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Just wanted to let everyone know we had a pretty nice weekend.  My parent's had some of their friends over - which included a lil guy Maggie's age.  I had to be the good big bro and keep an eye on them, but he seems like good stuff, so I let them play around a little.  We all went to the park on Saturday.        

      

On Sunday, since it was all rainy and cruddy out - my mom decided to let me jump around a lil bit.  Once Maggie saw where we were headed, she dashed across the room and joined us.  

First, Maggie decided to set up some toys for me to play with!

    Then she helped me get my feet in place (guess she has seen my mom do this a few times, eh?)    

 

Then she decided to hold my hands to help me jump!

And she ended by giving me a nice big hug :)

What would we do without our brother's and sister's!  She may be crazy at times, but overall she's pretty neat I guess.  Hope she thinks the same of me!

p.s Speaking of siblings....Stay tuned - one of my next posts will have info on (you guessed it) Team Conner and Kaylee for Our Miracle Babies 5K and Family Fun Fest the first Saturday in Aug.

My Upsee Easter Celebration

It all started a couple weeks ago when my Grandma Shay was visiting.  The day the Upsee went on sale my mom was up early so she could get the order in first thing..... well, lets just say she wasn't the only one with that idea.  So many people were online trying to order an Upsee that the site crashed and it took my mom and Grandma 3(+) hours of hitting refresh on 2 computers to finally get through and order my Upsee.  Some people may wonder why the urgency - my mom heard there were only so many that were going to make the first shipment and there was a 12 week wait if you didn't get in right away.  Well, all their hard work paid off and I got my Upsee just in time for Easter!!  I got to play in the backyard - FOR THE FIRST TIME - with my cousins and Maggie.  We played tag, we played with bubbles, I danced a lil bit, and I went up and down the stairs.... all with the help of my mom and my new Upsee.  I am sure more pictures and videos will be taken, but here are a few of the first ones:

          

And here are some of our Easter pics!  We had our Shay cousins over on Fri/Sat for a sleepover.  My mom kept up super busy.  We went to an Easter Egg hunt, got our faces painted, I got a temp tat on my forearm (I'm a tough guy), we colored eggs, we played outside, we had a movie night, and we grilled out and at on our deck.  Then Easter morning the Easter bunny hide eggs in our house.  My dad helped me pick up 2 of them.  Maggie got the rest.  As her basket started to get full, she decided to put eggs into my basket - what  a good lil sis she is!  She also helped me open up my eggs (and she was quick to eat my chocolate too).  We had a good Easter weekend :)

We Have a Kitchen Hey hey hey hey

So last week we had some visitors from the South..... my Grandma Shay came up from Florida with my Uncle Brian, Aunt Patty, and cousins Josh and Zabrina.  We had fun playing with them, even though they are both older than me and Maggie.  And we watched Frozen like a million times.  In fact, this morning when Maggie looked out the window she said "snowman" and then started singing "let it go, let it go, let it go, let it go" which is her version of the songs from the movie.  Anywho, back to our visitors, they stayed with us for a week and the Grandma stayed an extra week.  It was nice having visitors.  We just haven't had many visitors because my parents didn't like asking people to come over to a "renovation in the works" house.  My Uncle was pretty busy during their stay because, wait for it, he put in our kitchen!!!!  My mom is super excited because she doesn't have to wash dishes in the bathroom sink any more and my dad is just excited to have a working kitchen again.  We have gone without a kitchen since the first week in Oct.  Now my parents are busying unpacking and putting away stuff.  My mom says it will take her awhile so we are planning on being settled in another 8 months :)  Here are a couple pics of the process and our fun with the Shays.

we walked to the park a lot with our cousins when they were visiting!

finished kitchen

getting close

a mess

start of demo

before

Maggie likes to push me around sometimes - here we are leaving dinner with the Shay's