Conner's New Car Room

I realize it's been awhile since I have posted to the blog. Life has been crazy busy this year! I am much better with posting to FB these days. So check us out there more frequently!

We just upgraded Conner's room to a big boy room. All the baby stuff is gone...so sad! He did so well sleeping in his own bed at the beach, so we went ahead and converted everything from baby baseball to big boy car room. He was so excited about his new "car" bed. That's all he talked about at the beach. This boy loves his cars and doesn't have a whole lot to do with baseballs, much to his Daddy's dismay. I got one more piece to find to go above the bed and it will be complete. So far, I love it with all the bright colors. The bed even has a track at the end for Conner to play with all 1,2oo of his cars!

Moonlight at the Beach

This picture was taken our last night at the beach. It was really as light as this picture shows. It was very pretty reflecting off the ocean!

Snow Day

This was the perfect kind of snow day....enough snow to play in for an afternoon, but gone the next day so you're not stuck at the house! Conner really enjoyed getting to play in it. He didn't know what to think at first. We left the blinds up in the house and he kept looking outside and saying "no" (ie "snow"). Next winter I will invest in waterproof boots and gloves. His poor little hands got wet and cold with the cloth ones.

January

Hello everyone, sorry I have not been posting on a regular basis. We have been super busy lately and I have not had hardly anytime to do anything. Construction on the scrubber project at the plant in Mobile that I have been working the past three years has finally been completed. We put the unit on line a couple of weeks ago and I have spent a lot of time in Mobile the past couple of weeks. Shayne has already started baseball practice at MJ, so I am now a baseball widow for the next few months. They open their season on February 15 against Oak Grove. Between work and taking care of Conner we do not have much free time to do anything else.

Conner is really growing right now and he is learning alot. We are trying to potty train him right now but that is not going so well. We bought Conner a potty seat that fits on the real toilet seat, but Conner wants to use it for a hat, and he runs around the house with it on his head :). Hopefully in the next few months we will have him potty trained. No more diapers, we can't wait.

Christmas

We had an eventful Christmas this year. We hosted Shayne's side of the family on Christmas Eve and then we hosted my side of the family on Christmas Day. It was really great to see everyone and we really enjoyed having everyone over to our house. Conner was super-excited that we had so many people in our house. Conner has finally gotten the hang of opening presents but their is still one problem, once he opens the present he wants to play with it and he doesn't care to open the next one.

Conner got a ton of really nice presents from the family. I cannot remember everything that he got but here are a few of the big things: ride on police motorcycle, stationary V-Tech bike, little people airplane, little people bus, little people barn, a "Toy Story" sleeping bag, tons of cars and trucks. We got him a cleaning set and some other small stuff. Santa brought Conner a wooden playground for Christmas. It has been so cold and rainy Conner has not been able use the playground very much so far but we know that he will love it as soon as it warms up.

Conner and his cousin Adi sitting on the couch together

Conner opening presents !

Daddy reading "The Night Before Christmas" to Conner

Conner asleep in his sleeping bag (a Christmas present)

Conner's 2nd Birthday

On December 5th Conner turned two years old. We took him to Chuck-E-Cheese and then we came home to watch Alabama beat Florida. On Sunday we had a birthday party for him at our house. He was very excited to see everyone and he really enjoyed opening all of his presents. When it was time to sing "Happy Birthday" to him he was a little confused. When we starting singing to him his bottom lip started quivering, and he looked like he was about to start crying. We kept on singing to him and he started to really like it. He liked it so much we had to sing "Happy Birthday" to him again.

At Chuck-E-Cheese

Enjoying All The Attention !

Conner's New Motor Cycle