Sweet Singing

For the past few weeks while we are putting Connor to bed we all sing Jesus Loves Me. Usually Cole and I will sing it and Connor will chime in on a few parts. Well, tonight after we sang it once I told Connor it was his turn to sing. To our surprise he actually did! All by himself he started singing. Connor had another song on his mind to sing though. He sang Zacchaues complete with hand motions! It was so cute I had to attempt to get it on camera. You will see in the first video what usually happens when I get the camera out, but he ended up singing some towards the end.

2nd attempt with a little help

Valentine's Cookies x2

Earlier this week we headed to Mimi's house to bake cookies for Valentine's Day. Connor was a big helper! :)

While he took a nap we finished baking and had them ready to decorate. Once we iced them we let Connor attempt to cover them with sprinkles. I will let the pictures show you how that went...

The decorating quickly turned to eating which quickly turned to tears when he found out he couldn't have all the cookies!

We had a great time baking, but were disappointed that the new Southern Living recipe we used wasn't as good as we hoped. (Connor didn't seem to mind.) :) The next day mom brought over some cookie dough that she had made and we started on the second batch of cookies. (Martha Stewart did not disappoint!)

We ended up decorating these cookies without our little helper, but we made him his own special cookie on a stick. Connor loved his "pu-tay" (cookie)

Love & Marriage Conference

Last weekend we attended a Life Way event that was hosted at our church. Dr. Gary Chapman (5 Love Languages) and Dr. Les Parrott were both there with lots of great insight and advice on relationships and marriage. It was great to have a day to just focus on us. Thanks to Mimi, Connor had a great weekend as well. I think he would have stayed all week if we would have let him! :)

We arrived early to help with registration and a lady quickly called us over to take our picture. We were in such a hurry that I didn't even stop to look down at what the sign said. So it was a fun surprise when I received this. I thought it was very fitting!

The Super Bowl of course was that Sunday and we had a quiet afternoon with just the 3 of us. It was nice to be able to just stay home and relax. I had to include this couple of pictures of my boys watching the game. I love these two so much!

"Sweep Ma, Sweep!"

Almost daily you can find me using my swivel sweeper (LOVE it!) to clean up all the crumbs and dirt that my two boys and I make. Connor has always wanted to help and will watch so intently until every little speck of dirt is up.

He use to want to "help" so much that I finally bought him his own broom that was just his size. For the past week every time he sees me start to clean the floor he runs to the play room to grab his broom. Then he runs back to where I am shouting "Sweep Ma, sweep!" He continues to announce what we are doing ("sweep, sweep, sweep, sweep") until it is time to put the brooms away. It has almost become part of our morning routine! Hopefully, his love of sweeping will last a long time! :)

P.S. - Connor has lots of names for me, but "Ma" tends to be used the most when he is excited. Apparently his heart is overflowing with joy when he gets a hold of that broom!

Happy 20 Months Connor!

Can you believe we are only 4 months away for his 2nd birthday?!

While I took this picture this morning he smiled once and then told me "all done momma." At least I got one cute shot!

Now that Connor is 20 months...

He loves to wear our shoes around the house.

Focuses really hard while he plays and is very determined to figure out how things work.

Loves to be silly!

Plays with his "Choo Choo Train" every day!! This boy LOVES trains!

Fun new game he has learned to play is Hide and Seek. He will go and count on the sofa while we hide, but he always peeks to see which direction we head. It is so cute! Lately, we have heard a lot of "hide seek please." This morning I even caught him playing with his rubber ducks. He went and "hid" them then laid on the floor and counted. Before he went to "find" them he said "Not...here...come" (Ready or not, here I come!) So fun!

Enjoyed a piece of pizza without having it cut up. (This was great for both of us!)

Started laying down on the ground to throw a fit. The funniest part is that he very calmly will sit down and assume the position before he starts to cry/scream. He usually lays on his stomach, but he had rolled over to see if I was reacting yet. :)

Continues to increase his vocabulary. Has started making short sentences. There are a few words that he constantly says all day:

"apple juice"

"choo choo"

"up and down"

"ready, set, go"

Connor also is starting to learn his colors. He can name several, but we are still working on correctly matching them up. A lot of things are "red" and "bue"

Happy 20 months, Connor! We love you!