Conner's new obsessions

I am working on a post all about Kaylee's gymnastics but it is a big task going through all those pictures.  I am also trying to learn how to upload and edit videos so I can include some of them on here.

 This past weekend we were once again struck by some sort of stomach bug.  Our family usually doesn't get sick, but it's been twice this year already, and with them same thing!  Both kids woke up about 1 a.m. and each of them threw up with a couple minutes of each other.  We cleaned them both up and put them in bed with me.  I told Steve to sleep on the couch since he was leaving for Chicago that morning.  I was up about every half hour with them.  One would get up and I would get them all cleaned up and back into bed, lay down, and then the other one would get sick.  It was an all night thing.  Conner didn't get sick anymore past 6, but didn't have an appetite until Sunday.  Kaylee was sick all day Friday and just wanted me "to make it better". :(  The last time she got sick was right before bed on Friday, and after that I could tell she was much more comfortable.  She slept through the night and was much better Saturday.  I also got the upset stomach and it took me until Sunday morning to feel better.  Steve feels so bad that he was gone and couldn't take care of us, but I told him that he can help by letting me sleep in this weekend. :)

On to the post....Conner hasn't been into books nearly as much as Kaylee was as an infant/toddler.  But that is probably because we don't have nearly as much time to sit down with just him and read as we did with Kaylee.  But lately he has been so into books, that he will go into his room or to the book shelf and grab a book and bring it to us and say, "book".  We will also catch him just lying on his tummy flipping through a book.  It's so cute to watch his little legs swinging away as he is "reading" his book.  He is particularly obsessed with this song book that I got at a garage sale.  We read it so many times in a row yesterday that I hid it under the couch so he would get a different one. :)  (I did get it back out for him later.)



Here he is doing the "Where is Thumbkin" fingerplay that is one of the songs in the book.







Lying on his tummy "reading" the "Itsy, Bitsy Spider" that is also in the book.

He is also loving giving kisses and...

 

hugs!

Another thing that Conner enjoys is helping to clean.  Here he is vacuuming with daddy.  He will also help by throwing garabage or crumbs away that he finds on the floor, and wiping up his spills (or anything he can find on the floor to wipe).

These are pictures of Conner's leaking blood vessels.  It looks aweful, but he doesn't even know it's on his leg.  We took him to a peds dr. and the dr. wasn't sure what it was, but said to just watch it.  His pediatrician also looked at it and was also confused by what it could be.  He ordered an urine test to make sure that there was no blood in his urine, but also told us to just watch it and if it changed or his stools had blood in them to come back so they could run more tests.  We also saw a dermatologist because we needed to know what was happening.  The dermatologist knew right away because just the week before they had another little boy there with the same thing.  They didn't know what it was when the other boy came in so they ran tests on that boy and found out his blood vessels were leaking, so that's how they knew what Conner had.  They said that it should take care of iteslf.  It's still looks about the same, only a little lighter.  He's had it for about 3 weeks now.