Welcoming August

Because i have been so scatter-brained, i don't have much to say about anything. Except that Caleb started a new schedule at work that we are LOVING! he works a spit shift, and it leaves so much more time in the day to spend as a family! he works 6am-10am. and then again at 4pm-8pm. several times a week he works his part time job 11am-3pm, but we still get a few afternoons with him a week! i'm loving it, and so is Connor! it has been a big change for Caleb, but he says he really enjoys the extra time with us!!! AND he has sundays off now, which is soooo wonderful!

We had been sick quite a bit in July, so when we started feeling better, i decided i would take Connor swimming. i had a nasty staph infection that i had to be on antibiotics for that  left me feeling really sick for a week, and Connor had a cold, AND he has been teething. He got two molars in!!! when he teethes he gets feverish and whiney, and clingy.. he's not a good teether haha. so that combined with all the illness we have been dealing with in our house left us with lots of snuggle time and lots of afternoons in jammies!!!

Connor loves his car seat. He is sooo proud to sit in it like a big kid, and loves to climb in it when its in the house. it rarely is, but occasionally i clean and wash it. Figure that's a smart thing to do if you have a 14 month old that makes huge messes! lol

Just another picture of Connor and the TV... he loves to handle the remotes! i doesn't know which buttons to press, but he loves to press them and see what they do!

Connor loves his Daddy, and he's not afraid to show it! Yesterday he brought me his daddy's patrol cap and wanted it on his head. he was sooooo happy about me putting it on him, and would walk around and squeal and take it off and bring it to me to put it on him again! it was like a little game! he knows exactly whos hat that is, and how to wear it! so cute i thought!!! :)

The End of July

i have been a huuuuuge slacker with my blogging!  so now i'm playing catch-up with it. sorry! :)

 I took Connor to the library with me on one day to check out the kids play area they have there. i usually don't take him since i just want to run in and out and its a hassle to take him in and out of the carseat, but i decided it would be fun to on that day. he had a BLAST playing, and especially loved the etch-a-scetch. i have no clue how to spell that, haha!.

Connor LOVES to chase poor birds... he would do it all day if i let him!!!!

Mr Connor is an expert at making messes in an incredibly short amount of time...and i have learned he particularly likes to eat mascara! this isn't the first time he had done it, but we were cracking up because it looked like little mustache!!! how cute is he?!?!?

 Our little guy is soooo smart! he can turn on his own movies!!!! he doesn't need any help at all as long as it is on the right channel. and if he gets it on the wrong channel, he will bring you the channel changer to fix it. it crazy to see how smart he is with technology! definently has his daddy's smarts!!! :)

 This was a bit of a "you're a horrible mom for wanting a picture of that" type of things. Connor loves smoothies and tried to get some out of a cup on his own and when he put it back on the desk it was only half on, and it fell back and landed on his head... i couldn't stop laughing at how cute and sad it was to see! it had to be sooooo cold though! i grabbed a pic as he cried and cried. then got him in a bath and cleaned him up!

Baths make everything alllllll better!!! :) isn't he just the cutest?!

Connor loves to play outside! he throws fits and tries to open the front door if i don't take him out. i don't like the fit throwing, but i do like that he's an active little boy!!! :) He's got a bit of an independent streak going right now!

Another Fun Week With My Munchkin :)

This week has been quite a good one! Connor has found an independent streak, and he is learning how to do different things soooo quickly! it's so bittersweet to see how quickly he's growing up! I have quite a few videos this week to share :)

The beginning of the week i was laughing my head off because Connor made a HUGE mess and was opening everything he could find, and he opened a packed of those stickly labels you can print on, and he got a piece of it stuck on his forehead and had no clue! it was sooooooo funny! i had to grab i picture of it to share!

he was sucking on chapstick that he ruined...the crazy kid!

 I mentioned before how Connor wants to do everything all on his own, and feeding himself is one of those things! if i even touched the spoon, he wouldn't eat it. i was surprised at how well he did! he was soooo proud of himself, and mommy was proud of him too!

 This is another thing that had me laughing my head off... he has a little ball that needs some air in it, so it is only partially full, and he was putting it in his mouth and running around with it as he held it by his teeth! the things this kid does.... haha! i even got a video of it. :)

 I have been trying to encourage Connor to only take naps in his crib, but one of the days this week he cried and cried and cried at naptime, and it was obvious he was soooo tired, so i let him take a nap on my lap. it has been such a long time since he was willing to snuggle!

Connor thinks that anything he finds in the kitchen is a toy just for him... even the rolling pin! he carries it around everywhere, and freaks out when i take it. the poor little guy smashed his toe with it though, and now has a nasty bruise! :( i took it away after that! i don't like things being mean to my baby!

i know that i have shown videos of his cute dancing before, but i just had to do it again because he has started to really get into the beats of the music and move, and i can't help but laugh at the cuteness!!! sorry the video gets out of sync!!! there are still a few cute moments to see :)

Connor is very attached to his Daddy, and gets very sad when he's home and he can't sit with him or play games or talk to him. It's kinda cute how much he loves his Daddy! must mean Caleb is doing something right :) He wanted to go in the bedroom with Daddy soooo bad!

