Happy Halloween

Here are some pictures of the kids in their costumes.

9 Month Photos

Here you go....

Pumpkin Carving

Here's some pics of Connor's first pumpkin carving experience this past weekend. He kept eating the lid to Matt's pumpkin, but apparently raw pumpkin doesn't agree with his stomach because it didn't stay in there long. He loved sitting with his pumpkin and squishing all the seeds before we cleaned it out. For his pumpkin, I traced his hand and cut out the shape of it on his Connor-size pumpkin. All in all, he had a good time.

Connor's Cousin

Here's a recent pic of Connor's baby cousin, Chloe Madyzon. Kelly does such a cute job of dressing her little girl. We're looking forward to her visit this Christmas so the kids can meet and hang out.

9 Month Photos

This last weekend, we went to Penney's and had Connor's 9 month photos taken. Since his 9 months photos fell so close to Halloween, we decided to get some of him in his Halloween costume as well. (He's a lobster this year.) The second set of pictures, we decided to go geek like daddy and had him playing on a laptop. They turned out so cute! As soon as I get them back I'll post some samples of them on here.

More Teeth!

Connor now has 4 teeth! The top left came in a couple weeks ago and the top right just popped up a few days ago. He is getting teeth so fast! The top ones are in enough to see portions of them, but not enough to see when he smiles. It's a good thing he's as fascinated with brushing his teeth as he is, though, because he's getting them in quick!

New Home

After 9 months of sharing a room with Mom and Dad, Connor finally has his own room. In the last couple of weeks, we've been moving into our new 3 bedroom house. It's nice to have so much space for him to move around. The other night when I was running his bath, he army-crawled all the way from his bedroom to his bathroom (about 30-40 feet around a "5" shape) so he could play in the water. At one place, there is a room that is sunken in by 1 step and he's already mastered that step.

We're looking forward to many happy memories in our new home. I'll get some pics of Connor's room up as soon as we're done setting it up.

Redwoods

A couple weekends ago we went to the Sequioa National Forest to see the Giant Redwoods. It was a bit cold, but Connor seemed to have a lot of fun. Here's some pics of him checkin' out the trees.

dancin'

Last week at my mom's house, Connor was hanging out in his walker while he ate some dinner. My mom had on some tunes in the background, and when "The Twist" came on, Connor started dancing. (moving his head and upper body back and forth somewhat to the tune) It was so cute to see, so we kept encouraging him to continue. It was funny because you could see the songs that he really felt the need to move to when he would start dancing all of a sudden as one of them came on.

Cheerios

Connor officially had his first finger food last week. I sat down with him last week and gave him a couple of Cheerios and he fell in love. It took him a couple of days to get the hang of letting go once he had it in his mouth, but ever since then he only wants to feed himself. The other night I started giving him raisins too. Here's a pic of him this morning feeding himself some Cheerios and raisins. I'm looking forward to giving him more kinds of finger foods because I love to see the independence plus he's so darn cute!

Teeth

Connor is getting his top 2 teeth in...actually they've been right on the verge of coming out for what feels like forever. Finally, though, his left one has started peeking through. The right one doesn't look to far off either.