To be thankful

As I lay in bed this evening with my sick baby boy I am reflecting on my life as most people tend to do this time of year and I truly have so much to be thankful for. For started I am thankful for this little boy, he is happy, other wise healthy, and brings so much joy and love to my life. I just don't know what I would do without him. I am also thankful for my parents. Even though we are miles apart we still make it a point to stay in touch and try and be a part of each others lives as much as we can. I am also thankful for my husband, while we do not see eye to eye that often and we have had our differences the bottom line is without him I would not have my beautiful child and I would not be experiencing these things in my life if it were not for him.

The list of things I am thankful for could go on and on but the most important to me are my dear family and friends without them all the other things would not make much of a difference. Happy Thanksgiving everyone!!

Park play dates

Today Corbin and I went out to do some shopping and decided that because it was so nice out that we should treat ourselves to a slushy and go to the park to play. In fact over the last few weeks we have been taking more trip to the park since Corbin is a bit older and bigger now he is really starting to get the hang of playing on the equipment and not needing me as much to help him so I enjoy sitting back and watching him go up the steps and down the same slide over and over again. Here are just a few of my favorite pictures from our park trips, enjoy!

SNOW

So growing up in PA specifically western PA I had to deal with snow. Now in most cases how the story goes is.... you love snow as a child, can't get enough of it, and as you get older is when you start to dislike it more and more for one reason or another. WELL not me, as a child I would play in the snow a bit but not for long, it was too cold and yea too cold for me so I was not a fan and as I grew older my dislike for the snow grew and now I could care less if I ever see it again and fortunately thanks to my husband there is a chance that we may never have to deal with that cold white stuff ever again. Now some of you might say that its not fair for Corbin and he should get to play in it, and you are right, thats what he has aunts and uncles and grand parents to take him out and play in it (cruel I know) any who on this trip back home even though Pittsburgh didn't get any snow other areas did so on our drive back to NC we went through the mountains and WAA-LAA snow. Now because I am not that evil we stopped and let the little man out of the car to investigate, and that he did! It did not take him long though to realize that 1. you should not hold on to the white stuff for too long because it would hurt your hands and make them cold, and 2. that you can eat the stuff. It was great to watch him exploring something new and enjoying himself.

Great outfit right! Jammies, winter hat, and those shoe things
(rubber on the bottom socks on top)

He clearly had a great time though

Soon to be 2

While in Pittsburgh we took advantage of having most of our friends and family around and to be able to get everyone together for celebrate Corbin's 2nd birthday (a little early). We had his little party at Seabase Family Fun Center and it was FANTASTIC. The place is like a giant indoor playground equipped with slides, ball pitts for the little ones, tunnles, an arcade and a TRAIN!!! It was so great to watch Corbin run around and explore with all of the other kids and just be a free spirit. His favorite part of the whole day had to be the train rides, the train loaded up all the kids and around it went. I swear I yelled "ALL ABOARD" and CHOO CHOO a million times that day. Of course he wouldn't alone so I had to climb my large adult self into the tiny train car with Corbin and at least 2 other small children. it was great don't get me wrong BUT the small train car had very poor ventilation SO the end result was a very HOT and stuffy train car. I would have done it a million times more though just to see that happy face.

I told you it was a tiny car

I know... I look thrilled right

The awesome cake my MIL had made for the little man

Enjoying cake!

We had a wild dragon on our hands

Well its November 13th what better time to fill you all in on our Halloween happenings. As you all know we went back home to Pittsburgh for a few days and it just so happened that we got to be there for Corbin to Trick or Treat. Since we spent our travel time out running that nasty storm Sandy our first few days in PA were extremely wet and soggy which did not please my wild child who just wanted to run and play. Because of the storm and the nasty weather the area postponed all of the trick or treating until the weekend when the weather would be cleared up.

Now if you know my child you know that he is very much so a free spirit. There is not to much that he will do because I ask him to, it is all on his own terms so I don't get those cute say cheese faces when I ask for one and just the thought of having to put his costume on was stressing me out a bit because I thought for sure we were just going to end up having to put on some super hero jammies on him and hope for the best BUT to my surprise all day on Saturday we pumped him up for Trick or Treat and we practiced saying it talked about all the fun things he would say. So the time had come to put the costume on and WHEW he was thrilled about it. We went with my two sisters and their boys and some other friends and he was a real trooper, he carried  his own bucket and walked almost the whole time I could not believe it, it was actually upset when we told him it was time to go.  Our second Halloween was a huge success and we made plent of memories!