Thanksgiving(and Pre-Thanksgiving)

Connor makes a drum, headdress and Indian shirt at PreSchool.

 Aunt Devra sends him some special stickers in his Thanksgiving card.

 Caroline and Connor are assigned to sit at the Kids' Table but Chelsea throws a fit to be included. Aunt Ashley bought all the kids Thanksgiving plates. 

 Connor didn't eat much dinner, after getting a large shot of insulin as he is usually such a good eater.  Then a little later he threw up and needed lots of carbs to keep safe.  It was a struggle but he finally drank some juice and then felt much better.

The cousins enjoyed watching The Cat in the Hat and "cuddling" on the couch.

Nov. 9th through 16th

Grandma spends a few days in Purcellville. 

Connor does like to watch his super hero TV shows.

 Connor and Chelsea are both artists.  An elementary school art teacher friend of mine was actually really impressed with Connor's painting.

Connor's new game called Don't Wake Daddy and a new puzzle he competed by himself.

 

 Chelsea stays at Grandma and Papa's just for the fun of it.

 She loves to do errands with Grandma.

 The indoor playground at the mall is GREAT!

She is a good ball player.

 

Wow, how cute in her skirt and boots.

Grandma babysits all four grandkids Nov. 16th

Caroline's third birthday party

October 2013

 Connor had hurt his food mysteriously a few weeks before.  He had limped and skipped etc through his days.  So now it was time to find out what was wrong.  An x-ray was taken that did not show any breaks or cracks.  Cut then a call came that tissue damage was seen and he and mom must go to another medical office.  Connor came home with this boot.  He needs to wear it all the time for two weeks.  He is taking it in stride but surely not liking that he can not play outside as it is too muddy and cannot run.  Poor Connor.

 Chelsea is a good eater and loves her new seat, which is just like Connor's which makes her very happy.

 
 

 Connor enjoyed painting. 

And as always likes to use Grandma's tablet. He is using a maze app so not so bad.  He loves Tumblebooks too.  During the weekend, we often had to give Connor a deadline to put the tablet away. 

Connor is very cooperative with his diabetes.  He gets his blood tested almost q dozen times a day.  He gets at least 4 shots too.  Sometimes he wants an apple and cannot have one and then later in the day will HAVE to eat one.  He is a big eater at meal time and willing to try new foods.  He ate seafood stew and zucchini lasagna.  For breakfast has Kix with milk and always finished the whole bowl.  He eats as many apples and bananas(they tent to raise his numbers) as he allowed each day. He understand he cannot eat gluten and has to be careful about foods that are sweet.  We hope he always stays this cooperative.

Chelsea runs to give me a hug when she sees me.  She says gramma very clearly.  She tugs around Mickey Mouse often.  She loves putting shapes onto the pegs, not sure what the toy is called.  She will sit still for tv for more than 30 min. Not sure that is good but she loves to sit next to her brother on the couch. Very interesting in poo poo.  She can throw a fit when someone leaves the house.  Enchanted with shoes(foos).  She tries them on and prances around.  If she wants to go out, she bring shoes to everyone.  She also puts them away in the shoe box when asked. 

October 2013

July 6-7, 2013

 

 Connor and Chelsea at the Farmers Market.  The owner was in awe of how much cucumber Todd bought until it was explained the Connor was diabetic and loved cucumber.

 Connor loves his new house with "the big backyard"

 Showing off on our way off to walk the W&OD trail to downtown Purcellville.

 Papa kept Connor giggling the whole way.  We picked raspberries too.

Connor enjoyed a trip to the Purcellville Library.  He checked out Fly Guy, a spiderman book, a monster book and ???

Connor is very talkative.  He talks and tells long stories.  He likes to use time phrases like 60 minutes, two years, last week etc but mostly uses them wrong.  He is very concerned about what activities each age can do.  "Fives" can do this or that, "eights" can play on the jungle gym.  He talks a lot about his 5th birthday which is about 10 months away. There are still some letters and words he cannot pronounce, for example  tomato comes out matoto.  He plays quite nicely with Chelsea although clearly he thinks of her as still a baby. 

He loved soccer camp last week.  And enjoys going to "camp" 2-3 days a week in the summer.