Much Ado About Conner

Conner's been pretty funny lately and here are some moments where I happened to have my camera handy. hooray!

Lately Conner's been very into books and he likes to read them wherever he happens to find one.

I walked into the room and he had climbed into the back of his little dump truck with a book. so funny!

Here was last weekend at Lamb day during the parade. Apparently it wasn't very exciting.

This is not only a picture of how friendly and bread sharing Conner is, it is also showing how well his scar above his right eye is healing from his stitches.

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Let's remember what it looked like the day we got the stitches out. (which happens to be the same day he was really channeling Albert Einstein)

which he apparently didn't like

me casa!

Hey we got rid of a couch (well it's moved into the garage) so now I can post pictures! Here are some pretty pretty pictures fresh from today!

Outside with grass!


Our lovely patio. Do you like my weeds? Unfortunately I was standing in the bulk of them to take this picture so you can't see the best ones. I think we might just let them fill in and then mow them. Who needs grass anyway?


Conner's room!


and his bed

The kitchen/family roomish place

The dining area. Conner is being a good example of what goes on in there.

Other direction of the family room

And that's our house! (at least the parts that were clean enough to take pictures today:) Slowly but surely we are settling in. Everyday another picture goes up and another box is unpacked (or moved so I feel like I did something) Someday we'll be all moved in! yay!

Disney Movies are NOT Real

I have always been a sympathetic soul. Ever since I can remember I have always been worried about other peoples feelings and wanting everyone to be happy. Is this good? I guess so. The one problem that I can think of, and maybe it is somewhat a mental problem, is that it goes as far as me feeling bad for non-human things. Heck forget non-human, it goes as far as inanimate objects. I remember when I was younger (ok it was last year) driving past a Christmas Tree lot on Christmas Eve night and thinking "Oh those poor trees. They must feel so sad that nobody wanted to buy them. I hope they don't think they aren't pretty"

Who do I blame this psycho-babble on? Disney movies. I love a good ole Disney flick as much as the next gal but really, talking animals, talking TREES, they take everyday things and creatures and anamorphise them to the point that I believe that the friendly bird that pooped on my car was really just having a bad day and couldn't quite hold it in and is off to grab some cleaning supplies from Snow White and will be back in a jiff. Not so. Really it's just a stupid bird who pooped on my car. End of story.

Why this trying to convince myself that animals and such do NOT have human feelings? Well if you know me you know that I haaaaaaate creepy crawly things. Spiders, grass hoppers, earwigs, and ants. But mix this with my weirdo mentality and I am stuck between a rock and a hard place. See, I don't want them near me, but heaven forbid that we kill them. Maybe they are a lost princess spider who was separated from her one true love spider and if I happen to squish it then they can never be together. Or maybe they'll pull out a wallet insert with pictures of their 4000 children who are counting on them to come home. To make things worse I just saw "How to Train Your Dragon" the other night and that didn't help anything.

Well right now we happen to have an infestation of ants in my new beautiful home. They have been here off and on since we moved in and at first I was like so torn because they make me want to squirm but at the same time I can't just kill them. That would be...Heartless. But friends, no more Mrs Nice Me. I am so sick of them. I have been vacuuming, sweeping and spraying those stupid ants to smithereens. We were even given these little poison things that the ants get on them and take back to the queen. bwah ha ha ha. Because the reality is folks, Disney movies are not real.

Last month's list

Well, I guess it is time for my monthly blog post since that seems to be the trend. I would like to say that I really do TRY to write more than once a month, but really I don't. Maybe it will be my new goal. hum...we'll see. So LOTS has happened this month. shall I write a list for you? I think I shall.

1. Obviously we moved. It has been so great! We ended up moving on Saturday (referring to my last post) and got everything moved in about 30 min. We are still slowly unpacking everything...but that's to be expected. But oh man, it's so nice to have our own place again.

2. Conner got his stitches out. I guess that should have been #1 since he got them out 2 days before we moved. It was pretty traumatizing though. He was being held down and they were bringing scissors close to his eye and it was super sad. But we bought him some new little toy cars for being so brave and that made it all better. Oh the joy of bribing your kid to be happy. It is healing nicely. As long as we rub Vaseline on it every morning and night and sunscreen it and wear a hat (good luck) for the next 2 years it shouldn't be too noticeable!

3. Operation: FATTY update, we went to his 15 month Doctor check up a weekish after we moved. We got a new doctor and so far he seems pretty awesome. He weighs 18.7lbs which puts him in about the 3rd %ile and seems to be growing steadily on his own chart he has made for himself. Our new doctor isn't worried about him since he is growing, he's just going to be little.

4. More Conner, man you'd think he was like my whole life or something, So we got a water softener free month trial. There was a nice little man (well not very little) going door to door promoting a free month try of a water softener. The only reason, other than the man was very nice, was that Conner has SUPER bad eczema and has since he was about 2 months old and I had heard that water softeners help. So I figured a month trial would be PERFECT to see if it actually does. Consensus: I think it's working! His skin has never looked better. He still has a few problem spots but over all I am pretty happy.

5. We (Me and Rusty) celebrated our 5 year anniversary on June 28. Man, that went by (kinda) fast! and we still kinda like each other! That's tons better than the national average! Even though he will probably never read this and I personally think it's silly for people to declare their love for someone people online I'll do it anyway. Thanks for being such an awesome husband and daddy. I love you SOOOOO much!

6. wow this is becoming a really long post. Kudos to those of you who made it this far! I know that I promised pictures of the new house when we moved in and I know that I have had ample amount of time to take them, but I don't have any. well I do but they all have Conner's toys all over them. I never think to take a picture when it's actually clean. So my goal, aside from blogging more often, is to take pictures of a clean house and post them on here. PLUS we have about a million couches. (no I am not scared of couches and when there are a large number of them I am unable to physically take a picture) I don't know how it happened but all of the sudden our house looks like the furniture section in DI. We started out with our old crappy love seat that we had in all of our little apartments and then Rusty's brother gave us an old couch of his. Well we also promised ourselves that once we got a bigger place we would get a new couch because even though we are both abnormally short, a love seat just doesn't cut it. So we went to Ashley Furniture because they are having their super cool sale and bought a couch. THEN my Parents offered us their old couch and chairs from when I grew up. The couch that Rusty's bro kindly gave us is great to look at but has a very magical smell of doggy liquid that I just can't quite get out. So we accepted my parents offer with the intent to take the doggy couch and our memory filled love seat to the DI. But before we could they delivered our new couch and Ta-Da! we have 4 un-matching couches, 2 chairs, lots of conner toys, and a partridge in a pear tree. Which to go back to my origional point, having all of that stuff doesn't make very good pictures.

Phew, I had no idea it would be that long. I think I'll just stop there and give you a little break. Thanks for reading!!!! and maybe pictures will come soon!!! (that is if anybody wants a couch)