fireplace.
We spent part of Sunday braving the bad weather to help celebrate our friends twin's 3rd birthday party. It was held in the barn of a farm north of Boston
The 'Secret Garden' Theme
Megan and Natalie each got their own cake! Vince was confused when we sang happy birthday twice
Vince got to drive a John Deere Tractor all his own!
October 14, 2009
Weekend in New York
We had a great time this weekend in New York, attending our friends Nancy and Nori's beautiful wedding. The ceremony took place at the Old Stone House in Brooklyn, which was a convenient 1/2 hr from Mike's parents.... so we got to drop off Vince for a nice kid free night. This was our second night ever being away from Vince, thanks to the previous wedding a few weeks ago! It's nice sleeping without interruption through the night, but I must say that Vince has become much better at sleeping throughout the night without a peep.
The flower girl ALMOST made it all the way to where she needed to go, but turned around at the last minute and made a mad dash for mommy
Nori with his new Mother and Father-in-law
The flower girl ALMOST made it all the way to where she needed to go, but turned around at the last minute and made a mad dash for mommy
The beautiful Nancy makes her debut
Mike volunteered to be the cinematographer, so he pretty much had the best seat in the house
This wedding was a highly anticipated peace corps reunion party as much as it was a wedding. It was a union of two education groups, as Nancy was in my group and Nori was in the group that came a year after us. It brought together so many amazing people that I haven't seen in so long! We had a great time catching up at a Sunday Brunch in Prospect Park the next day. I REALLY wanted to have Vince along so I dragged Mike with me and drove back to his parents to pick Vince up, then drove all the way back so we could hang out at the park all day. It was a beautiful fall day.... and Vince practiced his walking. He's getting pretty good at it, I do love the waddling, I think it's the most adorable thing I've ever seen!
We walked over to the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens and enjoyed the flowers and plants
Here's some recent pictures of Vince from today. Mike was stuck at home with him because he puked all over himself just as they were pulling in to daycare. (kid puking = ticket out of daycare at least 24hrs) He was fine the rest of the day so Mike just got much needed chores around the house done.
This picture of Mike was taken by Vince! His first photograph!!
October 7, 2009
Multiple Posts Put Into One
Ok, I've totally been lagging on updating our blog. It's sort of turning into a chore that haunts me now.... hanging over my head as something I keep meaning to get to, but never do! Argh... Well, I'll try to get up to speed on what's been happening with us the last couple of weeks.
We've been in our new house about 6 weeks now, and we've been home for a total of 3 weekends during that time, 2 of which we've had people over to enjoy the pool before we had to close it. That being said, there's still boxes all over the place that need to be opened... with stuff that needs to be put away. I don't understand where all this stuff came from, and why I'm having problems finding a place to put it all away to. Our condo was so much smaller, and it seemed things all had their place. Now in our house, things are laid all over the floor and I can't figure out where it should go! Part of the problem is that we have no bookshelves right now, of which we had built in ones at our Condo... can't take those with us!
Here's a random picture of Vince chilling out on our scooter on a hot day in the garage.
We closed the pool a few weeks ago, and it was a sad day for me. It's been really cold though for a few weeks so guess it was time. I had one last swim when some friends came over, I had to jump in the pool from the diving board or else I wouldn't have done it. The pool was 66 degrees! I swear I almost went into respiratory arrest when I jumped in.... but it was very satisfying once I got back out ha ha! I jumped in a few more times and that was it for the season. Now it looks like a giant trampoline is in our backyard, waiting for some kid to jump up and down on it.
Here's a pic of Vince and Adam hanging out together again, while parents are in the freezing pool. I loved this shot of them looking down at something with the lighting the way it is.
One of the weekends we were home we had Mike's parents come for a visit. They were an amazing help to have around the house. They helped clean up our yard all weekend, working from the time they got to our house until the time they left (the yard needs major help). Mike's mom roped me into planting some flowers in the front yard, something I totally wouldn't have done if I didn't have someone motivating me to do it! But now I'm so glad because it's fun to have some color in the front yard. Mike spent most of that weekend cutting down a dead tree in our backyard. Boy was that a job!!
I think Mike's parents are good luck for getting little ones to start walking, because the weekend they were here Vince started walking further than he had ever before (he'd previously only taken a few steps)! And I hear that's what happened when they were visiting Mike's sister in Atlanta as well... Andrew started taking lots of steps! We caught a bit of Vince's first steps:
Last weekend we went up to North Conway New Hampshire to visit some friends that have a great little house right near the Cathedral Ledge area, which is a beautiful rock climbing area... . Saturday was horribly rainy but we kept busy by visiting a local brewery. Vince was napping the whole time, and one of the workers volunteered to take over strolling him all over the brewery so his parents could enjoy the tour and get some free beer!! He went to more places in that brewery than we did... of course he was passed out the whole time but that's ok.
