Sickness Engulfs the Singh Househould

Yes, we are all sick. We went camping last weekend anyway. I ended up getting worse (you should have heard me on Sunday). I could not breath, throat was sore, voice was hoarse, all the good stuff. =( And then Connor started to get the runny nose and watery eyes on Sunday too so we left early. I felt so bad I got two pictures taken the whole weekend. Two. One Two. :sigh: Oh well. There will be another camping trip. Oh well. I am feeling better now but my nose is still congested a lot. But I feel 200% better. Connor seems to be doing better too. I can't wait for Spring to come and the cold season to go bye-bye!!!

Small World

Ok, this is a VERY small world. So I've been dealing with this lady at work (Susanna) regarding our documents that are in the sub basement. So anyway, we got that delt with and I don't work on that with her anymore but we still run into each other in the hallway, etc. She has a 3 year old boy and a 10 month old girl so we have things in common so we always ask how the kids are. Well today we are talking and I don't remember how we got on the subject I started talking about daycare and how Connor is in daycare in La Palma. Then she asks me where and I tell her. And then she's all is the lady's name Tina? I'm like yeah. She says her son goes there too!!!! How funny is that??? He is only there 2 times a week because her husband stays home with the kids but he is there to socialize and play the two days. Surbjit has seen the kid and the husband and knows who I am talking about. Small world huh?!?

Blog It Challenge Week 2!

Who needs some loving words from you the most in your life right now? What would you say to that person? Put it up on your blog and let your sentiments run free for a day of love!

Here's a quote I find to inspire you:

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get . . .
Only with what you are expected to give. . . .
Which is everything.

Katharine Hepburn

Ok, right now this would have to be my son. He is in the growing stages of learning about everything and getting into so much! He still needs to hear that I love him no matter what. I think at this stage in his life, if he continues to get hugs and kisses and hear me say I love him then he will grow up a happy and well adjusted child (at least I hope!). And I can learn so much from him right now too. He has unconditional love. He will come up to me and just hug my legs. I love it when he does that. It is the sweetest thing in the world. Or like last night when I came home from work. Connor and Surbjit were in Connor's bedroom playing. After he heard the door open and me come in the house, he walked down the hallway to the front door and said hi to me! (Ok he didn't really say hi but he was telling me something! Although right now I have NO idea what that was! LOL!) But he gives love and expects nothing in return right now. If we could all learn that, this world would be a much better place!!!

Blog It Challenge

Digishak has a challenge where you are supposed to blog about something that they have told us to. This week it is to blog about the following quote:

The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.

Eleanor Roosevelt

This quote makes me think of Connor. He is just a baby who is starting out with no fear who is trying to learn everything that he can. And getting into trouble too! He wants to try everything even if I keep telling him no. I don't do this. I'm a chicken when it comes to new things. Status quo is what works for me and keeps me in my comfort zone. I need to break out of that. Because when I do, I have a lot of fun! I need to take some of what Connor does and apply it my life so I can get those exeperiences that he is having. It's amazing what I am learning from that little kid!!!

Four Generations Get Together

Well, I've e-mailed out pictures from camping in January and the relatives visit in January also. If you haven't gotten the pictures, please e-mail or leave me a comment with your e-mail address and I'll get them to you. I'm trying to get everything together so I can do it faster from now on. =) So bear with me.

Here is a scrapbook page that I did of the four generations! I really enjoyed making this page. It was so much fun!!



We had a great visit with everyone! I'm just sad I didn't get any pictures of Connor with Uncle Al, Aunt Dorothy or Ace. But it was kinda hard to even get this picture as Connor did not want to sit still. He's a very active little boy!!

He is feeling much better and back to normal now. We went to Uncle's/Bigi's house last night and he had fun running around there. So much fun that he wouldn't take a nap. He was whipped when we were leaving. Fell straight to sleep on the way home. He sure does wear himself out! I think he is getting ready to get his molar's in. I was feeling inside his mouth and his gums are swollen and I can feel a little sharpness. That could explain all the drolling! LOL! So anyway, that's what's new in Connor's world!!

