Day At the Park with Daddy and Grammy

The weekend before Easter weekend I was able to go with my Mom and her friend Lisa to Spokane for Time Out for Women! Thanks to my loving husband I was able to enjoy this weekend one year old free! I knew that they would have lots of fun hanging out together! Time Out For Women was absolutely great and very inspiring and thanks again Mom for the tickets! The speakers were great and of course it's always fun to get away with the girls for a little bit!

Of course Conner and Jess had a great time and it always seems that when Jess is watching Conner, Conner is always well behaved and takes really good naps and everything. Now Jess is never going to believe me when I tell him about all the ugly tantrums that Conner pulls all the time during the day, or how he refuses sometimes to take a nap, little stinker! : ) I was glad though that they got some good male bonding time in, of course with the help of Grammy Walters! : )

Conner is a huge outdoor lover, and if he had it his way he would be outside all day long rain or shine! Jess being the great Dad that he is took Conner out to the park for some fun! I was so sad that I missed out on seeing Conner have so much fun, but Jess took some fun pictures! Thanks hun! : )

Conner enjoying the big swing at McCosh Park in Moses Lake.

Conner getting into the swing all by himself.
Almost there...
Made it! : )

Doing what he does best, climb!

Going down the slide.

Daddy's Boy

Okay, my little man is such the Daddy's boy! I just love it! I think that it's so adorable how excited Conner gets when Jess gets home from work, or how sad Conner gets when Jess leaves for work in the mornings. Conner just wants so much to be just like his dad! If Jess is wearing a hat then Conner wants to be wearing his hat. It just cracks me up! Really it's probably that by the end of the day Conner is so sick of me that when Jess comes home he's just glad to have someone else to play with! : ) Right now Jess is putting up some beader board around our kitchen and dining room, and it's so funny because Conner just marches over there and just watches him and grabs tools and wants to help. It's crazy too how every day that goes by Conner looks more and more like Jess. They even have some of the same habits and personality traits! Jess is a perfectionist in everything that he does. I really like this about him because whenever he does a project or something he never settles for less then perfection in the end, and when he's playing a game or trying to do something he can't stop until he's accomplished a victory or perfection! : ) Well yes Conner is the exact same! He accomplished going up and down the stairs by the young age of 11 months! He's so stubborn because he doesn't want to go down the stairs on his bum or his tummy, but he wants to go down and up them like we do by walking upright! Yes in the early stages of his attempts he had us all nervous but now he's a master! ; ) He would spend forever just over at the stairs by himself going up and down them at his G-ma and G-pa Walters' house. He had us all cracking up! He's like this in a lot of things like climbing up onto a chair, or like how a month or so ago he finally managed to jump out of his crib. Who knows how long he's been trying to do that! I love seeing him accomplish these things though because yes just like his dad he gets the cutest face of victory! ; )

Walking around in Dad's shoes after spending about 20 minutes trying to put them on and getting upright so that he could walk in them!

I had just asked him where Daddy's shoes were!

Okay so Jess got me a new camera for Christmas, and I was bound and determined today to learn how to really use some of the fun things on it. I have absolutely no idea what to do with it! I have read the manual, and I always refer back to it, but I still can't really get the right pictures that I want. I guess that's what I get for never taking a photography class! : ) My sister took some classes so maybe I'll have to bug her next time she's up here to help me out. It's kind of frustrating though that I have this idea of what I want in my head, but I can't seem to figure out how to do it. I almost feel like I am letting my camera down! : ) I think that I really just need to get a really good photo shop program, and maybe I can just make the pictures look like what I have in my head! : ) I always am so jealous of people that have such a good talent of photography! I guess I'll just have to someday take a class or two. : ) Here are some of the results from our photo shoot trial day! : )

Here It Is : )

After many requests here it is, my prego pic! I can't believe that I only have 3 months left. Crazy! Time really does go by a lot faster when you're chasing after a crazy one year old all day! I had Jess take this picture tonight right before we went out for dinner, because after dinner I tend to look like I'm having twins! : ) This pregnancy has been completely opposite then Conner's! Conner's was so easy! I could have been pregnant forever with him. I never was really really sick, and never really felt uncomfortable. With this one, man I was so so so sick, and the baby is always sitting on some nerve that makes my leg go numb, or send my back into spasms. I've had a hard time sleeping too. I just really look forward to the day when I get my body back to myself. : ) All in all I really do love being pregnant. I just get a little nervous about the whole delivery part, because as we learned with Conner you never know how things are going to go. Things can change so fast. I know that everything will go okay, and we are super excited for another little guy! : ) We might have decided on a name, so I'll throw it out there. We are thinking Jace Jackson. Jace just because we like the name, and Jackson after our Grandpas. We'll see it could still change, especially with Jess, he's very undecisive. : )

6 Months Prego

Conner's Quilt and Playing Outside

Here is Conner's quilt that I had been working on forever! I made him another flannel quilt because the only one that he had was his baby quilt, so it was about time. I just found all this way cute fun fabric, and came up with my own pattern. It was pretty fun, but what quilt isn't fun to put together!? I even machine quitled it myself too! I love love this quilt!

