Here are some pictures from last month that I meant to post earlier. Becca's grandparents came into town to visit us. They took us to dinner and brought some cool coffee cups from their latest excursion to South America. Connor is so blessed to have such a BIG and wonderful family. Becca and I are too!

What else is going on with Connor? He's rolling all over the place. He can go left, right, and back again like it's nothing. Forward and backward is another matter. I think crawling is a good two months off.

On a good effort he'll get up on his hand and knees, begin rocking a bit, and then lurch forward into a faceplant. This might result in tears, it might not. This laborious act gets him about half an inch at a time. Not quite the most effective movement. But cute! He gets points for cute!

Tonight we're taking him out to dinner with some friends. We have a great little Italian joint we frequent, second in line only to Jason's Deli. Whenver we go, and I'm not making this up, strangers will come and want to hold him. He's our little superstar.

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About a week ago we started out the new bed time routine. We're hitting about .500 on making that one work. But the last two nights we've got it down pretty well. It goes like this...

a) Connor eats at his high chair, food all over, mouth, hair, ears... We shovel the food in over about 15 minutes and he eats about 5 tablespoons when it's said and done

b) bath time. splash splash and soap and he loves water and then puts on his towel with an elephant hood and smells better than anything in this world

c) to bed. Eats his main course of breast milk and gets full and sleepy. Bed time arrives at last.

Ideally this starts at 7:30 and we've got eyes closed by 8:00. But you know about the best laid plans... We are getting better each day but still have a little ways to go.

His grandpa said the other night, "What's the best day to plant a tree? 20 years ago. What's the second best day to plant a tree? Today."

Well that's true.