Looooong post/Weekend recap

Yesterday D and I went to my sister's because the day before I forgot my cell phone. D had a great time with his cousins but mostly with the dog!
Here he is with his cousin Lexi.
A family photo

Here he is running after Kuba. Daniel walked him on his leash but I left the camera in the car and by the time I got it he didn't want to hold the leash. It was hilarious and he was laughing so hard until the dog yanked on the leash and D fell.

Playing some ball with cousin Chris.

Family fun

Mommy trying to pose D for a cute fall pic, D wasn't interested.

"Wait you go in the bushes AND lift your leg up?" Hmmmm. Actually Daniel did go on the potty for the first time on Saturday. He went pee pee!!!! I don't think he gets it at all but the fact that he sat on his potty for more than 10 seconds is a first. We'll take it.

"Me and my best friend"

Saturday we went to D's morning class. He was BAD! He didn't want to share.

He threw a fit during circle time!And wanted to do his own thing. He had another boy join him. Leaders not followers, I guess.
He wanted nothing to do with craft time. Daddy had to do it for him. It was just down right embarrassing! Until it was open gym time and he went wild.

After all that fun, I finally packed a few boxes and took them over to my mom's. These are boxes with my China in them. I took all the pics off the walls and the house is looking emptier.

We went to look at a few rentals yesterday and all I have to say to anyone that is trying to flip a house is "PUT IN A TUB IN AT LEAST ONE BATHROOM!!". 2 rentals did not have a tub in them. 2 full bathrooms and not one tub! How am I supposed to give a toddler a bath?! One rental that we thought was a done deal last week just went under contract. This adds to the stress we're already under BUT it will work out, we just know it. If my in-laws are reading this they will start to worry about it all so I'm sure I will get a call from them. I'm right aren't I mom and dad? They have lived in the same house for 30 years so moving to them is more traumatic than to me as I have moved multiple times. We love you guys but once again WE'LL BE FINE!!! :)

Speaking of great in-laws how cute is the little Halloween house that my MIL made with D last week! He keeps trying to take the pretzels off the roof! Great job you two!

Procrastination

Instead of packing, which is what I should be doing as we need to be out of this house in 3 weeks, I spend my evenings doing more important things, like hanging out with the cutest little man around.
He's been waking up during the night and wanting to sleep in our bed since he got used to that when he was sick, so I've been exhausted, but when I get home I can't help but put on some good music and just hang out.
I've been bringing boxes from work to start packing but they are just piling up in the garage. We haven't found a house so we are searching for a decent temporary rental in hopes that our dream home out there is just waiting for us. I've been praying for that and have faith that by being patient I will be rewarded with a great house.
Tonight I spent a quiet evening with this little guy while daddy is away on business.
Playing in the family room with his helicopter.
Dancing it up in the kitchen.
I hope this little guy doesn't find the transition too hard!

Happy Halloween

Presenting, the cutest baby Yoda on earth!
D got the Wonder Pets fly boat from Grandma and the theme song won't get out of my head!
Although D was still under the weather some M&Ms made him feel better. Like mother like son.

He cautiously walked over to the neighbors and was waving bye bye before he got his candy. He wasn't fond of the cold.


We hope you had a very happy and safe Halloween!

We're ALMOST ready

The candy has been bought, the costume is ready, our mouths are watering for some sweets...we're ready for Halloween!
A little problem with that, Daniel has his famous croupy cough AGAIN!
He missed his Monday class because I had to go into the office and it was raining and they (sitter and D) couldn't walk to class. He was supposed to bring treats and wear his costume BUT it never happened. I'll be eating 100 calorie pack pretzels for weeks since I bought enough for a class of 20!
Now, Saturday is quickly approaching when he would finally wear his costume and he's getting sicker by the day. This costume will be worn even if for 5 minutes if it kills me.
I can't reveal it until Saturday but he looks so adorable in it. His personalized pumpkin candy bag (compliments of Grandma and Grandpa) arrived 2 weeks ago and is ohhh so cute.
We will make this Halloween very special even I have to give him steam treatments with his costume on.
On another note Daniel is 19 months today. He's growing up so fast and doing so many new things. Too many to list and bore everyone. Happy 19 months sweet pea!

Weekend

I guess fall is over because in one day all the trees on our street are bare. With the wind howling on Friday and Saturday we spent our Saturday afternoon cleaning up the driveway. It was beautiful and depressing all at the same time. "Where did all the leaves go?"

"You guys go ahead and work I'll run around"

This tiny orange ball entertained him for quite some time as he rolled it down the driveway about a million times.

Until, he fell straight on his face and scraped his little nose. I couldn't get a close up of the injury as it was too traumatic for picture taking.

Daniel loves his new vacuum cleaner we got him a week ago. It's love or he'll do anything to get out of speech therapy.

He's doing well in it, no big updates just a couple of new signs, juice and light. He does say "uuu" for number two and "eeee" for number three. He's learned "ooo" for the letter O and "E" for...well...E, that's about it. I'm still working on my patience with all of this. It's a slow process and anyone that knows me knows I want instant results.

His therapist assures us he will TALK just when he's ready. I just don't get it, he knows all the numbers up to 10, ask him any number...really I'm not kidding, he also knows over half the letters of the alphabet. I always tell everyone he'll write a novel soon before he talks and the first sentence of his book will read "My mom drives me nuts trying to make me talk, I think it's overrated and I have nothing to say..."

Saturday night I went to my friend's B-Day party (no pics, sorry). It was a great time. I left the men at home and enjoyed dancing, pizza and great company. Happy Birthday DEE!!

Sunday after Daniel's therapy we hit the road to look for apartments and homes. I'm going to see an apartment next week but I'm still hopeful we'll find a home soon and won't have to rent. Althought, the inventory out there says otherwise. There is a lot of patience I have to be working on this month. Someone throw me a bone!

Me, my guy and Nat King Cole

I love romantic evenings with my favorite guy. Today he was especially clingy to me. He followed me everywhere ALL day and was so cuddly it just made me want to capture our special moment together. He's a mama's boy alright! Don't you just love these times with your little one?!

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Final clue

OK, final clue.

A quote: "Size matters not"

We never did go to that Halloween party on Friday, the weather was bad and we found out we sold the house so I was a bit out of it.
The inspection was today and it felt like a whirlwind. There was a total of 12 people at the house. Since the buyers are first time buyers they brought both sets of parents, the agent, the inspector and the buyer's sibling, it was NUTS. We don't know the results but it seemed like there were no huge red flags. We have radon machines set up in the basement and family room. D is very intrigued with one and I'm betting it lands on the floor soon and messes up the test.
To add to the drama I landed at the doctors today because for the past 3 weeks I've had a sore throat that won't go away. Long story short I'm on antibiotics. Why does everything happen at once?! If we get the go ahead from the inspection we will be on a apartment hunt and house hunt at the same time. With the holidays approaching it's just a little much.
Sorry no pics today, I need to get some sleep.