11 Months Old!

Can I first say, seriously? You are 11 months old? Connor Francis, I don't know where the time has gone? Your daddy asked me today what the date was and I replied with "we have an 11 month old!!" he was laughing, the 17th already? I can't believe that next month we will be celebrating your FIRST birthday. I am so excited for you and I can't wait to watch you enjoy your party and your cake! It is such a special day and you are quite the special little boy.
What have you been up to this month? You are always, always, always on the go! You don't stop and you are getting so fast! Granny said you are even learning how to move things out of your way when you don't want to be contained in a certain spot anymore! You have the best personality - you have a stubborn streak and you let us know when you aren't happy - but most of the time you are giggly, smiley and happy! Your laugh is absolutely contagious. We can't contain ourselves when you laugh and make it a point to make you laugh as often as we can. You get SO excited when daddy, granny, nene, aunt jen, grandpa, nana or I comes in the room. You will crawl over and wait at our feet, just in case we aren't getting to you and swooping you up fast enough! You are pulling yourself up on everything - no mountain is too high for you these days! You climb over things and nothing seems to stop you. You are starting to let go and stand on your own - oh my! You can walk holding our hands and you are terrorizing your walking toy, but no steps on your own yet. We were saying the other day we aren't sure if we are ready for a walking boy in the house, but we know it's coming soon. I can't decide if I think you will be walking before your first birthday or shortly thereafter. You still love the lights and the fan and on our morning snuggles you like to turn the light on above our bed. You are so happy when you wake up and just screech with delight when one of us comes to get you, we usually fight over who gets to get you up from nap time! Then you immediately point towards our bed and go "ooohh" saying momma, it's time to snuggle! You are eating a combination of baby food and finger foods. You want to make the switch to finger foods, but you aren't quite ready yet. You love to eat cheerios and rice squares and we found out the other day you hate cottage cheese! You have SIX teeth now, your two bottom middle and the four top middle. You have really been a good baby when it comes to teething, we hate it so much when we can tell you are in pain. You are still taking your two naps a day and doing great! You love to stand up in the bathtub and your new favorite game is peek-a-boo. You just love it! The wheels on the buss is still your favorite, especially when momma sings it. Heaven help you child, your momma has a terrible voice! I said I should make a recording of myself singing it so we always have one around in case we need it, but daddy begged me not to! You love riding in shopping carts these days, your face lights up and you have so much fun coming along for the ride. We are just about to celebrate your last "first" holiday and I can't quite believe it. You are a beautiful, happy, sweet, precious little boy and we are so blessed to have been given the opportunity to raise you. We love you so much and can't wait to see what this next month brings! We love you stinky face! :)

Fall Photo Shoot

A few weeks ago, I asked Mary Pat to take some pictures of just Connor for his 10 month birthday. I have been trying to get nice pictures at 3,6,9 and 12 months - though I seem to be a little off on most milestone days :) She is so amazing and got some great pictures of the little bugster! We just love all of them, I worry that when we do own a house it is going to be filled to the brim with pictures of our sweet Connor man! I love that they capture him, and his little personality. I just wanted to share a few, enjoy!

Catching Up...

I have been so behind lately, but I had a few pictures I still wanted to post - even though they were from a few weeks ago :) I think I am struggling a bit with the fact that CFJ is going to be 1 in the very, very near future and I have just been enjoying every second with him. He isn't going to be a non-walking baby for much longer and I am just taking the time to savor every single second of babydom I have left, even though he will always be my baby - even when he is married with kids of his own. So, the week of Halloween, we celebrated Patrick's birthday at 5 guys! He was so good to want to spend the evening with his family, and we had a good time! My sweet momma wanted to support her son-in-law at his restaurant, so she took everyone to dinner! We knew that we weren't going to be able to see everyone on Halloween, so we dressed CFJ up in his dinosaur costume and he had so much fun hanging out at daddy's restaurant. He was the cutest dinosaur there too! I think Patrick had a pretty good birthday, and Connor sure enjoyed a few nibbles of the cake!

Happy Birthday Patrick!

A Beautiful Day!

We have had an absolutely gorgeous weekend here in the Lou! I mean...we could not have ordered better weather if we tried! It has been in the high 70's and perfect. I told my mom I think I could live with this weather everyday for the rest of my life and be totally happy. So, we have enjoyed being outside as much as possible! I couldn't resist these pictures of Connor Francis, he just is so sweet. He is getting way too big and I think he looks like a little boy, and not a baby anymore. Sigh. Do you love how shaggy and curly is hair is getting in the back? I do, I love it! Steph was asking the other day if I was going to let him have shaggy hair or the little boy haircut and I don't know, it looks awfully cute shaggy and curly! Oh, and if you look closely you will notice that his shirt has a moose skiing on it, and it says "the moose is loose!"

Earning His Keep!

My sweet boy (and sweet dogs!) like to help us with the dishes, aren't they sweet? Connor was showing off his climbing skills the other day - I still can't believe the little bugster climbed on top of the dishwasher! He is so cute these days, he will "high kick" his leg now when he wants to climb on something he isn't quite big enough to reach. It is really sweet - and only a matter of time before he is able to climb up on even more things! Love that little sweetness!

Giveaway!

As I was "blog stalking" during lunch today, I came across this super cute giveaway! This momma is celebrating her year anniversary of blogging and is giving away one of these cute signs! I kind of want all of the Christmas ones, but I especially want this one...

How cute would that look in sweet pea's room? I am a little in love and I just might have to buy it, even if I don't win!! The artist has some other darling signs on her etsy shop too! You can enter the giveaway too, just click here! IF any of you win and you don't know what to do with the sign, I know a precious little boy who would love it! Hint, Hint! :)

Busy Bees!

We have been BUSY,BUSY,BUSY around here lately! Whew, does anyone else feel really busy? I don't know when it started, but I feel like we are constantly on the go. I have been trying to get myself organized and get ready for the holiday season, but it's crazy! I don't remember the last time we had so much to do! I will say though that my business is paying off, I have all of Connor's birthday presents and I talked to Santa who has all of his Christmas presents too! Whew, that is one big thing I can cross off the list! It was pretty fun though buying presents and playing Santa this year :) I am not going to lie, we MAY have already listened to Christmas music, the little man and I! So, sorry for the lack of posting, I just have not had any time lately - between work, hanging out with Connor and life - there has just been too much to do! I will try and get better though, as I do love my bloggie. Nothing else going on here...anyone have any other great organizing for the holidays strategies? My aunt sent me this link the other day and I think it's pretty good, about organizing yourself for the holiday season! It is a calendar and it gives you a week by week "what you should be doing" to get ready.