2 years old or 1 year old?!?!

I know it's been a very long time since my last post, but things are crazy... okay, continue to be crazy! When are they not?? I've been super busy at school and have had many late nights going back to school after Colby goes to bed. He begins going to the new dayhome on Monday morning, which is just around the corner from us. I'm excited to not be spending so much time in the car driving back and forth, but will really miss Amie's care! She's an amazing person and I know Colby absolutely adores it there! He loves playing with Karter so much and I know he will miss him. I don't think I could've convinced her to move closer to us... hmmmm.....

Colby is growing up so quickly and some days I feel like I have a 2 year old and not a 1 year old!! He can be trouble, I tell you! LOL! He is beginning to know what he's not allowed to do and what we say "No" to, but he will do it anyway! He has had a couple of timeouts in the past couple of days for his behavior, especially the beating-up of his cousin, Landon. I don't know what it is with those two, but they play so rough!! My philosophy is that they are more like brothers than cousins (so close in age and in size, too!) Hopefully this is just a phase!? On the positive side, he is definitely developing and displaying his personality! He is so funny! I love listening to his words... Colby can say a few more words now, including uh oh, this, that, look, go, and his newest one today that he discovered with "Ring Around the Rosy".... down. I love it! So cute! He is doing really well with mealtimes now... much better than this time last month! In his big high chair, he was throwing food, playing around, not eating, etc., so we moved him to a booster seat and he sits right up at the table with us. This completely changed things! He eats nicely, there's next to no food on the floor, and mealtime is much more pleasant these days! He's doing very well with eating with his spoon and fork, too! It's very cute, even though it takes forever for him to eat yogurt with his spoon! But amazing to see his level of independence at the ripe age of 13 1/2 months! He's running everywhere and down to one nap a day, which is much nicer!! We can do more things in the morning and not have to come home for a nap. He has also been sleeping much better at night and not having a hard time falling asleep at night anymore! Thank goodness!

There is a cold bug going through our house right now... I have a brutal cold and Colby has a touch of it too, making his nose a constant fountain! Hopefully it'll leave soon!!

I'm going away for the first time in a very long time for an entire weekend! I'm pretty nervous and worried about missing my two favourite boys, but am excited for the weekend. I am going to a scrapbooking retreat with some other wonderful ladies at a lovely bed and breakfast west of the city. I'm so excited to catch up on some girly time AND be productive in Colby's album!! :) Crossing my fingers for the creativity to be flowing!! Our swimming lessons continue to go very well and Colby is really enjoying it! He's a little fish, so loves any time to play in the water. It will be Daddy and Colby swimming this weekend, as I'll be away. I'm sure they'll have fun!

We are making some small headways in the development of the basement, which is exciting! It's so hard to find time to do things in the evenings! Gerry finished painting downstairs this week, so now it's time to talk to some people about carpet. I'm really excited to have a "useable" space for Colby to play soon. I know we are a long way from being done, but each step brings us a little bit closer!

I guess I should wrap up the novel... hope everyone is doing well. I'll let you know how the retreat goes... I'm hoping my sister-in-law, Tracy, will have the baby this weekend (as she had her first one 21 months ago while I was at another scrapbooking retreat!!)

Love,
Lesley