Where's the Baby?

Conner loves to play peek a boo, especially with his daddy. Any blanket, towel or shirt is used to hide and then re-appear. Such a clever, funny boy!

More Cute Pictures

I got an amazing camera for Christmas from my parents, and even though I am still learning how to use the camera, with such a cute subject, Conner makes it easy to take good pictures!

Conner's First Christmas

Conner had an amazing first Christmas and I can't believe it is already over. We started the day at our house and opened a couple of presents from Santa around 10am, as well as Andrew and my presents to each other. Conner was interested in playing with the paper some, but he would get distracted somewhat easily. Conner got a firetruck and a singing mailbox, as well as a Nutcracker from his Daddy.



Next step, we went over to our family christmas at my parent's house where the majority of presents were for Conner! His absolute favorite present was his fisher Price Learning Farm, some of his other favorites were his rocking horse, a walking toy from Grandma, and of course a lot of clothes!

After presents Conner was able to participate in a family tradition of Christmas Brunch with French Toast and Banana Fritters. He loved everything! He was so exhausted he took a 2.5 hour nap at grandma's house.

Dancing

Conner has loved to dance for awhile now, and anytime he hears music he is doing the baby butt dance. I finaly caught a little bit on video!

9 Month Update

I am definitely behind in updating the blog, but I wanted to post an update of all of the new things that Conner is doing lately. His 9 Month birthday evening (Saturday 11/28) was spent in the Children's Hospital ER, our first visit but I am sure it won't be the last if Conner is anything like I was as a kid. Conner had a fever since Friday morning and it was not improving any with Baby Motrin. He was an overall miserable baby, not wanting to move from my chest and acting like any movement was too much effort. What started us worrying is the shallow rapid breathing that he had, I had never heard him do that before, so I called his pediatrician's office and they put me in contact with the nurse at Children's. After hearing his symptoms the nurse asked us to bring him in due to the breathing. My mom and I packed Conner’s diaper bag and piled in the car. I called Andrew on the way and he met us at the ER. They are so amazing at Children's, they called us right back and we met with the Resident and then the Doctor. After speaking with them both, as well as a chest X-Ray, it was determined that Conner was fighting some sort of Viral Infection, but that if his breathing worsened to bring him back in. Of course when the doctors came to look at him he perked right up and was smiling and giggling like he was the healthiest baby ever, that’s my baby!

By Monday he was feeling a little better, and we had our regular scheduled 9 month check in with his pediatrician. Conner weighed in at 22lbs moving down to the 50-75th percentile for height and weight but staying in the 95th percentile for head circumference. Everything checked out great and the only shot he received was the Seasonal Flu booster.

Milestones that Conner has mastered:

*Pulling to a stand
*Crawling
*Cruising
*Clapping
*Indian Call
*Eating finger foods (he no longer likes baby food, and wants to feed himself)
*Using his Sippy cup on his own
*throwing all toys out of his crib when he is done with his nap, and then crying that all the toys are out of his crib
*Finding his binky and putting it in his mouth, my mouth, the dogs mouth, and trying to catch the cats to give the binky to them (he likes to share)

Milestones that Conner has started:

*Waving
*Standing without holding on
*Climbing onto everything; he has successfully mastered climbing on anything as tall as 1 foot, working on everything taller
*Saying Mama and Dada, he has said them but I am not ready to call them his first words yet
*Pointing to Mama and Daddy when asked where they are
*throwing his ball
*Tantrums when he does not get to do something he wants
*Following directions (placing a ball in a bucket, giving a toy to me)

Shortly before Thansgiving we took our Family Christmas photos!

I gave Conner a present at Thansgiving (it was a snow globe) so that he could practice opening presents for Christmas. He was confused at first, but really liked the paper once I showed him how to do it.

Swimming Class

Conner's grandpa came to swimming class this last Sunday and was able to take some good pictures of Conner having fun in the water. He loves swimming class and especially splashing the other babies. The one aspect of class he is not so sure about is going under water, but he is getting used to it and will be a pro in no time at all!

Dare Devil Conner

Conner's grandmother found a very fun chair that he loves. It lights up and sings to him when he presses the seat or the lamp. Conner has now discovered how to climb up on and stand on the seat. He thinks this is great fun, I think it is a recipe for hitting one's head. We have decided to disagree on this subject and he climbs onto the seat every chance he gets - usually while singing and dancing to the music. Here is a little clip of him in action.