11 months olds.

sooo, i'm about 8 days late on this post.

but after traveling, unpacking and playing with my new iphone.

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i haven't had a chance to do this post.

oh, and apparently i didn't film like anything last month, so this one is extra short and sweet.

so we are eleven months old.

and how bittersweet it is.

we are still nursing, yes!! 

but it's usually one, maybe two times a day.

and thankfully, growing - slowly - out of his separation anxiety phase.

he still wont let me leave him in a nursery or with someone he doesn't know, but he did okay alone with my mom.

annnnd that's about it.

he is really picky about food and usually seals his lips shut if you try to feed him anything.

and he really wants to do everything by himself.

like, stand up on his own, without help and without holding onto anything.

{both of which, he can't do}

but he will whine and try to shove your hands off him.

he is still sleeping well and is developing a really fun, dramatic and sensitive personality.

i really love seeing his sense of humor develop.

he takes cues off of us, and will laugh when we are laughing about things.

or when we do something unconsciously funny - he'll remind us with a little giggle.

he is pretty much the best thing ever.

he is also getting pretty stubborn and cries hysterically if you tell him "no".

so that's great.

{he's just like his dad}

nashville.

so, we made it to nashville.

can you believe it?

cause, i can't.

these last few days have been a serious whirlwind, we have been so busy.

elliot is also having a pretty difficult time adjusting to the whole traveling thing.

but alas, we are so in love with nashville and this trip has really only made us, well, really want to move back.

i guess we'll see.

the photo above, is now my favorite family photo. 

taken last night at the wedding reception, snapped by a friend as we were posing for the photobooth.

keeping my chin up.

well it has been quite the morning.

these last few weeks have been a little rough.

ryan has been stressed about work, elliot has been cutting to be what seems like 200 teeth and i have had to deal with a lot of silly little things.

we've run into pretty much every problem possible when planning our trip to nashville for next week - almost having to cancel it once and choosing to cancel it like 5 other times.

just seems like nothing is lining up right, or how we'd hoped.

we aren't able to spend as much time there as we had hoped because of work.

my old employers were nice enough to open their home for us to stay in when we realized we wouldn't be able to afford a hotel for a week.

because of that, we aren't able to have a babysitter for elliot (hello, how rude for us to do that to the people we're staying with)...

and of course, really looking forward to things - things we need - and them falling through.

and really at this point, i just have to chalk it up to satan.

we have been so homesick -

for our city and especially our friends.

and plans have fallen through, feelings have been hurt.

this trip has been something we have looked forward to since we moved...

"we just have to make it to may when we go to nashville again"

something that has kept us going when things have been really rough and really lonely out here.

i spent the entirety of elliot's first nap crying in my room.

just so broken down over this process and of course disappointed in that this trip is finally here and yet the light at the end of the tunnel has vanished.

so after i gave myself my moment,

the only real thing to do, was to pack elliot up and pick ryan up and go to in n out for lunch...

if you all could send up a little prayer for next week and my family, we could really use a break over here.

this is scary.

but also cute.

{note: you can see 4 out of my 5 1/2 teeth!}

GON GETCHU!

our days in california.

my days are filled with a lot of this...

and this...

usually a little today show lounging...

sometimes this...

{could i be more awkward?}

a good amount of this...

and that's all!