Connor/Scrapbooking

I'm really not sure how many people read this blog. OK, I know Surbjit does, and Grandma and Bigi but that's about it I think. So I'm giving a forwarning. I am going to turn this into a scrapbooking/Connor blog. =) I really want to get more into scrapbooking and I've found some great sites that are going help me and hopefully I'll get to meet some great people that can help me hone (sp?) my skills. So far I've found lots of inspiration. Now I just need to do it. And of course what better subject to scrapbook than Connor. =) So I will share my LO's (layout's) and stuff here so if you start hearing me talk about scrappin' that is why. Just wanted to give a heads up. =D

Geez!

Didn't I say I'd get in here more often. :< Well, I have had a sick kid on my hands. We took Connor to urgent care on Sunday. He had some white bumps in his mouth and it hurt him when you touched his tongue. The Dr. diagnosed him with hand, foot, mouth disease. I still don't think that's what he had. Anyway, so we kept him home Monday - Wednesday. I ended up taking him back to the dr on Tuesday because he was just sounding so horse and crying and not feeling well. Basically all they said was he has an upper respirtory infection (a cold). Well gee, thanks. I just love our health care system. I feel like I am the one that has to go in and tell the doctor what I want done or what I need done. There is no, let's see what's going on, it's a you tell me what to do mentality. I understand in this day and age that we have all these resources so for the most part we can figure out what's going on, but I would like a seperate unbiased opinion. Is that too much to ask? So anyway, we kept him home on Wednesday and he was almost back to his normal self. He finally started eating again and drinking water too. He hardly ate anything on Tuesday. I can't blame him because I'm sure his throat hurt. So I hope he's over the worst part.

Other than that, not much new going on. He might be teething again. It's almost time for his molars to be coming in. He's been drooling BUCKETS too. He has this new dance that he does when he hears music. It's kinda like stepping back and forth. I call it the football shuffle. =) I will try to get it on camcorder but everytime he sees it, he makes his picture face of scrunching up his nose and opening his mouth wide and coming straight for the camera. Funny but annoying! He is also liking to climb anything he can. If he could put his knee up on the sofa, he'd be climbing it all the time. Only a little while longer and he'll be tall enough!!

I still have some pictures from our last camping trip and the visit from Great-Grandma, Ace, Uncle Al and Aunt Dorothy I want to share. We just got a new computer so I was waiting for that. So bear with me. We are using two computers right now so it get a little confusing. Once we set up the wireless network we should be good to go. =) And I'll have no more excuse. :~p

Video from before Connor was crawling

Connor's Birthday Party Cake Video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaCaQunq6qA

First Haircut!!

YEP! Today was Connor's first haircut! I took him to Cool Cuts 4 kids. That place really caters to the kids. They have a play area while the kids are waiting for the older kids they have game stations where they can play nintendo! Too cool! And while he was getting his hair cut, he got his choice of movies to watch. Connor chose Elmo's World this time. I have a feeling he'll choose CARS next time. =) He sure did not like it. =( He screamed the whole time but he was a champ and looks great with his hair more manageable. =) The hairstylist even spiked his hair for him. What a cutie!!!

The finished product (with the spikes). He was crying so hard and wanted me to hold him at the hair salon that I didn't want to take a picture there of him so I waited until we got home.

New Years Camping Trip

We went on our annual camping trip for New Years! We went to Ocotillo Wells. There were a total of 17 motorhomes/trailers that went with us. It was a huge group but we had a lot of fun. The kids got to run around and play in the dirt including Connor. But Mom had to keep a careful watch on him because he kept putting the rocks in his mouth!! YUCK! He sure didn't seem to mind though. And he even enjoyed himself by the fire. =)

Christmas

One of my New Years Resolution is to keep this updated at LEAST weekly. So hopefully you will hear more updates more often this year. =) So here goes. There will be a couple of entries tonight to catch you all up!

First - Christmas. Connor was spoiled yet again. But what's new. The big gift from Mom and Dad isn't up yet. We have to figure out where we want to put it in the backyard. But it is a playset. Hopefully one of these non busy weekends (that was a joke! We are swamped the entire month of January!) Dad will get it up. No big deal. But he did get lots of clothes, lots of money for his 529 account (he will be thanking you all in 17 years when he goes to college!), and a couple of toys. Here are some pictures:

Bath Time

Can you believe that Connor is a year old and this is the first picture I have of him in the bath!!! BAD MOMMY!!!! But as you can tell, he has a great time! LOL! Just wanted to share!

