Connor has a surprise!

Connor's got a surprise for everyone!



On May 10th, we should be meeting someone new! If you can't read the text on his shirt above, the shirt below is a little easier to read. Connor's going to have to be a big boy and a good example soon! We're all very excited!

Living with the cast

Living with the cast is pretty difficult, but we've adjusted to it as best we can. Connor needs a lot of room to successfully roll over and adjust his position at night and he was pretty cramped inside his crib. When the Grandmas were watching Connor, they put the futon mattress on the floor and that has worked pretty well. Although the Grandmas were able to sleep on the mattress with Connor, he is out of control squirming, shifting and kicking at night. The right leg, which isn't enclosed in the cast, never seems to stop moving. Grandma Genie says that it's making up for both legs.

We couldn't get any sleep if we tried to sleep in the bed with him, so we set up an air mattress next to his bed and that's worked well. We thought about just setting up a monitor and going to check on him from time to time, but he gets wrapped up in his blanket or stuck halfway through a roll many times during the night. It's easiest just to stay close at night. He's done well with the mattress, he stays on it at nap time and bed time and he enjoys having us close.

Liberty fall festival and parade

We went to the Liberty fall festival and parade today. It was a beautiful day for it. Grandma Genie and Grandpa Garry came to the festival today too and Connor had a good time hanging out with them. It was a nice break for Mommy and Daddy's laps that the grandparents held Connor during the parade. The parade was really long, but Connor enjoyed watching all the people and trucks go by. Definitely the motorcycles too. He remembered the motorcycles from the Puddle Jumpers parade and covered his ears when they came by even though they weren't nearly as loud.

Connor seemed to be one of the main attractions of the day. I can't count how many times people would stop and point at him. We had to explain how he broke his leg to countless people.

Just 10 more days and we're done with it! (Hopefully!)

Getting ready to watch the parade:


Uh oh... guess what's coming?


Motorcycles! Motorcycles are loud!


The clown making Connor a balloon:


Lion balloon and Daddy:

50% mobile, 100% sassy

We were trying to get a video of Connor "crawling" in his cast and got a lot of sass along with the "crawling".

It's tough to get Connor to cooperate when you have the camera out, but he always likes to see pictures of himself and family and really loves to see videos. Enticing him with seeing himself on video was the only thing that finally got him going.

Standing in the cast

Connor's been pulling himself to his feet lately and we were starting to get worried about it. This morning he pushed over his little table and then stood up and grabbed on to it. We were worried it would hurt his leg or his cast, so at today's appointment we asked the doctor about it and he said it was fine. We let him stand up a little tonight and got a few pictures.




Also in these pictures you can see he's had a lot of people sign his cast. We'll have to get a picture of all the names soon.

All Connor's cars

We wanted to display Connor's treasure trove of Cars cars. They're from the Disney movie Cars and they're his favorite kind of toy in the world. He got a few earlier this year and they've recently multiplied like crazy after he broke his leg. He's always saying "I play car". Since he broke his leg he likes to sit in his chair and play with them on the table or during tummy time he'll play with them on the floor. The Grandmas, Aunts and Uncles have gotten him even more. This picture doesn't quite show all of his, some are under furniture or something, it's hard to keep track of all of them since he takes them everywhere.



From Left to Right:
Boost, Sally, Ramone, Mater, Fillmore, Doc Hudson, Strip Weathers (The King), Lightning McQueen, Flo, Sherrif, Sally, and Chick Hicks

We're missing Vitoline...

Checkup 9/22/2009

Connor's doing great! He had a check up today at the Ortho clinic at Children's Mercy and everything was healing up well. Actually, according to the X-Rays, the bone's completely healed at this point, but they want to keep the cast on for a couple more weeks just to be safe. We would love to get the cast off early, but would NOT ever want to have to put it back on, so we are fine with being safe.

The doctor was talking with the resident and said that for most kids they take the kid's age, add 2 and that's how they figure up how many weeks to leave the cast on. Connor is scheduled to get his off October 6th, which will be a little over 5 weeks. Our backs can't wait to have him out of it!

The doctor showed us some X-Rays and there's a big glob of new bone surrounding the break. It should be very strong, and as Connor heals the glob will go away and you shouldn't be able to tell the bone ever break. Apparently bones don't scar.

Here are the X-Rays from today's appointment:




In this picture, I put a thin red line along side the new bone that's grown around the break: