Christmas

Working on walking

My siblings

How to get Connor to open this without eating the paper?

Oooh...a drum from Grandma Jeffreys! 

It can't possibly be 4 plus weeks since Christmas already! 

Brendan and I started our break 2 days early because of the massive quantities of snow and ice!  I was so DONE with snow by the time it melted...

Friday, the 19th, Brendan's Mom, Dr. Bill, and Waylon arrived for an early Christmas.  It was so nice seeing them again and celebrating Connor's first Christmas together.  However, two days before they arrived my family had a birthday dinner and somehow we managed to share a "flu-like" bug so by the time Bren's family arrived I was throwing up, two days later Connor got a 9 day case of diarrhea, and Brendan got hit with the bug Christmas Eve.  It definitely made the visit and Christmas an adventure..

Despite feeling under the weather we enjoyed our time at home with Bren's family, and finally were able to make it off our hill (Puyallup decided not to de-ice or sand it for MANY days) on the last night that they were here so we lived it up by driving to Tara's and have a delicious dinner.  

Christmas with my family was very traditional.  Christmas Eve candles and carols service, potato soup and cinnamon rolls for dinner at my Mom's, present opening until 11 PM, and then opening our stockings together along with breakfast that Briana made the next morning.How thankful we all were that my Mom was feeling so much better!

 Connor turned this into an adventure as well, keep in mind he was not feeling good, and decided to scream and cry-when he woke up at 11, until we drove home (instead of sleeping at my parents), which ended up being a good choice since Bren probably saw Santa visit on one of his MANY trips to the bathroom.

Needless to say we were VERY ready for our vacation to Port Townsend the week following Christmas. 

More about that trip later.  For now enjoy a few pictures of our Christmas-  :)

Teeth,Teeth, and More Teeth

Connor driving Kailee around in his walker.

Just when we think we are getting into the groove with sleeping....teeth start arriving.  Connor's first tooth arrived when he was 7 months- the first two bottom ones came at right around the same time.  Then.. what do you know, but the two top teeth are coming in now at 8 months of age.  Mom wants to know if Connor will wake up every 4 hours for the rest of his life?!

He is such a little ball of energy these days.  It's go, go, go until he crashes.  He really wants to walk, runs full speed in his walker (especially if he sees George), and crawls like an army man being timed.  SO MUCH FUN!  

We are enjoying every moment!

Enjoy some of the great recent pictures.

8 month picture (he had to have his spoon)

Standing!?!

Hanging with Dad.

Connor is learning that he can stand on his own, holding onto things... 

In the last few days he has also started noticing his surrounding- George's cat food and water, paintings on the wall, backpack zippers and more.  I think that we will be putting the play pen to good use at times now :)  Containment for this mover... now if only he'll learn what "No, Connor that is not for you" means and obey :)

He has two front teeth and is working on a third if his sleeping, or lack of sleeping, last night is any indication.

Baby Dedication

We had Connor dedicated last Sunday.  It was a great service and we appreciated having family and good friends there.  Connor did fantastic (Mom was a lot more nervous than he was), although he did try to grab Pastor Dave's lips while he was praying :)

Halloween

We had a pretty tame Halloween this year- Connor goes to bed around 6:30 so we had to get our trick or treating done early.

Connor started at Tim and Steph's so that we could get a picture with Miss Ava (aka: skeleton).  She wasn't much of a fan of the proceedings and Connor wasn't happy that Mommy wouldn't let him "love" on her.

Then my parents came to our house to see our little pumpkin :)  Connor loved the box of crackers Grandma brought as his treat.  Although Mommy isn't sure he's quite ready for the crackers yet.

Second trip to see Ava

Hmmm...

Whoa- "it" makes noise!

Are you sure she's ok?

Connor wasn't sure about sharing some of his "favorites" Tim and Steph!

October brings new adventures!

Brendan is playing soccer for the first time on our family team.

He's getting quite good! The other teams are pretty intimidated by his size :)

Family picture :)

Connor can roll over and "catch" the camera! 

Our trip to the pumpkin patch!  Connor loves looking around and seeing new things.

We FINALLY got to meet Ava! Connor doesn't look very impressed her but we did get him out of bed to go meet her. :)