Time to take a trip!!

Hi everyone! Hope you all have been doing well and enjoying this spooky time of year. Our little family did a little decorating around the house, we visited the pumpkin patch and we have all been enjoying the fall weather we have been experiencing too! Don't get me wrong I love living at the beach and enjoying the warm weather BUT there comes a time when you just need that cool break.

So this weekend we are taking a trip back home to Pittsburgh! This trip is for business and pleasure so to speak. We are headed back so I can help pick out bridesmaids dresses... I know how exciting! A dear friend of mine from high school is getting married next year and she has asked me to be apart of her wonderful day and I am beyond honored to do so. We are also using this time to have some family pictures taken, visit family, and just relax. This will be our last trip (as a family) until at least next July. While we are there we will also be celebrating Corbin's second birthday... I cannot believe he will be 2 in about 2 months! Where has the time gone, more importantly where has my itty bitty little baby gone? Now I have a wild child who is exploring his ever growing vocabulary. I swear he learns something new every day and on some days it can be a good thing and other it just makes me shake my head. His most recent words he likes to use are , "I dont want to" or when he wants something he will yell Mommy Daddy mommy daddy, no matter who is around (HA HA) I always get a good chuckle out of that. Needless to say this trip home should be a great one and we are all excited to enjoy the time off.

This is a picture from our trip to the pumpkin patch, its one of my favorite because he has his little hand in his pocket.

This is another one of my favorites from that day, a good father son moment

Family pumpkin carving

He was such a good helper

Happy Halloween!!!

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Its Fall Y'all

So this weekend was my 'single mom' weekend AKA my husbands long weekend. The little guy and I did a lot this weekend zoo the time just zipped by. Friday night I had to work so the little man stayed with the sitter for a few hours, Saturday was our community yard sale which was an epic fail. I had high hopes of getting rid of a lot of my things, but those hopes were crushed 10x. The effort I put into it was so not worth the 3 hours of sleep I gave up to get up and set up. Needless to say, NEVER AGAIN!! So since yesterday was such a let down I decided I would make up for it today. The little man and I got up this morning and I took him to these little shops in Southport that use a local produce stand to decorate for fall and I took Corbins  picture by all the cool pumpkins, we did this last year too. Since we moved down here I ave discovered that a real pumpkin patch is hard to come by so I resorted to the produce stands products/decor, it works out rather well for us. After we took pictures we went and fed the birds and watched the local fish, which is always a good time for the little guy. We wrapped up our day back at the house by planting my mums, ordering pizza, and then taking a nice walk to the stop sign. For me it has always been thenlittle things that make me happy but even more so now that I have a child and todays  smile moment came when we were talking our walk and Curbing ran up beside me to hold my hand while we walked.

A walking catastrophe!

So anyone who knows me and my family knows that our child is a SERIOUS boy. There is nothing calm or quiet about this kid. From the moment he started walking, or should I say running,  he has been shortening my life expectancy. When he runs he leads with his head, he uses anything he can get his feet on to climb, and well he knows how to tackle already. So needless to say I spend a lot of my days saying "Corbin  slow down" or "Be careful!"

Up until these past two weeks our injuries have been at a minimum, small bumps, bruises, and scrapes.  That all changes two weeks ago though. As we were getting ready to leave the house I was in the bathroom doing some last minute things he came blasting into the bathroom with me and of course he big feet got in the way and one trip over the bathmat and PLOW! He crashed head first into the tub. As soon as i spun around he let out that awful cry that no parent wants to hear, as I turned i was greeted with this... Yep you guesses it, we were holding baby UFC matches in our home!!

His first shiner from the bath tub

 Well finally the bruising has started to go away and we decided to go out on a play date with our friends. We had just loaded up the car and I left wildman  outside with his little friend and my husband while I ran into the house for water. So the moment my feet crossed into the house I heard that terrible scream again. As I came out of the house into the garage I saw him holding his head and I could already see the blood. My first response was to rinse it off to see what we were working with. The more I rinsed the more the blood came. It was deep and I knew we were going to the ER instead of the playdate. What seemed to have happened was he came into the garage after me and again those big feet got in the way and he tripped and fell into the corner of the steps. After the fact and 6 stitches later I can say that 1 I don't ever want to do that again 2 Thank God it wasn't his eye and 3 he is getting a helmet with a full face mask for his birthday!!!
He isn't even 2 yet so I think its safe to say I will be going gray much sooner than I expected.
Who was it that said that boys are easier to raise than girls?!

Six stitches later and he is already acting silly.

Catching up

Hello all! Its been a bit but I thought I would take a minute to update you all on things going on around here. For starters we have been BUSY to say the least. From the month of July through August we had family and friends here visiting almost every weekend and needless to say I barely found time to sit back and relax.

Corbin Started pre-school at the beginning of September and that was an experience for the both of us. The first day was an epic fail, I dropped him off at 8:30 and by 10:30 they were calling me to come pick him up because he never stopped crying, poor little man. Well he should have gone back that following Monday BUT he/we got sick and we were out of commission for almost 2 week, meaning what should have been like his 5 day of school was now he first day all over again. This time around though was much better and we have been going twice a week every since with no problems.

Now that I have two morning a week free I have been devoting my time to running errands and working on my crafts. I opened a booth in my friends store so that has been pretty exciting for me. ALSO, I got a job!!! I start, tomorrow in fact YIKES, but I am pretty excited none the less.

Along with little Mr. starting school he has been on the move as always getting into things all over the place and having me chase him as usual. Its October now so we are excited to enjoy all the 'Fall things' and the cooler weather and October means that there are only a few more months until Corbin turns 2!!! Where has the time gone?! Well I will leave you with a few recent pictures of my little monster, ENJOY

 Might just be one of his favorite fruits... mine too!

 He sure does love to check out the seagulls

 Dressed like daddy

 First day of pre-school