Sneak Peak

We just got back from a wonderful vacation to the beach with Cole's family. The unpacking is finished, the laundry has begun, and as soon as I get all the pictures uploaded I will post about our trip. Until then here is a sneak peak....

Happy 14 Months Connor!

I am 14 months old!

Here are some things Connor can do now that he is 14 months old:

-Say lots of new words. Sometimes they are hard to understand, but every day it gets a lot more clear. He also tries to repeat words I say.

-Understands so much of what I am saying! (I have lots of stories where I thought he wasn't listening when he actually was and understood what I said)

-Walking EVERYWHERE (getting faster everyday!)

-Exploring!! He loves to check everything out and figure out how it works.

-Enjoys reading books and pointing to pictures.

-Likes to stack his blocks and knock them down.

-Sleeps 12 hours at night and is still in between 1 & 2 naps a day.

-Has 10 teeth (6 on top, 4 on bottom)

-LOVES to brush his teeth!

-Also still loves to eat. He usually cries when the food is gone.

-Loves to sing and dance still. New favorite song this month is "Zaccheus was a wee little man"

-Loves repetition and thinks its funny to do things over and over again.

-Here is a video of him listening to "Itsy Bitsy Spider." This is about the 15th time we listened to it. :) Once he realized I got the camera out he decided to put on a show with his hand motions.

Free Desktops

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I found this great website last year that has free desktops each month for you to download and add your own pictures. I have never really done any of the digital scrapbooking, but love that they offer these for free. The only thing is that you have to have Photoshop or some program like that to edit the template. Here is our new desktop for the month:

We went over to my mom's house tonight and I ended up taking some pictures to use for this months desktop. Here are a few of my favorites.

"Tree, Tree"

Connor loves to explore!

Here is a short video of him that I just had to share. He loves trees for some reason! Be sure to turn up the volume to hear him say "tree". At the end it sounds more like "Trrrrrrrreeeeeeee" :) (Sorry about the moving back and forth, but we had been playing peek-a-boo around the tree.)

Yikes!!

If there is one thing that I am scared of the most it is snakes! Over the years we have had a few run-ins with them, usually small garden snakes, but nothing ever in our home... until today. Cole was outside mowing our yard and was just about finished when he yelled through the front door "Lock the garage door and make sure Connor doesn't come outside! There is a snake in the garage!" Immediately my stomach starts turning at just the thought of it and of course I am imagining this huge venomous snake ready at any moment to attack my poor husband! Can I just say how thankful I am that it was him out there and not me? Well, in case you didn't get the feel for how anxious I was about the scaly creature in my garage here is a visual to help...

Snake vs. Cole

So I stood in the laundry room listening out the garage door... I'm not sure what I was listening for but, I was hoping to hear some clanking sounds to let me know the snake was dead. Well, in the end the snake was defeated and we can all rest a little easier tonight. Cole later told me that it had come from under our neighbors fence and worked it way straight for our garage.

Sorry this next picture is a little graphic, but there was no way I was going to be in the same room with that snake to take a picture while he was alive!

I am so thankful that Cole found the snake before it found us!

Hopefully that is the last time we find any unwelcome guests at our house. :)

Are you ready to roll?