Connor is in his Christmas pajamas and is awaiting Santa’s visit tonight.

Merry Christmas to all!

Love,

Donnie, Victoria, and Connor

We love you!

On our way to Wal-Mart, we ran into some holiday traffic.  So, as we were waiting for the traffic to start moving, Mommy and Daddy both turned around to look at Connor for no more than 5 seconds.  Well, at that time the cars in front started to pull away (we didn’t know this because we were still looking at Connor).  Connor had a perfect view of all of this and promptly points forward and says, “Go!”

We quickly turned around to see the car in front of us was a few car lengths away from us now.  We both started laughing and I promptly accelerated.

Thanks Connor — next time tell Daddy to “keep is eyes on the road!”

Over the past couple of months, Connor’s vocabulary has been increasing.  Now he is starting to put a few words together and is even understanding us more.  We’ve noticed that he is starting to get frustrated more often.  I believe that is because he knows he can communicate but does not know all the necessary words to explain to Mommy and Daddy.

His latest words include:

Grandma  (more like “gra-ma”), Uncle Danny, Brenna, Gavin, Uncle Chad, Aunt Catherine, Uncle Phil, Nick, Sierra (he actually repeated her name tonight), Uncle Kenny, Aunt Jeannie, Kuddles, Maggie, Wal-Mart, teeth, lights, ho-ho-ho, uh-oh baby, uh-oh Daddy, uh-oh Mommy, I love you (more like “luv you”, thank you (he says this usually when he gets something he wants), please, milk, more milk, “Papa cookies” (for special cookies that Papa buys him), night-night, morning, wash cloth, yes (actually, “yeah”), snow, Elmo, ball, boat…I could go on all night.  I am sure I have left a lot out…but you get the idea.

And of course is “No”.

Ones he has been saying for quite sometime:

Mimi, Papa (for Grandpa), Mommy, Daddy, Diego, Dora

He is picking up words left and right and he continues to surprise Mommy and me everyday.

Good job, Connor.

This sweater and hat combination was given to Victoria, Connor and I as a “Welcome Home” gift when Connor was born by my Mom (Grandma).  My Mom saved this sweater and hat for her grandson.  With this gift was a double picture frame — one side of me wearing the sweater and hat on my red motorcycle and the other side empty until it could be filled with Connor’s picture.  (I’ll post my picture when I have a chance to scan it in.)

Daddy wore it and Uncle Danny wore it when they each were about 18 months old.

I snapped a few pics of Connor wearing it a couple of weeks ago.  It will now be packed away for the next grandson or possibly great-grandson in 20-35 years  (no pressure Connor).

Love,
Daddy

Connor quite couldn’t put his finger on it…but he knew that wasn’t the “real” Santa Claus.

And a zoomed out version of the same photo shows that all the other kids think “Santa” is fine…but my son knows the real truth.

He knows that Santa Claus wears white gloves and has gold rimmed glasses and looks like this:

Keep ’em honest, Connor!

Love,
Daddy

Check out these images of Connor enjoying a cookie at his playgroup’s Christmas party: