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32 Weeks

Only eight weeks left… the end is in sight! The little guy is healthy, strong, and super active. Sometimes at night I swear he is trying to break out of the womb. I’m at the point that I am feeling very uncomfortable and am ready to meet this little guy. On the positive side… the good thing about heartburn is that smoothie flavored Tums are tasty… :) The only thing better than feeling a baby move inside of me is being able to hold that little baby and I can’t wait!

Buddies

This post is going to be out of order but it’s better late than never! My sister Alissa, her husband Ryan, and their two cute kids Kynzee and Kayden came up to visit two weeks ago. It was such a warm weekend so we were able to take the kids outside to play and for a bike ride. Conner and Kynzee are little buddies and it is so cute to watch them play together. Here are a few cute pictures of them hanging out…

We loved having them here and were so glad that they were able to come visit… we wish that they lived closer so that we could see them all the time!

Conner the Birthday Boy!

I can’t believe that Conner is already two! His birthday was on Sunday but we celebrated it on Saturday. Conner woke up to his first present of the day: his “birthday mobile.” He loved it and made us push him around the house all morning honking his horn and yelling “GO!” Conner kept saying either “Mama’s turn” or “Dada’s turn”… I let it be “Dada’s turn” the majority of the time.
For lunch we took him to Arctic Circle so that he could play on the toys and he didn’t want to leave even though we had been done eating for a long time.

When we got back lots of family started coming into town. Uncle Kevin, Aunt Lena, and cousins Lucy and Isak came down from Washington. Aunt Lindsey and Uncle Nate came up from Rexburg. Grandma, Aunt Teresa, and cousin Kynzee came up from Idaho Falls. Aunt Chelsea came from Utah. We started the party once everyone got here… we ate pizza and then sang to Conner and ate cake. Conner has really been liking Buzz lately so I went with that theme. (He does like Dora more but a Dora cake would have been way too girly…)


Conner sneaking M&M’s off of the cake… He is the birthday boy so he gets to do what he wants.
I made an ice cream cake but we forgot to take it out of the freezer to let it thaw a little bit. So I let Nathan use his super strong muscles to cut it.Once we started singing “Happy Birthday” to Conner he knew exactly what to do. He started blowing out his candles before we even finished the song.
Afterwards Conner opened up his pile of presents. He had lots of help from Kynzee. (I’m sure that he will return the favor on her birthday.)
He got Toy Story potato heads, a Jack in the Box, Play-doh, books, clothes, a sing along CD, Buzz plate/bowl/cup set, and a Nerf gun. Here is Uncle Kevin showing Conner how to shoot his new gun.

We were glad that so many people were able to come celebrate with us… we had so much fun and Conner loved all of the attention!

Kevin, Lena, Lindsey and Nate were able to stay the whole weekend because Monday was Presidents Day. We had so much fun with them here. We all got Nerf guns and had lots of battles. (We kept finding Nerf darts all over the house.) We played the Xbox kinect… sooo much fun! It was so funny to watch everyone play the dancing game. I even took my turn busting some serious moves! Haha! The girls gave the Dad's babysitting duty and went out shopping. I got a few things for when I no longer have a big belly and extra chub... it might be a while before I can wear them but buying big clothes is not as much fun. Here are a few pictures of our weekend!

Lindsey, Lena, and I

Conner giving Isak a big hug...

Hanging out with Uncle Nate...

Conner is being helpful by washing Lucy's hair...

Thanks for coming everyone! We loved having you here and had a blast!

New Pets!

Nathan has had a fish tank for most of the time that we’ve been married and I’ve always told him that fish are the lamest pets. His tank was down to two fish so we went to the pet store to buy him more and while we were there I convinced him to put hamsters in the tank instead! That meant flushing his two fish… I thought that it might make Conner sad (he loves the fish!) but he just flushed the toilet, waved, said “bye bye fishies!”, and walked out of the bathroom.

I named my little hamster Gus Gus, from Cinderella… I know that Gus Gus is a mouse in the show but close enough right? Isn’t he a cute little furball?
Nathan named his Skelator, from He-man… good thing he isn’t solely responsible for naming our children!
We got a ball for them to run around in. I wondered how long it would take for Conner to kick it… two seconds! I have a feeling that Conner is going to greatly decrease their life expectancy…

Conner is going to be two years old in just two weeks… he’s not my little baby anymore! I’m a little worried what the “terrible twos” will bring. Conner is already a busy body who loves mischief and definitely has a mind of his own!

Getting into Mommy’s mascara… (Most of it is on his eyelids.)

Getting into the sticky labels...

I love this bath picture because it shows his silly little personality. Lately Conner has been really interested in learning his colors. Some days he knows them really well and gets them all right but some days he thinks everything is blue... either way we think he is pretty bright! I have a video of him coloring and naming the colors of the crayons but for some reason I can NOT get any videos to load!

Conner also is learning to count. We will hear him counting his toys as he is playing with them. Usually it is "One, Two, Three, One, Two, Three..." over and over again but lately he has been counting further. I got a video of him counting all the way to fourteen! But once again it won’t load so you’ll just have to believe me. :)