Children's Museum

This past weekend we took Connor to the Boston Childen's Museum. He was young for alot of the exibits, but he really enjoyed watching all of the other kids playing. After an exciting afternoon, we went to Quincy Market for dinner and to look at the lights.

Playing at the water table

Connor the Construction Worker

Checking out the lights

Christmas

Hi everyone... we are sorry about not writing our post to Santa but Connor fell asleep on the way home Christmas Eve. We have been very busy with all of our Christmas visits and celebrations. It has been a great time and Connor really enjoyed his first Christmas. Here are some moments from the two days.

Connor's First Cell Phone... we're starting him youngModeling his new hatChristmas morning is finally here... opening his stockingReading a new bookLook at this present... it's as big as he isRiding his new scooter

Christmas Excitement

Connor has been getting very excited about his first Christmas. Last night we captured this excitement during his bath time. We are off to visit family now but will be posting a message tonight for Santa.

Merry Christmas Everyone!

Holiday Fun

This weekend we started to celebrate the holiday season. Yesterday, Connor got to give and receive his first Christmas gifts with Beth and Derek. Today, we spent the afternoon at Nana's baking and decorating cookies.

Is this for me?

Ripping open the gift

Time to cut out the gingerbread men

The baking elves

Resting after a hard days work with Cousin Pat

7 months

On Friday, Connor celebrated his 7 month birthday. Over this last month, Connor has really started to learn and grow. He now has his two bottom teeth, he can sit up like a pro and he is starting to feed himself little pieces of food like cheerios. Here is a picture of him sitting in his bath tub showing off his new smile with his two tiny teeth.

LaSalette

Here are the pictures that I promised from our visit to LaSalette last Friday. For those of you who do not know what LaSalette is let me explain... it is a Shrine where they decorate the whole property with Christmas lights. It is quite the sight to see!

Derek, Beth and Connor
Around the pond, there is a long trail of the Alphabet at Christmas. Here is Connor hanging out by his letter, C.

Busy

We have been very busy this weekend. Friday night we went to LaSalette Shrine to see the lights with Connor's godparents, Beth and Derek. Pictures of this will be coming soon... Yesterday we went to cut down our Christmas tree in the morning and then we spent the rest of the day decorating it. While we were at the tree farm, Connor got to meet Santa for the very first time. Finally, when we woke up this morning, the ground was covered in snow so we had to take Connor outside to experience his first snowfall. It has been a very busy and exciting weekend!

Checking Santa out

Connor deciding he didn't like the guy in the big red suit

Decorating the tree

Getting up close and personal

What is all this white stuff?

Not too sure about sitting in the cold snow

Happy Birthday Joey

Today is Joey's 4th Birthday! We didn't want him to feel left out now that he is a big brother, so we decided to let him have his moment in the spotlight. Here he is hanging out with his biggest fan.

Connor loves books

We have been reading to Connor ever since he was in the womb. He loves to sit and listen to stories. It is the one activity that he always loves to do and he will sit there forever and listen to you read. Last night, Grandma was over and I couldn't resist taking this picture of her reading to the little guy. As you can see from the picture, Joey is also fond of story time.

Thankful

We have many things to be thankful for this year, but we are most thankful for our healthy & happy baby boy.

Our little Indian

Brrrrr.... It's Cold!

Today, Connor got to experience his first taste of the cold New England winter. Even though it was below freezing today, Joey still needed to be taken out for his walk. So Connor had to get all bundled up for the adventure. He looked so cute that I just had to get a picture.

Connor's First Christmas Tree

This past weekend we went to tag Connor's first Christmas tree. It has been a family tradition to pick out our Christmas tree at the same farm in Little Compton ever since Dawn was a child. It was a cold day, but we managed to find a great tree and claim it as ours. We will be going back to cut it down in a couple of weeks.

Tagging the treeOur tree

6 Months

Connor had his 6 month birthday yesterday!! To celebrate we went to the library for the first time. Connor borrowed some books and a children's music CD. We also signed up for a weekly infant story time. Hopefully, it will help Connor will meet some new friends and listen quietly to lots of new stories.

Reading books at the library

Disney Part 2

Here is the conclusion of our trip to Disney. We hope you have enjoyed all the pictures!

We started our second week at Universal Studios Riding the Dr. Seuss Carousel with Grandma
Look at how wet we got on the water rides!!! A trip to Downtown DisneyVisiting Mickey's House
Riding It's a Small World with Grandma and Nana
This was Connor's favorite ride

Waiting for the Spectromagic Parade

A family moment on Main Street

Overall, it was a great vacation. Connor really loved all the rides and it was great to spend time together as a family and with our extended family too. We can't wait for our next adventure!

Halloween

While in Florida, we celebrated Connor's First Halloween. Connor dressed up as Dopey and the rest of us were Snow White and the remaining dwarfs (check out our names on our t-shirts). It was great to be in Disney for the holiday... especially at our campground, Fort Wilderness, because everyone went all out with decorations and costumes.

Checking out the pumpkin

Digging into the pumpkin guts

A very unamused Dopey

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

Our pumpkins

Watching the Legend of Sleepy Hollow at the Campfire Movie Night

Disney World Part 1

Here is a photo summary of our first week in Disney... there will be more updates to follow.

Our arrival into WDW after driving 22 straight hours!

The first park - EPCOTConnor's first ride - Spaceship Earth (aka the big ball)Daddy, Can I try your beer?Celebrating the Wine & Food Festival with the familyJoey's favorite vacation activity - playing at the dog park
Meeting the Cinderella Ponies at Fort WildernessThe classic - DUMBO
Stay tuned for Halloween and Week 2 Pictures!!!!