Oh to be eight months again...

*Dave took this for Dusty and Jamie while they were at a wedding. Vaughn was jealous that Molly was having so much fun in her jumperoo so he got to go in his exersaucer he is letting her borrow. They had a ton of fun!

boy toys

Not that I want to genderize toys, but our culture has already done that for us and apparently, babies are born with certain characteristics that make them like certain toys over other. Apparently.

(yes, I just used made up the word, genderize, but I like it so I'm sticking with it...)

Dollies and pink things are what girls like, and boys are rough and tough while wrestling and playing with cars and trucks. Where is the Tim Allen growl, when I need it?

When I pick Vaughn up from school everyday, before we leave, I grab his "Daily Log". Since he became a whale Vaughn's log always reads that he is "happy", "helpful", "friendly" and "busy". The other options they have are chatty, sleepy, teary, curious, cranky and quiet so I am always happy to see that he is happy!

Another section of his log is titled, "Today I enjoyed..." For the entire two and a half months I have been receiving these logs, the "Housekeeping" and "Manipulatives" categories are always circled. The boy loves to clean. Around the house, he is already becoming such a huge help wiping the windows with dirty rags, using the toilet bowl scrubber to splash water from the toilet to the floor so he can wipe it up with my bath towel and using the broom or swiffer to move the dirt around. He's still in the learning phase, but sure loves to think he's a master cleaner.

Deep inside, I was hoping I would see cars & trucks circled. I really don't know why because Dave and I have agreed we are goign to let Vaughn be the best Vaughn he can be. However, just a piece of me wanted to see that he was crashing cars with the rest of the boys (and yes, I'm sure there are girls who like little metal things with wheels). Today was the day! My elated feelings were swallowed up with guilt of wanting my son to play with "boy toys."

I felt better as I looked at the category two lines up with a big circle around it. Yep, housekeeping! Either way, I love my rough and tough, super sweet loving, broom using, and NOW truck and car playing little baby boy. Oh, Vaughny Poo, how I love you!

Goy!

For some odd reason, Vaughn calls the words, water, milk or drink all goy. Yes, goy. I have no clue where he got that word as it doesn't even remotely sound similar to WA-TER, MA-ILK (that's how I say milk, apparently) or DRINK, but that is the word he has chosen.


Grammy is in Arizona from Pennsylvania and on her first day here, she bought Vaughn a water table. A water table is a perfect toy for him. We built it yesterday with his help, of course. 
Today, while Grammy was watching him, they took the table out front but it was too cold to put water in it. Grammy said he kept looking inside the table and asking her, "Goy?" Then, he walked over to the outdoor faucet to show her where the "goy" comes from so she could fill it up. She was very impressed, but it was still too cold to fill up his goy table with cold goy.

working mom + blogging = very few posts :(

I know I've been *promising* I'm going to post more, but seriously, Vaughn keeps getting bigger and older and therefore, I need to post for him. I need to post to capture his little life and to capture our memories. 

I follow a blog written by a mom who recently wrote about how she's able to post so much during the week amongst her crazy schedule of chasing four little ones around. Something she said really hit me - "and i'll tell you a little secret about how blogging became fun for me.  i stopped blogging "events"...but decided i would rather blog "moments". it's like scrapbooking.  i couldn't move forward unless i scrapped about christmas {or insert whatever holiday/event that is holding you back from moving forward}.  but, i was never in the mood to scrap christmas, so i just kept getting farther and farther behind. same thing with my blog." 

So, I'm going to start adopting that philosophy - it's all about the moments. I'm really going to focus on those precious moments I was starting to post because Vaughn is so great at creating just that...precious, very very precious moments!

Dancing Machine!