Playtime!

Playing with Copper.

Conner crawls over to the door all the time to see Copper.

Fun In The Tub!

Don't worry he likes it.

See, this is Conner after the water.

Here is he visiting his friend. If you enlarge the picture you can see his reflection in the circle.

Gotta love the tongue hanging out.

My favorite.

This is playtime that I don't find so fun. Conner pulled one of my vases down for the last time. In the top photo you can see three cracks on the top going down the sides.

Here is one of the cracks, all three cracks are just a few inches from reaching the bottom.

Brownies

I made those brownies off of Picky Palate's site. They are WAY good. Just make sure you cook them for as long as she says not what the box says. Even though I used the pan the box called for it still took forever to cook. Maybe because of all the stuff on top.

I sure love Conner.

Steve is so good at getting Conner to laugh but every time I think to grab the camera and start recording I only get him laughing for a second before he is done. This time I was able to catch a little more.
For the last couple of weeks Conner has decided to start waking up in the middle of the night. Only once a night so that is nice but I couldn't figure out why. I felt for teeth a couple days ago but nothing. Then today I looked and he has four white buds under his gums. Two on top and two on bottom so if they are like his other teeth it looks like it'll be a couple more weeks and they should be out. He started cutting teeth at 4 1/2 months and if these teeth come through by November 20thish he'll have 10 teeth in 4 months. Crazy.
Thursday night we were at Lance and Amber's for a little while and Billy and Aubree were playing with Conner, they headed up the stairs so Conner tried to follow. He made it to the third stair and just sat there, then he started to fall down but I was standing right next to him and caught him. Good job Conner, you're doing great!

Hunting Time

Yesterday morning Steve and two of his brother's headed up to West Canyon for the opening day. They postponed opening day in that area until yesterday. Anyway Lance and Steve each had a tag, they left around 5:30 am and shot their deer around 3:00 pm. The two deer were right by each other. Here are the pics.The poor things.

Clint and Steve
Steve and Lance

Steve also recorded the whole gutting process of the deer but I decided not to post that. I am just grateful that they are going to jerky them. I love the sweet and spicy jerky from Ford's; that is the only way I'll eat deer, otherwise it is gross.
Conner is pulling himself up in the standing position with anything he can grab. He's used the laundry basket, the tub, the table, the couch, a stool as well as me. I can't tell if he is trying to stand up on his own or what but every now and then you can find him in an upside down V shape. I just had to stop him from eating my shoes. Seriously, they can't taste good. Conner loves what I call, human food. He'll act hungry and so I'll give him a bottle and he'll eat a couple of ounces and then be done with it and start playing with something. If I try to give him regular food at that point he'll eat a lot. He also prefers regular cups to his bottle. Steve had a great idea to help him learn how to drink from a regular cup. Give him a drinking cup when he is in the bathtub. Then it wouldn't matter if he spilled every time. I would just have to fill it up with clean water every time he wanted to drink. Ew, drinking your own bath water, especially when they pee in there, yuck. Steve use to tease me because if I saw Conner pee in the tub I'd have to drain all the water and fill it with clean water. Some people say urine is sterile and the baby doesn't care. Well I say, would you want to drink your own pee? Now Steve gives him clean water to wash him after Conner has had time to play.
Did you notice Picky Palate's recent post? I am making those this weekend. Roasted Apples N' Cream Caramel Brownies. Oh yeah! I'll let you know how they taste.

Spoiled

I am so spoiled. Steve is so good to me, I have been wanting a sewing machine for a couple years now and when I have needed one in the past I just borrowed my moms. Well, Saturday I was at a boutique all day with my sister-in-law, Jenny. She is AMAZING at anything with a needle. Knitting, crocheting, cross stitching, she makes incredible things. Well I was sitting next to her all day and it just made me itch to sew something. I have some fabric upstairs and thought I could attempt a tote, diaper bag of some sort so I started that Sunday night. I am very excited for my sewing machine. On Saturday while I was at the boutique, my sister, Debbie, was watching Conner he tried some new foods. She gave him a waffle, cheerios, and a banana. She said he didn't have any problem with the waffle or the cheerios but he choked a little on the banana but he got it back up chewed it some more and was able to swallow it. He was even picking up the cheerios and feeding himself. Then when we were watching TV that night at her house he climbed the stairs in their theater room. They aren't full stairs, about 3/4 the size of regular stairs but I was still surprised.
We ate at the Ferguson's Sunday night and Steve and I could barely keep up feeding Conner. He loved the sweet potatoes that they had baked, plain, with no butter or unnecessary extras.

