This year for Halloween, I took Andrew around the neighborhood by myself. Since Andrew still fit into his costume from last year we opted to have him wear it again. As you can see in the pictures below, the costume was huge on him last year. In fact I had the roll the pants to keep them on him.
Well Andrew went to Lombardi Ranch for the first time
We even found this huge pumpkin that just ate Andrew up. All you can see is his butt.
Even thought we didn't stay that long, we all had fun.
We left the Hampton Inn off of Tropicana and drove down Las Vegas Blv. until we pretty much got to Prim. (The town is called Jean.) We turned off of Las Vegas Blv. and took some pics at that Mobil station across the street from the jail. Anyways, we turned right and went away from the freeway into the mountains. We drove into a town call Goodsprings. We meet at this bar and grill Called the Pioneer Saloon.
Named after Joseph Good, whose cattle frequented a sripng nestled in the south eastern foothills of the Spring Mountains. Goodspring was once the heart of the most productive mining districs in Clark county. Over the years, lead, silver, copper, zinc and gold have been mined from this area. Most early buildings in the town were constructed durning
the boom spurred by the railroad in 1910-1911.
The saloon is said to be "haunted" by the victim's ghost by many. In addition, the Pioneer saloon has a small memorial to both Clark Gable and Carole Lombard. Ms. Lombard's plane crashed in the area in 1942, and the saloon was the center of operations for the search. The crash resulted in her death.
They BBQ us steaks and then we had beans, mac&cheese, and choc. Chip cookies to eat. It was nice to be able to hang out with some old and new friends. We stayed out there until maybe 3pm. We left there and drove back to our place to rest. I watched a movie while David took a friend for a drive in his car. We stayed there until it was time to go the track once again. We arrived at the track around 7pm and we paid extra to get David's car in so we wouldn't have to walk too far. Plus we also paid for David to be on the track to take some pictures. He got some awesome shots. The drags were a little windy but fun to watch. A lot of Supra's push
ed the envelope a little to much and broke their cars. Just a few of those cars that broke were street cars. The majority of the cars that broke were race cars. So we had a lot of laughs and enjoyed our time. The races ended around 9pm. (We got there for the eliminations only.) While we were waiting around for the trophies to be handed out, it stated to rain and got out of dodge. We arrived back at our place with little trouble.
of the overpass. We are very thankful that we were paying attention and got ourselves out of a bad situation.
David took these of Andrew using a fork to eat. There are just a few things that he will eat by himself. He still likes us to feed him his food. But he sure is growing up fast sometimes. Hopefully he'll become more independent as the year goes on.
He's been eating them ever since.
Andrew just loved being in the water. He was just having a blast kinda jumping off the back step of the boat. Once he would be in the water he just wanted to walk around and splash. He would walk out into the water until he was almost fully under the water. But he just loved it.
Andrew really didn't care for the life jacket, so we just put it one him while we were out on the boat. When we were on land we just let him run free.
After the Temple we went out for lunch to a burger joint called the Habit. They have the best burgers and we will drive across the valley to get some. After lunch we picked Andrew up from my Parents house and went home. Then I went to work. That was our day yesterday and today as being the big day, I have to work an 8 hour sift. I wont be off work until 9pm tonight. Bummer.
I have kinda stopped pushing Andrew to get Potty trained. He likes to play with the chair but doesn't have the interest to use it. He is fine when I sit him on it but just doesn't get the fact that you are suppose to go on the chair. Right now, he'll be sitting on the chair one minute and then he'll run away and pee on the floor. I really don't want to deal with that at this moment in time. I'll wait until he starts to show the interest to sit on the chair. I really would love the fact that he goes on the chair right now but I just have to be patient. I don't want to discourage him too early. On some unhappy news, about two months ago David's motorcycle motor blew up. Just this last weekend we got it back from the shop. So David installed the motor in one and half days. When he was finished with the install we decided to on a ride. Andrew was down for a nap so we asked David's dad to keep an eye on Drew while we went for a ride. I was so excited because I've waiting for a little while to have some time to go on a ride with David. We went around the valley and got lunch. We were only gone for maybe two hours because I had to get ready to go to work. Then just yesterday, as David was on his way home from school, his motor on his bike blew up again. So he pulled it out and shipped it back to Colorado to get fixed. (He is very upset.) Now we will have to wait another month before we are able to go on a motorcycle ride together again.
