11 month pictures

I made the mistake - SCRATCH THAT - i had the pleasure of having Connor's pictures made every month to show how much he is growing.  This is a great idea, in theory, but it is quite time consuming!  You would think it would be easy to take him to get quick pictures at Portrait Innovations or JCPenney...but its not.  This month, Kate Nabors (soon to be Kate Whitmore) CAME TO US!!!  It was such a treat to not have to get Connor dressed & ready and deal w/ the stresses of making him smile in a different environment.  With Kate here, i just got to worry about him smiling while he played with his toys/destroyed his room.

We had fun.

Here's a link to Kate's Blog - Check out Connor's Pictures!!!

http://katenabors.wordpress.com/2009/01/27/connor-eleven-months/

growing up and getting older

I know most of you read this blog to see the pictures & watch CJM as he grows - and hasn't he grown?  I'm just sitting here in bed wasting time on the internet & can't help but think back to when my baby was a baby and he didn't move a lot and he didn't make me sweat any time i try to change his clothes or diaper.  you think i'm kidding?  i'm not.

very soon he will be 1 year old and i will be a very sad moma.  i can't help it!  i KNOW he has to grow up!  He's a kid, he will love it when he grows up, but i'm not having another baby for a LONG time & i want to be able to cherish this time without letting it slip away.  

it seems like everyone is having babies or will be soon, so until Connor becomes the cuddle type (which is unlikely considering my lack of cuddle for my famiy) i will just have to take other babies and cuddle with them!  tomorrow it will be baby ella and in June it will be baby X jackson.

could someone make my baby shrink, pronto!

my sweet little sleeping baby

Happy Birthday Jesus & Merry Christmas!!!

We began this holiday extravaganza on Christmas Eve.  we headed to church for their Christmas eve service and celebration of the Lord's supper.  can i just say, thank you Lord for childcare?  i am so thankful that i got to worship without a loud squirmy baby!  It was refreshing since i had been working what seems like every weekend!

Here are just a few pictures from the holidays - please excuse the underlines & if you know WHY it does this, please tell me!!!

Uncle Tyler & Connor before the Christmas Eve service

Family Photo

Opening presents from Nunna

His favorite gift!!

Concentrating very hard

Hanging out on my shoulders

getting into trouble.  No this doesnt work anymore, but he thought it was interesting.

presents from Santa

WOW!

Uncle Tyler thought he would help

opening gifts from Tyler

Opening his stocking

That is a brief overview of the holidays!  I'm sure i will find more that i like & post them soon.  We hope you enjoy 2009!

Love, 

us

New Pictures

Check out the link to the right labeled "10 months" or you can click here to see all the funny Chritmas pics of Connor.  as soon as i witty down the enormous amount of photos i'll post some on here!

Happy New Year!

love, 

us

Thanksgiving 2008 (albeit a bit late)

yes, ladies & gents, this is the Thanksgiving post...only a month late (or more).  Here are the pictures of the day.  We had a lot of fun with the close family.  They were thrilled to share in Connor's first Thanksgiving!  This was also the first day Connor ate "big boy" food from the table, but i still fed him.  I like feeding him - that means he's still my baby :)

There's also a few fun things that i think are worth sharing since i think Connor is so darn cute!

 

Thanksgiving morning - playing in the saucer

Nunna coming in with the Dressing - YUM!!

morning snack: Cheerio's!!

talking (probably to himself)

Laughing at Mimi (our wonderful photographer at the time)

waiting on the real food, not just the bread

Connor's middle name should be MISCHEVIOUS...that's what he is!!

Here begins the pictures that are not necessarily from Thanksgiving, but are still cute!

Might be Thanksgiving even...can't remember.

getting so big!!!

Wondering why the drum is making noise...even though he just pitched it on the floor...wonder why??

Hanging out on the shoulders of Uncle Tyler. so fun!

Does this remind anyone else of Yogi Bear?  because it does me!

oh how we love the doctor!! (not!)

11 days ago, i took Connor to the doctor because he has been coughing for about 2 weeks and i was becoming concerned that it may lead to something worse (i.e. something that would require a nebulizer).  i've worked at the doctor's office long enough to know that those are NOT fun.  so on Tuesday, we went to see Dr. Collins.  Turns out, Connor had a sinus infection and got a round of Amoxicillin.  and i got Omnicef also for a Sinus Ifx.  Connor has finished his...i still have not.  

Fast forward 2 days to Thursday.  Everything seemed normal.  We were running late (as always), Connor got to wear his blue jean overalls for the first time & he looked so cute i decided that it would be worth it to run 10 minutes later just to take  a few pictures!