The Birthday Party

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Connor's Birthday

Here are pictures from Connor's actual birthday (AKA Thanksgiving!)



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And Another, and another . . .

We have not one more but TWO more teeth!!! We were on our way back from visiting Grandma and Grandpa and I was sitting in the back seat with Connor and I look and there is another tooth as bright as day on the bottom next to his right tooth! WOO HOO!! No wonder he slept so fitfully on Saturday. That explains a lot. So he is getting THREE teeth in right now. Poor guy. And I can only imagine the other side is going to be soon because they all happen together.

He did really good this weekend and had a lot of fun with Grandma and Grandpa. He even got to visit Grandma's work and go to the Christmas party where he was the hit of the party. =) On Saturday it SNOWED! So we went outside and Connor got to walk and play with the snow. Ok, it wasn't much just a light dusting but it was snowing. =) Once I download the pictures I'll share them. I also got pictures from Grandma for Connor's party so once I get a slideshow going I'll share that since I still haven't had a chance to do anything with my pictures!

One year check up

Connor had his one year check up on Friday. He weighs in at a whopping 21 lbs! YIKES! (small fry) and 31" long. I can't believe he is almost 3 feet tall! I know his growth will start to slow down now but the boy can sure eat! And he loves his fruits and veggies. =) That's my boy!!! Other than that, nothing going on. He is switching to whole milk like a champ and seems to like it. He is more interested in eating now than drinking so he is evolving. Makes it harder on us because we can't just give him a bottle when he's hungry. We need to have easy snacks available that he can eat. He is also a walking machine. All he wants to do is walk walk walk. Even if he falls down, he doesn't stay down and crawl, he'll get back up and continue walking. =)

This past weekend we went and saw Harji Uncle's and Bigi's new house. They finally moved in and getting settled in. I'm sure Connor will be spending lots of time there with them and playing with Tiger (the dog). Right now Tiger keeps knocking Connor over trying to sniff him and lick him. I'm sure it will be no time when he's running away from Connor while Connor's trying to pull on his ear, tail or whatever. =)

This coming weekend we are going to visit Grandma and Grandpa. We just say them last month for Connor's birthday/Thanksgiving but it's nice to be able to see them again. Connor changes so much all the time not seeing him for a couple months is a real shocker! I'm hoping to see them more next year than we did this year!

Well, that's all for now. When I get a free moment (HA!) I'd love to share some video and pictures from Connor's birthday. Maybe one of these days!

Another tooth.

No wonder. That explains a lot this past week. ;) I saw another tooth on Saturday. It is barely breaking through. It's next to his upper right tooth. I didn't see one on the other side (although I'm sure it will come soon). So my son might be three toothed! Ha-ha. Just kidding. That was Surbjit's fear. LOL! I know they will both come in. But he's been cranky so this past week so that explains a lot!

We have our one year check up on Friday. I am NOT looking forward to that. Shots. And he is older now and remembers. Poor guy. Wish me luck!!!

A few birthday pictures

I still haven't gotten a chance to sort through my pictures but a friend of mine sent me these that she took! Enjoy for now!

The Birthday Boy!



Daddy & Connor


The Birthday boy and Cake! (I made it myself!)


Trying to pull the pinata String

Funny story at Daycare

Tina (daycare provider) is starting to transition Connor to table food (we have him basically transitioned at home). Anyway, I guess yesterday she feed him his jarred food and gave him some noodles that all the kids eat. He ate all his and started taking some more from the other kids! :~p I guess he likes them! Haha!!

I was playing with him last night with his new toy from Tina. I can tell his mind is starting to put things together. She got him a link toy. It's basically plastic toy bugs (butterflies, ladybugs, grasshoppers, etc) that link together. I was showing him how to put them together and take them apart. I gave him two hooked together and he tried to get them apart. It's a little hard for him right now but he sees what to do and is getting the hang of it. He can drop the balls in the Drop and Roar Dinosaur with virtually no problem. He messes up here and there but otherwise he does really great. And anything with wheels, he loves! He turns it over and starts turning the wheels! He is just too much fun!!