My friend Nicole has a puppy, and Connor has never been around one before this. i thought he would be afraid, but truthfully i've never been seen him so excited before! he was THRILLED and didn't care if it jumped on him or anything else!

 This weekend we had some serious rain! i kept getting flashflood warnings on my phone all during the day on saturday. Connor and i were at my friend Nicole's house and when we walked home the puddles were ankle deep in places along all the sidewalks!! Connor thought it was the COOLEST thing ever!

We have a little table out on our porch that filled up with water from the rain! Connor really liked splashing in it!

 On Sunday my poor little guy wasn't feeling so well. Too much splashing in the rain maybe??? He was running a low fever, and had a sneezy, snotty nose, and was so clingy and sad and sleepy! my friend had a flu bug earlier in the week, so to be on the safe side i kept him home from church so we wouldn't pass anything around! since i'm in the nursery i try to be careful with that, because i don't know many parents that are happy to have their little kids sick! He napped off and on all day...he's such a cutie when he sleeps!

 

I had a good laugh on Sunday after i took Connor's temperature because he decided he needed to hold onto that thing the rest of the day! he wanted to check his own temperature like he saw mommy do! well, not exactly like i did haha

 This little boy in this picture was soooo excited to discover he can climb on chairs all by himself. up until yesterday he had only got on the couches and boxes alone. he made sure i took a good long look at him standing up on it, and showed me several times! what a talented boy! :)

We had a super fun week, and can't wait to see all the crazy things Connor will do next week! :) Hope everyone enjoyed all we shared!

Big Plans!

My last couple posts have been full of pictures and cute stories of Connor, but haven't said much about what has been going on with Caleb and I, and it might have been obvious that i have been extremely stressed out. theres no easy way to explain exactly what was stressing me out other than to just say i had no clue where life was headed! i'm not the kind of person that can go through life everyday changing my plans or even NOT having plans for my life. i need plans, and backup plans, and at least some idea of where we hope to be in the next year that i can feel good about. the problem was that we had our same plans we made a long time ago, but i no longer felt confidant in them. there was no reason for feeling the way i did, other than that i think it was Heavenly Father's way of trying to tell me we would be much better off doing something different. As i was praying and seeking some sort of an answer as to why i felt like i did, and how i could figure out what it was we need to be doing, the thought kept occuring to me that we should move back to Idaho. i didn't think there was much possibility in it since we are tied down here with Caleb's school and the National Guard, but i still suggested it to Caleb, and was quite disappointed when he didn't seem to want to discuss it. As more weeks went by i became more and more stressed and unhappy, especially about living here in Arizona. but was trying very hard to find a different answer as to what i could do to stop feeling the way i was, and make sure we had our life figured out, but nothing seemed to make a difference. I  was just deciding that i just had to deal with it and quit having a pity party, when out of the blue, Caleb asks my opinion of moving to Idaho next year! i literally thought he was joking since he knew how bad i wanted to move back home, but he wasn't! he had a whole list of reasons why it would benefit us to move back, and had put some serious thought into it all. he said that he hadn't wanted to discuss it before because he had needed to figure out what he thought about it all and work it through in his head before stressing me out about it. he knows how much i can't stand when people talk to me about things and then change their mind a million times. boy do i love him! he knows me so well! :)

So now we are slowly, but surely, making plans to move back to Idaho next year! our lease on these apartments doesn't get up until next February, so it won't be until at least February, but probably not too long after that. we are trying to get an idea of our plans and how to make it all work before setting anything in stone. moving is expensive, and stressful, but we both feel like Idaho is where we need to be. We are trying to figure out schooling options, and how to work out the national guard things right now before we worry about making any other plans, but it is definitely a work in progress! soooooo excited!!! :)

Proud To Be An American!

i LOVE the 4th of July! Growing up we always had big family get-togethers, and my family is very patriotic. because of that, the 4th of july has a special place in my heart. i'm so grateful to live in this country with its freedoms! since we moved here i have a rough day on the 4th and miss seeing my family very very much. it was fun to celebrate with Connor this year now that he is old enough to participate in things...

This year was a bit odd to me, since it RAINED on the 4th of July! i don't know if i have any memories of that ever happening to before. but, we do live in Arizona, and that is very different from my Idaho! It was still beautiful weather outside, even though it was quite a bit humid. I took Connor on a little walk through the apartments and he thought splashing in puddles was AMAZINGLY fun! that IS what little boys do best!!!!

We had thought that Caleb would have to work, but he didn't so we decided to go to the store and buy sparklers and pop-its and Connor had soooo much fun!!!!!

Hope everyone had a wonderful 4th of July like we did!!! love you all!