Valentine's Day photo shoot

With his 18 month birthday right around the corner, I decided it was time for a mini photo shoot and we haven't done one in awhile.  In honor of Valentine's Day, he posed with his love monkey that Daddy got me for Valentine's Day 2 years ago.

It's kind of shocking how much he looks like me in these...

We also did a little tribute to baby Easton who sadly died from SIDS last year at this time.  He will be remembered forever <3 2011="" all="" and="" august="" babies="" board="" br="" easton.="" hearts="" in="" message="" moms="" my="" nbsp="" of="" on="" photos="" remembrance="" the="" took="" with="">

First ice cream sundae

We went to Applebee's for dinner on Friday.  That's one of our routine places when we have to stop at Home Depot and do grocery shopping at Target since they're all in the same shopping strip.  We had an awesome waiter who tried to entertain Connor and get him to smile.  During dinner, he brought Connor a balloon and we thought he'd love it.  I even told the waiter he got one the night before and loved it.  But for some reason, when he brought the balloon, Connor started freaking out and crying.  After we calmed him down, he ate his dinner and then the waiter stopped by and said he had to win home over before we left.  We were shocked when he brought us a free ice cream sundae!  Connor has never had one before, so this was very new to him.  Not surprisingly, he loved it! 

Vanilla ice cream, hot fudge, whip cream...he ate it all!

"Read book."

Connor's first real sentence!

We thought he might have been saying it earlier this week, but we weren't sure.  Yesterday at daycare, the teacher confirmed that he was saying it all day and must have picked it up from the older kids.  He's really starting to enunciate the K part in book which is really great because he's starting to pick up the sounds more.