Addiction

Somebody has an addiction. Can you guess what it is?

4 Months

Conner is a couple weeks past being 4 months old! He is growing like crazy! He had his doctor appointment today and the nurse walked in and said "Wow, what a big 4 month old!" But all of his stats show that he is average size but his head is just over average. Conner is getting a personality! He loves to be around people and loves to tell them stories. And when he gets mad he lets us know! It's amazing to watch him grow and learn new things. I think that I get more excited than he does! At 4 months Conner:

~Loves to talk and makes noises

~Drinks 6 oz. every 2-3 hours

~Is wearing some 3 months clothes but mostly 6 months clothes (kids sizes are so stupid!)

~Is wearing size 1-2 diapers

~Can roll over

~Hates rice cereal

~Loves to put his foot in his mouth and loves to pull his socks off (the doc that this is a 5 month skill, so yeah!)

~Loves to grab everything that he can and put it in his mouth

~Loves to play Peek a Boo

~Loves watching TV

Stats

Weight-15.4 lbs (50%)

Length-25.5 inches(75%)

Head-17.2 inches(80%)

Happy Birthday

Happy 27th Birthday to our daddy!!!

You are an amazing husband and father and we are blessed to have you in our lives!

We love you!

Love, Amber and Conner

2009 In Review

I have seen year reviews on a few blogs and thought it was a cute idea. So here is the 2009 Gillespie Review with links to the posts if you're really bored, enjoy!

January-Found out we were pregnant, Chris turned 26 and we went to Vegas
February- Chris got a tattoo, and we had our first doctor appointment
March- Found out we were having a BOY (slow month)
April-Found out Chris' older sister Kim was pregnant with #2, and lost my great aunt Gladys
May-Went to San Diego, and welcomed my brother home from his mission
June-Chris went to Niagra Falls, and celebrated 4 wonderful years of marriage
July-Did 4D photos of Conner, went on a camping trip (no link, sorry), found out I had gestational diabetes and celebrated the 4th of July
August-Finished the nursery and took Maternity photos
September-Welcomed Baby Conner to the world!
October-Conner had his 1st Halloween and we played with Conner
November-Blessed Conner and watched The Utes get beat by BYU (we did win our bowl game though, Go Utes!).
December-Welcomed Baby Emily into the world and celebrated Conner's first Christmas!

We had a lot of ups and downs this year, mostly ups, and are very excited for whatever 2010 brings us. I think we are most excited to watch Conner grow! I think that each step is the most exciting one so I'm sure you will see lots of posts about him. Chris could possibly be traveling out of the country next year so we are anxious to see if that happens. And we are hoping to take a couple of vacations in 2010 as well.

Happy New Year Everyone!

Christmas

We had an amazing Christmas this year! We did lots of traveling, spent lots of time with family and ate lots of good food. We were spoiled by our families and thank you all for making Conner's first Christmas wonderful!

Purse

This is my new purse! I love, love , love it! But that's not what my post is about.

A little old man was walking down the hall at my work today carrying his wife's purse. She was on crutches and unable to carry her purse, so he was carrying it for her. He almost dropped it and said, "I almost dropped my purse!" This made me think of Chris. He hates to carry my purse but does it occasionally for me. He also does many other things for me that I know he hates to do. But he does them because he loves me! And I hope that when we are 80 years old and I'm on crutches he will carry my purse because he still loves me!

I love you babe!

Sleep

With me going back to work our schedules have changed in the past couple of weeks. Conner has been waking up at 4am almost every day and that really can't happen. I have to get up at 5:30am to get ready for work. We usually go to bed around 10pm so it's not like we put him to bed super early. He also usually sleeps in his swing or in our bed (don't judge me). I want him to start sleeping in his crib though. Does anyone have any adivce for me or tips?