Birthday and Haircut Pictures

I'm shy

Long hair before getting his 1st haircut

This is a big book

Ready to party

I like chocolate cake

Wow time has flown

Hi everyone. We are so sorry we have not posted in a long time, but we have been so busy. Vince turned one, Chris (Nick's brother) graduated from college, and our house is almost done! First it was so nice to see everyone at Chris's graduation, almost all of Nick's moms side was there. Vince did pretty good, he is still very shy around people but we know he will outgrow that someday. We also celebrated Vince's first birthday while we were there. It was very cute, because Vince is scared of loud noises, everyone whispered happy birthday. My parents came down for his birthday as well. A couple of days later we celebrated on his actual birthday and he really went to town on chocolate cake. It was an amazing milestone for us, making it one year and feeling that we have been successful doing it. I don't think I will ever be able to express what it feels like to be Vince's mom, just so much love and joy. I am sure all of the other moms out there know what I mean. Oh Vince also got his first hair cut. He did so well, and looks so cute.

We are now about two weeks from moving into our house. It really looks like a house now and not a construction site. Everything is done, they just have to do the final touch ups, clean, and get the final inspection.

On another note Vince is doing well health wise, but we have decided to take a break from therapy. I know not everyone would agree with the decision we made but it was actually his therapist that suggested it. Vince has major anxiety about therapy, which he has been doing since he was five weeks old, and it has not been getting better. When we would get to therapy, as soon as he was set down he would start crying, ok not just crying but screaming. Sometimes he would make it for about 10 minutes but that was it. It was not that he was in pain or anything because most times they would not have even touched him yet. They gave us stuff to work on with him while we are on a break and he seems to be improving. In fact, he has just started to scoot backwards and is able to stay on his hands and knees for a longer period of time. We are also working on transitioning. At his one year check up the doctor thought he looked great and was impressed with how well he is doing. He said that if you read his chart and then saw him you would not think it was the same kid. That made us very happy.

I think that is about it for now, we will try to be better about posting but I can not promise anything because the next couple of weeks are going to be even more busy than normal. We hope all of you are having a great Spring and we hope all of the moms have a wonderful Mothers day.

Vince's Stats: 17lbs, 12oz, 28 inches long, 4 teeth, and very cute.

Love,

Nick, Andrea, and Vince