Connor's birthday celebrations

Connor's birthday was a week ago today, and we were supposed to go to the park and get ice cream with Katie and Heather, but it was raining, so we went to Incredible Pizza! Connor had a great time! Here he is riding the red car.

I think this was his favorite game. It didn't cost any money because all he wanted to do was move the steering wheel, and he couldn't reach it from the seat, so he sat on the floor.

You can't have a birthday without ice cream, right?!

We had his birthday party yesterday, Sunday, and it was great! He is such a blessed little boy to have so many people that love him! The party was a dumptruck theme, and I did go a little crazy with it... but oh well...

food for the kids (served out of dumptrucks of course)

Dirt cake for the kids (more dumptruck usage) and regular cake for the adults - although half of the kids ate the regular cake and their was (to my dissapointment) only a small amount of dirt cake left at the end of the party... who knew dirt cake was so amazing?!

Big bite of dirt cake for the birthday boy! Presents were pure chaos (like at most children's birthday parties every child has to help open) and to quote myself, "Everybody needs to sit down! Momma is getting stressed!" lol - not my proudest birthday party moment, but what can ya do when 10 kids are sitting at your feet and trying to open one gift at the same time?

Giving Poppa (a.k.a. golf cart - that's what connor calls him because everytime we visit he takes him for a ride on the golf cart) a kiss thank you for the cute clothes!
OK - confession time. I spent approximately 12 hours making these jello cups. They were adorable. Six different layers of jello stacked on top of each other in a see through plastic cup. How awesome is that?! Well, let me tell you it was worth every second when I saw Connor throw his spoon to the side and dig his whole arm into the cup to get some jello! Then he looked at me and said, "cold!" lol! And he ate the whole cup! I love him!

Connor got a bowling set from Grandpa James and Sheryl. Here he is in action!

Who knew how much fun helium balloons could be at the end of a long birthday party day?

Grandpa and Gammy got Connor a super hero cape - here he is being Super Connor with Super Daddy!

Listening to a story read by Grandpa before bedtime. What a great birthday!!

Oh my gosh we have a 2 year old!!!

Connor turned 2 years old today! He is such a big boy! Here are a few things that he does that we think are just adorable!

*If you ask him his name he says Caca.
*He rarely says yes - it is always OK!
*He calls firetrucks woos - because a firetruck says woo woo, so he likes to shorten it to just woo
*He calls the mechanical horse at meijer a neigh, and any time we pull up to any store he starts yelling, neigh! neigh!
*Everytime we ask him if he needs a diaper change (no matter how obvious it may be) he always says no stinky and runs away
*If we leave a room, even for a minute, he says bye mama, bye dada, and usually bye to whatever toy is nearby
*he says hi and bye to random strangers in stores
*If you tell him to do something he doesn't want to do, or not do something that he wants to do, he waves to you and says bye bye - as if to say, you can leave, I want to do what I want to do!
*His favorite show is Caillou
*He loves Baby Joshua Land - he loves to kiss him, rub his face, hold his hand, give him toys, anything to do with Baby Joshua!
*Everytime he walks by Kate's room he says Kate's room! And it is one of his favorite places to play.
*His favorite toys are cars and trucks - he is having a dumptruck birthday party on Sunday!
*He likes to wrestle and play hide and go seek with Daddy.
*If he is ready to leave he will say "ready to go" over and over and over and over and over
*He is a terrible eater - the only thing you can 100% guarantee he will eat is McDonald's chicken nuggets, a breakfast bar, crackers, and banana pudding. All other food is hit or miss. Good thing he eats a vitamin every day! lol
*If he is not ready to go to bed and it is time he says, "play!"
*his favorite songs to sing and do the motions to are wheels on the bus and the itsy bitsy spider, he sings wheels on the bus everytime we turn on the windshield wipers in the car.
*He knows the colors red, blue, orange, green, yellow, white, and purple

There are probably a thousand more things we could write, but this is enough! Our little boy is two and we can't believe it! He is so much fun and we couldn't imagine life without him.

Apple orchard and zoo

We have been to the apple orchard a couple of times. They have a new play set with swings and a slide - Connor's two favorite things - and apple slushies for Mommy :)

We also went to the zoo with Katie.

Connor looking at the fish.

summertime fun

Since it wasn't 100 degrees yesterday we were finally able to take our kid outside! haha.. Here he is helping daddy water the plants.

Since I haven't been able to post in forever, I have a few random pictures to share :)

We took Connor to the zoo for the first time! It was about 500 degrees, but thankfully it was cloudy most of the day so that helped! We went with Nana, Grandpa David, Uncle Nick, Seth and Ally. He didn't get overly excited like I was hoping, but we were kind of expecting it. He is pretty serious when it comes to new things. He likes to check them out before he shows any type of reaction. He liked the elephants the best, but the dolphin show was probably a close second - he kept saying jump jump jump when they would do flips! haha

Daddy is clearly excited about whatever animal that's actually making Connor smile...lol

We must be at the elephants, because he is signing elephant.

We went across the street to the fire station with Katie, her mom, our kids and Ryder one day a couple weeks ago.

(back when the grass was growing and not dead) Mark was mowing and Connor wanted to get his mower SO bad and take it outside (mommy wanted to stay inside in the AC, but got a big veto...)

Here is a video of him reading a cookie monster book. You can hear him say cookie, cookie all gone, more cookie, uh oh, where cookie go, night cookie and night night (along with a lot of jibber jabber)

pink or blue??!!

PINK!! Baby Kate will be here in a few short months! We are so excited to be welcoming a baby girl to our family. Connor says sister and it is adorable!

Florida 2011

Our computer has not been working, so I have not been able to post anything... sorry for the delay, but we are back in business!

We had an amazing time in florida this year! Connor did soooo much better than last year. If you will remember, last year he was sick the whole week, we were still doing bottles in the middle of the night, he was taking 2 naps a day and not doing very well at it...

But THIS year we had a great schedule! (Other than the fact that he woke up 30 minutes earlier every day) But he would get up, play with grandpa (since granda is the only other one that likes to see the light of day that early, he was the only one to play with), eat breakfast, play some more, go on a walk to the playground down the street/beach, come back and hit the beach for a couple hours, go in for lunch and bath at 1, and then nap till about 5 every day! It was amazing!

Here is the link to last year's post, but I am going to include some pictures from last year because it is AMAZING how much he has changed!! Florida 2010

Starts out on the plane...

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this year - he never gets his paci outside of the crib, so as soon as he got it he was so excited, and knew it was time for night-night

Then to the airport in florida...

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And to the beach!

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Going to fill up the wagon with water with Daddy



He was not a fan of the ocean... hanging on to Grandpa with all his might...

We had so much fun with Grandpa, Gammy, Aunt Mallory, Aunt Moe Moe and Chad!