Spring is finally here ~~'~@

The weather has been georgous! Finally... I didn't think Spring would ever arrive! Connor and I have been doing a "Moms in Motion" class on Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays.. basically an excersize class with a stroller... It feels good to be getting back into shape, and out getting fresh air at the same time. It's hard to believe that Connor is almost 2 months old (on Tuesday)! It's gone so fast.. he is smiling and laughing all the time now.. which is so much fun! This weekend Connor and I went to the Vintage Faire that was here in Omak!! I loved it.. totally my style of stuff.. I went with a very strict budget so as to not spend too much, I came home with a 2 vintage/homeade scarves and a very cool rustic red wooden kid chair (will be perfect for photography)

Because the weather was so good Saturday, Connor and I had a "picnic" and took in some vitamin D (of course my fair skin burned! I had Connor lathered up with 50 SPF so luckily he didn't!

 

Saturday, Jeremy worked on fixing the irrigation pipes that froze this winter while I mowed the lawn. I wore Connor in my K'Tan and mowed with our riding mower. I made sure that Connor had ear plugs in just in case it was too loud. He actually enjoyed it. As soon as I'd stop he'd wake up... :-) This will give me a great excuse to get outside this summer. I didn't get a photo of me and Connor mowing, but here is him with his ear plugs:

Jeremy always enjoys the weekends because he gets to spend time with Connor, here is the two of them spending time together.. Daisy also enjoys when Jeremey is home :-)

Will be taking Connors 2 mo photos this week.. i'll post them soon...

:-) Smiles (-:

Connor has been smiling for a few weeks now, but we just got them on camera! A few of the things that make him smile are:

talking in Spanish (yeah.. not sure why.. but it works!)

making funny noises with our tongue

laughing out loud

kissing his cheeks

talking in a "donald duck" voice

and just talking and smiling at him :-)

This morning he even giggled at me when I peeked out from behind the shower curtain at him.. CUTE!!

This one really shows his "chunkiness" :-)

I took the cutest video of Connor smiling at Jeremy the other night... here is the link to it on You Tube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aC3tgvgZ9WM

Over the river and through the woods...

Connor took his very first airplane ride.... where to? Boise of course ;-) to see his Grandma Shelly and Grandpa Kevin and Great Grandma Verleen and Great Grandpa Clancy, as well as LOTS of friends and family! We flew out of Spokane, so Connor also got to see Uncle Brian!

Uncle Brian talking to Connor 

Brian has these GIANT bean Bags for furniture.. Connor loved them! 

Us on the plane... obviously Connor did well! He only fussed the last 5 minutes of the flight. Maybe that was when his tear duct came loose (something with flying, probabuly the cabin pressure, actually cleared Connors blocked tear duct.. cool :-)

Connor is very lucky (and kind of rare) that he has all 4 great grandparents still alive on my side. My Cable Grandparents (on Nicole's mom's side) live with my parents, so they got to see him as soon as we got to town! This is the first Great Grandchild for them, they were very excited to meet Connor if you can imagine :-)

Connor with his Great Grandpa Clancy 

Connor meeting his Great Grandma Verleen 

This makes 4 generations!

My grandma, mom and a couple of her good friends put on a baby shower for Connor and I when we got to town, we got some of the most adorable things!! It's a good thing Mom and Dad are coming to Omak in a month to visit.. NO WAY could I get it all home on the plane :-) Thanks to everyone who came to meet Connor and for all of the thoughtful gifts...

This is one of MANY things Connor got.. this is his summer hat and sunglasses, they match his swimsuit and wet suit type shirt :-) CUTE!!

My parents dog Bentley (well actually "technically" its Brians dog, but when he moved away for school and couldn't take him, mom and dad kind of adopted him) is a major chicken.. he is afraid of everything.. including Connor.. It was all we could do to get him to stay still long enough to get this photo:

The next photo we snaped was blurry because Bentley was escaping.... He warmed up to Connor by the end of the 5 days..

We didn't do a whole lot while we were in Boise, we went shopping of course :-) but mostly just hung around the house..

Connor snuggling with Grandma Shelly 

Connor hanging out with Grandpa Kevin in his massage chair.. he was staring at the metallic art on the wall.. He loves anything with lights or that shines :-) (notice in this photo Grandpas hair is still there..)

While we were home, my dad decided he was tired of the way his hair looked (it had gotten pretty bald and was starting to grey)... and he decided that Connor looked cute bald, so he decided to shave his off.. completely off! We all agreed that it looks great... Now he just needs to get a tan on it :-) Here are the baldy boys with their shades on:

I LOVE this picture!

The flight home went great as well, I hung out in Spokane with Brian for a few hours (went to Costco of course) and even got to visit briefly with some of our good friends from Montana who were in town checking out colleges. Connor and I got home around 10 pm and Jeremy was so glad to see him!! He was amazed how much he changed in 5 days~ (Jeremy noticed that he is getting his hair back, how long his eyelashes are and how chunky his legs and cheeks have gotten!)

Connor has started smiling alot, we'll try to get a picture of it soon! Connor is still feeling under the weather.. I took him in again because I am starting to wonder if he has allergies and not a cold (he's been stuffy and sneezing for 4 weeks now). They said.. maybe, but unlikely, we'll just hope this goes away soon, it's not fun for any of us. When we were at the clinic, they weighed him.. he's at 14 lb 2 oz.!! This is in the 94th percentile. I measured his height and he's up to 23 1/2 in. Which is in the 85th percentile!! he's going to be a big boy :-)

Well, back to life here in Omak... Will post again soon!

