Our New Favorite Place

If there's one thing Parker loves, it's being outside! Since it was so nice this morning, Dana & Ethan, Kristy & Ava, and Parker & I decided to go to the park. We used to go all the time last summer but Parker was so little, he slept the whole time and we'd just watch Ethan play. Not so much this year! He absolutely loved it. I think he liked the swings the best, as you can probably tell from the picture, but was happy to play on any part of the baby playground. He even tried to eat some of the mulch...the little stinker would quick put it in his mouth when he thought I wasn't looking!

Lovin' the swing!

So happy!

Climbing on the playground

Way too busy to turn and look at me for a picture!

Sampling the mulch...yum!

Driving the fire truck

Ethan & Ava...aren't they adorable??

Parker Loves His Grampie

Parker adores his Grampie and thinks he's hilarious, which is pretty obvious from the video!

9 Months!

Hard to believe it was time to take Parker for his nine month appointment...but that's just where we had to go Friday morning! He waited so patiently for the doctor to come check him out. He loves the paper on the table. He scratched his nails on it, scrunched it up in his hands, tore pieces off and tried to eat it. He chewed on his cell phone for a while and played with some toys that we took with us. When Dr. B came in, she brought him a little book about baby animals and of course he put it right in his mouth and chewed pieces off of it. He's got five teeth - two on the top and three on the bottom and puts them to good use! He's 19 lbs 10 oz and is 30 1/2 inches long. His body finally caught up with his head so no worries there. She said he looks great, is a good eater, and while he's not crawling yet, she said his muscle tone is really good so it's probably just a matter of time before he's on the move. Either that or he's going to skip crawling altogether. He doesn't mind being on his belly now and gets extremely frustrated when he can't go. Poor baby! No shots at this appointment but Dr. B said I better bring Chad with me next time since he'll be getting some then (she knows I won't bring him by myself if he has to have them). Next appointment - May 26th...the day after his 1st birthday!! I'm loving every new thing he does and how much he's changing but it makes me a little sad that he's getting so big so fast!

Looks just like his mommy, doesn't he?? :)

Bair Hair Day!

Parker obviously doesn't have much hair so we don't normally see many crazy hairdos. But one afternoon he woke up looking like this:

He doesn't appear to be too excited about having his picture taken in a couple of these but we just couldn't let that hairdo go unphotographed!

Parker & Sadie's Photo Shoot

For Valentine's Day I'm making Chad a collage of pictures for his new office at work. He's been asking me for awhile and I just haven't put one together so I figured this would be a good time to do it. I didn't have a hard time choosing two of the three pictures to put in it. I had our picture from our Christmas card, and a picture he loves of the two of us in Belize when we went our cruise - but couldn't find a third that I really liked so I decided to take a picture of Parker and Sadie to fill the spot. It took several shots to get a good picture. Here are just a few of the MANY pictures I took trying to get a good one of both of them looking...I never did get one with Sadie looking but the one I got turned out so cute! I know he's going to love it!

Funny...look how they're sitting the exact same way!

"Come on Sadie...just look at the camera and we can be done!"

I have no idea what they were looking at! If only they were looking this way...

And here's the winner! (Although now that I look at it, the plant behind Parker looks like hair! Oh well - we are not retaking it!)

Happy Valentine's Day, Chad!

Close To Crawling?

Parker seems so close to crawling ... He just can't figure it out! The other night he was actually laying on his belly playing with some toys in front of him, which is unusual. Most of the time he just rolls over onto his back. So we decided to up him up on his knees and see what he would do. From the pictures it looks like he knows what he's doing...but don't let him fool you! He's not going anywhere! I'm sure one day when he's into everything I'll regret wishing he could crawl so soon.

Chad was trying to put him up on his knees but he wouldn't bend his legs!

Chad thought maybe if he showed him what to do he'd be able to figure it out.

I'm up on my knees...what now??

And yes, those are Christmas pajamas Parker is wearing! We love fleecy jammies and he only has a few that fit him so he'll be wearing them until they don't fit him anymore...or until the weather warms up! I wonder what will come first...

First Time in the NC Snow!

I've had some requests recently to update the blog since my last post was about Parker being six months old and he's now 8 months old! I really would like to be better about it but just find myself busy doing other things. I will try harder to post more about all the fun we're having around here!

We were so excited to get about 7 inches of snow at our house this weekend! It was so pretty and reminded me of NY (but made me thankful that this is a rare happening now that we live in NC and also reminded me why I don't want to live up north!). We didn't get out to play on Saturday since we were taking care of our sick puppy and didn't want to leave her alone. But we did get out Sunday and walked up to our neighbor's house and took Parker sledding. We weren't even sure we had a snowsuit for him to wear. Chad said we were not buying him once since it hardly snows here. But no need to worry...we looked in his closet and Mia had given him a bear snowsuit at our shower, which fit him perfectly. He didn't have much of a reaction to the snow or sledding but we had fun being able to take him.

Are you sure we should do this, Mommy?

Walking down to Bart, Dana, & Ethan's house to go sledding

Look at that tail!

Daddy & Parker coming down the "big" hill

Trying to decide if we were going to try it

We finally decided to do it...and this is the picture Chad got! :( Good try, honey!

Take a look at that face...Looks like our little bear was done being out in the cold!

Someone (I won't say who...but it wasn't me, Parker, or Sadie) didn't want to go in the attic and get my boots for this one trip out in the snow so I had to wear my sneakers to go sledding - Good thing we weren't out there very long! This someone is also not going to be happy that I posted this picture :)