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Callie

I can't believe Callie is in 2nd grade! It kind of makes me feel old. She loves school, although she absolutely hates getting up a six o'clock every morning-she is so not a morning person-kind of reminds me of my sister Sue! Everyday she comes home from school with the name of a new friend she talked to or played with-she's extremely social-which can be good and bad, but we are very thankful that she likes everyone and makes friends so easily. Of course she had to have a Hannah Montane backpack. I had to limit her to one Hannah Montana shirt and one Camp Rock shirt when we were school shopping, or that is all she would have picked out-she did insist on Hannah Montana pajamas though! She started violin lessons last week as well, and even though she hates repitition of any kind, she is enjoying it so far. Our neighbor and friend from our ward is teaching her-we really hope she sticks with it.

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Connor

All of our adoption paper work has been turned in to the court and we are now just waiting for a court date in order to finalize. We are hoping that we can do this without actually having to go to Utah, but we will do whatever we need to in order to get this process done, it seems to be taking forever. Connor is such a Ham! He can be so smiley and cheesey. He thinks he is so big now that he can pull himself up on his knees by his toybox, and he loves to take everything out and then put everything back in. Now that Cooper has started rolling and laughing and squealing, Connor is much more interested in him. He loves to torment Cooper by taking his pacifier, climbing over him, patting him on the head and pulling on him. I'm waiting for Cooper to defend himself, I don't think Connor would know what to do. I know they will play so good together once they are a little older. We are doing the Buddy Walk for Down Syndrome on October 25th in Tempe. We are trying to raise $2000.00 and welcome any donations. If anyone would like to walk with us, we would love the company-it is only a mile, so anyone can do it. The website is http://www.sharingds.org/ Our team name is "Connor's Crew"-any donations can be made under that team name-if you have any questions please email or call us.

Cooper

It's hard to believe that Cooper will be six months old in September. Times goes by so fast. He is growing so fast-maybe it's so he can keep up with his brother. Dub says he looks just like Chris did-I don't know if that's a good thing-j/k. He is so cute and happy, and has turned into such a good baby. He is fascinated by Connor-even though Connor likes to abuse him, he just squeals and laughs. He is now eating baby food, and is so picky-he doesn't like any of the fruits we have tried-he gags and spits them out, but he will eat the squash and sweet potatoes fine. He detests peas though, which I can't blame him and cannot bring myself to force him to eat them. I never imagined having two boys so close together, but I love it, it will be so great to have them grow up together.