November 2016

Happy Birthday Connor! How are you three years old?! You are the sweetest little man I had ever met and I am so thankful to be your Mama!

Funny quotes from Connor --

“The dragon is going to crash the castle… because he has a mighty tail!”
 - While doing a 100 piece dragon puzzle

"Mama who was Connor when I was a baby?"

“I’m not talking to you”
 - This little guy is getting quite assertive!

And Happy Thanksgiving! We did a quiet thanksgiving here in Denver this year and again ordered food from Whole Foods. Why cook a gigantic meal when it is just Matt, the kids and I? Although somehow even though I wasn't cooking a ton of dishes it was still a really hectic day. I think its just the nature of a holiday...

We had our first Parent Teacher STUDENT conference this month. Aurora lead the entire thing and did an amazing job reflecting on her strengths, weaknesses, accomplishments and challenges. Her teacher said she was impressed with not only the depth of reflection Aurora showed but how quickly she was able to express it all.

I got to go have drinks with some girl friends :) I don't know when the last time was that I did that, but it was good for my soul. I would like to say I will make this a semi-regular part of my life but I know I will be writing a few months from now and not have gone again! Why is it so hard to carve out time for myself?

-- Cooper at 13 months --

Cooper is talking more -- Go-gah (yogurt), Dada, go go go, muh (more), baba (banana, book)

He is a pretty reasonable solids eater. He will pick at most things but never eats a ton of anything (except his yogurt!)

He seem to be totally capable of walking, but has no interest. He will take a few steps if someone sets him up to, but almost never chooses to on his own. He gets carried everywhere, why choose to put in effort if you don't need to? ;)

Cooper is standing really well on his own. He has gotten stable enough that sometimes he will stand and eat his yogurt packet at the same time.

That boy is obsessed with books! He reminds me of his sister with his intense love of them. He would be happy being read to all day long.

Cooper got his first haircut! Matt had been on my case for a while to cut that boy's shaggy hair. It was looking so funny being super short/non-existant in the front and long and shaggy in the back. He looks like such a little boy now!

Nanny got him a wheeled airplane that he can push around and he loves to chase Connor with it. It is hysterical to watch him try to catch Connor who is riding the plasma car all over the house.

We are down to one nap. He has been going down around 12 after we pick Connor up from school and have a super fast lunch. He still really wants his morning nap, but then wouldn't nap for the rest of the day so unfortunately he is going to have to adjust.

Cooper has been sleeping like a champ. He falls asleep easy by himself after books and typically sleeps through the night. Thank you Cooper!

January 2015

First time on the magic carpet

This month has been pretty quiet for us aside from traveling to the condo most weekends for ski school.  Being up at the condo is starting to feel much easier -- packing is getting somewhat routine and we finally got our new furniture at the condo. It looks so much better! It finally feels like a home and not a hotel. The wall art still needs some work but we will get there.

Taking the kids out to breakfast by myself

Ski school has been going well for Aurora. One of the little boys in her preschool class is also in her ski school class which I think helps a ton. Aurora and Beckett have apparently become good friends. She gets excited to see him and apparently they hold hands everywhere they go ;)

We had friends from New Canaan come out to ski for a weekend. Nicole and Tyler brought there two boys, Henri and Andrew and stayed at our condo. Unfortunately circumstances made it so we were only able to visit on Saturday but it was still really nice to see them. Aurora and Henri were good friends when we lived in Connecticut and it was fun to see how well they got along even after all this time.

We finally figured out our preschool plan and got our applications in. I am so lucky Matt is good at filling out applications because it would have been a huge burden for me to do on my own. Aurora has already had her visit at Inspire and we both absolutely loved it. I think she would do much better in a smaller school like Inspire. We are still having a lot of issues getting Aurora to go to Temple without lots of tears and distress. We find out about Inspire February first while Graland and Ricks will tell us in early March.

Unfortunately we lost our lovely babysitter this month. Miss Lauren got an internship at CU Medical Center so she no longer has time to come to us during the day. She will continue to come one evening a week but I am going to have to find a new daytime sitter.

-- Connor at 13 months --

You are walking! Right at the beginning of the month you decided you had figured it out enough and have been walking ever since. You almost never choose to crawl anymore. It's hysterical to watch you, your Dada and I say you walk like a big old grizzly bear because you will crawl for a little and then stand up and hold your arms way up over your head and wander about.

You are a leaky disgusting mess lately. Both your nose and mouth have been running almost all month. I think you are getting new teeth and I wonder if that has something to do with the fact that you are eating almost nothing lately. You will eat bananas, yogurt and sweet potatoes but not much else.

It also could have something to do with the fact that you have been super cranky lately. It doesn't help anything that you have been fighting your second nap. It has been almost two weeks since you started refusing it. I really hope you aren't giving it up for real but only time will tell. Needless to say you have been a total disaster by bedtime.

You have quite a few words now -- "ba" ball, "mama," "dada," "Ro-ro" Aurora, "da-da" doggie, "nana" banana, "ch" cheese, "boh" book

Playing outside in the random 70 degree winter weather

You still sign "more" "all done" and now "please" which is quite cute