On Thursdays i go to work straight from school so around 4:15 or so i figure out that my boss is looking for me.  They say something about my sister on the phone & Connor is sick.  Well, immediately, i'm worried.  Connor really doesnt get sick (yes, he's on an antibiotic, but i don't consider a "cough" really sick) and he would have to seriously be sick for my "sister" to call.  Well , when i get to the phone, its my mom...and she says that Connor is running a temp of 102 and asks what my grandmother should do (nunna/my grandmother had picked connor up from the babysitter that day).  Nunna didn't have any motrin or tylenol at her house so i told Mom not to worry but to take some by there when she got off work.  

By the time mom got to Nunna's Connor's fever had shot up to 103.5 which is pretty high considering his age.  They gave him Motrin but it was back up again too 101 within 2 hours.  I consulted one of the doctors at the office and she suggested alternating tylenol & motrin every 3 hours, that way, they always had something to keep the fever down.  

evening:  Connor was still not better on the Fever front, but he seemed to be playing well so we kept pushing fluids and tried to give him a little applesauce for dinner (probably should have help the applesauce, you'll see why soon). by 9:30, Connor had a fever again, so we have the Tylenol a little early and hoped for a good night.  

Friday: My grandmother kept Connor for me Friday morning while i went to Christiana Elem. School for my education class.  He was pretty normal, just wanted to be held, but didn't want to be still...very typical connor!  When i got home, we took his temp again and it was back up to 100.4. i had not given him anything that morning for fever b/c i wanted to see if it would come back up or stay normal without meds.  First, i called Jamie to make sure i wasn't being irrational by taking him to the doctor after having a fever for less than 24 hours, she thought an office visit was in order so, i called the clinic at Lunch.  Of course, Dr. Collins was out, Dr. Bradley was booked (who i had talked to Thursday about C's fever) and i had to take Tyler to the Dr. at 4 to see Dr. Lowe so we made Connor a corresponding Dr.'s appt w/ Dr. Cade at 4:05.  I figured Tyler could probably take care of himself.  

What was causing this high fever and reluctancy to eat???  

answer: Herpangina

terrible sounding right?  well, its no walk in the park, let me tell you that.  The best way to describe it is painful cold sores on your mouth and throat.  basically, they are ulcers in the throat that you can't see unless you are a doctor and have a flashlight thing.  They cause extremely high fever (high enough to cause seizures) and are accompanied w/ the loss of appetite because literally everything hurts.  especially acidic foods (like...applesause).  therefore, Connor was on  a formula, water, oatmeal, yogurt diet for about 4 days or until he would no longer eat oatmeal/yogurt.  And he still wouldn't take a bottle for ... well, he still doesn't take his bottle very well.  Last Wednesday, i counted: he only had 7 oz for formula the whole day...he usually takes 7 oz in one sitting!!!  This eating thing is a battle we are still fighting.  it has definitely gotten better (will usually dring 3-6 oz per sitting) but its still not where i would like it to be.  

Anyway, if you have stuck through all or most of this post, i comment you!  I haven't sat down and really recounted the whole event until now, and i didn't realize how long it would be!

Here is a sweet picture of Connor in his overalls for the first time!  They are a little short, but i think he had fun in them regardless...and despite having a temp!

Halloween - a full day!

Connor & I had a VERY full Halloween (hence the title).  The day started off with Connor's 9 month check up with Dr. Collins and Nurse Keesha.  I've been looking forward to the 9 mo ckup because there are NO SHOTS!!!  only a quick, simple finger prick!   

Mommy and Connor in front of MMC

Did i mention that Peds dresses up for Halloween?

Keesha is a tin woman! 

One of my favorites.  He was so well behaved on the scale

19 lb, 11 oz.

"helping" Dr. Collins with the stethoscope

Meet Jerry Collins: the Wizard

Connor & Dr. Jerry - one of the best smiling pics of the day!

the finger prick.  he liked eating the band aid

Then, we went home so that Connor could take a much-needed nap.  Being that i work at the clinic, appointments always take a while because we have to visit.  and we LOVE to visit all of our friends, but by the time we left, Connor was ready to go to sleep!!!  We changed him from his Charlie Brown outfit and put him in his "baby's first halloween" outfit.  he was very cute, i must say.  

Connor right after waking up. Can't you tell?

Looking at his Halloween basket like it's insane.

eating his Halloween rubber duck.  i love rubber ducks, therefore, Connor has one for nearly every holiday!

Connor & Mimi

Connor and Mommy

Then, we changed back to the Halloween outfit!  Charlie Brown, here we come!

love this!  he's BOUNCING!

First we made a stop at MidSouth Bank.  

Mimi's boss, Jennifer is holding Connor's back while he was typing

Connor likes to hang out w/ Snoopy.  They are friends

Next we went to visit Connor's (Great)Aunt Clara.

She was so nice to get him a special treat!

Thanks for the puffs Aunt Clara!

Needless to say, that's all the Halloween i have right now.  My camera went dead in the middle of trick-or-treating and the rest is on Pops's Computer.  We'll update soon!