Cash's Mid-Year Update

I met with Cash's teacher, Ms. Terry, last Tuesday for a mid-year school update. While it may sound funny that I'm already having a parent/teacher conference about my 20 month old, I must say that I am so glad that we found such a great place for Cash to spend each day where he learns so much and gains so much structure. It definitely makes my job easier and Cash seems to love going there.

I learned from Ms. Terry that Cash is doing well with his gross motor skills - great at walking on his tiptoes and walking backwards, working on jumping and standing on one foot. He's expressing his emotions well and appropriately, playing with others and sharing, and has exceptional manners. She said that he loves saying "thank you" and that when they hear it across the room they know immediately that it's Cash. He's starting to verbalize better but still hasn't said his name so we are going to work on that at home. Overall, Ms. Terry said that Cash has a sweet and quirky little personality and thanked me for bringing him to AAI Pharma Learning Center. While it pretty much confirmed my own beliefs, it's always nice to hear.

In other news, we're coming to the end of a full week that Ross has been away for a work trip. Cash has dealt with it pretty well and seems to be adjusting to our work travel, which is good since I leave for a three day trip this Monday. We can't wait for Daddy to get back this weekend...it's been a long week.

Here's a little video of Cash working on his fine motor skills with puzzles. We have a bit of work to do.

Elmo Love

Elmo has become a constant in our household as of late. Whenever we are in the living room, Cash will run over to the tv, point, and shout "Momo, Momo". Usually, we relent and let him watch a 20 minute Elmo's World or else we won't hear the end of it. Here's Cash this morning after in the afterglow of watching some "Momo":

Meeting Cousin Lucy!

This weekend we hosted Uncle Charlie, Aunt Fiona and baby cousin Lucy here in Wilmington. They were gracious enough to stop by on their month-long vacation in the US. Uncle Charlie works in offshore drilling in SE Asia so we only get to visit once a year and they have a lot of people to try to see in their short time home so we were happy that they were able to come and stay with us for a long weekend. Lucy is almost three months old and seems to handle traveling like a little expert already. She's a great baby and such a cutie!

We got Cash ready for the Lucy's visit all week by bringing out his old baby toys and showing him some movies with babies in them and talking about how Lucy was coming to visit. I think it worked because Cash was a tiny gentleman with Lucy and just wanted to either pet her or help her most of the time. If Lucy's paci fell out, Cash was determined to get it back in her mouth. If she made a squeak, then Cash wanted to pet her head to calm her down. It was very cute. He didn't really like it all that much when Mommy or Daddy held Lucy but he didn't get too out of sorts about it, he just would come by and try to be held at the same time. Overall, I was happy with his reaction since we would like to give Cash a sibling at some point in the near future.

We're already counting down the days until Thanksmas when we get to see them again. Safe travels back to Malaysia!

Fortune Cookie

As you can see by the shirt in the picture below, Cash definitely has a favorite food choice. But since he has been eating better we have tried to introduce him to new foods. The other night, we tried a little Chinese takeout shrimp lo mein. He did not really like it. However, he did enjoy the fortune cookie part of the meal and his fortune was definitely the best of the bunch. We have much to learn from our silent grasshopper.

Photos from the past couple of weeks

We've been hibernating in the Inman household the past few weeks - cold weather has brought on some colds and I've been in and out with work travel (and preparing for more). Here are a few pictures of what's been going on:

Hanging out with Cash after my trip.


Street in Chichester, UK where I went to work last week.


Hanging out in the new truck on a warm day.


And then it got cold...


First haircut!

Winston-Salem day trips

Since we stayed with my parents for about a week, we thought it would be good to get Cash out of the house and explore Winston-Salem. We took Cash on his first ever tour of the Wake Forest campus. He enjoyed running around the Quad and up and down the ramps near Benson. We showed him our friend Ben's tree and the dorm where Daddy's frat used to be. I told him that if it wasn't for this place, he wouldn't exist and he promptly let out a squeal and ran around in a circle. I think he found it to be a happy place.



Later in the week we went with my Dad to Old Salem to walk around for awhile. This was the point in the week when Cash was getting stir crazy and I thought that going to Old Salem would allow him to run around. I was wrong. Since cars can drive through (and streets aren't blocked off like I thought) we had to keep Cash in the stroller most of the time and he wasn't happy about it. However we did let him out to stretch his legs in a gift shop and found a Confederate hat to put on him for an impromptu photo session. Because such as you do in the South...

Christmas 2011

A little late with this post but the Inmans had a spectacular Christmas and New Year's this year. Since Christmas 2010 was overtaken by packing and leaving our beloved NYC on the 26th, it was nice to actually be able to decorate and enjoy the holiday season with family and friends this year. In the NYC apartment, our decorations consisted of a single, sad rosemary bush, but this year I was able to start acquiring some seasonal decorations that we can save and bring out year to year. I was pretty happy with the way the house turned out.






We spent Christmas in Winston-Salem with my parents. I don't have too many pictures of the actual day since it was all a blur. Cash really isn't at the age where he understands Santa, Christmas, presents, etc. He did seem happy about the new toys and he found the tree and the ornaments on it fascinating for about two seconds. We gave him a tunnel to crawl through, a Muno doll and an Elmo book. His Grammy and Papa got him some of the Duplo Legos. All were big hits. That night we had family over for Christmas dinner and Cash actually ate a fair amount of it so it was a great day.




However our biggest Christmas miracle was the fact that Cash slept until 6am on Christmas morning and then slept until about 6:30am most of the days in the week after! He's been waking up around 5am for the past month and a half so sleeping until 6 was the best Christmas gift ever.