Beach Smeach

On Saturday, we were finally able to pull out your first little pool. We had bought it last weekend from Big 5 along with an old school foot pump to inflate it. It was pretty warm in the morning so I decided to give it a try. Well it was simple enough. Plug the two holes and the begin the pumping process. I quickly found out that this wasn't as easy as pumping up a bike tire. In fact after only a few minutes I was already tired, sweating, and getting frustrated at the lack of progress. Luckily, Vlad's tio David was also on hand to try and help blow up the top portion of the pool with the mere air in his lungs. Together it would take us approximately 20 to 25 minutes before it actually looked like a pool. After all the hard work it was time to get you inside. Your mom applied sun tan lotion to you and you were ready. Unfortunately, the water didn't really have time to warm up, but you took it like a man. You were sat right down and didn't even really complain. Your tio and mama would join you and you had a blast. It quickly got warmer, but the water was still taking its time warming up. You were splashing the water, and throwing your toys outside the pool. It looks like you have a new cool summertime activity courtesy of Big 5. The only problem is, I don't want to deflate it after all the effort it took to get it up and running. Oh well, I gues we'll have to just suck it up!

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Ouch!

On Friday we were all off from work because of the 4th of July weekend. It was early in the morning and I had just come back from a morning run. After that, I wanted to cut the grass in the backyard since I hadn't done it in a while. After you had breakfast you came outside for a brief appearance. It was kind of warm, so we decided to just leave you in your onesie for the time being. Big mistake! You were just running around for a little bit and were actually headed back inside the house. Well, in typical Vlad fashion you ate it. This time it was your knee kissing the concrete. It was pretty rough on your little knee. You cried for a little, but mostly when neosporin was applied to the wound. Now the mark is known to you as "Ouch." Everytime I say that you, you lift up your shorts and look at it and say something. You especially don't want us touching it. This was your first big scrape on your legs and hopefully last for a while.

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Habits and Sayings

This is just a quick post to annotate some of your current weird habits and sayings before you stop them and I forget. I'll begin with some of your habits. In our living room we have tile flooring and in a certain spot there is a small black stain that you always sit next to and start blabbing away. Don't know why, but for some reason you always go there and point to it and start talking about it. Outside the house in the backyard, there is a large crack in the concrete and everytime you see it you proceed to step on it and yell in an angry fashion. You'll do this two or three times. In the bedroom(usually on the weekends) after we get up and put your shoes on, you immediately run to the very left corner of the sliding door and shake your head saying no. After I say no, you do it one more time and I again say no. It's always two times, no more no less. You also have this hair fetish(especially with your mom) where you grab our heads and sniff our scalps. After sniffing, you look at us and start laughing. You may do this over and over again until we stop you. On to some of your sayings. (These will be spelled to the best of my abilities) The first is something to the tune of "Ah Shlah". This is followed by a Hmm Mmmm. You also have a variation of this called "Ah Ta." Also whenever I ask you the question, "Do you know that Daddy loves you?" you say "Ahhh." We usually do this in sets of threes. Well that's all I can think of right now so I guess that's it.

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