Grandma Chris comes to visit

We have just finished a wonderful visit form Grandma Chris. She arrived on a Big Blue Plane and took us to the Kansas City Zoo. We saw elephants, rhinos, hippos, lions, MONKEYS and polar bears! And we got to ride the train!!!! Conner had such a great time and made it all day without a nap – maybe the ice cream at the end of the day helped!

what do we see?  Flamingos!!

moneys!!!!!

three generations of Popps!

Holding Grandma's hand like a "big boy"

The last night here Grandma took us to On the Border and Conner had his fill of chips and black beans. Thanks for the great time Grandma! See you in Thanksgiving in WI!

Conner turns 2!

Happy Birthday Conner!


I can’t believe that my little man is 2 years old today! We have such a wonderful journey with our energetic boy! The first this he did this morning was put on this new helmet! It took him about 5 minutes to realize that it was sitting on his new birthday bike (thanks grama). As the norm for Conner’s birthday it HOT here in KS (100 today), so we tried out our new bike this morning.

Conner has been attempting to play golf with his father (thanks pappy)! And the puzzles and alphabet toys is a huge hit (thanks nana)!

The huge hit this year was Thomas the Tank Engine. Mommy and daddy got Conner a small set and then we used the “funny money” from CAPPY senior to build a larger set. We also got Conner a digger train and we came close to sleeping with this evening.

Thank you to all our wonderful family for helping to make Conner’s 2nd birthday fun and exciting for the little man!

Douglas County Fair

We finally made it to the Douglas County Fair – the last day – but we made it! Conner woke up telling Brett and I that we were going to see the sheep and horses, today mommy!

Needless to say as soon as we pulled up and parked Conner saw the farm equipment and Bobcats and that was it! He was so excited to get to sit inside a Bobcat that he almost forgot about the animals until he heard a cow mooo.

i can do it!

my digger daddy!

my Bobcat !!

The petting area at the Fair was fun. Conner (and daddy) got to pet sheep, lambs, a pig and a donkey. They both really wanted to pet the ostrich…but that was the only animal with a “will bite” sign…

It was too hot for the pony ride, so maybe next year…

On the way home we stopped to buy a helmet for Conner. He doesn’t know it yet but grama (Chris) got his a bike for his birthday! Whenever Conner sees anyone riding a bike or motorcycle, he tells us about helmets and how they go on your head. So we as “good parents” thought that we should reinforce the helmet rule starting with his first bike. Can’t wait to see how he reacts to the bike tomorrow morning.