Too Fast

So, Parker has been "walking" for less than a week and he is already getting so good. It is kinda scary! He can turn and walk a different direction (not completely around but left or right) , he can stable himself if he gets unbalanced, and he can dance. He loves to dance, it is so funny. If he hears music he likes he starts to go up and down (his version of a dance) and he really gets into it. I will have post a video of him dancing because he loves to dance. Anyway, it is crazy how once he got more sure of himself walking how quickly it progresses. He feels a lot more comfortable to let go and just walk and can walk for quite a distance with out falling down. He has to have something to pull himself up from if he falls, but all too soon I am sure that will change too.

Awesome Looking, Isn't It?!?

Too bad it won't be outside on Halloween! We got the pumpkin a few weeks before Halloween and carved it at a party our friends were having. Joe carved the pumpkin freehand (Isn't he great!?) We figured it would still be ok for Halloween when much to my surprise 3 days after carving it- it was growing this icky stringy white mold inside. I tried to get rid of it, but a week after getting the pumpkin it was in the garbage- the mold was starting to grow out of the carvings and the face was starting to get really soft- DISGUSTING!! So, we just have some cute little uncarved pumpkins to put out.

TOilEtS

So, Parker has discovered that even though Mommy puts the lid down on the toilet, puts the toilet paper on the counter that the toilet can still be fun. Earlier today he was playing with his cars, he has these Little Tikes spark cars and he decided that it would be fun to put it in the toilet while I was switching out the laundry. Typically it is just easier to keep the bathroom door closed, but I had opened it to switch out the towels and left it open. Bad Idea... So Parker submerged his little car in the toilet and I came up the stairs to him so pleased with himself taking the car out of the toilet, and with water RUNNING out of the car shaking the car so that water went EVERYWHERE. So, I now have to wash the rugs, mop the floor, and figure out how to get all of the water out of this car. Let me tell you- I can't leave him alone for a second!

Hee Haw Farms

Last week we decided to take a little family outing to Hee Haw Farms. We ended up getting there a little later than I would have liked to we didn't get to do all of the activities, but we did go to the "petting zoo", went on the hay ride and got to pick our own pumpkins out of the pumpkin patch. (The tractor pulling the trailer for the hay ride was going So....Slow....that if it had been faster, I bet we could have done a few more activities before it go dark. Anyway, here are some pictures from the outing. We had a lot of fun and Parker pet the goats, chickens, horse, cow and pig. I am glad that he is not afraid of the animals. He was such a good little boy and we had fun with him.

Walking

So I guess Parker is offically walking~ I am not sure what exactly qualifies as "walking" but I think he is there. Anyway here is a video with him walking. (I have a much better video, but it is not uploading for some reason...

Happy Birthday Joe!

Today is Joe's 31st birthday! We actually celebrated it yesterday so that it would work a little better for everyone. Anyway, we had family over for a party and Joe got some pretty cool stuff. I am so grateful for Joe and all that he does for our little family. He is the best husband, and father and I couldn't hope for a better friend. Parker and I love him so much and are so happy that he is ours. Happy Birthday Joe!

MOre StEpS

Ok, so this just happened (BrEaKinG nEWs) Parker took 4 steps from a standing position in the middle of our living room to me, then he kept standing and took another 4 steps, and it happened a third time - Last night he actually started the "monkey walk" where he crawls on his hands and feet- That is strange and funny at the same time : )

Oats & Pictures

Parker loves oatmeal- I can't say that I blame him, there is something about the taste of food when it has oatmeal in it. Anyway, I made some pumpkin oatmeal chocolate chip cookies and Parker loves to "pick out" the oatmeal pieces. He is so funny! We are getting ready to get family pictures tomorrow, we are going up the canyon, so I hope that we can get some cute fall pics. Since having Parker, I have been more into getting the family pictures. Maybe this time we will get some to put on the wall : )

StEPs

So, I think Parker is getting closer to walking (I guess since he isn't you can only get closer right : ) Anyway, he has been standing really well for the last few weeks, and he pushes EVERYTHING around- stroller, chairs, walker, cars, laundry basket, me... the list goes on, but more recently he has ventured out on taking some steps, and he seems to be getting a little more confident so he will take more than one- like today, he took 3 steps. CRAZY! People ask me if he is walking or when will he walk (how am I supposed to know that?!) Anyway, I have not been in a hurry for him to walk, he has been crawling since end of March, and there isn't anything that he CAN'T get into, so I just figured he would walk when he felt like it. Plus he is so darn fast at crawling that he hasn't been so motivated to walk. Anyway, I think the walking stage is getting closer- my little babe is growing up...

