Moving on at 7 months

Conner is 7 months old! He is still 17 lbs so his weight gain has slowed down considerably. That worries me a little, but he has always been a string bean, so maybe he always will be. A week ago Conner was not himself and Cameron and I thought his breathing sounded odd so I called the doctor and brought him into see her that day. She diagnosed it as Bronchiolitis and gave me a nebulizer and a prescription for Albuterol. I was a wreck. Conner hated wearing the mask for the nebulizer and I hated hearing him cry. We both shed a lot of tears in those first 24 hours. He is breathing better though he still has a nasty cough. I just have to wait out another week and then we go back to the pedictrician to make sure the infection has run it's course. While this drama has been going on Cameron, Conner, and I have been settling into our new apartment. We have never lived alone before and setting up the house was really overwhelming to me. I had no idea how to shop for food or what was needed for day to day life. Now however I have (almost) gotten used to the neighborhood (theres a double lock on our door) and have hung up my frame that I showed you all in my last post. It is all coming together.

Conner taking his medicine
watching the Bling Side very intently- he loves football!

Before going to our new ward for the first time

Conner's room. We managed to get both sides of the pack n play to behave after this.

Our room. Yes the bed takes up most of it!

Our sparse living room. It looks better now, but a bit messier.

The kitchen. I love my table from IKEA. Annie set it up all by herself. It is in the box behind me.

When we get all of our furniture from Cameron's mom's house I will have to show you the place all nice and decorated. After I clean it up a bit of course.

Arts and (Kinda) Crafty Moms

A project of mine this week has been putting the finishing touches on a frame that my mom and I made for a relief society activity during the holidays. You would not believe how many times we have been to the craft store this week, exchanging letters and wood molding and getting more. My mom was super nice to cut the molding I bought into a thin frame and create the frame within a frame look I was going for. It was not easy! I know that I would have probably cut my finger off so I am glad I had her. The frame is plywood and particle board painted black with squares of scrapbook paper to create a pattern. Its pretty big and pretty cute so I am pretty happy with it. This will be the first wall decoration to go into our new apartment before I get all the rest moved down here. Cameron said he didn't mind it except for what he called the "hippy flowers" next to our family name. Men!

Here is cute recent picture of Conner. He is forever eating his fingers, but he doesn't put things to his mouth as often as you would think for a baby. He likes to eat his appendages or someone elses. Arms, toes, elbows, whatever.

Conner doing his latest mouth noise. Sucking in his breath. Isn't it goofy and oh so cute?
I saved a suprise for last! The frame I made is reversible for a fast and easy Christmas decoration. Cute, huh?

Easter and Other Things

Conner's first Easter was very nice, just a low-key celebration. I read the Easter story to him before Conference, and then enjoyed the first Sunday session. Conner dug through his basket full of new toys from the Easter bunny. No candy for him this year, but plenty for mom. After the second session we had our annual Easter dinner with the Roberts family, great friends of ours for more than 15 years. Connie Roberts usually invites others to the party, and this time she introduced us to her son Patricks girlfriend and a woman from her ward named Twyla. It is nice to share the holiday with so many and share all the yummy food. I also included some everyday random cuteness from my little guy.