Conner's Mad Skilz

Here are a couple of short videos of Conner showing off how smart he is :)

The Mixer

After Conner so desperately wanted to see what I was cooking a few nights ago, I decided to let him help me make some frosting. I pulled out the step ladder and Conner climbed right up. I let him push the start button on the mixer and he was instantly entranced! He loved helping me!

Summer of New Cars

This summer has brought 3 new cars into our family. Well, new-to-us cars. We started the summer off with a Honda Fit and a Chevy Malibu. In July Ammon's car (Malibu) broke down and we decided we were done putting money into it. It's been breaking down for years now, and each time we put "a little more money" into it. We were (FINALLY) done this time! Our big decision was what size of car to get. With another little one on the way, we knew we needed something bigger than the Fit. Because the Fit is a compact car, a rear facing car seat only fits in the middle seat. Which makes it impossible to put another car seat next to it (rear or forward facing). So we needed at least a full size car. But we are hoping to have more kids down the road, so should we just go ahead and buy an SUV/van now? In the past few years we've debated between an SUV and a van, and had already concluded a van. So, the decision was between a full size car now and then buy a van in a couple of years, or just buy the van now and be done. We went for the van. We've been really happy with it and like it a lot! I love not having to climb into the car to get Conner into his car seat!

The next car that we got was this beauty. We still haven't given it a wash, but Conner likes it!

THANKFULLY we didn't have to get a loan for this car! Actually, we got it free from some people at church who were done with it! Score!

The last car of the summer is this blue convertible sports car. It took Conner some warming up to, but he really loves it now! Although it wasn't free like the red car, it wasn't NEARLY as expensive as the van!

We set up the bed in his bedroom (soon to be shared room) and just left it there for a few weeks. We'd read him bedtime stories in it, but he still slept in his crib. After getting use to it in his bedroom, I ambitiously started teaching him to sleep in the bed for naps and bedtime. Naps didn't even last a week. He is back to his crib for naps. I found he wakes up to much during naps. When he's in his crib, he just goes back to sleep, but in the toddler bed, if he woke up early, he'd get out of bed and I wouldn't be able to get him back to sleep. However, he is a champ at sleeping in his bed at night (knock on wood!). In the beginning either Ammon or I would sit in his room until he fell asleep, but now we stay in his room for 20-30 minutes, tell him good night and leave. He's really good about staying in bed and going to sleep. If he wakes up in the middle of the night, we hear him get out of bed, go to the door and call for us, but when we don't respond, he gets back in bed and goes back to sleep! He's such a big boy! We love how independent he is!

Smarty Pants

I know I might be an insy winsy bit bias, but my son is pretty smart! We bought a booster seat for the table at a yard sale and it had just been sitting on the floor in our family room. We figured we'd let him sit in it while playing before we have him actually use it at the table. Today while I was cooking dinner, he came over to me and was whining to see what I was doing. I picked him up and showed him briefly, but then had to put him back down so that I could continue cooking. He didn't like being put back down, so my smart little boy went to the family room, got his booster seat, carried it into the kitchen, set it down next to me and climbed up on it to see what I was doing. Sadly, even with the booster seat he still wasn't tall enough to see, but man did he get some high praises from me for thinking of this ALL ON HIS OWN!

Not to mention he was pretty proud of himself! Rightfully so!

Grandpa and Grandma Eggett!!!!

We were so lucky to have Grandma and Grandpa Eggett come visit us for a whole week! We did a lot of playing at the house, but had fun on some adventures too! Grandma was a HUGE help when it came to the house! She did all the cooking throughout the week, plus made meals for the freezer, did the dishes and so much more!

Grandpa recently had a hip replacement, and is walking with a cane. Conner thought it was the best toy ever and that Grandpa brought it just for him! Grandpa would adjust the height of it to the shortest setting for Conner. Conner would hold it upside down and hit little balls with it - Grandpa's future golf buddy in the making!

I have to post this picture too! Conner has SO MANY different faces! This one actually isn't as vicious as it looks. He's scrunching up his nose, which he thinks is pretty funny! It's a funny face to him :)

Conner and Grandpa hanging out in the back yard.

We went to the Natural Bridge Wildlife Ranch and had such a fun time! It's a drive-thru zoo, and Conner loved the animals! After the drive-thru part, there was a petting zoo that had goats in it.

 

 

"This is the best!!!!!"

 

  There were a few buffalo, but this one was the most fun. He would stick his white tongue out so you could drop food onto his tongue!

 Conner liked the buffalo because they got close enough to pet! Their noses were slobbery and gross to me, but Conner liked petting them.

Conner enjoyed being able to run between Grandma and me and sit on our laps.

 

The ostrich had a pointy beak and we didn't really want to let him eat out of our hand. So like the car in front of us, we held the bag of food out the window for him to eat out of. However, UNlike the car in front of us, we didn't roll down the sides of the bag first. He grabbed the whole bag out of our hands and dumped it on the road and ate it all! It was surprising but funny! Good thing there wasn't much left in that bag!

  

The signs said not to feed the zebras because they bite. Grandpa made some comment about them biting to this zebra and as if the zebra understood, he showed us his teeth. Yup, don't want to be bit by him!

  

  

This is the life! After the drive through zoo we got Conner a snack because it was lunch time and silly me didn't think to pack him a lunch. Who doesn't love sitting in a stroller, not having to walk, and being fed!?! Okay, truth be told, Conner probably would have rather been walking, but we didn't want to have to chase him! Lol, he's a fast little guy with A LOT of energy!

  

  

We still had some animal food (pellets)  left from the drive-thru part, so we fed the goats too!

  

Conner L.O.V.E.D. running around with the goats! It is very common for us to have pictures of Conner as a blur. Like I said before, he's a fast little boy with a lot of energy!

  

This mama goat and her little tiny baby were sectioned off, but there were a ton of other goats to pet and feed!

  

 

 We had such a fun time at the zoo! We'd definitely recommend it! 

A few other fun things we did were: 

Go to the neighborhood pool a few times

The Riverwalk in San Antonio - with dinner at Texas Land and Cattle (one of Grandpa's favorite restaurants!)

Visits to the different parks in New Braunfels

Naegelin's Bakery (Texas' oldest bakery) - it was very yummy!

Of course there were other things we wanted to do but didn't get to. But lucky for us, Grandpa and Grandma will be back again and we will do more fun things then! We are all so happy that they could come visit us! We had such a fun time with them!