June 2017

We sold our house! After getting a really early low-ball offer I was starting to feel discouraged, but I guess we just needed to find the right buyer. Yay!

Our house was officially put on the market over Father's Day weekend. Unfortunately we did not get anywhere near the traction on our house that we had hoped. I think we only had 2 people come through on Saturday. I guess Father's Day weekend was a bad pick, but Gina didn't expect it so... and it worked out okay in the end!

Aurora had her last day of Kindergarten! We have been so fortunate that Aurora adores her school. I can't wait to see what her little brain decides to study next year!

Right before the end of the year Aurora got to go on a special field trip with her teacher Lainey to the Museum of Nature and Science. This was one of the items we won at the auction, and she was so excited about it. Lainey is very special to Aurora and getting to spend time with just her and one other friend (Harry) was wonderful.

Thinking we were going to have a lot of people in and out of our house the first weekend we headed up to Breckenridge to celebrate Father's Day with Nanny and Grumpa. We did a little hike, went swimming, walked around the town and had a really nice relaxing weekend.

Unfortunately we came home to another complaint from Animal Control against Chile. That poor dog is going to get herself into trouble if we aren't careful. The worst part is she isn't doing anything, our crazy neighbor has just decided that she is the new target. Our other neighbors have had just about every complaint under the sun filed against them (all completely unsubstantiated) and I guess it is just our turn. So Matt and I decided that the best course of action was just to board the dogs until we move to the new house.

Connor is such a good worker. He loves to help Dad in all things yard work. In fact he likes it so much he was in bed once when Matt was out front laying seed and he started crying asking why Dad wouldn't let him help. Of course I let him get up and he did such a good job raking and helping Matt spread the seed.

-- Cooper at 20 months --

Cooper is absolutely loving big kid books. He still enjoys the board books, but he is asking for pictures books more and more. I am amazed at how intently he listens to the longer books. He definitely has gotten his sister's love of books!

He is napping without a diaper! We are down to just one diaper a day! He stayed dry the first 3 days after we started potty training so I figured we would just go for it. It has been a bit hit or miss but he will work it out.

Cooper is putting his own shoes and shorts on. He hasn't quite figured out how to get the shirt over his head, but even I sometimes have a hard time pulling shirts over his big McCord head so that may take some time!

I am constantly amazed with how much awareness he has of his surroundings. The other day I walked into the new house with him and he asked to go to "Cooper's room" and then pointed out exactly how to get there. I don't know that he understands that he will be living there soon, but he definitely knows that is what we call it.

Cooper is such an empathetic guy! I don't remember his brother or sister ever doing this, but he comes running with hugs whenever anyone is sad or hurt. The other day Connor fell and hurt himself and Cooper came running over to me, pulled on my hand and said "Mama come. Ga-ga sad!" What a helper.

August 2015

We are getting ready for school and baby! Aurora had her last camps this month and we finished on a high note. She had two princess camps at dance and another week of Avid which all went beautifully. Hopefully school will continue this trend. We had our first Meet and Greet for her new school at the City Park playground and that also went well. She was a little nervous about going but had fun and played with a few kids there.

I finally hired a nanny! I have been trying for weeks to find someone to watch the kids when this baby is born and also to help out around the house afterwards. The whole process has been a disaster and I finally broke down and used a nanny service which solved the problem immediately. Thank goodness! Maddie will be starting with us the beginning of September.

I took Connor to a class at Great Play after Aurora had a birthday party there and he absolutely loved it! I think this was probably the first class he has ever gone to that was just for him and he almost didn't know what to do with himself. It was a great hour of Connor being able to do whatever he wanted without his older sister directing everything.

We had our last set of family pictures taken as a family of four! Kristin came over to the house to do the shoot and they came out great. I can't wait to meet this little one.

We bought a new car! Or should I say truck ;) After going back and forth for months we finally decided on the Escalade ESV (or Escalade Stretch as Nanny calls it) because with three kids, two dogs and all our gear to head up to the mountains I am sure we will need the extra cargo space. Now I just have to learn how to park it...

We finally made it up to Breckenridge this summer when Karen, Brad and Ruth came out to visit. I can't believe Ruth is almost two and this is the first time I have met that sweet girl. The kids had a blast playing together and it was such a special time to catch up with two of our very favorite people.

-- Connor at 20 Months -- 

Connor is talking in real sentences now. I love being able to hear what is going on in that little mind of his. It is also hysterical to hear him start to repeat things we or his sister say like “Oh my gosh!”

He loves jumping off everything. Currently his favorite is jumping down stairs.

He want to do everything himself -- “CaCa do self”

He knows some of the basic colors — blue, purple, green, yellow. He still gets confused between orange and red but those can be tricky.
He has been trying to "count" with us lately -- "six, seven, eight, nine, SEVEN!"

He is getting more teeth, but they seem to  be mostly on one side which is odd. He has one molar finally coming in on the right but has both plus an incoming bottom canine on the left.

He is sleeping from about 6:30/7 until his wake up light goes on at 5:55. He rarely wakes before then, or if he does he goes right back to sleep. Often we wake up in the morning to him standing in his crib saying “Green light yay!”

There was a random week this past month where he was totally refusing his nap, but we seem to be past that now thankfully.