Camping Fun!

On Thursday we packed up and drove to Sequoia National Park to go camping with Sean, Amy, Kirk, Heidi, and Amy's mom, Joy.  We had a great time and the kids were quite well behaved.  Thursday night shortly after arriving at the campsite, Connor started to act really miserable.  Of course this is out in the middle of nowhere with no cell reception.  We crushed up part of a tylenol and managed to get him to eat it with some applesauce.  By the morning he was back to his perky self.  Friday morning we ventured to the Giant Forest, visited General Sherman tree, played in the snow, went to a small museum, and hiked to Beetle Rock(shortest hike ever-perfect for two, three year olds).

 Friday morning before breakfast

It was quite cold in the morning and very cold at night....Heidi insisted on going around without a jacket and shoes most of the time.

Chloe getting breakfast

Kirk and Connor playing on a rock

Heidi joins the group.  At one point Connor says, "Are you all buckled up?"  When asked where they were going, Connor replied, "Costco."

Okay so we ventured up to 6000 feet and all of us left our heavy jackets back at the campsite.  So we all froze in the snow.  The kids though, managed to have a snowball fight and got very wet.

Connor liked the big trees

Connor and Daddy trying out Daddy's new hiking contraption...the piggy back rider.

Studly men

Chloe and Mommy

Here's the top and bottom portion of General Sherman

 This is on top of Beetle Rock...Sean is photo bombing our picture

 Connor climbs up the rock like a spider

 On the top at last

 While we were out and about we picked up wood from downed trees to take back to the campsite.  Amy read in one of the pamphlets that they handed us, that we're not allowed to take in our own firewood to the campsites and instead we're supposed to break off wood from downed trees.  Of course this is after Sean and Amy already bought a $10 box of 4 pieces of wood, that we burnt the night before. 

 So Saturday night we had a great fire going...and then Joy and Heidi fell asleep while we were telling spooky stories.

 Kirk fell asleep shortly after this picture was taken.

 Chloe was just as happy as could be.

 Connor was exhausted!

 Saturday morning Kirk and Heidi played with Chloe

 Kirk and Heidi helped roll all of the air out of the tent.

 When the cars were all packed up, we went for a little hike down to this river.  There was poison oak all over the place, so I didn't go terribly close to the water.

 We walked over this canal and thought it would be a great place to go tubing.  We ran into a guy that works in the area and he said he has seen people tube in it before. 

 Then we headed back to the car and drove down toward the visitor center.  On the way Connor requested that we stop at Tunnel Rock, so we did.

 After Tunnel Rock, we went to the visitor center and then headed home.

We stopped for lunch/dinner around 4ish at Wendy's near Magic Mountain.  Connor refused to eat anything, so we bribed him with a frosty.  He ate about 3 or 4 bites in the car and then started having a coughing fit and threw it up.  Peter pulled him out of the car and cleaned him up as he was spitting up more stuff on the street.  Mind you we parked right by the drive thru...people got dinner and a show.  Peter took Connor to urgent care today...Connor has a double ear infection, which he's likely had for some time now.

The kiddos

Self portraits

Snuggled up for the cool weather

Enjoying the summer weather-likely during the same week of the winter weather.

Playing together...sort of

Sleeping together...Chloe is in the crib

Sleeping in the car...this happens when he skips his nap at school.  Funny though, he was chatting with me and eating some of his ham bites when he suddenly got really quiet.

Enjoying the great outdoors

Six Months Old and Connorisms

Chloe went in for her six month check up today....She went in happy and then saw the nurse and screamed and screamed and screamed some more.  I think she remembered him from last time when he gave her the shots at four months cause she was sure ticked off when he came in the room.  You would think he was giving her more shots, when in actuality he was just trying to take her measurements and weight.   When our doctor came in, Chloe had calmed down.  The doctor did all of her checks while I held Chloe...then she left and in came the nurse...Of course Chloe really let him have it when he came back with the vaccinations.

She weighed in at 15 pounds 8.5 ounces, is 25.5 inches long and her head is 44cm.  We're still on the low end of the percentage scale-but really were you expecting anything else?  Supposedly babies are supposed to double their birth weight by six months and triple by a year.  Connor doubled his around 9 months and I think he tripled at 2 years or close to that.  My guess is Chloe will follow in the same footsteps. 

 5 minutes prior-"But mommy, I not tired anymore."

 Helping daddy wash out the six gallon buckets we just bought to store flour/rice in bulk.

 Look how happy I am!

Chloe enjoys eating peas, green beans, squash, sweet potatoes, carrots, pears, apple sauce and bananas.  She's warming up to the idea of peaches, though still pulls a disgusted face while eating them.

  Just having a great time.

Chloe can roll quite well.  She's supposed to have a lot of tummy time...well that's kind of hard since she constantly rolls over.  Today she rolled over and over to get to where she could grab some toys.  Who needs crawling when you can roll.  She also enjoys pulling socks off her feet and sucking on her toes.  She's especially fond of her left foot.

"Look how handsome I are."

 Connorisms:
Daddy-"Connor can you count to ten?"
Connor-"ten!"
Daddy- "Can you count 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10?
Connor-"1,2,3, several unintelligible words-I can do that when I'm a little bit older."

While playing with Legos he's talking about making a garbage can to pick up with his claw grabber thingy.
Connor-What kind of garbage can should I pick up?
Mommy-How about a blue can.
Connor-I will pick up this blue rectangle can.
Mommy-Is that a blue dumpster?
Connor-Yeah, well actually a dumpster is for a front loader garbage truck.
Mommy-Oh are you a side loader?
Connor-Yes, I'm a side loader garbage truck.

Last night while getting ready for bed he announces, "This vacuum truck isn't tired yet."

 A couple Connorisms I found that I saved on the computer:

From Christmas-Mommy-"The christmas tree is naked."

Connor-"We need to put clothes on it."

While looking at Christmas lights and displays around our street-
"Santa claus has a big lunch box" (Santa was carrying a green box with a bow)