My first few weeks as a SAHM!

I've been an official full-time SAHM (Stay At Home Mom) for a few days short of 3 weeks! Considering we spent 1 of those weeks with family in PA and the other weeks running around house hunting, I don't feel that Connor & I have gotten into a rhythm or routine. I'm guessing we won't find our routine until we are settled into a house. Who knows how long that will be!?

In the 2 weeks that Connor and I have been in IL, we have tried to keep busy. There were a few days where we were stuck indoors due to storms (today being one), but other than that we've had a blast! Let's see...we've done some shopping, explored the downtown area, gone for long walks to explore the area, gone to a children's museum, and gone to the zoo & the pool. We have been able to meet a few new people. I met a mom at the pool, at the children's museum, AND at the zoo. Hopefully I can continue to meet up  with a few of the moms and form friendships. Connor met a little boy at the museum and they "clicked". It was very cute. Connor's form of "loving" someone is by putting his forehead up to your face (my family calls it "eye-eye"). Well, when he met this little boy, he immediately gave him eye-eyes. I had to explain to his mother what he was doing so that she didn't think we were weird! Ha ha.

Connor is taking off in all directions!! He is cruising around our little apartment & making laps nonstop! Of course with walking comes the bumps & bruises. I am really struggling with that because he's starting to collect a few on his face. Ugh. He is also becoming insistant on feeding himself. If I have yogurt or something else REALLY good that he likes in a pureed form, he will let me feed him, but that's the only time. We have learned the hard way that spaghetti makes a big mess when we let him feed himself! :) But, man it is so darn cute!!!

We are getting visitors tomorrow - Meme & Pappy (my parents). My dad does business in Chicago and is coming for a business trip. Of course my mom is tagging along and he extended the trip through the weekend! We are planning to do a lot of fun things. We are hoping to go into the city over the weekend & show them the downtown area. I am hoping the weather is nice because we'd like to take Connor to a splash park & to a few festivals going on here this weekend. Should be fun!

Well, that's it for now.. we have a lot of fun things planned for next week! I'll post an update later in the week!