Blue Boy

I didn't realize when I took this picture that everything in the background was blue, too. Geez, I must like the color. I just thought Vincent looked so cute in his little BumGenius diaper. Which brings me to the topic of cloth diapers...

I'm not sure if I've talked about my cloth diapering obsession in the past. I'd have to say that my husband is probably glad that obsession is IN THE PAST. Of course, I've replaced it with something else, and something else replaced that obsession. I did finally figure out a system that works for us. The BumGenius 2.0 "one size fits all" as they call it were our most expensive cloth diaper purchase. We only bought 3 to test them out. They're quite great, actually. But, very spendy, at about $17 a pop. They're actually good for overnight use, although we have found that they smell by morning time. We now use them for longer outings.

The next costly ones we chose were the Bumkins All-In-Ones. We only bought 6 of those, and mainly cuz they were on sale. I was testing those out, too. They're convenient because they're not as bulky & as easy to put on as a disposable. They're just not very absorbant. Those are used when I know I'll be changing him again pretty soon, or for shorter outings.

Last, but not least, we bought 30 Indian pre-folds and have about 8 covers to go over those. Those are great! I highly recommend them for simplicity and affordability. In fact, if I were to do it all over again, I would just buy those.

For nighttime, we decided to use 7th Generation chlorine free diapers.

So, there you have it. Diaper crazy lady uses FOUR types of diapers on her ONE child. Let's not mention the swim diaper for the pool! But, as you can see, this is a happy booty baby.

Close to Walking

It looks like Vincent is about to start walking soon. Just this week, he has been taking more and more little steps. Today was the best he has done. He also does this knee scoot thing that is pretty funny. You can catch a small glimpse of it here in this video. It's really exciting, but it also makes me very nervous. He is a really great crawler, and zoom, zoom, fast. I can only imagine what he'll be like walking. Enjoy!

The Browns & The Seahawks

It was a good season, but the Browns didn't make it into the playoffs & the Seahawks lost to Greenbay. Daddy, Vincent & Jon became regulars at Buckley's on Sundays to watch the Browns. We're sad to say "Good-bye" for now to both teams. GO GIANTS!!

More Snow!

This past weekend, we hopped on a plane with 4 friends and one other baby and all headed out to Park City, Utah. It was our first vacation with friends. We stayed in an amazing house. It started to snow right when we exited the airport, and continued for most of the weekend. This made Friday a tough day to go out, but we were still able to get Vincent his first snow crawling experience. He seemed to enjoy crawling around in the snow, threw a snow ball at his dad, and even made his first snow angel. Of course, we helped.


Yes, this is Vincent's snow angel.

December 1 - It's Snowing!!

What a fun way to start off this holiday month! Vincent's first time seeing it snow. He was too small the last time we had snow. Today, he really enjoyed seeing it come down. Luckily, I was able to find this fleece jumper at a consignment store just in the knick of time.

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.