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Connor was pretty proud of his ball throwing on Friday! Thankfully him and Rudy get along really well  In case you can’t tell, at the end he says “Yay, I throw the ball”

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Who knew that a visit to the mall with a toddler can be all fun?! The other day Connor and I ventured to Baby Gap specifically to use up a gift card we had. I had forgotten the stroller at home, so he had to walk most of the time. Now that he’ll repeat many words/phrases we say, he started saying “oh, cute!” to any article of clothing I would look at!

We were making our way towards the front of the store when he stop and broke into dance – twice – just wish I captured more than this! It gets me every time

 

Then he was suddenly interested in these sunglasses and actually kept them on!  So they came home with us!

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What’s this?! A new post? That’s right, you’re not seeing things. In case you didn’t know, it’s February and not Halloween anymore! Sorry about our disappearance. Eesh. I promise(!!!) that I’ll return soon with updates on Connor’s medical standing… but speaking of standing, we have a boy on our hands that is now taking steps on his own! We felt this was rather blog-worthy. So without further ado, here are some fun videos and a few recent pics:

This boy loves his football (and watching the games, too)

Giving Ernie a ride on his turtle

One big sweetheart

Walking around last night (with the cutest giggle at the end)

Walking at therapy today – WOW!

We couldn’t be prouder of our boy!!!!!

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Us: “Connor, what does a lion say?”
Connor: {whispering} “roar”

2010
Lobster

2009
Surprising Family that we had our own Pumpkin on the way

 

As our dear friend Kristin said, Connor moved up the food chain this year! We had a fun Halloween weekend taking Connor to his therapy center for their Halloween party, then the following evening we had a few friends over to carve pumpkins. Having three young boys in the house was fun, but also a reminder that we really are adults, hehe.

At the pumpkin patch a couple weeks ago

With his Physical Therapist, Suzie

There was a dog show that Connor loved!

Carving pumpkins with friends Saturday night

The boys played

The jungle animals posed nicely

“Wild One”

Family photo

Our front porch after all was said and done

Connor’s pumpkin is up top – we traced his hand to make a turkey.
Mine is an owl on the left and Craig’s is yoda on the right.

Hope you all had a spooktacular Halloween!!

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Here’s some Friday fun for ya! Connor goofing around the other night – he did this again last night too He’s such a goof – gotta love it!

 

Have a great weekend!!

GO CONNOR GO!!!

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This has been an exciting week for Connor already! He’s been working hard at physical therapy every Monday and Wednesday, spending time each session working on walking with assistance. We’ve been experimenting with a walker there (called a Gait Trainer, if you want to look it up), and slowly taking away more and more support from it. There used to be abdominal support, a seat, and he faced the other direction (I know I have pics somewhere). His therapist, Suzie, felt that he was leaning forward too much for support, so she spun him around the other direction and now he stands up straighter while also giving him the feeling of independence. She also used to lock all the wheels so he could only go straight, because he had a tendency to push off his right foot (instead of moving that foot forward) and that would cause him to turn left/run into the walls. He’s gained so much control that she only locks the back wheels now so he can’t go backwards. I bet that will be taken away soon to see how he maneuvers out of places that he gets stuck in (since he needs our help to ‘reverse’ out with the locks in place). You will notice that she tried an abdominal binder on him this time to see how that worked out. It’s crazy to think back to a couple months ago and how exhausted he would get from taking that walker down one short hallway – which took a good 15 minutes. Now he can do 2 laps around the whole interior of the building in about 10 minutes.  Trust me, it’s a long walk for a little dude. I found out that 2 laps equals 400 feet.

On Monday Suzie found a walker that none of the other therapists have been using with their patients and let us take it home to borrow!! Connor LOVES it. I think he could walk around all day if I let him! Too bad our house is so small, but he has his route figured out! We were worried about him bumping into the walls/doorframes/furniture since it’s a metal frame, but he actually does really well steering. I’m so impressed! Here are some pics I snapped yesterday of him getting around the house:

And here are a couple videos from Monday.  The first video is a little longer (4 mins), but I had to capture it all (especially for those Grandparents/Aunts/Uncles/Cousins out there)! It worked out great that Craig had that day off so he was able to join us in the fun – Connor is constantly showing improvement every time we show up to therapy! Now that I know I can embed videos into the blog, I’ll surely be doing that more often (if you don’t know what that means Great Aunts, don’t worry about it)!! hehe Just enjoy the videos!! You’ll see at one point he stops in front of the Administrative office, where a few ladies are always working – they just love him up (along with everyone else in that building… aaaaand anywhere we go really). He’s such a flirt and remembers where everybody is to pay a visit to