Our Weekend

It was a low-key weekend at the T house for Labor Day this year.  I was still recovering, but I tried to stay upbeat for Connor and enjoy our 3 days off.  On Friday night, we went out for dinner to celebrate that I finally got my job title updated to reflect my job!  We ordered giant Blue Moons and Connor kept busy with his crayons.  Little lefty!

On Saturday morning, I woke up to Connor talking and singing in his bed.  I couldn't understand everything, but I clearly heard "Shopping cart...shopping cart..."  So cute!  To fulfill his wish, we went over to Menard's to pick up a few things.  He snacked on Cheerios while I browsed for some new plastic totes.

Our next stop was the Buffalo Grove Days Dog Show nearby.  I told Connor we were going to a "doggie party" so he shrieked we he got of the car and saw all the dogs!  It was hard to keep him still to watch the show, but we wandered around he got to pet some of the dogs.

We ended up at the playground just behind the dog show so we could play and watch at the same time.

My face here is horrible, but his eyelashes look so nice!

This silly guy has been taking the tops of the plastic totes we bought and putting them all over the kitchen floor.  I'm not sure what he thinks he should be doing with them, but it's pretty funny!

Our Week

Last week was one of the hardest I've had in a long time.  Despite the sadness and loss, I tried to stay strong for Connor.  His smiles kept me going when I had a hard time getting through the day.

On Monday, I'm not sure why, but I wanted to keep some sense of normalcy, so I attempted to take Connor to the pediatrician hours after I found out I was miscarrying.  I don't know...I guess I just wanted to see him healthy and happy even if I wasn't.  This was probably a bad idea looking bad because we ended up waiting almost 2 hours to get in.  Connor was a good boy and played pretty well in the waiting area.

Once we got into the exam room, he was hungry and tired, so he wasn't very happy to be there.  Luckily, we got in and out pretty quickly and he's perfectly healthy!  He's 24 lbs (5%) and 33.5 inches (25-50%) tall which is right where he should be on his growth curve!

Later in the week, we took out one of Connor's new bath toys that he got for his birthday.  The kid loves his stacking cups, so he was very excited to have another set just for the bath!

And after he got out of the bath, he played with his other set of cups and used them to give Kitty a hat...

Connor also spent some time with Grandma & Grandpa and got to use some of his new outdoor toys!  G & G got a slide, giant ball and big wheel from the neighbors across the street and Connor loved them!

I got to witness his first ride on a Big Wheel and he did really well!

Weaning from the pacifier

Connor has always been a big pacifier user, but we have limited it to sleeping for the past year or so.  He doesn't use one at daycare at all, so we know he's capable of sleeping without it.  But he just sleeps SO well that we also don't want to mess anything up!

On Saturday, Connor randomly wanted to carry his Wub pacifiers around in the morning.  He uses MAM pacifiers normally, but he keeps 2 Wubs in his crib for snuggling and occasionally sucks on them.  So anyway, he ended up taking his nap without his MAM pacifier and just with his 2 Wubs.  This was a little shocking to us because he usually asks for his paci, but he didn't seem to mind not having it that day and he just used his Wub instead. 

This situation made me wonder if maybe we could do it again that night without the MAM paci.  Well, it worked!  He was perfectly fine with just his Wubs, so we continued with them all weekend.  On Monday night, he finally asked for his paci and I think he was looking for the MAM that he was used to.  I just gave him his Wub and he went to bed. 

So now the MAMs are hidden and he's going to use just his Wubs for a bit.  My plan is to take one away and just leave one in his bed after awhile.  And then, eventually, we'll take the last one away.  I want this to be very, very slow so he can get used to it and it's not a big shock to him.  I really thought we'd have to wait a little longer to do the pacifier wean, but maybe this will work...