Monday night we had a family, family home evening. All the Ferguson's got together and and we had a lesson for the kids, then we ate dinner and went over to Hee Haw Farms. It was so, so windy. Conner did really well the only time that he made a peep was when he got scared on the trick or treat hayride. Everyone had to yell Hee Haw at the people in order to get candy as you passed. This was Conner's reaction to the noise. It doesn't even look like him.

This is Steve's sister Lori, our nephew Preston, and our niece Aubree.

Steve's sister Becca, and another nephew, Tyson.
Steve's brother Clint with his wife Celeste and two of their kids. Kaitlon and Addyson.
Steve's parent's, Larry and Susan.
Steve's brother Lance with his wife Amber and three of their kids, Brigham, Billy and Madi.UsSteve's oldest brother Kyle and his two kids, Kaleb and Clarissa.
My cute family. I really didn't want my face on the cow.

He is getting pretty good at holding himself up. He did this for a few minutes. Today I came around the corner from the kitchen and Conner had crawled over to the stairs and had one arm on the second stair and one of his knees on the first stair. Go for it bud, I just keep the gate at the top of the stairs. Our main level is pretty small so I usually see him if he goes toward the stairs. I have lost Conner before upstairs, he was under our bed.

Milestone For Conner

Conner Makes New Friends

Conner has discovered some new friends in the reflection of the oven, dishwasher, our standing mirror and that circle thing in the bathtub under the faucet against the wall of the tub. He'll crawl up to those and smoosh his nose against it and try to touch, "the other person." Pretty darn cute.

First Milestone

Conner ate half of his jar of baby food without choking or gagging. It was tender chicken and stars. Good job Conner!

Second and Funnest Milestone

After eating his chicken and stars he needed a bath. We aren't the greatest couple when it comes to keeping him clean. While in the tub he crawled over to the edge of the tub put his hands on the top and stood up all by himself. I let him stand there for maybe two seconds before I put him back in the water. I gave him lots of clapping and praise and then realized I probably shouldn't praise him for doing that in the tub, too dangerous. Crazy to see a little naked baby standing all by himself but it was fun to see him hit another milestone.

Video Time

My two names for Conner are, sweetpea and sweet cheeks. I don't know
where I got sweet cheeks but yesterday Steve was helping me change a diaper and he looked and almost threw up. He said he never wanted me to call him sweet cheeks again.

I think Conner loves this walker. I would have put him in the backyard on the patio where he can move easier but Copper was out and I didn't want to deal with him.

I just thought this was kind of cute.

The one item in our house that is not baby proof. It's been pulled over twice.

Tonight Steve's sister get set apart and we are all going to dinner after. It's going to be weird not having her around for the next 18 months.
On a side note I have been trying to teach Conner the word soft. I have had my hair pulled too much lately and have come close to tears on many occasions. I hope he learns it quickly. Last week he grabbed my hair and I couldn't get him to let go finally he pulled his hand down and with it were 7 strands of hair. Ouch.

Our Weekend

Steve took work off on Friday thinking he would be Elk hunting. Instead he decided to spend the day with our family. I woke up to him bringing me pancakes in bed. He had spelled out my name with the batter. My mom always did this growing up and he knows I like it. Then we gave Conner his first hair cut. It was getting pretty long.

Friday night we did a lot of cooking to get ready for a family Halloween party on Saturday. I made mini pumpkin bites, pumpkin bread, Zuppa Toscona, and two kinds of pudding. The pumpkin bites didn't turn out very well I wouldn't recommend them. They were on Bakerella's site. Saturday morning we drove up West Canyon and went for a walk. It was nice and cool and really pretty. Here are some pics.Just after we left the canyon we came across a herd on antelope. Here are a few of them, the buck is in the middle.

The Halloween party was fun and all the kids looked so cute. I made sure I took my camera but I had uploaded our pictures from our walk before we left and forgot to put the SD card back in my camera. So I didn't get any pictures. Thank you Lance and Amber for letting us invade your house.

7 Month Birthday!

I can't believe my little boy is seven month's old. I was so lucky to be blessed with him. It's amazing that even though I am so far from perfect that Heavenly Father entrusted in me to take care of something so special. He is the perfect child for our family.

