Christmas Tree!

When we got back for Chattanooga, we went with the Wootens to the Christmas tree farm to cut our trees down!  Patrick and I went last year and we were really happy to be able to share the experience with our friends this year.  It's so much fun!  We were also able to dress up and took some pictures for our Christmas card.

On our way!

Unfortunately, it was a strange time of day and the flash washed everything out and not flash was really dark and ended up making most of my pictures really blurry.  I've got to learn how to use my camera better!  Oh well, we got some good pictures anyhow.

Playing "where's Dada."

In front of our tree.

Sweet boys.

Porter with Parker's chain saw.

"Cutting down" a tree.

Tickles

Afterwards we came back to our house and had pizza together.  We sure love those Wootens!

Thanksgiving

I was so excited to host Thanksgiving for my mom, Will, Henry, Sarah, Ed, Marie, and Megan.  We had a lot of fun.  It look a while (like almost the whole time everyone was there) for Connor to warm up.  He wanted to hang out with Sarah most of the time.

My table

All our glorious food!

Everyone watching Connor dance.

Brother love.

After Thanksgiving we went to Chattanooga so we could go to our dear friends' Kevin's and Leslie's daughter Ella's second birthday!

Leslie and Kevin are expecting their second baby in April and they announced the gender and name of the baby at Ella's birthday.  They had Ella open a box with blu balloons in it.  It was so fun!

Boxes are the most fun toys.

Blog post... finally

Long story short, I ran out of space on my account for storing pictures.  So, I've been sitting on a few blog posts, trying to remember the passwords to my other Google accounts when I finally got fed up and just made a new account.   So!  On to Connor.

Last month we did a lot of visiting!  We got to spend a lot of time with Parker and Porter.  One day, when they came over, all the boys decided they needs to play outside, so we suited them up in Connor's jackets and let them play.  So sweet.

Sarah visited us the week before Thanksgiving to plan for our dinner.  Connor loves it when his Sassy visits!

 Somehow, Connor ended up with some booboos on his knee and foot.  I got to put on his first bandaid (other than shots).  He was not thrilled.  He thinks bandaids are an abomination and tries to take them off everyone, including himself.

 Sarah go to come back and visit us the Wednesday before Thanksgiving, which was really helpful with cooking and prepping food.  And Connor was thrilled.

 We have a neighbor who has two tiny Yorkies that Connor loves to visit.  It's fun that we can connect with a neighbor through our "children."  Connor often ask to go see the dogs, but when we go into her backyard, he tries to avoid them as much as possible (who could blame him, they try to give his face doggie kisses and push him down) and just explores Darnell's yard.

Eighteen Months!

It's hard for me to believe that my baby is a year and a half old.  Then I look down on him in my arms and see how he has to curl up his body to fit on my lap and I'm amazed at how big he is!  I certainly love this little guy.

Blowing wedding bubbles.

He learned how to kick a ball!

You can see how the weather got colder by the clothes he's wearing!  We love having fun together.  He talks all the time.  Constant jabber.  He loves to "tell" us things and try to communicate with us.  His favorite words right now are "no" and "hey."  He says "heeeeeeeey," all the time.  Sometimes if he's trying to get me to say it back, he'll stop, come up to me and say, "Mama, hey!" until I say it back to him.

Connor eats some snacks during the day and a small dinner at night.  He usually eats a baby yogurt, cheese, hummus wraps, some noodles, fruit, and other things.

Yogurt face!

Ready for a nap after "eating" applesauce.

On Halloween we set up outside to give out candy!  I let Connor eat 4 packs of fruit snacks over a 4 hour period and he was wired.  Hey, it's only one day, right?

Britni embroidered a shirt for Connor to wear.  It's so cute!  Patrick always wears a ghost shirt on Halloween, so Connor matched him.

Connor decided to celebrate being one and a half by getting sick for the first time.  He has had a couple colds, and a one-day fever related to his molars, but this is the first time he's been really sick.  It seems like it's something like a fever flu.  Fever and a little bit of difference in his poop are the only symptoms, so it's a pretty easy illness to deal with.  On Saturday, he passed out in Patrick's arms while he was reading him books before I came to nurse him before his nap.  He has had a fever ever since Saturday morning, but it's gotten a degree less every day, so today it's in the 99 range.

Yesterday I texted my mom to say that Connor was sick and Patrick had left on a 5 day business trip and she called me back to ask if she could come visit.  I said, of course!  So she came down for the afternoon and hung out with me and we tried to keep Connor happy.

Connor was really snuggly because
he felt so bad Saturday.

Grumpy Conor with Sani.

Today Connor is feeling a lot better, though he still isn't 100%.  He woke up 2 hours into his nap and I nursed him, and then he went back to sleep for almost another hour and a half.  Sweet sick buddy, we hope you feel better soon!  Tomorrow he has his well baby visit, so we'll see about his growth!  I'm excited.