Growing

Parker
Parker is continuing to grow in both size and ability. He is now tall enough to reach things that are hanging over the side of the counter. He can also climb up a slide at the play ground. He is starting to say more words I understand. My favorite thing he says is thank you. Yesterday he sat at our kitchen table and folded his arms and started mumbling something. I think he was saying a prayer.

Me
I'm growing both mentally and physically. School this semester has been going well. I'm about 1 month away from being done, and therefore being 2 classes closer to graduating. Physically my clothes are also getting a little snug.

Baby #2
We should be meeting this member face to face around May 15th. At the last doctor's appointment the doctor said the heart beat sounded good.

Our family is excitedly awaiting baby #2.

I'm 14 weeks along today, and have been able to enjoy it so far. We should find out around Christmas whether we will be parents to another little boy or if we will get to experience a change and have a little girl.

PS: I'm not going to be posting anything regarding this on facebook for another month or so, so please don't leave a comment on my wall regarding this.

Dancing King

Parker is quite the little dancer. About a month ago we were watching a moving and Parker started jamming to the songs that played during the closing credits of the movie. ENJOY!!!

Halloween!!!

Halloween was fun this year. We didn't do a lot of the traditional things; we sadly didn't go trick-or-treating, or carve pumpkins. We did however dress-up, and we handed out candy to the 75 or so trick-or treaters that braved the Saturday storm to get their loot of candy.

Parker the white tiger

Troy and I as Thing 1 and Thing 2 from Dr. Seuss's the Cat in the Hat
(P.S. red pants are HARD to find)

Discover Gateway

We went to the Discovery Gateway Children's Museum in SLC. Parker enjoyed it. He would get mad any time I would move him from one station, but once we were in the next place something would catch his attention and he would happily play. He is still rather young for many of the exhibits, but there were plenty of things he could enjoy.

The ball room was a hit

Driving

Playing in the water

Figuring out how to make music

1 1/2 YEARS OLD!!!

At 18 Months Parker is doing good.



He is gradually saying words I understand, but most of the time his jabbering seems foreign.


He loves to climb. (I even caught he trying to climb into his crib - Getting closer to a big boy bed)

He LOVES animals.

He loves sticks, rocks, and dirt


He usually takes 1 nap at some point during the day, but there are days he doesn't take one and other days when he takes 2.


He is a pretty good eater. He has even started eating some meat.


He likes to look at books, but if I try to read one to him he throws a fit.

He is small for his age . . . especially his feet. He just grew out of his first pair of shoes, a size 3 pair of sneakers.

He loves to throw things: balls, toys, books, rocks, etc.

He loves to be outside.

He also loves to wear bracelets.

Parker's friend Sadie is so nice to feed his love of bracelets.

Troy's Awesome Work Party

Troy's work had a work party that had something for our whole family. A 5K for me, Old Fashion root beer, music, Wild West shoot out, blacksmith and a cowboy poet for Troy, and a petting zoo, pony rides and train rides for Parker. We all had a blast!!!

5K
before

during
getting my congratulations
Pony Ride

Petting Zoo
Looks like that goat gave up running away from Parker
Parker, you're suppose to be looking at the animals not the girls!
Here piggy piggy piggy

Parker don't pick the cow's nose.

Parker even wanted to pet the water.

Train Ride

A Little of This . . . A Little of That

Parker Loves Books. . .
Favorites: Articles of Faith by Talmage, Eernie & The Twiddle Bug Town Fair, Daniel & the Lion's Den
He likes to pretend to read the first.
He likes the 2nd so much he tried to give it a bath.
The last book will calm him down at any time, it has little flaps he can peek under.


Parker Loves Water. . .

We got a little kiddy pool for him to play in. He thinks it is pretty awesome.

We gave him his first "BUBBLE" bath. He was a little frightened to get in at first, but once he found out the bubbles didn't hurt he wanted to eat them.

It seems he even likes to ride on the water. We are going to let him play in the lake next time we are there. We shall see what he thinks of that.

Parker Loves FIREWORKS. . .

This was just a smoke bomb, but when we shot off our personal fireworks he thought they were pretty neat. We didn't go to a park or anything this year. Maybe on the 24th we will venture off to see a big display to see how he likes them.

Parker Loves the Zoo. . .

Especially the train

He loves outside, and knows he needs his shoes on, so he will often bring them to me as his sign it is time to go outside.

He is recognizing shapes and can put most of the shapes in his shape block.

• Circle - - He will rotate the block until he finds the circle spot then put it in.
• All the other - - He will correctly put the shape in the correct spot if the spot it goes on is face up.

He has started to build with his building blocks. (Most of the time only one or two block high)

He has just started using a spoon . . .sometimes. . . for eating. Although his tool of choice is his hands.

I try to give him a cup with a little water every day. He love to dump it on himself.

He is getting a little more picky, but will still eat most things. He has never been good about eating meat.

Some of his favorite foods are: yogurt, apple sauce, animal crackers, milk, bananas, peas, macaroni & cheese, & PB & J sandwiches.