He's Growing Too Fast!

Our little baby just keeps growing and growing right before our very eyes. He recently mastered the art of crawling, which is both good and bad. Its really nice when I leave the family room and go to the kitchen and instead of just crying for me to come back he can just follow right behind me. Its not so good when I'm in the middle of a crucial point of making dinner and he comes into the kitchen and tries to climb onto chairs (which he cannot do without falling onto the tile) and I have to remove him from the kitchen 3 times in 5 minutes.



His memory is also getting good lately. He has found a pile of post-it notes on our desk that he loves to eat (near the floor where he can climb onto the desk and eat them all) so I started hiding the post-it notes underneath a calendar where they didn't show at all. But the very next time he was near the desk he crawled right over there, pushed the calendar aside, and went wild. I tried to distract him with the hole puncher, but that just made a mess and then he went right back to the post-its.

He also has learned to stand up using furniture. Yesterday when I walked into his room to get him out of bed I found this.



He was just standing there so proud of himself. And make sure you notice those cute little teeth that have popped up. Now his last development I'm a little embarrassed to share, he was rather slow in this area. For some reason he was never able to suck on a pacifier. When we were cutting back on his night time feedings and he would wake up and need something to suck on we would just hold the pacifier in his mouth until he fell back asleep. Then eventually he was able to hold it in his hand and he was very content to just play with it or suck on the side of the pacifier. Occasionally he would put it in his mouth the right way by accident but within about 2 seconds it would fly right out of there. But then overnight things just clicked and he figured out how to properly suck on a pacifier. And now he just loves that thing. He absolutely must have it in order to go to sleep and whenever he sees it he crawls for it. But since he lived 7 months without it we do not allow him to use it unless he is going to sleep.

A few random pictures.



Happy Independence Day!

This Fourth of July was not too exciting, we had made tentative plans to go to Telluride and then camping but both plans fell through. We did get a flag up this year to show our patriotism though. There are a surprising number of people who put out flags in this city, a lot of them even have actual flagpoles to raise and lower a flag on, but we just attached ours to the house. Most of the day we just hung out at home being lazy until it was time for a 4-ward activity. Our church building has a grassy area connected to it with a ramada, bbq, horseshoe pits, and sand volleyball. So everyone came and enjoyed dinner, visiting, and some activities. It was perfect weather thanks to the rain clouds that kept it cool and it even sprinkled for a few minutes. Conner was ready for bed long before the fireworks started but we just couldn't miss out on his first fireworks. He had a nice progression of being terrified, to being mystified, to enjoying them, and then his fatigue took over.

Hanging out before the fireworks.

 See the terrified look coming out.

Hanging onto mom for dear life by both her shirt and her hair.

"Oh wait, this is kind of cool."

"Yeah, I like these fireworks."

"Ok, enough of these fireworks, I'm off to dreamland."