Where Has the Time Gone???

Okay, so my efforts at keeping the blog up to date have slowly gotten away from me.  It turns out with family and work and still attempting to have a social life that there isn't a whole lot of time still available for things like blogging.  But with a renewed dedication, and by sacrificing a little sleep, here we go again.

The last month with Connor has been great.  He's become so much more active and aware, started laughing (Sara and I are now convinced that we're hilarious), is smiling all the time and is able stay awake for big chunks of time without getting too fussy.  He recognizes us when we walk up to him, which makes picking him up from daycare awesome, can grab and play with toys, although is still as likely to smack himself in the cheek as he is to place said toy in his mouth, loves jumping in his "jumperoo" and has even graduated to rice cereal and riding in his stroller without the infant carrier.

It is amazing how fast all of this goes.  We cannot believe that he is 4.5 months old already, that Sara has been back to work for almost 8 weeks, and that we've survived the first part of his life and he is now sleeping through the night consistently from 8pm to 7am.  Parenthood is so incredibly humbling, with myriad moments where Sara and I talk about various options and hope that we make the right decisions without ever actually knowing (and then there are of course the moments where you make a decision that is very quickly discovered to be wrong, typically discovering said errors with very loud volume).

Over the past month or so we made our way out to Palm Springs for the annual golf tournament where Connor made his inaugural voyage into the pool (he liked the pool temperature much better in Palm Springs than he did in Paso Robles), went to an Angels game with Kim and Fredy, watched our first UCLA football game with T, Brittney, Ryan and Anees, enjoyed our first Charger game, went to Thousand Oaks to spend time with the Izu clan, went to Ben and Bridget McCormick's 1st birthday party, hung out with Tony, Odyssey and Harper and generally just enjoyed ourselves.  We still seem to manage to fill our weekends by catching up with friends, occasionally allowing ourselves a quiet day to recharge the batteries.  Connor has been on a great schedule throughout which makes it easier to plan and keep him happy.    

Overall, Sara and I could not be happier with this expansion of our family and we are enjoying every minute of it.  Below is a sampling of photos of the little guy from the last month or so.