Connor Turns One!

It's hard to believe that one entire year has gone by already - my Baby turned one year old on July 16th! Since it was a Thursday, we celebrated with a party on Sunday July 12th.

We had Connor's swimming lesson in that Sunday morning, so it made it a little bit of a hectic to prepare for the party, which started at 2pm. Connor had a deep sleep nap after swimming, but he was still very cranky for the entire party. See these two photos here, it pretty much sums up how crazy it was! Both Connor and Kolton are crying!

From Birthday

On Connor's actual birthdate, we had a small cake at home (which, you'll see from the video, Connor wasn't terribly interested in trying it!).

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Learning how to swim

Mommy and Daddy signed me up for swim lessons. Lots of other little boys and girls are there with their mommies and daddies, too. I'm learning how to move around in the water, it's fun! They want us to learn how to blow bubbles but I'm not ready for that yet. Mostly, they just want me to get used to being in the water.

Here's some videos of me frolicking in the water with Daddy!

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Connor's First Swim

I bought a small wade pool for Connor to "swim" in. We will be taking a baby swim course beginning the end of June, and I wanted to get Connor used to being in water outside of his own bathtub. Of course this is very nice for those super hot days too - which we had for a while here in early June.

Here's a video of Connor's first time in his little pool!

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Connor's First Stand

Connor is now able to stand up by himself by pushing up against a flat wall - he still needs to hang on or touch something for balance to stay standing. I'm sure he'll be able to stand with no support any day now. He's not yet started "cruising" - where baby walks by himself while holding on to something for support, for example along the sofa.

He started trying to stand around the first week of June. Here is a video of one of the first times that he was able to stand while holding something else, in this case, inside the playard. The video is from June 11, 2009.

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Crawling Baby Connor goes for the booze

My computer has been giving me some minor problems with recognizing my camera's USB, so it's been less easy to get photos posted quickly. So I have some catching up to do - lots of stuff I want to share!

As I wrote in my last post, Connor has been crawling around for quite a few weeks now - he started around early-mid May, and began to crawl around real good starting around the end of May. He's now 11 months and 3 days old, and can crawl as fast as I can walk. We are using one of his playpens to block the stairway, as he is fearless and will not hesitate to bolt head first off a bed or sofa, and for sure the stairs (luckily this has never happened yet, we've always caught him in time!).

When Connor was first learning to crawl, he'd get on all fours and rock back and forth. See this video to see him rock out! The video was taken on May 11, 2009.



Here's another video of Connor crawling, from May 31. He's quite mobile here, and goes straight for our wine rack!

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