A New Nephew AND Christmas!

My sister Alissa had little Kayden on December 18th. Since it was a Saturday we headed up that day to go see him. He is SO stinkin cute and is the best little baby!

Conner and Kynzee keeping themselves entertained at the hospital by eating pudding cups.

Nathan headed home on Sunday but I stayed until Wednesday and rode back to Twin with Nathan’s sister Lindsey. I spent the whole time hugging this little cutie.He makes me excited to meet our little guy! I hope these last 4 months go by fast!

On Thursday morning we headed to Washington to spend Christmas with the Gilberts. We had so much fun and,as always, it went by way too fast. We love having the whole family together and Conner loved spending time with all of his cousins. Here they are helping Grandpa leave hay out for Santa's reindeer.

Christmas morning: Family shot + Josh

Josh helping Conner see what Santa left him in his stocking.

Conner understood the concept of opening presents alot better this year but still got frustrated when we wouldn't immediately let him play with his toys.

Conner was spoiled and got lots and lots of toys including a set of farm animals. After he opened them he had to set them all up and tell us the noise that each of them makes. It was so cute!

I feel like I am never in any of the pictures from vacations because I am always the one taking the pictures... I think that this is the only one I'm in!

We spent the whole time eating WAY too much good food. On two of the nights we had big delicious turkey dinners. And one night we even went and ate at Chico's. They have the best pizza because they stack on TONS of toppings. Grandma Grimmett had a big bag of quarters and let the kids play all of the arcade games. We stuck as many kids on the rollar coaster ride as possible to get the biggest bang for our buck. Conner doesn't look too happy about Lucy squeezing in.

While we were there we decided to paint a few rooms in Nathan's parents house. Nathan babysat while the girls painted and this is how he kept them entertained.

Before we left we had to get a picture of all the cute grandkids!

We had a great time and LOVED seeing everyone!

Family Night

The other night we decided to have a family pajama party. We rented the new Shrek movie and watched it while we ate pizza and shared chocolate fondue. I was worried about the mess Conner would make but I ended up making the biggest mess and dropped a chocolate covered banana on the carpet… at least the carpet is already brown!

Conner's new "BITE!" (as he would say!)
We gave Conner his “Christmas bike” a little early because we didn’t want to bring it all the way to Washington. He loves it… Especially while wearing his hat and gloves. He insists on wearing them around the house at least five times a day... Apparently our house is really cold!

December Happenings

When I was painting my toenails, Conner wanted me to paint his too! I was only going to do one toe but he kept pointing to each toenail, wanting them ALL painted. He was so excited when I was done and didn’t want to put his socks back on because he wanted to keep looking at them. Good thing Nathan wasn’t home… I don’t think that he would have allowed it to happen! Haha!

Conner has no shame... Look how happy he is to have red toes!

We put up our Christmas tree the other day. Conner liked “helping.” Actually in these pictures Conner is taking the ornaments OFF of the tree and pulling the tops off…

I saved the best picture for last…
My Mom and sister came up to visit so we decided to take Conner to go see Santa. We had gone to the mall a few days before and Santa was walking around passing out candy canes. After Conner got one he said “Ho, Ho, Ho” the rest of the day because he wanted to go back to see Santa to get more candy. So when we went back he immediately ran up to Santa, got his candy cane, opened it, handed Santa the wrapper, and ran back to us to eat it. He kept waving and smiling at Santa… until we tried sitting him on his lap.

His face immediately turned RED… he was not happy! There were a few pictures where he wasn’t crying so hard but Nathan thought that this one was the funniest. When Conner ran back to us he had big tears rolling down his cheeks but when we told him to say bye to Santa he waved and smiled. Both the kid before and after Conner bawled too… poor Santa has the fun job of making little kids cry all day. Maybe next year will be better!

20 Weeks

Halfway there! I can feel the baby moving all the time and I LOVE it. It is definitely my favorite part about being pregnant. My not so favorite part is having all my clothes getting tighter and tighter... at least that means that he is getting bigger and stronger. We are excited for little Jayden to join our family. We are trying to get Conner used to the idea of having a little brother. Whenever we ask him "where is baby Jayden?" he comes over and points to my tummy. Although he probably doesn't know what that means it is really cute!

