Random shots from the month

It's almost midnight. Mama needs some sleep. Just thought I'd post some more random pics for the month of March. Enjoy and good night!

Holding his first "Ice ceeeeam" cone :)

Love for his Papa :)

This picture melts my heart. These two kiddies love each other and its so cute to watch. Connor usually gives Kaylee a good hug when he first sees her and Kaylee's usually saying "Connnor" when she first sees him. Last week we had them holding hands and taking each other for a walk around the house. Adorable.



My child's got game. He is a natural when it comes to basketball. He wants to shoot "hoops" all the time. Matt's his favorite hoop buddy. They crack each other up in the living room shooting. If Connor makes it, they say "Swish" and if Connor misses it, they say "Awww man!" At one point, Connor was purposely missing his shots just so he could say "Awww man!" His game is back on track and he shoots like a pro!








These are the pictures I found on my camera when I got home yesterday from work. Hilarious! Nana had Connor sporting her shades that afternoon. I can just read Connor's face...
"Nana...seriously?!?!?!"


What are you laughing at Nana?!


Here's the smile that I love to pieces.



Ok...time for bed! More photos to come...

Phone photos

So I'm a picture addict.

I know...it's no surprise...

I just can't help it. If I don't have my camera, I feel naked. If I don't have my camera, I have my phone camera. Not the best quality, but it's surely better than nothing. I've been collecting quite a few pictures that are usually sent via text message to my folks or Matt, but I've never really shared with everyone else.

Here ya go :)

Connor's finished "Big boy" room. I love it :) and I would seriously customize a wall decal for every room if I could. I love the way they look!

The time of day I cherish the most is nap time :). I will be sad the day Connor says farewell to naps. On days that I work early, I love love love to come home and crash with Connor for a few hours. With Connor's big boy bed (without those ever-so-lovely crib rails to keep him contained) makes nap time and bed time hard to do with a boy that can escape his bed & would fight sleep all day long if he could. I've found myself doing what I never thought I'd find myself doing...I have to lie in bed with him for naps & bed time until he falls asleep. It's going to be a FUN challenge breaking this lovely habit we've created, but for now...it's working for us. We all get sleep. Life is good. :)

I could cuddle with my sleeping boy for ever!

Here's Mr. St. Patty's Day at Arizona Pizza. Connor's been doing great in restaurants these days. He sits still longer and is somewhat patient for a 2 year old. Matt & I made the mistake of telling Connor while we were in the car on the way to the restaurant that we were going to Arizona Pizza. From that point forward, Connor had pizza on his brain.

"Peeeza! Peeeeeza!"

To make matters worse, every table around us was being served pizza. Every table but OURS! Mr. somewhat patient became extremely impatient!! Mommy and Connor decided to take a walk until our food came to avoid any giant meltdowns. I do have to admit that I came really close to buying a piece of pizza off of the family to the left of our table just to regain my sanity!!! No worries...a good walk did the trick until our "PEEEEZZA" came!

After supper, Connor wanted to model Mr. Tony's hat.

After a fun excursion to Toysrus this week, we've found ourselves a new water toy for the backyard. Meet Mr. Turtle. He shoots high. He shoots low. He waters Mommy's yard while entertaining the child. He's wonderful!

Connor loved to stand there and catch the water in his mouth, then walk over to me to stare me in the eye, say "Mmmm....", smile, then say "Tastey!" Funny kid.

A few weeks ago we decided to take an evening stroll to help pass the time after nap and before supper. Connor thought it would be best to include his Monkey, Mickey, and his orange (yes....orange....). He was cute as can be trying to walk with his hands full. I offered to help, but he insisted on carrying them all himself!

So we haven't started potty training quite yet. We've reached the point of communication by words (Praise God, thank you Jesus!) which is the first step. Connor will now go poops then come to me, point to his diaper, and say "poo poo". I try to explain that we need to use the potty when we have to go to the bathroom.

This past week, my smart child took a different approach to potty training.

Mommy explains: "Your poo goes in the potty, not in your diaper."

Connor responds by running into the bathroom where he thought he was obeying my command...

And this is what I found...

My precious boy put his Pooh in the potty! :)
This potty training stuff is gonna be a BREEZE ;) HA!

To complete this post, I thought I would include a short little video clip of my funny man. He finds the tiniest things funny. We've been practicing his letters on his Leapfrog computer lately and he has found that the letter "Y" with the animal "Yak" is beyond hilarious. Watch and enjoy :)

So its been a while...

First of all, my child is adorable.

I know I'm stating the obvious & I am allowed to be biased, but seriously...

my child is adorable! :)

Words are coming out of his mouth left & right. He has been such a joy to be around and has a way of making any word absolutely precious in his own little sweet lispy voice!

I'll have oodles of photos to come (haven't had time to sit & edit them yet), so a few videos will have to hold you over on your "Connor fix" for now.

I am queen of documenting everything & I've been meaning to make a list of all of Connor's words so far...but it's pretty hard since he's doing a lot of repeating now. I'll try making the list, but I am sure it won't include everything...

Food:

Pizza, Macaroni, Banana, Apple, Orange, Grapes, Juice, Milk, Ice, Ice cream, Muffin, Pancake, Waffle, Cup

Random characters/shows:

"All Aboard the Choo Choo Train", "Dinosaur Train", Daisy, Donald Duck, Goofy, Minnie, Mickey, Oso, Dottie, Elmo, "la la la", Abby (Cadabby), Big bird, Cookie (monster), Ernie, Pooh, Santa, "Ho ho ho", Hop hop hop (like the Easter bunny), Nemo, Toodles

Around the house/random:

Hoops, Up, Help, Mama, Matt, Nana, Papa (one of his favorite people & words), Amen, Kaylee, Austin, Charlie, Katie, Nicole, Shoes, Socks, Hat, Boo-boo, Ouch, Uh-Oh, Oops, Ohh Sheesh, Shucks, Poo-poo, flag, swing, Please, Swish, Crash, All clean!, Awww man! (when he misses making a basketball shot), leaf

Body parts:

Knee, Elbow, Toes, Hair, Eyes

Animal/Sounds:

Monkey, ooo--eee---ooo---aaa, duck, quack, cow, mooo, lion, rarrrrrr, kitty cat, woof woof, bird, tweet tweet, donkey, frog, eagle, gifaffe, turtle, zebra, dolphin,elephant, bumble bee

He also thinks he can spell and count.

Example #1: Mommy says: "One, Two, Three, Four..." and Connor repeats "eee, dee, dee..."

Example #2: Mommy says: "C-O-N-N-O-R" and Connor repeats "oooh, dee, eee..."

It's pretty darn cute! :)

The list goes on...I'm just so excited to have words coming out!!

Here's a final video to make you smile & possibly giggle. Connor's latest obsession is shooting hoops with Matt. He's also found that if he falls down & you say "crash", that its the funniest thing in the world! (P.S. Please excuse the fact that Connor's not sporting any shorts...we were approaching bath time & really had no need for them at the time!)