Our Week

Our week took a sad turn when we found out great-grandpa died and we had to go to Indianapolis for the funeral.  The kids had a great time with their family since they didn't really understand too much of what was going on.

During the wake, there was a kid's room, so I was able to take the kids away to play.  Caylee loved the kitchen and she found mama's favorite kitchen appliance!

After the funeral, we waited inside the church for everyone, so we played in the little kid's area there too.

The old school toys were pretty exciting for me and Connor loved using the washing machine!

 He asked me to take photos of him eating chocolate cake!


On Saturday, once the funeral was over, we had some family time.

Some silly time at home...

Connor asked me to breastfeed his baby.  Heart melted.  Of course, I will!

Caylee figured out how to use her diaper pail.

Our Week

Aunt Julie's birthday was on Yom Kippur, so we celebrated on Wednesday night.  Connor was so excited for the "birthday party" that he didn't want to play until after birthday cake!

My favorite piece of Connor's journal this week was his picture of him playing on the computer.  Aww!

 Miss Caylee with her super-sized drink at Corner Bakery on Friday.  Just ice, but she's a pro with the straw!

A Busy 2 Weeks

It's been a busy and difficult 2 weeks in our family as we lost our dear Papa.  He spent about 5 days in hospice surrounded by family and I spent as much time as I could there with him.  While I was there, Connor & Caylee sent photos and made phone calls to him to send love.

Caylee did her first drawing!

During the last 2 weeks, Caylee's walking progressed a lot!  She went from just a few steps to taking a lot more at a time!

Connor and I took 2 trips to the toy store to use some of his birthday money.  He picked out a Transformer and dinosaur that turns into an airplane.

When Papa died, cousins Fern & Phyllis flew in and got to spend some quality time with Connor.  Having the kids around made everyone smile during some emotional moments.

Connor & Ryan also had a chance to play together a lot and they both got to go behind the ice cream counter at the restaurant!  Connor picked out chocolate ice cream with rainbow sprinkles!

During every night of shiva, Caylee got more and more daring with her walking and letting herself having free reign of the house.  She enjoyed playing with the magnets and pulling them off the wall for me to clean up!

Her walking progressed a lot each day and she even seemed to figure out that she should walk on the sidewalk and could crawl on the grass.

Caylee & Nana

Cake & Presents

#minionmania continues with the birthday cake!

The wind kept blowing the candles out, but we finally got them all lit at the same time so he could blow them out!

I'm so happy to have some wonderful photos of us of this great moment!

Finally...presents! Connor's reaction to presents was the most adorable and funny thing.  He's usually more excited with the idea of opening gifts than actually seeing what's inside and playing with it.  This is the first time that he had a real reaction to what was inside and it was the most precious thing ever.  I'm so glad I have videos of it because it's something I want to treasure forever.

He actually "read" a couple of the cards which was also really cute!

When he opened every gift, his reaction was, "Whoa!" with shrieking and yelling!  Everyone was cracking up because he was just so funny and enthusiastic about everything!

His obvious favorite was the Transformer that he's been talking about for the last week.  Great Uncle Stan didn't even know he wanted one, but he picked a great gift because Connor was obsessed from the moment he ripped off the paper!

Almost instantly, he opened the Transformer, thanked everyone for his gifts, and asked to go to bed.  The poor guy was worn out.  Of course, he insisted on taking the Transformer to bed with him.  We could here the little clicking noises from our bedroom as he played and fell asleep with it.  He was so exhausted that I could hardly even get him to talk to me about what a great day he had!