Happy Birthday? Merry Christmas?

It's obviously been a while since we've updated this blog. Conner has turned 2, we've had another visit to Ohio for Thanksgiving and Conner thoroughly enjoyed the Christmas season. Here's a small sampling of the last couple months of the year. More coming soon (I hope)!

Happy, happy Halloween!

Conner had a great second Halloween, which included walking about a mile trick-or-treating, sort of saying "trick or treat" to a few strangers. While we don't give him much candy, he loved the Whoppers!

It's almost someone's birthday!

Just the right size

Conner picked out the pumpkin he wanted this fall -- and it was only $1!

Fall is here

It's hard to believe it's October ... which means that a certain someone will be 2 years old soon!

Summer comes to an end

With the passing of Labor Day comes the unofficial end to summer. It's been a quick summer with Conner changing more and more every day. There are always new words, new faces, new reactions.

We closed off the summer with a visit to Uncle Allan's and Aunt Leslie's house in North Carolina with a visit from Grandma and Grandpa Palm. We visited the zoo again -- Conner seemed to really like it, although after a few hours he was really happy. He has a great story though of a gorilla getting in his face. With two trips to the N.C. Zoo and one to Mill Mountain Zoo in Roanoke, Conner has learned a lot about animals in the past six months.

We closed off the extra long weekend today with a picnic to the Peaks of Otter. No one else was around, so it seemed like we had the whole mountain to ourselves. We'll definitely have many more visits up there I think, especially this coming fall. We also saw a bear in the middle of the road on the way up -- kind of cool to see in person, safely in our car.

It's really hard to believe it, but Conner will be 2 in less than 2 months. The picture below tells the story of how fast he's growing. He pretty much puts himself to bed after "reading" Curious George for about five minutes.

Another first!