Latest happenings

My time for blogging seems to get shorter and shorter these days. I've been stock piling some cute pictures from the past week and here they are. :)

To help introduce the following pictures~
We have made it a fun outing to go to the local dollar store up the road. I've never ever been a dollar store go-er, but the one by our house is pretty decent. I let Connor pick out one thing in the whole store each time we go (talk about cheap entertainment). He loves to browse the aisles, collect a few things, put things back, find more, so on and so forth...until we end up with the one thing he loves the most. Last trip to the dollar store, we found water balloons. I didn't know why I hadn't thought of water balloons for Connor sooner, but sheesh--

1. He can throw them
2. He can get wet
3. He thinks he's being destructive when he's not doing much harm at all.

Talk about exciting for him!! :)
Here's Mr. Connor in action with his wagon of balloons.

The next picture below makes me smile to no end!

We've been working with Connor on his potty training and its been pretty hit and miss. Connor does great telling us when he's going potty or poo-poo, but its never enough time to get him on the potty. Connor's been pretty private with his poo-poos though. He will usually close the door to whatever room he's in while he's going or if he doesn't know where to go, he'll tell anyone who comes his way to "go hide" until he's done with his business :). With that in mind, the next picture helps illustrate the fact that Mr. Private Potty Time needed some privacy to be successful.

Nana keeps Connor's elmo potty in her bathroom closet when Connor's not over. We had just finished swimming in Nana & Papa's pool, when we asked Connor if he needed to go potty. He walked right into the bathroom closet, plopped down on his elmo potty, closed the closet door behind him, and went potty in the dark of the closet!!! Talk about hilarious!

Nana and I stood outside the closet door listening quietly while Connor tinkled into the potty. Moments later, we hear "I did it!!" Connor poked his head out of the closet door to find two ecstatic crazy women jumping and cheering!!

Here's my little closet potty-er. :)

After our exciting potty experience in the closet, Connor and Nana took a stroll around the house checking out the "ween decorations."

Connor is already SO VERY exciting about Halloween. I get excited watching his excitement :)

A few nights ago, we joined the Sears fam for Austin's soccer practice. While Connor didn't understand why he couldn't play with the big boys on the field, this mom decided to quickly distract him with a wagon ride up and down the sidelines. After about 10 laps (and pulling a combined toddler weight of 50 lbs), I was slightly sweaty & ready for a break. Connor jumped right in and took control (see below).

If that wasn't cute enough...

here are Connor and Kaylee on their stroll to the parking lot.

Kaylee is Connor's little princess who he adores and Kaylee is the tiny controller that loves to show Connor whose in charge. They're perfect together :)

As I had mentioned above, Connor has been getting pretty excited about Halloween coming up. We've been checking out some Halloween books and movies from the library to help get Connor prepared for whats in store for him. He came to me the other morning and asked for a Halloween costume. Since I didn't find any harm in it, I pulled his Mickey costume out from last year and helped him put it on. He ran around and danced, annoucing he was "Mickey Mouse!" If that wasn't cute enough, when "Mr. Computer Guy" came to fix our internet connection, Connor popped his head into the study and said "Puter guy, Connor Mickey Mouse!" Connor and the Computer Guy bounded right away as Mr. Computer Guy busted out a pretty good impression of Goofy. Here's Mr. Mickey checking himself out.

My ham of a child opted to wear his Mickey costume ALL day. The library goers, grocery store shoppers, and neighbors all got to see Mickey Mouse up close and personal.

Ears, tail, and all!