First Snow Winter 2010-11

We had our first snow 5 days ago, on the weekend (Nov. 20). Connor loved it, and he got to make his first snowman. He loves snowmen, ever since he started watching this snowman video at Starfall.com.

Today we got a big dumping of snow all morning. I think it's just stopped now (2pm).

Click on the pics below to see a few more photos!

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Milestones today

Has it really been six months since any posting was made? Well, instead of trying to play catch-up, I'll just start with a quick update on yesterday's milestones.

Yesterday was Day 5 in Connor's CEFA (pre-preschool) JK1 class. For 'gradual entry' it was the last day where I was to stay at the school facility while he is in class. I left Connor about 5 minutes after arriving. He cried and kicked and waved his arms, of course. He eventually did settle down, apparently bringing one of his bears worked and he held on tight to the bear all morning and stuck to Ms. Chan like glue. I an able to peek into the classroom from another office (it's peering through 2 windows so it's not a clear view) and the times that I did he wasn't crying at first and then he did, for no reason that I could see and it just broke my heart. Not just a little cry but a huge sobbing heaving cry. I had to stop peeking.

Despite crying for 'Mum Mum' on and off, the ladies of CEFA JK1 did not feel they needed me. Connor even went down for nap time all by himself - they asked him to lie down and sleep and he did! That was amazing to me. This is MILESTONE 1 today.

The ladies asked me back into the classroom a while after Connor awoke (he napped for 1h10m), and that was only because another child was crying and Ms. Chan is also the only one that can comfort her. Currently Ms. Chan has two little ones vying for her attention.

I decided to stay awhile with Connor to play, to keep him comfortable with CEFA. He likes the stacking blocks and wooden animal puzzles. We then went to draw. Recently I will always draw a big heart and a small heart, Connor likes them and he likes to say "big" and "heart".  After I drew the hearts, he slowly and deliberately placed small scribbles for what appeared to be eyes, nose and mouth for each heart. He said MumMum for the big heart and he was the little heart. Then he drew scribbles where ears should be and he said "ear". Wow, I said, what about Mommy's hair? And then he drew in a few lines where hair would be. This is MILESTONE 2 today. His FIRST DRAWING that made sense! Actually though my Mom says he's been drawing more so it might not really be the first, but it was the first one with me! I brought it home and framed it.

That evening, Connor went Number 2 potty in the toilet! Did you catch that - the TOILET. This is MILESTONE 3. He did it with encouragement from PoPo. She bought a cheapo $3 soft toilet seat for toddlers and here I have my $50 one which I haven`t yet tried - so for all you parents, just get the cheapy one it will do! There is a funny part to this little story. He said he was done so we went upstairs and we were in the kitchen cleaning up his puzzles when suddenly he ran away and the next thing you know I saw a poopy bouncing on the floor. LOL! I asked if he had to go more and he said yes. We rushed downstairs again to PoPo`s toilet and boy did he have a lot more to go! Who would have thought potty training could be this exciting.

That night Connor and I were in his bed as usual for sleep time and there are many nights where his face is next to mine, face to face, and he`ll open his eyes and give me the most special, best smile ever and I just melt. And I`ll say, I love you Connor, Mommy loves you. And he'll just nod. This time I asked him to try to say it and he tried it several times! This is MILESTONE 4. "Aiiii nom mono" - He can't say Mommy but he can say Mum. So sweet!

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My son, the janitor-in-training

Connor loves to be helpful. Especially with housework such as taking the dishes out of the dishwasher, turning on the dryer, taking the clean clothes out of the dryer, wiping the table, picking up lint off the floor, and now he's able to help clean the floors using our Swiffer! Aren't kids great! :)

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My Year-End Slideshow

Hi everyone! Hope your New Year is good so far!

I've been keeping my mom very busy so she hasn't been posting anything new for my blog. So I put together this little slide show to give you an idea of what's been happening for the past couple of months. I hope you enjoy it!

Love, Connor

Make a Smilebox slideshow

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Older and wiser 1 year 4 months!

Hi everyone! Hope you are well! I have been doing great. This is a photo of me from today, Mommy said "Look how much taller you are than the back of the chair now!" Yes, I have grown a little bit bigger I guess, lots of my shirts are now a wee bit too short. I have busy playing and learning things, which keeps Mommy and Daddy quite busy as well, as I always like to have them around me, especially Mommy. Yes, I am all 'take, take take' but so far I can get away with that without any problem.

I can walk really well now, and I really like to run, too! I like to take Mommy's hand and take her to where I want to play. It's great to be able to do that! I started to walk without having to hold on to anything around 14 months. My girl friend Ellie also walked at 14 months. Now that I can walk, I love being able to stroll around wherever I want, especially when we go out to the park or to the mall. Here's a picture of me from mid-October - very happy to be outside!



I have a set of flash cards with pictures of items like a cat. If they ask me "Where's the cat?" I can find the cat card for them. I can find the cat, dog, keys, baby, apple, fish, teddy bear, shoes. For some reason they find this very cool. Speaking of shoes, I love wearing shoes. I wear them in the house every day. My favourite pair is one that squeaks! If I'm not wearing them like to take my shoes and put them in my drawer.

On Saturdays Mommy and Daddy take me to a class at Gymboree, which is lots of fun. I was scared the first time and I was REALLY scared of Gymbo the clown, but I think I am finally used to seeing him and have stopped freaking out everytime the clown kisses me (Mom says to tell you it's a clown puppet). The class has a lot of physical activity play items set up, like slides and climbing gyms. Each class they set it up a little bit differently. Then there are some group activities, where all us toddlers push a big soft log, or we sit on the log, or we sit around and the lady there sings the bubble song and blows out all these bubbles. I learned how to hit the floor with both my hands when they say "Thunder", and when we call "Gymbooooo" for Gymbo to come play, I knock on the floor. Mommy and Daddy have fun there too, once Mom climbed into one of the big soft barrels and rolled around a bit.

Here's a few photos from Gymboree.


I still have swimming classes on Sundays. I am not really into swimming these days. A few weeks ago, Mommy dunked me underwater and I got really scared. And then the next week she did it AGAIN. I did NOT like that, and now I'm always scared that she will do it again. I only have fun when I get to play with the swim toys.

I still really like my Baby Einstein videos, and I like to read, too. My favourite for a while was my Old MacDonald Had a Barn Flip Book. I would make Mommy or Daddy read it over and over and over.

I am still resisting eating whatever food they try to give me. I like being a baby and drinking my milk and eating cookies and Cheerios! But I will eat honeydew, bananas, peas, cream of mushroom soup with ABC pastas, and PoPo gives me rice noodles for lunch every day and I really like that.

One of the things I'm trying to learn right now is going down a step. Anytime I can, I like to step up on an item and step off the item. The big people all pay a lot of attention to me when I do this. They keep saying I'm like a little monkey.

I am also very fascinated with the inside of the refrigerator. So many things to look at in there! I took out a bottle of hot sauce yesterday and hid it, they still have not found it. Hee hee.

Well that's all for now, I'll try not to take so long for another update!

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