Connor-2 years (three months late)

Is it really true? Is my little baby now a big two year old?? YES! He is an amazing, adventurous, loving-every-minute two year old! As you saw in my previous post, our summer was crazy. I had originally planned on having a party for him the weekend before we left for vacation, but that fell through. Our spring was just about as busy as our summer. Cary was duel-managing two stores, while trying to finish up the spring semester, we went to NY on spring break to see my brother and his new baby girl, and my mom and step-dad came over in May for Mother's Day weekend. After all of that we just wanted a break, which we haven't really gotten.....yet!! More to come on that later!

A two year old Connor:
-He is talking up a storm! He is repeating everything he hears. It is great for accountability though. He heard me say "Oh crap!" one day and of course he said it too. It's not the worst word he could say, but that doesn't mean he should say it.
-I must brag on my boy for a minute and give reason #682 of why we love Dr. Dirk Hamp at Growing Child. We had a really good two year old appointment. He was 28lbs. and 34in. tall. As always, Dr. Dirk said he was growing and doing just fine. Right before we left he said, "Some names you see on your schedule and you just know it's going to be a good visit."
-Connor is eating pretty well these days. Most of the time he will eat what we eat, but sometimes, his picky side comes out and he refuses. His faves are almost all fruits, cucumbers, tomatoes, cheese (any kind, even goat), pasta, yogurt, salad, salsa, and much more.
-He LOVES bath time!! My son actually requests to take baths! For his birthday, my sisters got him those bathtub colors and he loves them.
-His favorite toys are his two soccer balls, his toy laptop we got his for his birthday, his Cars chair, another birthday present.
-He still loves to watch Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune. He also loves The Weather Channel, History Channel, and TLC. I watch TWC every morning while I drink my coffee and now Connor requests it. So funny how they love the things we love.
-He is still testing his boundaries every day, but we hardly ever have to put him in time out anymore.

 He has tons of energy and we have so much fun with him!
















Pictures taken by Ashley Bruner  kabphotographyforyou@gmail.com

Finally.....

Wow! It has been three months, almost to the day, since the last time I blogged. We had an INSANE summer! Let me sum up a bit.
June 16- Leave for vacation and find out we have to out of our house by Aug.1
June 27- Return from vacay and IMMEDIATELY begin looking for a new place.
July 6- After almost two weeks of searching, and driving around (every day), we found a new home!
July 21-Spent the previous two weeks packing, packing, and packing some more and moved in on one of the hottest days of the summer!!
July 28- My mom came for a four day visit. We spent the whole week before this just trying to get unpacked and get our guest room ready for her.
Aug 2-6 -Cary and I both got sick this week. Thankfully, Connor did not get it.
Aug. 8- I was still sick and we spent all morning going around to different medical offices for me to get blood work, CT scan, chest x-ray. Not a fun day and I spent the rest of that week trying to recover.

So needless to say, we had a pretty jam packed summer! Once I was finally feeling better, I spent the rest of August trying to finish getting my house in order. We had put some things in temporary spots just so we could have the guest room clean and ready for my mom, so I had some arranging and rearranging to do.
So herein lies my first update in over three months. More to follow!!!