I need help

my issue for the past weeks or possibly months is this.... Colby hardly eats!  i'm a picky eater, and andrew is picky with textures...when you put that together you get a child that doesn't eat! I don't know if anyone has figured out sneaky ways to get their child to eat. Here's our situation, for breakfast i feed him a banana (sometimes he eats almost the whole thing, sometimes it's 2 bites) then he has maybe a couple crackers and goes to town on milk. For lunch i can get him to eat a chicken nugget and maybe a little bit of string cheese (if he's in the mood).  for dinner...NOTHING. i try to feed him what we're eating, but he wont touch anything if it's not chicken nuggets or fruit. he wont even put it near his mouth. i try to feed him yogurt and such, but he wont eat anything off his spoon because he thinks i'm giving him baby food (which he hates now). eventually i get desperate and right before bed i'll give him a bagel (which he'll have a couple bites) and then i give him more fruit. the last couple nights i haven't given him fruit because i don't want him to get used to the thought "if i don't eat that, i'll get fruit" but then again i don't know if he's too young for me to be putting my foot down that much? i know he drinks a lot of milk, so thats basically where he's getting the idea that he's full, but even when i take his milk away he still wont eat food that easily.  as far as veggies go, SOMETIMES he'll have corn, but veggies usually don't happen.  oh and 1 more thing...i haven't been feeding him in the high chair because all he does is throw his food over the edge and i get mad, so i just put a plate on the floor and he eats on the go. it's not what i want him to do, but i need him to eat! any advice?

a lot of random

sucking colby's boogers out is no fun, to him or me. i literally have to pin him down to get him to stay still enough for me to be able to get his snot out.  We were both sick a couple weeks ago, and now colby is sick AGAIN. he has only been sick once in his life and now twice in 2 weeks?! poor guy.

he's also teething like crazy, so that could play a factor. he has 2 more top teeth on his left side and is working on 2 more on his right, so right now my little boy has 12 teeth. he's really growing up!

as of Saturday, we are officially done nursing. I've been tapering him off since around 11 months or so, and i've been super scared to stop nursing him before bedtime, but i guess he didn't care. haha. i think it's harder for me than him. my little man is growing up so fast! 

he's walking everywhere like he owns this place, and i guess he pretty much does.

He also loves swimming. I was just planning on letting him walk around in the backyard, but he had other plans.

I feel likes its been forever since i've posted a blog. here's a little update on whats going on with our little family.

We officially moved into our new house on the 6th of this month, and it's been crazy for the rest of the time. We decided to completely remodel our home...while living here. Andrew, Jason, Bob, some help from Andrew's friend, and I were luckily able to get most of the tile laid before we moved in. We painted the walls, and we are painting the cabinets (which means nothing can go in the cabinets), we replaced the countertops (which means no sinks) and because of the kitchen remodel all we had was a microwave and the fridge for 3 weeks (yay for frozen burritos!). I'm the happiest lady in the world since we put in our kitchen sink, dishwasher, and stove. Even though we still can't put things in the cabinets, i'm so happy to be able to somewhat use our kitchen! Things are coming along, andrew works all day, and then comes home and we work until about 12-1 getting things done. perhaps we took on too much, but its fun in a weird way. All this work and no sleep has apparently taken a tole on us, colby and I are now sick (although he's handling it better than me) and i'm praying Andrew doesn't get sick - he can't afford to be even more drained than he already is. Even though it's incredibly hard living with your house torn apart with a very curious 1 year old, it'll be worth it. it's fun to start to see all of our hard work to pay off. I'll post before and after pictures when we're done! (hopefully that'll be soon)

Dana Point

This past week Colby and i were in Dana Point with my family. Andrew was in LA for training, so it worked out perfectly that my parents planned this little vacation during the same time so that i didn't have to be alone all week. We had such a great time, i just love going to the beach! The beach is just so much more fun now that i get to watch colby enjoy it. He actually hated the sand at first (not sure why, we've been to the beach lots before and he never had a problem) but by the end of the week he was eating the sand, so i guess he was ok with it. He could hardly control his excitement about the ocean though, he just loved the waves.

He built sand castles with Uncle Jay
Went surfing with Aunty Kami

and ate cheerios that were thrown on the sand for the squirrels

I love the vacations where we just hang out together and go to the beach every day and have some good laughs. my favorite.

We were an hour or more away from Andrew in LA, but one of the days last week we were able to meet up with andrew in Huntington Beach (halfway point - kinda). Colby was so so so happy to finally see his daddy! We were trying to take cool pictures by the ocean, all of a sudden andrew takes colby from me and starts running the opposite way without saying a word. Thank goodness i have catlike reflexes and i see the huge wave thats headed towards us...thanks for the heads up hubby. love you too.

when it rains....

