Connor Bo Bonnor

Warning: Connor is no longer answering to nicknames. Apparently Connor Bug, Connor Bo Bonnor, Connie, Coniferous, and CoCo are no longer cool (I can't imagine why!) A couple nicknames affectionately given to him by his uncles that do not seem to bother him are C-Gill and Conizzle. I guess those are still on the "cool" list!

Connor is finishing up his first year of school and is already calling himself a 1st grader :-( He is reading like a champ which makes it tough for Brad and me to be sneaky and spell words in front of him. It is kind of fun though because now we can include him in on our sneakiness! He has also started his 5th soccer season with the same team, which has made it pretty fun for us parents! He is playing really well and has scored several goals.

He has also started calling me Mom and has also stopped calling me Mommy which I am not at all thrilled about. I have decided that until he starts calling me Mommy again, I will not answer him. He knows this and thinks it is quite hilarious. The worst part is that Cooper is starting to call me Mom...not at all cool, I should at least have 3 more years worth of being called Mommy :-(

He has also become quite sarcastic in his old age (I have no idea where he gets it) by saying things such as:

"Cooper, if Mom says maybe, it really means that it is not going to happen"

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Connor: How come the last time the tooth fairy came she left me a $5 bill?

Me: Maybe the tooth fairy was feeling generous that day (ahem)

Connor: Well I really don't think that giving a kid 4 $1 bills is very nice when he is expecting a $5 bill (awesome Brad, way to set the bar high, guess your plan of reducing the amount of $ for each tooth is not working out!)

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Connor: Mom, can I wear shorts to school tomorrow?

Me: No

Connor: Please, I really want to wear shorts. All of my friends' moms let them wear shorts to school.

Me: Oh yeah, how many?

Connor: Well there are 23 kids in my class and 22 of them wore shorts yesterday.
--Bet you can guess who the "1" kid in the class was that didn't get to wear shorts...umhmm sure Connor!




For as good as Connor seems to be in the field, let's just say when it comes to being the goalie, he sh0uldn't quit his day job!


The sibling crew. These kids have been sideliners since the younger three were babies. You can see that us moms have figured out ways of keeping these four off of the field. It started off with crawling onto the field in the middle of games and has now developed into running and kicking balls onto the field. Note the drinks, snacks, and toys...it works sometimes ;-)



Connor is #1, you know what I mean!

Remember us?

Hello again! Now that I have probably most appropriately lost about 99% of my readers due to my ridiculous absence, I will yet again make a promise to return to the world of blogging with as much vigor as previous years (now that I have much more free time...ha!)

Let's see, what is new with us? Maybe I should restate that and say, "what is not new with us?" because it may make for a shorter blog. Anyway, I guess to keep from dragging this post out, I will break it up into individual posts and then it will really look as though I am no longer an absentee blogger ;-)

We will start with Brad...

Brad has been up to well...traveling, traveling, and more traveling. Oh, and did I mention he has been traveling? Mostly to Canada aka the "crap hole" as I like to refer to it (I am sure Canada is really a lovely country.) He is there so often that he now has to have a work visa to work there and I am pretty sure that AB has mistaken it for a green card. The only bonus is that when he is gone he doesn't have to pay St. Louis City taxes...yay...what a bonus...that extra few hundred dollars a year is really going to help pay for the psychologist that I am inevitably going to have to start seeing! When he took this promotion a year ago, it was for a totally different position (one that did not involve so much traveling.) However, a few months after he accepted the job the other person in his group who was in charge of the Canada project quit (I know it's shocking!) and guess who was forced into taking her place?! The bonus is that he no longer works weekends and he gets to coach Connor's soccer team when he is in town!


Photo of Brad in case you have forgotten what he looks like