Connor's New Activities

For Connor's Birthday, Connor's Grandma Tam got him art supplies. He now markers in the tub, colors in his coloring book, and finger paints in his high chair. After fighting with him not to eat the paint, he strained and hit himself leaving a blue hand print on his face. His first trial ended with blue hair and a blue tongue. Since he has a love of eating his paint, we have been letting him try yogurt and pudding as of late.



There aren't many grandmas out there that can find awesome things like Grandma Dot. She found a front bike seat for Connor that has all the locals oohing and aweing everytime we go out for rides. Connor loves his chicken helmet and Logan is eager to ride along on his two wheeler.






Grandma Dot suggested getting Connor a rocker for his first birthday. We loved the idea, but requested a family heirloom rocker instead. My mom has recovered her old baby rocker and has regifted it to Connor. We have promised to keep it in the family, and Connor has been loving it. He often crawls up, stands up, and rocks like a wild man. We also want to point out the rocking stripes that he is wearing in this picture courtesy of Target.





Connor's new favorite game is hiding in the entertainment center and crawling into boxes. He often doesn't fit, but this is one of his favorite boxes to play with.

Connor's First Birthday

I love these pictures of Connor on his birthday playing with a green balloon. I have an amazing series of them, but limited it to just two. He crawled all over the house hitting himself in the head with his balloon and was laughing the entire time.





Grandma Dot made the most beautifully adorable apple pie for Connor. He loved it! And so did we. Connor's apple pie was one of the most special memories I have of his party.



I wanted a side shot of Connor's hair, because it is about to get cut in these pictures. I forgot how long it was!



Here, my mom is cutting Connor's hair for the first time. Kevin's barber Lee was going to come and cut it, but she ended up with the flu. My mom did a beautiful job and Connor looked very handsome. He wasn't really angry the entire time, but this next picture was just too funny to leave out.




Here, I'm loving Connor after he got his hair cut. He acted like it was very hard on him. He did have a very long party.





Kevin took these amazing pictures. I love the reflections.

Logan's First Day of Second Grade

Logan's first day of school is always crazy. You can see him praying over with Tyler and Riley next door. We have about fifty more pictures of him practicing his fighting moves. I'm glad Kevin took these, he gets Logan on the bus as I move Connor over to his sitter Jill's.

Jackson and Connor

I loved getting to keep Jackson! He was the best little boy the entire time he was here. Jackson swung on the swing set, shared a sink with Connor, made cookies, and slept in Connor's bed. He jumped on the trampoline and I slung him for a short walk. We definetely don't get to keep him enough. We miss all of the Hickeys!

New York

After a long bout with Whooping Cough, Connor and I were both ready for a get away. We loaded up the van, picked The Wurglers II, and high jacked my mom and nephew. After many many hours, we were finally at a wonderful little campground in New York. On the way, we stopped at Hersey Park in Hershey PA. With any Wurgler outing, there is ALWAYS a picnic along side the road.



After our picnic, we went and toured the chocolate factory. We watched the 3-d movie and saw how chocolate was made. Unfortunetly, it was the hottest day of the year and we didn't make the theme park.




Once at the campground, we set up the camper and all lounged around. There were two swimming pools, an inflated bounce house, a golf course, and a park all with in seeing distance. Connor enjoyed a lot of his time in the bucket/tub we had for him on the picnic table. A really nice fellow camper let us use their outside shower for warm water.




Connor could barely fit in the swingset swing. His chubby little legs pressed together tightly. It was too cute to not get a picture of.



The campground had a life size chess/checkers set to play with. Cousin Brandon and Logan had a duel to the death - literally. Security (Grandma) stepped in and stopped the maddness before it was too late. Luckily, everyone survived.



Everyone got together and took a guided tour into New York. We got to go to the Statue of Liberty and to The Empire State Building. It was really neat, and Logan took pictures galore for his dad.




This picture is worthy of Mothering Magazine and was taken on the boat over to the Statue of Liberty. Had to include it for all those Mamas out there.

Sweet Baby Love

Connor leaned over and gave Kevin and I his first big open mouth wet baby kisses.