The Big 1

Saturday was the big day, Connor's 1st birthdday. He had a great day, partially because he got to walk around all day outside. He loves being outside if I haven't mentioned it yet, he even fusses when we have to go back inside. Well, everything went great, and we couldn't have asked for better weather on Saturday. We had a great turnout, and all the kids were very entertained on the spacewalk/jumper. Connor loved digging into his cake, of course, and had hot dogs for the first time. We just went to the Dr. Collins today for his 1yr check-up and it was horrible (the shots that is.) /connor was weighing in at 25lbs 15oz, and 291/2 inches long, and everything was fine to the mean nurse walked in with the shots. Connor has never cried for more than 30seconds after his shots, this time his lips were blue and I swear he didn't breath for 20 seconds, it broke my heart, and that was only the first of three shots. Other than that, the little guy is doing great, and has offically graduated to walking...everywhere!
For some reason my pictures posted backwards... so here is the end of his feast.
This was only a couple of minutes into eating, it was so funny, he was holding pieces of cak in both hands ang going back and forth. He was in heaven. i am going to try to post a few better ones of him eating his cake.

Hey! It's my birthday!!!!

Connor's personal cake, the ribbons were attached to balloons so it looked like the bear was holding balloons, the cake came out so cute. I made this (believe it or not!)

This was the cake for everyone else, it was supposed to be a clown juggling balloons with Connor's name spelled out on teh balloons. I made this too!

Thanks to everyone who helped make Connor's birthday so special.

Finally...

Hey guys, here you go, an updated blog...as promised to Michele McCarthy. Thanks for annoying me until it was done. Well, a lot has been going on lately and we are getting ready for a big day real soon. It's so hard to believe that Connor has been with us for almost a year now, I don't know where the time has gone. Anyway, our little guy is walking now, taking about 20-35 steps at a time, then he sometimes chooses to start crawling when hes had enough. He is very interested in the refrigerator as you will see below, and anything else we have been hiding from him for the last year, like the dishwasher. He thinks it is his personal gym that he can crawl into, it's pretty funny. I love watching him discover things. Another of his favorite things is going outside, we go to Lafreniere Park at least weekly to go on the jungle gym, and the swing of course. He watches all the other big kids and trys to do everything they do.
This is a picture from our trip to Gulf Shores before we had to leave to evacuate for Gustav. Chase and Connor in the refrigerator...we couldn't keep them out.
Connor and Chase at the beach.
Once again...the refrigerator.
Connor also is fascinated with Maxwell's room.
This was at Hayden's Birthday party at Chuck E Cheese's. Happy Birthday Hayden!!!