Things Connor Loves

His hat, sunglasses, Mr. Potato Head and "Baby Ryan".

Mommies out there; if you don't know what pampers points are then text me. I didn't know about them for the first 9 months of Connor's life. There are codes on the side of the bag your diapers come in. You enter the code, save up your points then redeem them for toys, birth annoucements etc. I'm currently saving up for free Christmas prints!

Connor or Ryan

One of these is Connor and one is Ryan. Do you know who is who? The one lying on his back is Connor (belly is Ryan).

Cake Pops

What the heck are cake pops? They are cake on a lollipop stick. I decorated them to look like elmo, well sort of. I am definatly not Martha Stewart. They make 50 but after making 18 I called it quits. Hopefully Connor recognizes his main man on Sunday for his little get together.

Matching

I dressed the boys in similar clothes on Sunday for church. Ray was embarrased to go outside but I thought they were cute!!

Flash Cards

Connor hates doing flash cards at daycare because in the teacher's word's, "he has to sit still and he can't hold the cards". At our house he loves to be the teacher.
I love hearing him say, "What's that Ryan?"

Hand me downs

Thanks to all the neighbors and to Adam R. for your hand me downs. I think he has enough pants now that I can go a month with out doing laundry.

The Passages

On Wednesday I took the boys to Kristie's house so we could meet the twins. Catherine was asleep most of the time and missed the photo shoot. We had so much fun and Connor loved playing with the big girls. Look at big girl Maddie holding Ryan, you can tell she has lots of practice with her own babies. Happy 3rd birthday Maddie!!

Ry guy: 6 weeks

He is now lifting his head up! Ryan isn't rolling over yet but making progress. Do you like the dining room table? I went to Crate & Barrel today and got decorations for the table that has been bare for a year!

Connor is an expert smiler

We say "cheese" and he smiles. It also helps that we have a camera with a fast shutter to catch the 1 second smile.

I heart Thursdays!

I'm home with just Ryan on Thursday's and I love our one on one time. I did a mini photo shoot with him this beautiful fall afternoon. Enjoy!
*Thanks Great Grandma for the adorable Ubby for Ryan, doesn't it look soft?

Parky's Farm

This weekend we went with the Zieglers and Reubusch's back to Parky's farm. Connor was so cute he said "run, animals, run" he was sooo excitted to get out of the car and see the horses, goats, chicken and more!

Dr. Visit

Ryan had his 1 month doctors appointment today: 75% for weight and 90% for height, really my kid?
22 1/2 inches long and 10lbs 4 oz weight.

1 month old!

It has been an eventful first month with Ryan, from getting used to having 2 kids in the house, to the hospital visit. For the first 2 weeks Ryan was the perfect baby, not very fussy and slept great at night. Since then, not so much. Hopefully he flips back to how he was. Jill and I refuse to accept this is our new normal. All kidding aside we are very blessed and happy to be a family of 4.

Poor Connor

He fell out of his stroller this week and scratched up his face and then the next morning fell out of his high chair...he's acting like a 2 yr old already.

The other day I couldn't figure out what he wanted. He was saying "bread". i had to laugh and take a picture of Connor with his 6 pieces of bread.

What a day

Being a mom is very unglamourous but very rewarding. Yesterday was the longest day of my life; I was home with Connor and Ryan and a sick Ray. It was raining from sun up to sun down so we were stuck inside all day. Very glad yesterday is over and a new day is here.
My mom said she doesn't see the red in Ryan's hair, how is she not seeing this?
Other picture is Ryan's spit up all over me and of Connor enjoying his first ever happy meal.

Labor Day

Don't we all get a break on Labor Day? Guess not. 1 month from today Connor will be 2!

Ginger?

First off I can't believe Ryan has hair at all...Connor was as bald as a cue ball until 6 mnths old. Sometimes Ryan's hair looks blond, other times brown but it always looks a little red (ginger) to me. Ray said he was in denial about it until yesterday.

I've created a monster!

I don't know why...well I do I wanted cute pictures of the two of them....I let Connor "hold" baby Ryan. Now he wants to hold Baby all the time, if I'm in the room or not.

As I think everyone knows Ryan had a really high temperature and had to spend 2 nights at Childrens Hospital. The worst part of it all was a spinal, blood work and catherization for my poor little baby boy. They took his vitals every four hours and so now his sleeping pattern is all thrown off and he was up last night from midnight until 5 am (grouchy mom and dad). We are happy to have our family of 4 back together and as we always say we are so blessed! There are so many sick children at the hospital; we are glad that we were only there for a short while. Thank you all for your support, love and prayers!