2/16/08

Trip to Art Museum

Very excited to get out of the house






Enjoying his sippy of milk w/ Mom-Mom

Shopping Trip with Mom-mom

Crawling with Mom-Mom in the mall play area



Going through tunnels






Vinny having fun


Mom-Mom having fun


Playing with Dad later that night

Playing with his new dumptruck

Yesterday, in the mail we received a dumptruck from Vinny's Grandmom Kelly. It was love at first site. He sits and takes all the legos out, puts them back in, and then flips the truck over to spill them all out again. It's fun watching him play since he concentrates so hard. I guess dumptruck play is very serious business.

Thanks Grandmom Kelly!!!

Sunday, 2/10/08

We had a lovely goodbye breakfast with our NC visitors on Sunday. It was hard to see them go but we had a great weekend.



Watching the cars


Apparently the cars were fascinating


Mitch and his Madillyn


Madilyn and Vin


Mitch and his Mackenzie


Mom-Mom and Madilyn


Vin trying to feed Madilyn.


Uncle Jello and Mikayla

Happy 1st Birthday Vinny!

B-Day Morning

Madilyn having lunch.

Vinny and Pop-pop playing before his party

Uncle Mitch

Cousin Mikayla

PARTY TIME!!

Vin's first explorations of his cake




Mom-mom feeding him his first few bites


Vin took over and started shoving cake in






Play area with all his friends


Ella having fun in the toy basket



Zoey (one of Vin's Gymboree friends)


Aunt Missi and cousin Savannah



Ella (another Gymboree friend)





In addition to his girl cousins Lexine, Savannah, Mikayla, Mackenzie and Madilyn, Vin had five of his friends celebrate with him. Isaac, Alexander, Zoey, Madison, and Ella.




Vinny and cousin Madilyn enjoying dinner before cake.



Well, it happened. Vin turned one this past Saturday. It was such a wonderful weekend. Jason (my bro), Andrea (sis-in law) and the girls came up from NC to help us celebrate as did my Mom and Dad.

We had his 12 month appointment yesterday and all went well. The shots were a little rough this time but he took it like a champ (a champ that cries and screams). He weighed 21lbs 11oz and was 31 inches tall. He is starting to become quite the little expert crawler which is so much fun.

Andrea took much better pictures of the party since I was busy running around so I will post those when I get them. For now here are some b-day party and weekend shots.

Look A Like Thingy

I found this on the Guerra blog and decided to give it a try just for fun.

Angello Look-alike Meter

MyHeritage: Family tree - Genealogy - Celebrity - Collage - Morph

Flight of the Conchords - Bret, you've got it going on

1/31/08

New Favorite Author!

I just had to share this with you bloggers. Somehow I stumbled across a list on some blog that gave a list of 1000 books you must read before you die. At the top of the list was Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro. Never heard of the guy but I thought what the heck. I went to the library and checked it out that day. Well, I LOVED it. I have since also read his The Remains of The Day. Wow! I have never read a book where the subject is so utterly unremarkable but I was still engrossed until the very last page. For example, The Remains of The Day is about an English butler - a topic that I found very uninteresting but once I began reading I was captivated. The book was void of any sensationalistic or dramatic events and free from flowery descriptions or romantic imagery, so I can't quite put my finger on how the author managed to hook me so well. I think Ishiguro could write about a trip to the grocery store and it would be a page turner.

Ishiguro's writing reminds me of our friend Gunz, who can tell a story like no one else I know. I think Gunz could tell a story about any part of his day and it would be fascinating. He's the kind of storyteller that you just want to kick back with a cup of cocoa and listen to. Hmmm..maybe you should be a writer Gunz. Anyway, I am going back to the library tomorrow to check out another book by Ishiguro. Hopefully, it will follow suit.



For those bloggers who don't care about my Reading Rainbow book review and just came here to see pictures of the kiddo, I threw on a picture of Vin chasing the cat.

Vin Crawling!!

Yes, he FINALLY did it! We've been working with him quite a bit since his first physical therapy session a week ago. And then last night he just started crawling!! He didn't do it much today because as you will see from the video he doesn't like it. In fact, I think he hates it but we are so very encouraged to see that he can. The first part of the video he is doing his normal army crawl but acting so silly we included it. We are going to keep working with him and I hope he realizes the freedom that crawling can bring him and starts to do it more often.

His new squeal

I had to share this video which captures Vin's new and improved high pitch squeal. This one will make your ears ring and your head hurt. So glad he discovered it.

Making small steps...

Today he finally started walking with his walker!!

Befriending the Cat

The start of trouble



This is right before she swatted at him



And this is right after he grabbed her