Weekend in New York

Let's not forget how Vincent's parents met.

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September Review and A Year and a Half

September:Visit from Westcoast Bekah, Vince's girlfriend.

Grandma and Aunt Sarah also made a midweek visit.


September: Vince spent his first weekend without Mom and Dad. He was with G&G in NH. He didn't show any signs of missing us. But we missed him.

Playdate with Jocelyn and Ellie

Mom turned 34, she spent the morning with Vince, then Daddy took V to the Children's Museum and Mommy went to play with her girlfriends.

Morning birthday coffe and playdough.
water table at the Children's Museum. Already an expert on "bub-bles" Vince got to do some more experimenting.

1.5 years old Vince on the keyboard.
Vince feeds the fish and reminds Daddy when they need feeding.

Vince also likes to drive now that he's older. Getting in and out of the car is no longer easy. He puts up a fight when he finds out he is not driving. He will stiffen up so we can't get him in the carseat, he will cry, he will move his little bent arms as if he is stearing. So at the end of the day when we arrive in our driveway we sit in the car for a bit as Vince pushes all the buttons and puts on the blinkers, windsheild wipers, hazards, etc.

Vince may be heard saying: "Mine!" "Cook Key" - when he says it, it is clearly 2 seperate words that together mean cookie, once he said "mine cook key", "bike", "Peter" - his favorite book right now is Peter and the Wolf, "bubble", "baby", "tar" - pointing to a guitar, "tata" or something like that is aunt Sarah, "ba-ba" is his pacifier, "pee-pee", "yucky", and still everyday there is a lot of "ap-ple" and "cah". Uses his sign language still for water, milk, more, eat, wash hands, Grandma got a sign for please.

He understands everything we say. He can point to all the animals and objecgts we ask him to in the book. Makes a snort like a pig, a neigh like a horse. Flaps his arms like a monkey.

Waves bye bye to everyone.

Blows his nose and puts the tissue in the trash.

He's got 14 teeth!

Some moments not to forget:
--It is routine now before we go in the house that we sit on the stoop. Vince initiated this. He is a city boy after my own heart. He will invite me to sit with him by patting the step. And he will sit there and watch the cars until I force him into the house.
--Every morning when I say let's go, he picks up his lunch box, heads for the door and asks "cah?". When we arrive at day care he runs through the gate, so excited. His school mates greet him on the other side of the gate, "hi Vincent" or "hi Bincent". He's a popular guy. He runs into his teacher's arms. When I arrive to pick him up I spy on him playing, then his school mates yell, "Vincent your mom's here". And he runs to greet me.
--Sometimes he'll grab a book, take my hand and lead me to bed.

Farewell Summer

Here are some pictures from the walk on Dickens Farm on Labor Day with Jason and Jen, Aunt Sarah and Uncle Chi,

and Gramma and Grampa.

rosh hashanah

Our first celebration for Rosh Hashanah was spent with good friends.

Dor says the prayer.


Tori's baby kicks. If you're happy and you know it clap your hands.

Visit to the Ecotarium

Teta took us the Ecotarium today.

observing the turtle

little scientist

family science project

The men paddle a chinese boat

Train ride through the forest, tunnel and passed the foxes and turkeys

Learning about circles

after apple picking

This morning Vince and mommy went apple picking with Stefanie and Noah and his family. When we got home Vince cooked some apples, despite the 93 degree weather.

And here's V last weekend eating apples and reading with Gramma. (Yes, Vince has done a lot of cooking this summer in his diaper. Thanks to Aunt Sarah and Uncle Chi for the stove.)

Vince likes to help

here he helps aunt Sarah carry her suitcase off the ferry. Labor Day weekend.

House Quake!.....What's cookin!

We will show you what to do.....
Don't wait for your neighbor, green eggs and ham

All she wanted was a good man

Everybody jump-up and down....

Quake, quake, quake,

Does anybody know about the quake?!

If not, get out of the way ....

Shack a -lack a boom!

Lookin for a good man in your city or in your funky town!

Housequake....

warning: the curls are gone

But he's still the cutest.

16 -17 month report

still smiling all the time

wants us to clap at every extrodinary thing he does - stack blocks, pushes buttons, dances, etc.

runs down the path to the day care center some mornings
loves apples, has clear pronounciation of "ap-ple"
is alseep by 9;30 regularly. his first sign of a bedtime schedule:)
obsessed with things that go: excited to see a car, truck, especially a bus, runs to the window when he hears the train going by. looks up for planes and helicopters. points them out on tv, in magazines, on billboards on his shirt.
When he finds out we are going in the "cah" he will stock up on toys and try to carry what he can out the door.

has become a very picky eater

says moon and points it out in book. plays in his kitchen with his pot, condiments and tea set.

Can show you his eyes, nose, ears, hair, head, fingers, toes and belly.

loves to look at photos of his family and friends.
throws things and knows it's bad

gives hugs on his own time and some kisses good bye.