It has been soooooo long!

Sorry to the followers out there, it has been a busy month and I am having trouble finding time to get posts updated. Where do I begin. School has been taking over my life and when Eric and CJ come home all I want to do is hang out with Colin until I tuck him in for the night, and then watch some TV with Eric.
This recounting begins with our Labor Day Weekend trip to the OBX with family and friends! It was a great time. Aunt Anna flew in Friday night and Eric packed the car as much as possible. We woke up and hit the road. Things were moving smoothly and stopped for lunch at the Outer Banks Brewing Station. Then our caravan was slowed to a crawl right before Pea Island, NC. The hurricane had washed a lot of sand onto the road and there was some flooding, but we were able to get through. (On our way back it was all gone) We arrived at the house around 4pm and had to wait for it to get cleaned. We were able to spend a lot of great time with our family and friends at the house. We swam a lot in the pool, went to the beach and played in the surf and sand, hung out in the hot tub after the kids went to bed, watched a movie in the theater room, and had some great family-style dinners with everyone. I always enjoy getting some time at the beach. Thankfully Colin loves the water. He discovered that sand is grainy and fun to put in his mouth. He loved playing in the waves. A major beach baby for sure.
I had a fabulous week after coming back from our OBX trip, I only worked Wed. the 8th and Fri. the 10th. Then the Grandparents came into town Sat. the 11th for a quick weekend visit to help celebrate Colin's Baptism. Saturday night we had dinner together and enjoyed some great time together. Sunday we went to church and witnessed the Baptism and came back to the house for a big family lunch. It was really awesome to have the Grandparents there and Bernadette brought Connor and Vivi to hang out too! It was tough to say goodbye to Grandma and Grandpa Chase, but we shall see them soon. For dinner we went to Ray's the Steaks to celebrate Granpa Meyer's birthday, and boy was it delicious! We were able to hang out with Gramma and Granpa before work/daycare and said goodbye to them too. We were so grateful that both sets could make it out to celebrate with us.
I had my back to school night on Thursday the 16th so I rushed home around 8pm to put CJ to bed with his night time nursing then I realized that Eric and I had some miscommunication, so I hurried and packed for Colin and me. We buckled up and hit the road, made it to Long Island to visit Joe, Cyndi, and Gabriella! We had a lovely time hanging out. Eric, Joe, Colin, and I played 18 holes at the Robert Moses Pitch and Putt in some awesome weather. Saturday Cyndi and I took the kiddos to a Mommy and Me Yoga class, Colin had a ball! The guys went golfing...of course. Most of Saturday was spent hanging out while the guys were consumed by College Football, and then Sunday it was a repeat only focused on NFL games. Sunday we woke and Joe made us a pancake breakfast. After we got ready we headed out to Jones Beach to take a stroll in some more fantastic weather. We decided to head out around 4pm, and the traffic wasn't too bad, it took us 6 hours to get home. And since we left before CJ was comatose for the night, we had a rough time around dinner. He didn't like dining on his solids in his car seat. When we finally got home CJ was able to get comfy in his crib and slept well that night.
Lately CJ has been unhappy during dinner times, doesn't really have an appetite for his solids at dinner when he used to scarf everything down. He is eating breakfast of solids, lunch of solids, and a cracker snack at daycare. Just trying to understand what this little guy needs. We are still nursing in the am and pm. I don't want to stop because I like the ability to connect with him.
What is Colin up to, you ask...He is able to climb 5 stairs, take a couple of steps using his walker, open and close kitchen cabinets, play in the dogs dishes (full and empty), uses voice inflections, consonant sounds of da-ba-la, loves to play peek-a-boo, and isn't ready to add meats in his diet-he really hates ham right now.
I will be posting some more pictures and videos shortly, they will be on our Picasa and YouTube!
Hope this can catch you up, as you guessed, we have plenty of packed weekends coming up and I will try my hardest to share our happenings with everyone!
Love ya,
Amanda