Connor's First Haircut!

I took Connor for his first haircut today. This is what he looked like before:
We decided it was time for a haircut mainly because complete strangers keep saying "what a cute little girl you have." So people are either stupid, or our kiddo needed a haircut, or a little of both.

The haircut process went a bit as follows:
1-Hold wiggly head still

2. Give kiddo something to focus on-like a clip to hold.

3. Pause for a quick yawn.

4. Try other positions-perhaps standing will be better.
5. Give kiddo a mirror to entertain himself as the clip is no longer a cool toy.
6. Watch kiddo squeal in delight as he laughs at the little boy smiling back at him.
7. Take kiddo's shirt off as it is completely covered in hair, and try to get the last few stray hairs.

8. Call it a day when kiddo finally melts down.

All in all it was much more successful than I was expecting. My sweet little baby looks a bit older, but I'll take that over "my what a cute little girl you have."

World's Best Toy!

A couple weeks ago we bought Connor a new big boy car seat. After several attempts to get Connor interested in the box, we finally succeeded. Best Toy Ever!
We got such a good deal on the car seat we decided to go get another one today...now we have two big boxes.

I also really like playing with dish towels. Usually I pull them off of the oven door, but I've recently figured out where they are all stored...

Yup you caught me. How about you put them all back in and I will take them all back out?

I also like to "help" put away groceries and load the dishwasher.

So really who needs toys?

We're with the band...

Monday night Peter and I went to the Reunion concert at the Escondido Performing Arts Center. It was for all temple workers and their families. Peter and I are not temple workers, yet we got in because we were with the band. My uncle plays the piano for Reunion. The group has been together for 28 years. Everett has been with them for 24 years. Prior to that they were called The Lettermen. The last concert I went to I was roughly 10 years old. I have heard all of their songs since then and have two of their CD's. So I wasn't surprised when I recognized every single song they sang-with the exception of the very emotional song Rick sang. At one point Peter leaned over to me and asked, "How do you know the words?" My response, "You haven't heard this song before? It's a classic!" It was a great night. I thoroughly enjoyed it. And since we were with the band, we went back stage before hand and met all the singers (well I shook their hands, and recognized them....Peter got to meet them.) Then we went to Will Call and told them that Everett was my uncle and that he had two tickets saved for us. We were asked if we wanted box seats. We said sure! We were in the top box with a front row view. We enjoyed the whole thing.

At the end they announced that they would be back in the same place in February next year. If you buy one ticket, they will give you a second ticket to invite a non-member for free. So if you're in the area and are into classic old love songs, this is for you.

Dinner tonight

Dinner was a mixture of left over mac n cheese, honeydew and pasta roni with chicken. Connor wasn't fond of the pasta sticking to him, so he kept on flailing his arms which sent noodles everywhere! When dinner was over he had noodles on the chair, in his hair, all over his arms and of course all over the floor.

This past week

Here's what I have been up to lately

PEEK A BOO!

OOPS

I like potatoes-I can even pull them out of the bag all by myself

Yesterday we went grocery shopping and found this cute little pumpkin for Connor to hold while we shopped. He was the happiest boy holding onto his pumpkin the entire time. He even held onto it in the car and hasn't put it down much since getting home.

I'm so happy

I really like feeding myself.

Well we nearly have feeding our self down, now on to drinking out of a cup. I need to find a sippy cup that is small and has handles. He tries to drink out of the ones we have, but can't tilt them back far enough to get any liquid out, so he gets mad and the cup ends up tossed on the floor.

Look what I've learned how to do:

Lederhosen Boy

Saturday was the German American Society Oktoberfest in La Mesa. We went briefly to watch David and his troop dance, to eat yummy foods and to show off Connor in the Lederhosen that David stayed up Friday night to make for him. Can you say cutest boy ever!!
Connor went from stroller to dancing in about 30 seconds flat. In order to get to the dance floor he had to pass by one of the speakers...Connor is not a fan of loud anything, so the speaker set him off and he let everyone know that he was not happy. We love the big fat lip he gave grandpa. We don't know if he ever really enjoyed the place, but he did eventually tolerate it.
We noticed this cute little girl wearing a dirndl. Peter wanted to take a picture but I didn't want to go up and ask complete strangers if I could take a picture of their child...so about two minutes later they came up to us and asked if they could get a picture of the two babies. The little girl is 5 months old. Connor is almost 11 months. We had a lot of people say how cute he was. It was definitely the smallest pair of lederhosen there.