It's a....

BOY!

We are so excited! We had our ultrasound yesterday and saw the little guy for the first time. He kept opening and closing his mouth, it was so cute. He was also flipping around like crazy. The ultrasound tech said “I can’t believe how active he is! I am having a hard time getting my measurements!” She laughed and asked me “Did you eat a whole bunch of candy before you came in or something?” I was like “No, just look at his older brother running around the room yelling… we just have super active children.” (I blame that on Nathan…) Conner was the exact same way in my belly… bouncing around like crazy. I can see it now… two little blondies running around causing all sorts of mischief. I’m excited for Conner to have a little buddy. We are going to name him Jayden Dell. We are already so excited to meet him!

Other News: We have been getting lots of snow and Conner LOVES going outside to “help” Dad shovel the driveway. He doesn’t care how freezing cold it is outside… he wants to be out there! I love how cute he looks all bundled up.

For Thanksgiving we went down to Idaho Falls. Our family is getting so big so we had our own dinner at my parents house. It was delish! My brother in law Ryan deep fried a turkey and my Mom baked one. Nathan was in charge of the gravy. (He did a good job by the way.)

We had TONS of food and it was all sooo good! Conner eating with "Papa".

My Mom got Conner this little shovel so that he can help his Daddy outside and he wanted to test it out.

Nathan and I bravely decided to go “Black Friday” Christmas shopping. It started Thursday night at 10 pm at Toys R Us. We waited in a ridiculously long line for an hour and a half before we decided that it wasn’t worth it… It was freezing cold and I couldn’t feel my feet! We had better luck at all the other stores that we went to. We just waited until about 30 minutes after each store opened to go in and we still got almost everything that we wanted! We didn’t sleep ALL NIGHT LONG! I don’t think I have ever pulled an all-nighter in my life! Later that afternoon I took a 3 hour nap but that was all the sleep that I got until that night. (Nathan only got an hour and a half!) I know that we are CRAZY but at least we got most of our Christmas shopping done and we got a good deal too! I love me a good deal!

Blackmail

For some reason Conner LOVES wearing my church shoes around the house... He has a thing for heels. I think that he likes the way that they click against the tile.

This video will be great for blackmail later on!

I LOVE this kid!

Even though Conner is getting more mischievous and sometimes downright naughty we can’t get enough of him! He is so much fun and is always making us laugh. The other day I was walking behind him when he tooted really loud… he grabbed his bum and yelled “WOW!” then he turned around and asked “was dat?” I asked him “Did you poop?” and he said “yeah!” so lately whenever he toots (or hears a toot… not from me…) he yells “wow!, poop!”

His favorite foods are oatmeal and apples dipped in peanut butter. Apparently it was NOT a good idea to give him ketchup to dip his hot dog in.

He loves making cookies with me. He helps by making sure it tastes delicious.

He is sleeping in a toddler bed because he figured out how to climb out of his crib. I was dreading that moment but he has been doing really well with the transition and it only took a couple of nights. Whew!

He has a wind up giraffe that he likes to sleep with. Now he thinks that all stuffed animals are called "faffs."

He loves to climb up on everything! His new thing is to climb up onto something and count “Un, Two Tee!” and jump off. On numerous occasions I have had to catch him from plunging to his death...
His favorite show is Dora the Explorer. He is constantly asking to watch “Worwa.” Nathan suggested I try getting him to watch Bob the Builder instead…

He loves dogs. Our neighbor that lives behind us has a dog and if he can’t see him through the fence he will tell me “ruff, ruff, na-night.”

*Baby Update!*

We get to find out what we are having in 3 1/2 weeks... on the 29th! Wahoo! My doctor said that he won't induce until I am at least a week overdue so we will just have to go about it the old fashioned way. It wouldn't be a big deal but we just need to figure out what we are going to do with Conner until someone can get here to watch him. We are super excited for Conner to be a big brother... even though he has no idea what that even means! :)