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Merrick Conner

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008

I forgot to post here on my blog thing….how I forgot I don’t really know. I seemed to have posted/emailed it everywhere else but here Plus, he’s already 5 weeks old! Where did that time go? I have lots to update about but really no time..can’t believe he’s sleeping right now for this!

Sooo Merrick Conner was born April 29th @ 2:43 - 9 lbs 1 oz. and just shy of 22 inches. At his 2 day check up he was 8 lbs 9 oz. At his 2 week check he up to 9 lbs 15 oz and 23 inches long. He started rolling front to back just shy of 2 weeks..SCARY but typical since Braysen did it too. I guess we aren’t meant to have non-mobile kiddos. I’m just hoping he isn’t so quick to crawl and walk like his older brother was!

Here’s a pic then birth story (if not TMI) cut to save ya!

pic of him in the early days after he was born

cute pic of face

one of the boys laying next to each other from this past week

great hair pic of him while on his tummy

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sun in oregon

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008

We have had sun out which means kiddo gets to enjoy the outdoors finally!

Too tired to sit at the computer much longer to actually type up something meaningful. Although, we did have a brief contraction scare last Friday but I’m fine and little Merrick is healthy and happy staying in me.

Anyhow, enjoy this pic from our park visit on Sunday. Isn’t he getting big?

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I’m around…honest!

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

I didn’t disappear off the face of the earth! ? Thanks to those that asked! I did however disappear from online / the computer for a while and I’m still scarce to be honest. I realized that when my own grandma and mom were writing me asking me how I was doing, that I basically had dropped off the face of the earth a bit or so it had seemed! Basically, before Christmas things got hectic with the trip to KC for family and then on top we found out that I had signs of protein in my urine (way early for this to happen). I’ve been watched carefully since and so far things are ok but it is very likely that this baby will come early like Braysen due to Pre-eclampsia. I’m due May 1st but April is looking more likely. I have an appointment next week with my midwife again. The last thing I need is a bunch of worrywarts so please let the issue drop ? and I’ll let everyone know If something changes!

Our KC trip for Christmas was chaotic but relaxing all at the same time. I miss my family dearly and I miss those big family holidays. I haven’t had one in years (4 I think?) and to say it had been too long is an understatement. I have family that hasn’t seen Patrick and I since we got engaged, let alone even meeting Braysen. He got to see his Great Grandparents on my step-moms side and oodles of aunts, uncles & cousins. What a character he was and it brought a smile to my face to see him interacting with everyone and how easy going of a kiddo he was around that many new faces. He must’ve known that he was in a loving place! He quickly picked up names, Papa, Nana, Justin, Molly and struggled a bit with Christina/Stina (who I tried to get him to just call Stinky! hehe…mean sister that I am!) He points them all out to me in the pictures we have in our house and on my background for my computer. I can’t even describe how sad I was to leave behind my family again and know that I won’t see them for a while or they won’t be part of Braysen’s life as much as I wish they were if we were closer. I really did move off to the farthest place west that I could go (as my parents joke) besides going off to say Hawaii or another country! There is nothing like a big family for the holidays imo!

Christmas Pic of kiddo

The rest are off in my gallery.

I’ll cut the rest for those that are interested in random house junk– I hope everyone is doing well! I’ll probably be typing up a Braysen & baby mumbo jumbo post here soon but I’ll cut things so it’s not sooo long for those that don’t want to read about braysen happenings or baby stuff! I need some place to put all my ideas and lists at that are taking over sticky notes on my desk and in my purse!

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The more you read,

Wednesday, June 6th, 2007

the more things you will know.
The more that you learn,
the more places you’ll go.
Dr. Seuss

Braysen has always liked books but he is really getting into them. He brings them to us and climbs up on the couch and then plops down either next to you or in your lap. We have these books that have pictures of objects you see in daily life and he loves them most of all. He tends to favor these instead of his storybooks so far. We used to point at the objects and tell him the names but now he points and looks at you with questioning eyes like “what’s that?” He’ll even mumble something as he points almost like he’s asking you.

We make animal sounds for the animals and vroom vroom sounds for cars and trucks. Lately he’s become quite the yip yapper and imitates us all the time! He’s had a lot of new words but sometimes he’ll say them a few times one day and then I don’t hear them for days.

He roars at the tiger and started saying “tiger’ the other morning. He points at the babies or kitties and says their names. He woofs at our dog and other dogs then calls them dog …sounds more like “dahhhg” then dog. He moos at the cow sometimes and baas at the sheep on rare occasions. He takes his toes and presses them against the picture of the feet/toes and LOVES to eat our toes. YUCK! He says up and down for when he wants to be picked up or down and when he wants to upstairs or downstairs. He says dada but mama is rare and when he cries or is upset (*sighs, someday I’ll get a good mama out of him!!!). One of his favorite words is “baboon” aka balloon and everywhere we go he spots them. We’ll be in the car driving past a car dealership and he’ll start saying “baboon baboon” until we repeat it and then he points. At the grocery store he wants to visit all the “baboons”. We still have 1 balloon from his 1st bday party that he loves (yes, can you believe one is still floating, it’s the elephant – they were awesome balloons!!). There are lots more words where this came!!!

He loves being outside and we are “trying” to get the backyard weeded and ready to start some terracing slopes and landscaping the non-grass areas + get a deck built and dog run enclosed (a whole other post for another day!). We are going to get him a climbing structure thing for back there and hopefully a water / sand table so he can play while we get work done. Next summer we’ll get the swingset. He especially likes his visits to our neighbors house, Carl & Linda, because they have a roaring waterfall that flows into a pond in their backyard plus lots of dirt mounds that he likes to play in. They are also working on their yard but their water feature is stunning! He’s such a boy and it shows when he’s over there playing with dirt, picking up rocks and throwing them in their pond or just running back and forth over dirt mounds, all the while falling and just laughing as he covers himself in dirt!

Here’s some pics of our little book worm, more to come soon! I’ve been busy and slacking on updates! But oh the stories I have for the future…….such as Naked Guppyman in the mornings when daddy forgets to put shorts on him for nighttime and he pulls off his diaper and pees all over, or how about stories of Guppyman finding the toilet water for the first time!
Hodgepodge from yesterday and a so so one of us from my 30th bday at my neighbors (all pics are thumbnails, so click to make larger!)