Well, we have been slacking on the chair time lately because Andrew has been sick and I didn't want to push the issue. But today of all days, I decided to put him on the chair without a diaper. I didn't think that he would do anything. He sat on the chair for about 20 minutes and I gave him his sippy cup and a M&M for his time. (We were watching Tom and Jerry on tv.) Then he got up off the chair and he had gone Pee. I didn't believe it, he went #1 on the potty. I gave him two M&M's for going to the bathroom on the potty. We celebrated and ate some snacks. I waited about 40 minutes and I did the process again. Sat him on the potty without the diaper and gave him a cracker. (He didn't want his sippy cup.) Again he sat there for about 20 minutes and he got an M&M. When he got up this time he went a second time on the potty. He got two M&M's again. This was twice in one hour. We were on a roll. I was just so eager for David to come home from school so that I could tell him about my morning. Since the last two times worked out so lucky, I tried a third time. This time Andrew just sat on the chair for 30 minutes staring at the Tv. But when he got up this time, he had done nothing. But he got a M&M or two for his time that he put in on the potty chair. It is a start but far from the end.
We are slowly teaching Andrew how to swim. Sometimes Andrew will get brave enough and lower himself into the pool from the side. He have taught him that he needs to get into the pool by using the steps and not the side of the pool. So far, it is working.
Sometimes David just like the throw Andrew up into the air. He just loves it.
Andrew really enjoyed having the cousins around to play with. We are sad that they had to go home to Texas.
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Once we got to San Diego we tried to put him in a room to take a nap. He just sat in the room watching "Finding Nemo" the whole time. Now it is about 2:30 pm. blast. Last year he wasn't old enough to enjoy the fun of the beach. Since he was still awake we took a walk down to 'Dog beach'. (We were to lazy to put any suits on.) Andrew had aThis year he would just run into the water. He really wasn't that interested in all the dogs running around. 
Andrew just so fascinated at the water coming at him. He would just run to meet the water and stop right before they meet and wait for the water to hit his feet. But once the water would rush past his feet he would fall backwards onto his butt. I would stand him up and once the water rushed back out he would fall on his face. He just kept running further and further out into the water. Since we were at dog beach, it takes a little while for the water to get
too deep. I had to stop Andrew when he got waist deep because the if he fell over, he really would be under water. After about a half an hour at the beach Andrew had enough of getting salt water in the mouth we went back to the house. After a bath and some rest, David and I decided to take Andrew for a walk in the stroller. (Still trying to get him to take a nap.) With this being the 'College Capitol of the World' there were a ton of drunk parties going on. But Andrew finally fell asleep. But not how we normally does. Usually when I am pushing him the stroller, he would lean back and relax to fall asleep. 
On the 4th, he just feel asleep sitting up. David looked down at him through the window and saw Andrew hit his head on his sippy cup. He looked around the side of the stroller and sure enough he was asleep sitting up. I pushed the back rest back to straight and leaned Andrew back for some support to sleep. We hoped that this time he would take a decent nap. He stayed in his pack-n-play for maybe 20 minutes before he woke up crying. Since he hadn't had a really nap, we weren't going to last. So David and I packed up our things and left San Diego at 6 pm and drove home. We arrived home around 8:30 pm and laid Andrew down in his bed. As soon as we did that he fell right asleep.
We thought that he had developed strep but David's sister, Jennifer, said that he sounds like he had croup. She ran out and got some medicine and I sent my time after/during work finding a cold mist humidifier. I bought one and we put it in his room last night to sleep with.
After that melt down/fit he laid down on the floor to continue to watch the movie. He is just a character.
ME- I'm still working away and making the big bucks. I'm the Floral Supervisor on top of the many hats that I have at Albertson's. But I have some help in Floral to take the stress off me a little bit. So there are two of us doing Floral now. I have one helper for the summer and then after the summer another girl is going to come to Floral to help me out. So my department now has a morning Floral person to help those morning customers and then I am there at night to help the evening customers. I still have my other duties that I take care of during my five hour shift as well. I am very busy (at times) at work. I guess that you can say that my job title would say "Customer Service/Floral Supervisor/GM Reclamation". (Just to name a few)
