Sunday

Another lovely day outside for us. Vincent and I went over to the Gershfeld's Sunday morning, they are our friends who used to live in our building until they bought a house across the alley. Now they have a beautiful backyard with a great deck, though their house address is actually on Ashland so the front of the house opens out onto a very busy and noisy street, with no front yard to speak of, just high fence and littered sidewalk. But the backyard, they decided, made it worth it. As their friend who gets to come over and visit all the time, I would agree. ;)

Anyway, the Gershfelds have two boys, Oscar is a year and a half older than Vincent and Levi is three years older. The three of them have so much fun running around and playing with bubbles and the sandbox and playdoh. I hung out with Liz and she was showing me the raised bed they just built. They saved a couple of squares of it for Vincent, it was so nice of them. Of course, V had zero patience or the whole planting thing so Liz and I did carrots and lettuce on his behalf. V and Oscar were champion waterers, though, and actually watered every plant in the backyard with little watering cans. So cute.

After nap, I took Vincent back to Chase Park. He is really into the big swings these days, so I spend a lot of time pushing and pushing and pushing. We also ran around on he baseball field kicking a ball around pretending to play soccer. He was having a really hard time with himself during every transition (leavign home to go to Oscar and Levi's, coming home from the Gershfelds, going to the park, coming home from the park) yesterday, there was a lot of screaming and tantrums. Fun. This is even with giving him plenty of warning and lots of choices about how the inevitable change occurs. On the bright side, the kid actually dressed himself yesterday for the first time and I think he is fully, completely potty-trained now. Hooray!