1st Thanksgiving

It's been a pretty good, though slightly hectic week. We had to spend 2 days out of our house due to some plumbing problems. But, considering the circumstances, I think we managed well. We still have a couple of holes dug up in our yard as we wait for an inspector from the city to sign off on the work.

Here is the little one bedroom cottage we stayed at for one night while our sewage pipes were being replaced. It was quite cute.

For Thanksgiving day, we packed up again, and headed down south a little for a night at Lucy's parents' house. They were so gracious to have us over for dinner, and let us crash there for the evening as well. This allowed us to lounge around the next morning and enjoy each others' company a little longer. Lucy made most of dinner, & everything turned out great, even my squash dish with inedible skin. Vincent was the life of the party.

I had a goal of getting up early (well, I get up early every morning) & going shopping. I haven't shopped on the day after Thanksgiving in years. I thought yesterday would be my day to brave the crowd. Alas, I stayed in bed while David got up and took care of baby. So sweet.

Growing

No major milestones or anything like that, but I just thought it would be nice to share with you what types of things Vincent is up to these days.

I didn't do a very good job with keeping up posts on Vincent's eating. That was back in around August when I said I'd keep track of it. Oh well. Rest assured, he is eating. This baby loves to eat. Here he is eating a banana, one of his favorite foods. He can now take a big chunk & feed himself.

See how this baby loves to eat? This is Vincent with his "snack trap" cup. It's a semi-spill proof cup that I can put bite sized snacks in for him to reach in, pull out, and feed himself. He gets toasted oats (Cheerio wannabes), puffed corn, & chedder fish crackers in this cup.

These are two of Vincent's car toys. We just recently gave him a third one, but this picture was taken before that. It came in a set of 7 small vehicles, which we give him a new one every few weeks or so. At first, he would just put them in his mouth, but now he's learning to actually play with them. Take a look at him in the next picture!

Out of the three small cars we've given him so far, he clearly prefers the yellow pickup truck. He has learned that he can push it around on it's wheels. Kinda hard to do on the shaggy rug.

Here's Vincent with his yellow truck again. This is one of Vincent's favorite pasttimes. He loves to look out these little windows by our front door. There isn't always something to look at, but sometimes our cat, Stella, will be outside the window, and sometimes he greets visitors as they walk up. If he times it right, he gets to greet his daddy at the door when he comes home from work.