FaNTAstiC DaY

So do you ever have those days where you just want to go back to bed, wake up and start the day over? (I'm sure we all have) Well, today was one of those. For all intents, it didn't start off crappy, it just progressively did. I've been pretty stressed out lately- Joe's car has been in the shop for a week, and probably won't be done until Friday getting some pretty pricey repairs so I have been without a car for a while. Well, today I realized that I was out of my medicine that uh...needs to be taken every day so my mom offered to pick me up, drive me to Target and then take me back home. I was babysitting my niece, but I had her car seat so it was ok. So my mom came and we all loaded up into the car and were off. Well I get to Target and they said to come back in 10 minutes because then they were going to lunch, so we wandered the store for a few minutes, came back in about 8 and they were closed. I was sooo irritated! It was about 1:30, and my mom had to go pick up my sister from work, and be back at her house for a 2:30 appointment, she hadn’t had lunch and the pharmacy would be open at about 2:00. So we decided that we would go pick her some food up from Panda Express, go back to Target, drop me off, I would run into Target to get my prescription, we would go pick up my sister, I would drop both of them off at my mom’s house, drive to my house to be back before 3:30 for my sister in law to pick up Genavie and my mom would come to pick her car up after my brother came home from work around 5:30. Please note that the reason I didn’t just go later is that Joe doesn’t get home until around 6:15 or later, and the Target pharmacy closes on the dot at 6:00. So that wasn’t an option. So we go to Panda and they didn’t have the stuff my mom wanted and I said, “Today is just not going so great…” So she ends up getting something to eat, we go back to Target, they didn’t get there until a little after 2:00- I get the prescription, we pick up my sister, drop my mom and sister off with maybe a minute to spare and Parker, Genavie and I were off to my place. On the way back, about 2-3 miles from my moms’ place, I got a flat tire- FANTASTIC! The registration on the car expired last month so I was a little nervous, and even more fantastically I realized that I left my cell phone at home- PERFECT! So I have never changed a tire and so I got out the manual, and started to take the spare off and a police officer came up behind me and asked if I needed help. I was so grateful for the help- and that the back door of the car was up so he couldn’t see the expiration on the license plate. I was worried that I wouldn’t get home in time before Kristen came to pick her up, and she couldn’t get a hold of me, but mostly I felt REALLY bad that my mom let me barrow her car and I got a flat tire. There is a 2” slice through the side of the back passenger side tire. It is really weird because I was driving on a straight road, through a residential area, so I am not sure how it happened, I didn’t see anything in the road…. So we got the spare on- they have an SUV so it is a full size spare, but I was still careful driving home, got home with about 10 minutes to spare before Kristen came to pick up Genavie. I told my mom what happened and she said not to worry, but I still feel HORRIBLE… I hope today gets better, because I may just lock myself in a room if it keeps getting worse…

COlorIng

Parker loves to color~ I have some triangle crayons, and some fat crayons that he loves to use. I found a large coloring pad and I just put it on the floor and he picks the colors that he likes. He tends to go towards more of the greens, oranges, and yellow colors. Anyway, here is him coloring away.

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sO CUte

I was looking through all of the pictures of Parker and saw these ones and they are so typical of Parker and how good natured he is.

Notice a Pattern?

So these are a great example of my jeans.

Don't ask my why they ALL have a hole in the left knee, while the right is perfectly fine. Believe me, I wish I knew why this was happening, because I would stop it : )

Parker's Eyes

This is a good example how the simple little things you do actually do make a difference. When I read books to Parker he loves it when I point to the facial features of the character- be it man, animal, etc and say "eyes" and then I will get ready to touch his eyes, but he closes his eyelids and then I will touch his eyes. Now if you ask him where are his eyes, he will close his eyelids and give a cheesy smile. It is the cutest thing ever, and he loves to do it because of every one's reaction. I do the same thing with his nose, mouth etc. so maybe he will start pointing those out too. He also waves in the video too- he LOVES to wave "Hi" and "Bye".

More Teeth

Currently to date Parker has 6 teeth! He has 4 on the top and 2 on the bottom, and he really likes to bite~ He thinks it is funny to bite my fingers, as long as it is on the nail it doesn't hurt too bad, but if he get the skin on top and bottom, wow! it hurts! Crazy how sharp their little teeth are : )

Birthday Pics

Ok, Ok, this is a little late, but better late than never : ) Anyway, here are some pictures from Parker's birthday. He was so funny! He woke up around 7:00 on Saturday and his party was supposed to start at 2:00, well at about 1:00, he was cranky, and he hadn't taken a nap, so I asked Joe if he would help him sleep while I finished getting ready for the party, so they went into our bedroom and Parker fell asleep. Joe is really good at getting Parker to sleep. Anyway everyone started arriving, and Parker was still sleeping, so we delayed the party for about 30 minutes while he kept on sleeping. We ended up getting him up and he was so funny. We gave him his presents and he would gently rip off a small piece of wrapping paper and then hand it to me, it took awhile for him to open the presents, and I ended up helping him. Then it was cake time. I made him a carrot cake for him to dig into and put it in front of him on his highchair and he would take off little pieces of frosting and then hand them to me. I gave him one back and he didn't quite know what to think of on the initial taste, but I think he started to like it, but he did not "dig into" the cake he was very careful and clean about the whole thing. I put a plastic sheet underneath his highchair for the"mess" but let's face it, who am I kidding, the kid is a little OCD me. He likes things CLEAN. Don't get me wrong- I am not complaining, it was just ironic.

Sad Face

So Parker is excellent on faking a sad face. I was actually able to kinda of catch it the other day. It is always so spontaneous, that it has been eluding me : ) So, anyway enjoy~

Towards the end of the video, there is actually another funny face of him scrunching up his nose. Oh, and another thing, Parker doesn't typically chew on the Tylenol bottle, I was just trying to get a reaction : )