Happy Easter

a madman behind the wheel.

Out on a sled ride (hopefully the last one of the season!)

Hayden loves stickers. He puts them everywhere.
This is one of my favorite places he puts them.

family time

Here are some pictures from the weekend before St. Patrick's Day.
It was a lot of family packed into a little bit of time.

spectacles

today hayden found some glasses and wore them all morning long.
it was a bit of an obsession.




bath times tend to turn into a big clowning around session. i don't know what happens, but hayden gets a surge of super spastastic craziness. i kind of can't wait until summer when we can get him in the pool. there is no telling what he will do.

the color yellow

hayden and i had a fun morning coloring together. pretty much non stop all day long, he is saying the word "car" so, i drew a car. Another word that he knows is tree, so i drew a tree. he just learned the word house,
so we drew a house, but it was his idea to color everything yellow.

and some more photos:

the reason and some history

Hugh came up with the idea to blog about Hayden as a way to keep history on all his great achievements.
We did purchase an actual baby book, but I love the illustrations too much and like my handwriting too little to actually write in it. It is filled with yellow post-it notes however, but somehow I don't think they will stand the test of time. I don't feel too much like back peddling, but here are a few highlights from the last year and a half!

meet the madman

Meet the madman, aka Hayden Ellis Connelly, at his finest, just minutes old and already flippin' us the bird. He was born June 19th at 2:01 in the afternoon on a hot summer day in Chicago. He weighed in at 8 lb. 6 oz. and measured something like 19.5 inches.