Weird laughs, a touchdown and lots of crawling!

Another road trip!

For the third time in his short life, we ventured to Ohio this past weekend. The trip up, though, was the first one during the day. In January, we traveled about halfway and then stayed the night, which worked out great with his then-sleeping pattern. At Easter we traveled through the night, which was OK, although all of our sleeping schedules got a little thrown off. So this time around, we decided to do a "normal" trip up there.

All in all, it worked out OK, but with road construction and having to stop to feed Conner for lunch, the trip took almost 8.5 hours - it's usually a little more than 7. Coming back today wasn't quite as bad, but the poor little guy had some diaper issues that we really didn't notice initially, which accounted for some fussiness. He also got a little hungry in the last hour of the trip, so that made things seem a little longer than usual.

Anyway, the two full days in the Buckeye State went well. Conner's crawling improved dramatically, and now he's on a mission every time we put him down. At some point over the weekend he also developed a very crazy-sounding laugh, if that's what you want to call it.It pretty much only happened when he was feeding and other people were around. He continued it tonight when we got home. And, of course, he stops it as soon as a camera comes out so there's no audio proof of it just yet.
Conner got to play with some of Christina's cousin's kids and he met Colin, Kristina's 10-week-old son. (For those who don't know who Kristina is, that is Christina's best friend.) It was a lot of fun to see him interact so well with kids both younger and older than he is.

Conner also ate a lot this weekend ... he ate and ate and ate some more. Since he's in the 75th percentile already for both height and weight, it's probably just part of the never-ending growth spurt.

Another big highlight of the weekend was Conner venturing into the pool. After he got over the initial shock of the coolness of the water, he absolutely had a ball in the pool.

Duke REALLY wanted to get in and play too!

Coming home!

The Little Showoff

Here's a slideshow of some photos of Conner from last weekend:

Conner Crawls!

To him it was painful and exciting all at the same time, but Conner finally put it all together today to crawl a little bit.

3/4 of a year!

Conner is sooooo happy to be 9 months old today. The above photo is pretty much the nature of his photos these days as he loves the camera!

Last week Conner had his first play date with JR, who is just a couple of weeks younger than Conner. Christina and JR's mom, Val, met through Twitter and exchanged several messages over the past few months and finally met last week. You can read more about JR over at Made in Richmond.

Conner and Duke are quickly becoming best buds. Duke provides a lot of entertainment just by walking around. Conner is trying to say "Duke" or "Dukie," but he can't quite made the "k" sound.

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It's been a busy past few weeks for Conner with a visit from the Palms and then Lily's second birthday party this past weekend. The last quarter of Conner's first year is shaping up to be a busy one. He'll visit Ohio in a couple of weeks; we'll be at Virginia Beach over Labor Day; and he'll have his first Halloween. Plans for his first birthday party are already under way!

Noises from Conner

Pool Day!

We bought a little pool several weeks ago, but we haven't had a chance for Conner to test it out until today. Unfortunately he didn't like it too much -- the water was a tad too cold -- but at least Duke took a dip!