This last week has been one heck of a week! i'm ready for it to be over. andrew and i need to be done stressing out! it all started when we woke up Sunday morning to see that somebody had ripped one of the ski racks off our car (no, those weren't cheap). so we only have one ski rack now. what can you do with one ski rack? it makes me sad to think there are people out there that do that. welcome to the real world i guess. Things started to go smoothly at the beginning of the week, we were cruising through our loan documents and signed them on Tuesday. i talked to someone who said we should get the keys in 24-48 hours after they receive the documents (so on thursday or friday). we were pumped! it would work out perfectly since we are going to be in LA from the 22nd to the 29th, we were excited to get started on the remodeling we wanted to do on the 22nd before we headed down since my dad would be here to help. On Wednesday i did a lot of running around with my parents to get things ready. We picked out the tile we wanted, and i was able to drop my car off at the shop to get it looked at since it's been acting up. when i picked up the car the guy balanced my tires for free! oh it was such a blessing! i was so happy on wednesday! everything was working out for us! thursday came and we didn't hear a word about the house, and the car started acting up again. so today (friday), i took the car to the honda dealership (a different place cuz i felt weird taking it back to the guy who just "fixed" it for free). well... turns out it's an axel problem. there goes $500. and the house...well we'll be lucky if we even get in by next weekend. apparently our lender has just been sitting on all the paperwork we gave him for 3 weeks, and today they sent us a bunch of things we still needed to sign. now we have to close while andrew is in LA on business and i'm 30 minutes away at Dana Point with my family. i mean, we'll make it work, but it's frustrating to be told one thing and then it turns out completely different.

ok so i know this sounds like i'm just venting, and maybe i am - but i'm really trying to see the blessings it in all.

the ski racks - yeah that sucks, but now we don't have a whistling sounds when we're driving down the freeway right? our car may look a little more girly, and be harder to spot when i'm walking out of the grocery store and forget where i parked, but the racks can be replaced.

the axel? well, sure i wish it was just the tires being unbalanced, but thank goodness that guy didn't charge me to balance the tires since that wasn't really the problem. his intentions were good, and thank goodness we had the car checked out today and found the problem so we can leave that car in the shop while we are in LA. That was the car we were going to take to LA, i'm glad we found out the way we did, and not when we got in a huge accident. besides, $500 isn't bad to put into a car that we've had for 3 years. i'm also glad we found out while my parents were here so we have an extra vehicle and the time to figure out what was wrong with the car.

not getting the house today... still trying to find the blessing, but my mom made a good point. andrew is exhausted. he hardly comes home before 8 at night. he's working 12+ hours a day, and if we got the house, he would go right to work and work ALL day saturday to get as much done as he could. and now, he has to relax. there is nothing for him to do. it will be very nice for him.

everything happens for a reason.

I have a 1 year old!

I can't believe how fast this year went! Colby is 1! He is such a joy to have around. He sure keeps me busy! For his birthday he had lots of family in town! Bob and Diana came down for the weekend, and my parents were also able to come down, Dan and Brittany came up from LA for the weekend too! Dan's birthday was a few days before, so we had a little combined birthday party celebration. We had so much fun that day!

We went swimming. The pool was pretty cold, but Colby handled it pretty well.

Ate cake. Actually the rest of us ate cake. Colby just stared at his.

and opened presents. lots and lots of presents.

then checked out Dans new ride

I love having a little 1 year old. He is showing that he understands me more and more. I can ask him where something is (only a couple things) and he'll go over to it. He even started signing a couple things out of the blue. I hadn't taught him anything since he was like 9 or 10 months because he didn't seem to be paying attention, and all of a sudden he starts signing. He loves putting things in boxes and taking them out. He loves trying to walk. Loves taking things out of the fridge and trying to put them back in. and loves the dishwasher. He "talks" all the time, but of course it never makes sense.

I'm so glad and grateful that my parents, brother and sister-in-law, and in-laws were able to make the trip to be here for Colby's birthday. It really meant a lot to me that they were here.

Some videos

Colby absolutely loves his daddy! whenever Andrew comes home from work he goes crazy and gets so hyper! He's grown more attached to Andrew than to me, even though i'm with him all day (perhaps he just needs a break from me), whatever the reason, i love watching how happy he is with his dad!

Colby also started walking more and more. He's still a crawler, but loves to walk when he gets the chance! Don't mind that i laugh at him fall, he gets mad at me for that :)