Escaping a Black Bear in Downtown North Conway
The next couple of weekends are packed full also, as we'll head to New York for our last wedding of the year! Then the weekend after we'll be camping in the Berkshires, so be on the look out for some more of the Orange Monster
We've been in our new house about 6 weeks now, and we've been home for a total of 3 weekends during that time, 2 of which we've had people over to enjoy the pool before we had to close it. That being said, there's still boxes all over the place that need to be opened... with stuff that needs to be put away. I don't understand where all this stuff came from, and why I'm having problems finding a place to put it all away to. Our condo was so much smaller, and it seemed things all had their place. Now in our house, things are laid all over the floor and I can't figure out where it should go! Part of the problem is that we have no bookshelves right now, of which we had built in ones at our Condo... can't take those with us!
Here's a random picture of Vince chilling out on our scooter on a hot day in the garage.
We closed the pool a few weeks ago, and it was a sad day for me. It's been really cold though for a few weeks so guess it was time. I had one last swim when some friends came over, I had to jump in the pool from the diving board or else I wouldn't have done it. The pool was 66 degrees! I swear I almost went into respiratory arrest when I jumped in.... but it was very satisfying once I got back out ha ha! I jumped in a few more times and that was it for the season. Now it looks like a giant trampoline is in our backyard, waiting for some kid to jump up and down on it.
Here's a pic of Vince and Adam hanging out together again, while parents are in the freezing pool. I loved this shot of them looking down at something with the lighting the way it is.
One of the weekends we were home we had Mike's parents come for a visit. They were an amazing help to have around the house. They helped clean up our yard all weekend, working from the time they got to our house until the time they left (the yard needs major help). Mike's mom roped me into planting some flowers in the front yard, something I totally wouldn't have done if I didn't have someone motivating me to do it! But now I'm so glad because it's fun to have some color in the front yard. Mike spent most of that weekend cutting down a dead tree in our backyard. Boy was that a job!!
I think Mike's parents are good luck for getting little ones to start walking, because the weekend they were here Vince started walking further than he had ever before (he'd previously only taken a few steps)! And I hear that's what happened when they were visiting Mike's sister in Atlanta as well... Andrew started taking lots of steps! We caught a bit of Vince's first steps:
click here to see the video or click play above: Vince Walking
Maxie was in heaven as she was unable to be stopped from getting in bed with her Mom and Dad!
Last weekend we went up to North Conway New Hampshire to visit some friends that have a great little house right near the Cathedral Ledge area, which is a beautiful rock climbing area... . Saturday was horribly rainy but we kept busy by visiting a local brewery. Vince was napping the whole time, and one of the workers volunteered to take over strolling him all over the brewery so his parents could enjoy the tour and get some free beer!! He went to more places in that brewery than we did... of course he was passed out the whole time but that's ok.Some views at the top of Cathedral Ledge
Escaping a Black Bear in Downtown North Conway
The next couple of weekends are packed full also, as we'll head to New York for our last wedding of the year! Then the weekend after we'll be camping in the Berkshires, so be on the look out for some more of the Orange Monster
September 24, 2009
Pennsylvania Part 2
On to the next part of our PA trip! After we left Lewisburg, we moved on to Hershey... which proved to have a lot more to offer than just chocolate. Here are a few pictures of us visiting the Hershey Gardens.
Hershey also has a great little zoo which dedicates itself to showing only animals found in North America. We we are visiting the American Alligator
We took a trolley tour around Hershey, foolishly thinking it would be a good idea to do with a 14 month old. Well, Vince dropped a deuce in his diapers about 10 minutes into the tour... and there were no windows to "role down". He was also bouncing off the walls because we had given him his first taste of chocolate. That combined with him wanting to be in any other seat on the trolley other than the one he was in, made the 30 minute long tour seem like eternity. Luckily everyone on the trolley was cordial with us!! We high tailed off the bus as soon as it was over.
Vince got lost in the rose garden
He sprouted some wings on the way to the butterfly pavilion
Vince kept trying to grab the butterfly wings
A little part of the Garden dedicated to the book Wind in the Willows, Dad and son having a tea break
Resting on a toad stool
Hershey also has a great little zoo which dedicates itself to showing only animals found in North America. We we are visiting the American Alligator
A super close up view of the North American Black Bear!!
You can't go through Hershey, PA without seeing the Hershey kiss street lamps
We took a trolley tour around Hershey, foolishly thinking it would be a good idea to do with a 14 month old. Well, Vince dropped a deuce in his diapers about 10 minutes into the tour... and there were no windows to "role down". He was also bouncing off the walls because we had given him his first taste of chocolate. That combined with him wanting to be in any other seat on the trolley other than the one he was in, made the 30 minute long tour seem like eternity. Luckily everyone on the trolley was cordial with us!! We high tailed off the bus as soon as it was over.
Our one picture we took in Gettysburg, PA
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