The oddest thing happened tonight. First let me give you a little background information. I don't answer my front door unless I know someone is coming over. For two reasons there are crazy people out there and second there are a lot of solicitors out here. So a month ago I broke my rule I don't know why. I answered it and a girl was doing a fundraiser for her gymnastics academy, so I purchased some cookie dough to help. I haven't received my cookie dough yet and they said it would be delivered sometime after 9/29/09 and my check was just cashed a couple of days ago so when my doorbell rang tonight I decided to answer it thinking it was my cookie dough. I was very surprised to see a tall man with his wife and two girls. The husband said we were just driving by and we noticed your house is for sale, can we look at it? Or do we have to have an appointment? I was caught off guard and stuttered, usually but um...come on in. My house isn't dirty but I hadn't made my bed andI had just gotten done cooking dinner so I had some dishes in the sink and toys on the floor in Conner's room so it wasn't at it's best. Anyway the family comes in and walks around the house then they go to the backyard. Right then Steve drives up from work. The people were in the backyard for awhile and then they came in and looked in the kitchen some more and spent some time in the front room. They were talking but it was in a different language. I was outside during this time waiting for Steve to get out of the truck when the people walked out front. We started chatting and we found out that they moved here from Spain about 7 years ago, the husband spoke really well but he translated for his wife. He said he went to the bank and told us what he qualified for then he said this was his first time buying a home and didn't know what to do. I told him to call our realtor. He said that they really liked the house and asked us about the ward where the school was and about the traffic. He said he wasn't sure how he got to our house but told us to wish him luck and they left. So we'll see if they call my dad and pursue this. That would be crazy if they did.

Conner's Crazy Face

I know I just posted last night but Steve had the camera while hunting so I couldn't post this picture until now. I don't know how he learned this but this is his smiley face. He loves to crinkle up his face. I love it. You can also get a really good look at all his teeth. Tooth number 6 popped through after this picture was taken. Four on top and two on bottom.

Crazy Week

This week has been one of those kinds of weeks. I am so glad it is over and am hoping for a great week to come. Steve went Elk hunting this weekend for the first time. He has drawn out 4 of the 5 years we have been married for deer and he gets one every year. Too bad I don't like deer, but this was his first attempt at Elk. So while he was gone Conner and I hung out with my parents in Orem. Friday my mom and I went shopping at Kohl's and then my mom, dad and I ate Costa Vida for dinner. Yum! Saturday morning Debbie's kids, Jacie, Adison, and Kaylee joined us while she and her husband went to St. George. I made homemade bread and showed Jacie and Adison how to roll it out and form it into loaves. I've never taught kids anything about cooking before. Then we took the bread and some soup that my mom had made and visited my grandma. She is 80 but acts like she is 60. Always fun to see her. Conference is really hard to listen to with four kids, so I am grateful for the Ensign so I can still get an opportunity to read them.
On Wednesday we found out that the family that was going to buy our house couldn't get their loan. They had been preapproved, everything was going well and then after it went further on in the process they were denied. They have been self employed for two years but because they filed their taxes late the first year they can't prove that they really have been self employed that whole time so they were denied. So our house is back on the market. The part that stinks the most is having to keep my house clean all the time. But I got a call from my realtor (dad) on Friday asking if a family could come and look at our house in 3 hours. So, they got lost on the way which I guess discouraged the buyers but after they left the house and spoke with their realtor he thought they were going to give us an offer but then they decided on a house in the Ranches because it is 15 mintues closer. I can't blame them. I would too.
Okay, I need a lot of encouragement. I am trying to get myself to exercise more. Especially since I have been in baking mode. So I started 2 weeks ago. On Monday, I went on a walk with Conner, and Copper. I walked for 4 miles. Then on Wednesday I sat on my exercise bike and watched The Biggest Loser on the internet. That took a little over an hour. That was the first time in I don't know how long that I was actually sweating. I almost exercised a third time that week but never got around to it. If I had, that would have been a record. This week I walked 2.5 miles to pick up our family pictures that we had taken and that was it. I am getting more plump. I was actually hoping there was some other reason for it and decided I should take a pregnancy test. It was negative. It's just me expanding from food. Darn it. Well wish me luck because I know I will be SO much happier without the spare tire around my waist.

Conner

Some of Conner's favorite things to chew on are: hangers, a rubber ruler, DVD cases and cords. He is starting to crawl normally instead of his inchworm crawl. We had to lower his mattress in his crib this weekend because he has tried to start pulling himself up, he hasn't succeeded yet but we are preparing. Today I noticed for the first time that he can go from a crawling position to the sitting position all on his own. When he tries to move from the sitting to the crawling position his legs tend to get stuck in awkward positions that he can't get out of very easily. Here is a clip of him starting to crawl normally. Sorry, it takes about 40 second for him to start. I should have moved him off of the wood I think it was hurting his knees.

