Bonkers with Zonkers and Allison

On Saturday we went to Zonkers and had Allison along to play with us. It was a great plan so Alli could ride the rides with Connor and we always love having her over.

Eating at McAlister's beforehand.


At Zonkers we got unlimited ride armbands for Alli and Connor, which was probably not worth the money since Connor only grudgingly rode most of the rides. He was much more interested in some of the car games and other token-operated games. We laughed watching him scowl on the rides while all the other kids were smiling and screaming. He was mostly a good sport about putting up with the rides and sat through them somewhat patiently.

Riding the train.



The Yak Attack. Thankfully neither of the kids yakked after this ride.



The flying banana.


The rollercoaster was pretty neat. Mommy even rode it once with Alli.



Paige just sat in her stroller most of the time. She loved watching all the kids playing and was very patient. The perfect baby! She did ride a little car ride with Alli.






It was great having Allison overnight. She is a big help and is a lot of fun. The air in our house is apparently pretty dry and her hair got a little staticy (not really a word I know) this morning. We had to take a quick pic of that.


Allison feeding an uncooperative Paigie Pie Saturday night.

Tough guy

Connor likes to be tough and rough lately. He likes to play fighting games with Daddy and loves to test his strength. Recently, we've been telling him that if he eats all his food it will help him grow big and strong. It definitely helps him to cooperate. Sometimes, right after he's done eating a meal, he'll run over to Daddy to compare himself to see if he's grown bigger and if he's as big as Daddy yet.

Here he is, measuring himself against his old man.


Here's a real tough picture where he's making some big muscles. WOAH! So real big!


Mammy just thinks he's funny.


Getting big Connor boy!

Paige's sense of humor

Some things are just hilarious to Paige. Recently she's been laughing at lots of things and we caught a few of her favorite things on video.

She LOVED when these block toys fell over. I remember Connor loved this kind of thing too.


Pulling out her Nuk? Hilarity!

Bathtime

Connor's been talking his way into the bath lately. He told us: "It's a pattern: Bath, Shower, Bath, Shower", so we've relented and he gets to take a lot of baths lately. He really loves goofing in the tub and playing with his bath toys. He even has a pretend shaving kit with foaming shaving cream. He's very cute about it, I missed my opportunity to take a picture of him shaving.



All clean!

Bubba's Bridge Books

Connor's back into his books lately due to a loophole at bedtime. After Daddy's done with stories at the train table, and done with games on the phone, and done with more stories with the stuffed animals in bed, he leaves Connor alone in his room. Typically Connor will get up and play for a while quietly until he's tired enough to fall asleep. Lately, he's been getting some books out and will take them out to the catwalk to read them where it's lighter. He had quite a few out the other morning and Andrea snapped a quick pic.

Mammy and Alli

We have a slideshow running in our living room now with all of our pictures we've ever taken. From time to time a picture will pop up and we will glance at it and think "I don't remember Paige having that outfit... or sitting in that bouncy chair" and then we'll realize it's actually Allison (Paige's cousin).

I tracked down the picture, it was from March 17th of 2001. When you really look at it, Allison's eyes are a lot bluer and she's got a hint of red in her hair and eyebrows, but they do look pretty similar.

Our so real great guy

We've done a lot of posts recently talking about all the things Paige is up to and decided to do a post with some updates about our little man.

Connor has been learning all kinds of things from school and from some of his favorite shows. From school, he's gotten very good at counting and also is really in to patterns. Every day when Daddy drops him off at Ms Rachel's house we discuss whose turn it is to get out of the car first, Connor or Paige. He always tells me that it's a pattern. Just tonight he was telling us that he should get to take a bath since he had a shower earlier in the weekend. He said it should be a pattern: Shower, bath, shower, bath.

He's always interested in whether there's going to be school the next day and will say "No school for day?" (meaning tomorrow). He used to be pretty whiny about getting dressed for school, but recently Daddy's made it in to a race and Connor is always eager to be the winner. He takes off his pajamas, goes to the bathroom and gets dressed completely by himself now.

He's really been in to watching cartoons on Youtube lately. He likes the old Mickey Mouse cartoons from the 30's and 40's, Bugs Bunny cartoons and also some newer Mickey Mouse cartoons from the late 90's. We have a variety of playlists and he watches them on the computers. He also learns some funny phrases from his shows, he will usually say "Aw phooey" like Donald Duck and "Hey, what's the big idea". Another phrase we hear a lot is "so real", we're not sure where he picked that up, but he uses it a lot. Usually as in: "This game is so real fun" or "That guy is so real bad". We've found ourselves using it lately too, it's so real easy to get in to the habit of saying it.

He plays with all kinds of toys now. He still plays with some cars, including his criss-cross-crash and slot car race track, but has been very interested in action figures lately. He got a number of them for Christmas and likes to tell all kinds of stories with them. We typically name the action figures after people he knows including Mommy, Daddy, Paige, Connor and kids from school like Logan, Brady, Miles, and Chase. His favorite story involves all of them playing football together.

He likes video games, however he tends to struggle with most of the controls. It's got to be hard because of all the different ways you can control games these days. He does pretty well playing a "Muscle Truck" car game on Daddy's phone and just this last week Ms Rachel sent us a picture of him driving Mario Kart for the first time. Driving games are definitely his favorite.



We love our little guy and we're so real lucky to have such a sweet son!