16 months

Wow, its already time for your 16 month update.  The biggest change this month is your ability to get your point across.  You shake your head no when you don’t want something which makes it a lot easier to figure out what you need.  You bang your hand on the door to the basement or on chairs to let us know you either want to go play downstairs or sit somewhere.   You love to play downstairs by the way.  We took you downstairs for the first time on Thanksgiving and you are now obsessed with playing there. You are also our little pianist.  You beg to sit on the bench and play or bang the keys.

Words – you have added a few this month: agua, apple, hi, ma for milk & more, go and uh oh.  You love to drop things and say uh oh.  You have destroyed a number of sippy cups by cracking them as they crash to the floor.

Connor is still taking 2 naps – morning and afternoon, but I think we will be down to one pretty soon, the morning nap is getting later and later.  The bedtime routine is still the same as last month, down at 7pm and up around 4am for a bottle, then back down until about 7 or 7:30.  When it’s time to go up to bed, he says night night to everyone as he is being carried up the stairs, so cute.

We have finally dropped bottles during the day, he only gets one for bedtime and at the 4am feeding.  He is eating everything we are now and seems to be pretty easy to feed.  He isn’t a huge fan of veggies but will eat a few with meals.  Loves fruit – blueberries, mandarin oranges, apples, mango, strawberries…..Pasta is the easiest meal since he can feed himself and loves it. 

Connor has been pretty healthy (knock on wood this winter). We had to take him to the doctor right after Christmas, his eye lids were very swollen. He had an infection called cellulitis which thankfully was cured pretty quickly with amoxicillin.  Still no ear infection!! A miracle. 

As you can see from the picture, Connor loves helmets - football and hockey and wears them every chance he gets. He runs around all day long and never stops.  Puzzles and most toys have yet to hold his attention. 

Christmas 2013

Christmas this year came and went in a flash.  The time between Thanksgiving and Christmas was short this year and being busy with three active boys didn't help.  Maybe next year we can fit in more baking and crafting but we did get the important things done - our annual trip to Santa and shopping.

Hunter and Luke are both huge DC sports fans so their gifts revolved around the Caps, Redskins and Nationals.  In addition they both received Kindle tablets, legos and video games.

Connor is still too young to get caught up in toys but he received this years Hess truck and a Little People farm.  He was pretty excited by all the paper and boxes.

After breakfast we went to Gigi and Papa's for more presents, brunch and dinner.

My parents bought Connor and Liam a spherovelo ride on toy which was a huge hit.

Trying to contain Liam and Connor in a house that wasn't child proofed made for a challenging day, but there was minimal crying from either of them and they both managed to nap.

A Zeoli Christmas

The weekend before Christmas Kelly and Darin brought the boys up to visit and exchange gifts.  As usual, the boys got along great and had a wonderful time together.

The kid likes to squeeze into tight spots

Connor's 1st Haircut

Like with Hunter and Luke I was scared taking him for a haircut.  The others have thrown major tantrums and we have been forced to hold a screaming child on our laps while the barber attempts to cut their hair. Connor was the complete opposite.  Sat in the chair completely content and let her trim away!!

14 months & 15 months

I am going to combine the two months into one update since I never got around to writing a 14 month update. Connor has changed from a baby to a toddler in the last couple of months. He refuses to sit in his high chair, shakes his head no if he doesn't want something and cries if you deny him something he wants.

In addition to his previous words, he can now say mama, dada, bye bye, nana for banana, Papa, & guys (he usually shots that when looking for Hunter and Luke.)

He is sleeping pretty well, up a couple times to fuss and he can settle himself and then for a bottle about 4am.  He is waking around 7.  

He is up to 12 teeth I think and eats everything we do for meals now.  He refuses the squeezy packets of food which were a nice quick fix when I was trying to prepare his food.  

Halloween

Kerry had to travel this year so I got to take all the kids trick or treating together.  Connor is usually in bed by 7 so I was nervous how he would do in the stroller.  Well, he was great.  He sat as I pushed him and didn't make a peep the entire time.

Again this was my attempt at a group shot.  Connor was trying to make a mad dash out of the picture the entire time.  By the third shot Connor was out and Hunter was holding him by his tail.  Too cute!