This weekend we had Steve's sister's farewell. She is going to Armenia. I can't remember what else we did this weekend because for some reason my memory is completely shot. I use to have a pretty good memory, now I'll get in the car and start driving and I can't remember where I am going. No joke. It is so frustrating.
It will be two weeks this Wednesday since the appraiser came to our house, but we still haven't heard anything about it. Maybe this week.
I know I should wait until Halloween but I couldn't help it, here is Conner in his costume. It's a chicken.
I took this a few weeks ago after we first bought it. It's a little big but we still have another month.
It is so weird to see Conner smile and see so many teeth. He looks so different now. I can't believe he is almost 7 months. Not until October 7th but that is soon!
If you ever need an idea for dinner I would highly recommend: General Tso's chicken off of Kara's Kitchen Creations blog, as well as her Chicken Teriyaki. This weekend I made Crispy Sweet and Sour Chicken and Lo Mein off of Stephanie's Kitchen blog. It was so good. The Lo Mein was better than Whistle Wok.

Mom Experiences

Well, Conner now has 5 teeth showing. He got three of his top teeth almost at the same time. It's pretty funny I can't go one day without getting thrown up on. On Tuesday my morning started with Conner throwing up about a third of his bottle on me. I was laying on my back and had him up in the air above me and all of a sudden I see this white waterfall coming toward me. I moved as quickly as I could but it landed in my hair and on my shoulder. I sat up and it ran down my back as well as the front of me. There was a lot. I had to get in the shower. That night Conner had peaches for the first time and had pooped in his diaper without me knowing. I picked him up and rested him on my hip and as I did that he threw up again down my clothes and landed on my foot. When I moved Conner away there was poop on my shirt. Peaches travel through the body fast. Steve changed his diaper but it didn't stink, it smelled like peaches. Conner spits up all day long. I don't understand why, but I don't usually know that he has done it until I feel something warm or I step in it. Last night I was out on my porch feeding Conner his bottle and waiting for Steve to get home, I sat him up to burp him and before I knew it I had throw up all over my pants and was now sitting in a small puddle. That's when Steve showed up and said, "wo." I just looked at him and smiled and said those are my days. This morning when I got Conner out of the crib his hair was crispy. I looked in his crib and saw the outline of where he had spit up. It was now all dried in his hair. It's interesting how none of it bothers me. Steve still gets grossed out by the dirty diapers but I change them all day so I am use to it. Before I had kids drool grossed me out, now it's nothing. My emotions have changed quite a bit when it comes to kids. Before when I watched a movie or listened to the news and something happened to a child it never really phased me. Now I get crushed, and it sometimes brings me close to tears. I am a lot softer when I see kids acting up in the store, I just think, my time will come. I feel for the parents when their kids are crying and the parents are trying so hard to keep it together. Sad to say I use to think, "can't you control your kids?" I know pretty bad, huh? I had my first incident of Conner screaming at the store the other day. He must have become hungry all of a sudden and just started crying. My hands were full and I was trying to calm Conner while making a bottle. I was trying not to be embarrassed but it was pretty hard not to. I kept thinking, it's ok all moms understand, right? I am sure there are some people who think like I use to and looked at me and thought, control your kid. I am so grateful that I have learned some very important lessons from being a mom.

6 Month Pictures Are Back

The whole Ferguson clan.

One of my favorites.

She got some really cute ones of him, I am really excited.
I now have a new favorite store, the DI. I bought three pairs of jeans and eight shirts for Conner and it only cost me, $15. They are way cute clothes. Here is a new recipe I tried, they were way good and super easy.
I found them on one of the cooking blogs I have listed on the right. It's from picky palate. They are called black bottomed mini caramel pumpkin cheesecake bites. YUM!

House

On Saturday we had a family come and look at our house; Monday morning they sent an offer. They gave us a day to respond. It was a great offer so we accepted it. They have already been pre-approved so the only thing that could hold us up is the appraisal not coming back high enough. They have to have that by October 7th and they would like to move in by October 21st or earlier. So, I will be a little stressed until the appraisal comes back.

Conner "crawls" around like an inchworm.

His third tooth, (his top left tooth), first appeared a month ago but only the teeniest part of the corner. Well the bottom of the tooth has finally come through. But we sure could tell he was teething.
The other day I attempted to be crafty. I can usually come up with a cute idea but to actually make it, that doesn't work for me. It usually turns out homemade looking. But here is what I made.I used 2x4's and wrapped them in paper and modged podged them. Then I used vinyl and my cricut to cut out the letters. I LOVE Fall.