Sunday, November 11, 2012

Some Weekly Photos

I have not posted his weekly photos in a little while.  Enjoy!

He is going to be 6 months this week - time is FLYING!  We had a great weekend.  We stayed in most of the weekend which was great.  Connor is getting over a cold, so the time home was good for him.  He was rolling all over this weekend and is getting good at sitting now too. 




Tuesday, November 6, 2012

Jumping

I'm sure I've mentioned before that Connor LOVES to jump. Well, since he loves to jump so much we borrowed a jumperoo from the neighbor.  He loves loves loves this thing!  We are happy too because it gives our arms a break.  I mean, the kid wants to jump all the time!  I will have to post a video of him in the jumperoo.  He just goes nuts.  Best toy ever!  We just sit and laugh at him jumping in this thing.  It is pretty entertaining!  Video to come!

Chocolate Tour

This past weekend we went downtown Chicago for a Chocolate Tour on the Magnificent Mile/Gold Coast area.  It was delicious! We had quite the group that went - myself, my parents, sisters, Jackie and all of the kids.  We all had a great time.  Jackie, you will be glad to know that I took a total of 112 pictures throughout the tour.  I did get the BEST picture of all time and it is below! :)

During the tour we were able to sample chocolates from 5 different places.  We started at teuscher and sampled a champagne truffle (Super good) then moved into "more" cupcake and sampled a chocolate cupcake with chocolate frosting (DELICIOUS!!). After the cupcake indulgence we made our way to Hendrickx Belgian Bread Crafter and sampled some type of chocolate bread, homemade waffle and some homemade french bread (AMAZING!!).  The fourth stop was in water tower place called Candyality.  You get to find out your Candy Personality there.  We sampled the biggest piece of whopper candy I've ever seen.  I was not a fan of the sample we got, but the store was awesome.  I do have to mention that they had some celebrity truffles and it is so sad to say, but the store had spelled Barack Obama's name incorrectly (they forgot the "c" in Barack)....then our last stop of the tour was at argo tea cafe.  We sampled a chocolate tea and a chocolate croissant thingy.  I wasn't sure I was going to like the chocolate tea, but I was WRONG!  It was really good.

So, all in all, the tour was really fun. The weather cooperated and wasn't too bad.  We did make one final stop before heading home and that was back to the more cupcake place.  We got 6 more cupcakes and split them up to sample them.  I HIGHLY recommend this place.  Jackie, I'm sure sure how you do it - living so close that place.  I would be there every day!

Enjoy the pics from the tour. 

p.s. Connor was such a cutie and a great boy throughout the whole tour! 







This was the BEST  picture - Jackie holding Connor!!!

Thursday, November 1, 2012

Sitting!!!

Connor is sitting so well these days!  He is getting so strong.  It wont be long until he is able to sit on his own for a long period of time. 

He does really well for a minute or so then leans forward and cannot figure out how to lean back to sit up again.  He is getting there though. It is so exciting to see him grow and get so strong!!



Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Happy 1st Halloween

Connor had a great first Halloween.  I was able to work at home today and spend the entire day with him.  Connor's cousins Riley and Carson came over to trick or treat and to take some pictures.  I have got to say that I have never seen more adorable giraffe's or Rupunzel ever!  After their visit, we met up with some of the other neighbor kids for a quick picture then went trick or treating at a few houses.  Connor helped pass out candy too.  He was such a good boy! 

Posing with the pumpkins

The two cutest little giraffes



 


Connor trick or treating!
 
Happy 1st Halloween Connor!!  We had so much fun! 

My pumpkin in a pumpkin

We were getting ready to carve our pumpkin and decided to have a quick photo shoot with Connor inside the pumpkin.  Let's just say he did not like being inside the pumpkin.  This picture is adorable and is now one of my favorites.  Who else can say that they put their kid in a pumpkin?!?! 
 
Happy Halloween!!!



Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Some more pics

 
Just because I'm picture crazy - ENJOY :)
 
Carson and Connor wrestling

hehe...

He loves his new hat - getting set for winter

New outfit - so cute!!!

Love those big eyes and little grin