This lovely "cute" little thing is now hanging on Conner's wall in his room. Jess found it at Cabela's, of course! Conner's not really sure what to think about it. He just looks up at it and points at it all the time. Occasionally I'll pick him up and let him pet it, but this kind of animal head will be the only kind of animal head that we will ever have in our house.

Here are just some fun pictures of Conner outside today! Of course we spend the majority of our day out there now that it's starting to get a little nice, and because Conner loves it so much. He will bring me his shoes all day until finally I break down and put them on and we head out. He's so funny because he doesn't really do much, but walk around and look at things

Finally Some Recent Updates

Finally! Okay okay I know that it has been forever, but finally we've got things working and Conner's not sick! To start off with my sweet loving husband spoiled me this Valentine's! The weekend before Valentine's we got to go to the Couer d'Alene Resort! I was super excited because he was leaving his phone calls with a lady in the office, and Conner was staying with the Grandmas, so it was like we both got the weekend off! : ) We headed down there on Saturday and of course did a little shopping and then caught a movie since we never get to do that anymore. After the movie we got to have a super nice yummy dinner at the restaurant in the resort! It was serious like the best steak I have ever had! Jess spoiled himself with some King Crab Legs! : ) We had the coolest room too! It had a lake front view and a fireplace a curtains that opened and closed with a remote! :) We made our way back to Moses Lake after a yummy breakfast and of course a quick stop at Cabela's! We missed Conner so much. It was the first time that we had ever left him over night, but of course he survived! He spent Saturday and Saturday night with Grammy Walters, and Sunday with Grandma Moberg! He didn't even realize that we had left. That Sunday night we made our way back home to Tri-Cities. Monday morning Conner and I got up with Jess to give him a ride to work because the car was at his office, and once we got there Conner threw up all over himself! It was so sad! By the time we finally got home he had thrown up 2 more times everywhere! I guess that's what we get when we go and enjoy a weekend away. He was sick last month too, but nothing like this! It lasted all week and it only got worse after Monday. He had diarrhea all week! He never had an appetit, his poor little bum was so sore, and he drank so much stinkin Pedialyte! By Friday I was a little concerned because he still had diarrhea and we all had had very little sleep. I didn't think that it was very healthy to have diarrhea like that when your still so small, so I tired to get into a Doctor, but we haven't seen one here in Tri-Cities yet so that didn't work. I could have taken him to a clinic here in town, but last month when I did that I had a really bad experience. I ended up on going up to Moses Lake on Friday and taking him to my Mom's old work. They are so great there, and I knew that they would take good care of him there. We went in and they took a stool sample to send to the lab to see if he had bacteria or anything that could be causing him to have a bad stomach, but 2 days later everything came back normal. I was kind of frustrated, because he wasn't acting like himself, and I just wanted to know what was wrong with the poor little guy. Anyways, he ended up getting 100% better by the next couple of days, so hopefully that won't be happening again ever!

We did have our ultrasound on Valentine's Day and my sweet mother came over to help me with Conner. It was so fun to see the little guy, yes guy. It is for sure a BOY! We are so so so excited! Conner and him will be 18 months apart, and it will be so much fun to watch them play and grow together. Everything looks good still, so 3 more months and this little guy will grace us with his presence! We still are having name problems, so if you guys have any suggestions please let us know. We need any help that we can get! : )

More crazy news, our little guy has moulers! : ) Moulers! I couldn't believe it! One day we were on the couch saying bye to Jess before he went to work and I just happened to look over and see two huge white things in the back of Conners mouth on the his bottom jaw! I totally freaked out because I had no idea when those popped up! Sure enough after fully looking and feeling we came to the realization that he's getting big way to fast! His top ones just broke through. What a champ though because he wasn't showing any signs of huge teeth busting through his gums. Jess joked that in celebration of Conner's new moulers we were going to have steak for dinner! ; )

Here are just some random pictures from the weeks that have past!

During Conner's sick week he had a lot of naked time. Between taking baths all day and letting his sore bum rest he spent the majority of the day clothingless.

It's so funny. The weather here right now is really nice and it's like Conner has totally discovered the outside all of a sudden! All he wants to do is go outside. All week we spent atleast an hour or two outside playing in the grass, throwing the football around, riding in his wagon, and going on walks. As soon as he's done eatting breakfast he runs and gets his shoes and brings them to me. I just set them aside just trying to act like I don't know what's going on, but then he just cries and gives them back to me. This kid is so stinkin smart there is no fooling him! After he gets his shoes on he even runs and gets his coat all by himself. He just cracks me up!

During one of our days outside he fell on the sidewalk and got his first boo boo outside. If you look right above his right eye brow he got a little scrap. His face looks sad though because we came inside not because of his boo boo. He does throw a massive fit when we come inside.

My Little Sweetie on Superbowl Sunday

So I know that this is way late, but I just wanted to do it to see what the difference looked like! This first picture is of Conner of course on his first Superbowl Sunday in 2007. The next picture is of Conner this Superbowl. How funny is the difference. Poor Conner was so bald! : )

2007

2008

I really never get any pictures of Conner and I together, so whenever I can grab Jess to take one of us I do!

Sleepy Head

I just love looking at Conner sleeping because it's so peaceful! Now that he's on the go everywhere he barely holds still for very long. He's such a sweetie! : ) Jess took these one day when he was on Daddy Duty.

What a cutie! He always wakes up from his naps so happy!