Baby carriers, bottles and a big boy

Connor is still under the weather ;-( he has a runny  nose and cough... I am hoping that he gets over it soon because him and I are flying to Boise on Saturday to visit Mom and Dad and also so Connor can meet his great grandparents and a bunch of my good friends. Flying with a sick baby won't be fun, at least it is only a 45 minute flight! I will be staying home for 6 days, so Jeremy couldn't come this time :-( which means I'll be "flying solo".. which is a little scary! To prepare, Connor and I have been practicing with all sorts of baby carriers/slings. And the winner so far is....... The Baby K'Tan.. Here's him and I practicing :-)

Wish us luck flying for the first time!!!

One thing that was important to me was that Jeremy be able to feed Connor once in a while (for the bonding experience that feeding a baby offers.. and also to give me a break) I wanted to wait until breastfeeding was well established before we introduced the bottle, when he was about 5 weeks old, I pumped and we gave it a go....

Connor trying a bottle for the first time... he loved it! Probably because its less work :-)  Jeremy loves being able to feed him, he said "hes so content, peaceful and alert when he's eating!" very cool!! :-)

Connor is growing extremely fast.. I look back at pictures from only a month ago.. he's a completely different baby! He's a "big boy" and big boys wear shoes....(ok a stretch i admit.. its the only thing I could think of for a fun title...just go with it) These are still a little bit big.. but I couldn't help myself... they are so cute!!

Connor wearing shoes for the first time

Connors first shoes.. from Grandma Shelly..aka the shoe freak!

One way I can tell Connor is growing is by his car seat... 1- because carrying it in and out and in and out and in and out... of stores is becomming more difficult (i'll have great biceps!) and 2- just by how he looks.. here are two photos 5 weeks apart in his car seat.



The day we came home from the hospital



Connor at 5 weeks old



~One month old~

Connor officially turned one month old on Monday! I measured and weighed him for his baby book (and because I was curious :-) He was 12 lb 2 oz and 21 3/4 inches on 4/4/11.. He is wearing 3 mo and bigger clothes and is already in size 2 diapers. Of course I had to take one month pictures~! I will be taking them (the professional ones, with backgrounds and studio setup) every month from here on out (or at least until 12 mo). I plan to do a "theme" each month for his photos, this month was "sports". I used some of Jeremy and Braden's old jerseys, so there are even a few pictures with "Draggoo" in them :-) Here are my favorites from this month:

His baby book suggested taking a snapshot every month with the same prop to judge how much he has grown. This is his chair that matches his nursery set, it will be fun to see how quickly he "outgrows" it :-)

Just chillin out! 

I'd say he was comfortable! I bet he doesn't fit in the chair like this for long :-) 

again.. obviously comfortable~ 

What a handsome little man ! 

He's getting the hang of 'hammin' it up for the camera already! 

So serious.. :-) 

This one really shows how much he is balding! The little hair that is left is definately blonde~

A weekend with good friends

My best friend Suzanne and her husband Shane and there adorable daughter Kalia came to Omak for the weekend. It was so nice to see them, and so much fun watching Kalia's reaction to meeting Connor (she's never been around another baby) Connor is a grunter, and Kalia decided that she was going to talk to him since nobody else seemed to want to talk in his language, so we spent the weekend with "babytainment" :-)

Shane holding Connor, introducing Kalia to him for the first time, she was so excited she would rear back and hit the couch, reach forward to touch him, then kick her legs.. Shane and Suzanne called it being "spastic". It was adorable :-) 

Again, Kalia checking out Connor..  

Suzanne being "super woman". We both agreed after the weekend that we are glad it is physically impossible to have children this close together!~ (They are exactly 6 mo apart) It would be exhausting to say the least! 

We went to Waterville Saturday afternoon to see our good friends Justin and Pam and their 2 yr old daughter Dakota (Pam did Kalia's 6 mo baby pictures, then we all had dinner together). While we were eating dinner, Dakota disappeared, we found her here, admiring Connor, holding his hand. She absolutely LOVES him, she helped me change his diaper- she had the job of applying baby powder. Pam is glad to see how into and good she is with a baby, as they are expecting their second in September!! Yeah :-) 

It was BEAUTIFUL on Sunday! It was nice enough that we spent some time outside after meeting. Kalia got to meet our friendly goats :-)

We bar-b-qued hamburgers and even ate outside! :-) 

Shane recently bought Suzanne a Lady Smith pistol, and because there aren't really any good places to shoot it in Seattle, they figured- OMAK, that's the country, we can shoot it there! They were right :-) They even let me shoot it a few rounds! It kicked pretty good, but was so fun to shoot! 

Best friends and there babies! Amazing how much our lives have changed in 4 years..

Connor had a little bit of a stuffy nose before Shane and Suzanne came, but I didn't think anything of it.. Well by today he has a full blown cold and feels terrible, Kalia has a runny nose and both of the guys have sore throats! I feel bad that we gave it to them :-( Hoping everyone starts to feel better soon!

Here are a few pictures of just the 3 of us at home before and after our company was here:

He fell asleep during tummy time :-)  

Reading with mom! 

Talking hunting with dad, in my sweet camo PJ's 

He is SOO close to smiling.. he "smurks" but we haven't counted any of them as true smiles.. very soon though i'm sure :-)



The many faces of Connor

It's amazing how much time you can spend just staring at a baby. 1- because they are such a beautiful miracle and 2- because they make so many facial expressions, awake and asleep. I was staring at Connor one day when I thought: "i need to photograph his facial expressions so I will be able to remember how many cute ones there were!" So I did. It took about 30 minutes of holding a camera in his face and I got over 100 photos.. here are my favorite 10...These are the ones I am going to frame!