Conner, long and skinny

Conner had his 9 month well child check up. He is doing great although he is getting skinnier. Here are his stats:
Height: 29 3/4 inches - 90%
Weight: 18 lbs. 6 oz. - 10%
So I am trying to feed him up so that he will gain a little more weight by his 1 year check up.
Ever since Conner learned how to crawl he has had a harder time going to sleep. He will sit up in bed and then cry and cry...I don't think he has figured out how to lay back down. Sometimes when I go in I find him folded in half like this.
Sometimes I even find him like this, with his head propped up on the bars of his crib.

The video below has horrible lighting but I love Conner's laugh.

Here are some facts about Conner:

- Conner is a cheerful, happy baby most of the time.

- He loves to play with what ever Alan is playing with (Alan doesn't love this).

- A funny quirk about Conner - he loves the vacuum cleaner. Whenever he hears me turn it on he crawls as fast as he can until he gets in front of it and then he tries to climb up it. Most kids don't like the vacuum because it is so loud but Conner is an exception.

- He loves baths. He gets so excited when he hears the bath water running - he will crawl in the bathroom and pull himself up on the tub and try to climb in. If the bath is for Alan and not for him he will get so mad when you take him out of the bathroom!

A long week and a half

About 2 weeks ago Alan came down with a fever, runny nose and cough. As with every cold he gets his ears hurt for the first couple of days as well. I resigned myself to being stuck in the house until Friday or so. Well, Alan's fever lasted until Saturday morning. I was glad it broke then because if it hadn't I would have taken him to the doctor. Unfortunately, Conner came down with a fever of 102 degrees Friday night. He also had a runny nose and cough. This is a picture of what he did for most of Saturday.
He has never been a really snuggly baby so it was kind of fun to snuggle with him but it was sad to see him so sick. So I resigned myself to being stuck in the house for another week. Tuesday came and his fever was still there so I took him in to see our doctor. He said Conner had a double ear infection (poor guy!) and gave us some antibiotics. He is doing much better now and we even went to the Elder's Quorum dance yesterday. It felt good to get out of the house.

Happy Birthday Reed

Reed's birthday was a while ago. Reed decided he wanted cherry cheesecake for his birthday so that is what he got. Alan was excited to help blow out the candles but he didn't like the cheesecake. Oh well, more for Reed and I, YUM!Thanks for all the phone calls, everyone!

Alan's dream come true

I lost my camera cord and I have been looking for it all week. I just found a different cord that let me download my pictures so my blogs are a little behind. About 3 weeks ago we woke up to a foot of snow. It was the first big snow storm that we had. Alan was SO excited - he wanted to go out and build a snow man. He has wanted to build a snowman all winter but we hadn't done it yet. We ended up waiting until the weekend so there was a lot less snow but it stuck together very well because it was so warm.We built an Alan snowman and a Daddy snowman and we started on a Mommy snowman but Alan lost interest once he found his frisbee.