Like, a loooot.
Connor is 3 1/2 now.
I am starting a photography business.
I am writing on my brand new computer on my desk in my "office" which is really a nook in our master bedroom but I am in love with my new space and now that I have this space I feel I will be better at keeping up with this. Like I said in my last post I have, thankfully, been keeping up with his journal but I really want pictures to go along with it.
I have to catch up on this last 1/2 year and then I can hopefully maintain an at least once a week post.
Right before Connor turned 3, like literally 2 days before he turned 3 we took a trip to Disney!
Curt and I, my mom and my dad and Connor. I thought he was gonna, ya know, like it and like the characters and like looking around and I thought every line would be just too long to even think about trying to make him wait though. I was blown away by our experience that day.
We got fast passes to the rides that typically have long lines and while waiting for those to get to the time it was supposed to be we went to other things. So we went on absolutely every single ride and attraction he was able to do. From It's A Small World to Winnie The Pooh and Pirates and the Haunted Mansion and Jungle Cruise... everything was just amazing. I got choked up a couple of times like a crazy mama just couldn't believe we were there and he was enjoying it so much and doing everything there was to do and I had waited all 3 years so he would understand where we were and what we were doing and it was so worth it, the money and the time waiting. It paid off.
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| I love this picture because there is a very similar picture of my dad and I pointing together in It's A Small World |
Connor's 3rd birthday was amazing. It was a dinosaur theme since he looooves dinosaurs and knows all about them. He amazes me every single day with his knowledge on general things but his knowledge on dinosaurs is just nuts. It was at my moms and we had food and a full table of dinosaur stuff, inflatable dinosaurs that the kids wrecked of course and flying Pterodactyls that hung from the fans. it. was. so. cool. And I had goosebumps just thinking about my little boys face when he would see it!
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| The setup before it was destroyed :) |
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| First birthday where he was so excited to have all his friends with him. |
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| with daddy <3 |
With being 3 came new experiences.
Potty training was something I was very much afraid of.
Connor did soooo well with every other thing that I thought was going to be hard like taking his bottle away and paci and going to sleep on his own I just knew I was bound for something to be an absolute knock down drag out disaster. I started when he was 3 years and 2 months old. He peed and pooped on the potty on the very first day, it took 3 days and he now at 3 years and 6 months goes all by himself without us helping and is just so big and proud of himself every single time. I was absolutely amazed at how well he did it, how fast and how much he was just ok with it.. my little creature of habit actually was doing something new!
Connor-
I like to write down some of my favorite things about you at certain times. Things you are doing and saying that just make me smile every day.
- Your version of Publix is Puglix and it makes daddy and I crack up every single time you say it.
- You still have a lisp and it's my favorite thing ever!
- Our bedtime routine is my favorite time of day, it's just me and you and you do the funniest things and have the funniest routines within our routine.
- Your favorite place in the whole world is still Busch Gardens!
- Your imagination is better and more detailed and complex than any kid I have ever heard!
- Butterfly kisses are our thing right now :)
That's just a few!
I love you boy, to the moon and back!
mama
