Christmas Journey

Tonight we are heading out to southern Illinois and will be back Christmas Eve. We are hoping that Parker will sleep most of the way tonight, as it is a 7 hour drive. We will be having Christmas with his mom's family on saturday night and with his dad on sunday. It will be a busy quick trip, but will be nice to see everyone and most haven't seen Parker yet. It's hard to believe that he is almost a year old too. Hold on! I have to tell you something real quick before I gotta go, but he broke my heart for the first time this morning. I dropped him off at daycare and he always cries that is until today. I was holding him and he pushed me to let him down, so I did and he took off to play with the kids and hide under the slide. Well it was time to say goodbye so I did and he waved and said BYE-BYE and that was IT..... no crying for MAMA...

Prayer Request

I don't do this often, but I have some unspoken prayer requests. God knows what they are but it also helps to have some support too.

Old

Here are some old pic that I found that I wanted to share.

First time having spaghetti. One of his favorites.

Boy, does he look chubby in this pic


First time having corn on the cob

At uncle jon's cider mill. His first time in the back pack and loved it. He even took a long nap in it. I was ready for a nap too after carrying him that long.

Quiet time

He does love his books. He will stand at this basket and empty every single book out then sit on the floor and read them. Page by page. The other night Brian and I were sitting on the couch and he sat over at this basket and read (in his language) 5 books. It was so funny, we didn't want to laugh too hard because he was being so good and concentrating at turning each page. I didn't want to get up and get the camera because he would have stopped, so I caught him reading the next day.

Keeping occupied

Parker is now at the age of discovery. While I'm cooking in the kitchen he likes to be in there with me, so I let me play with whatever is safe that he finds. Well this day it was napkins and his water bottles. And then after I had that cleaned up he moved to the spices. Needless to say it was a mess to pick up from them being shredded to pieces, but he did have fun and he wasn't getting into something he couldn't have.

1st Christmas

We had the Rood Christmas this last weekend at mom and dad's. Everyone made it on Saturday night to play games, snack and spend time together. Kim and Christopher couldn's make it as they were on military duty and had drill the whole weekend. We wished that they could have made it, but when duty calls we can't argue. Sunday we had stockings and presents alot later then the girls wanted of course. But we did bribe them that they had to take their naps first. It did work though. We had a great time with everyone. Now getting ready for round 2 this weekend with the Schwab Christmas at the farm. Then round 3 with the Johnson (Brian's fam) Christmas the following weekend. Round 4 in Illinois with his dad. Round 5 at home on Christmas Day. And last but not least Round 6 at mom and dad's the last weekend. Wow!!!

Mess

Ok so you know those hand molding kits that you should do when they are younger, well I found one that I had bought and thought that I would do it now. Well it didn't turn out the right way. Let me tell you don't try and do it when they are older because it is fun to them. Needless to say it got thrown away because it was a mess by the time he destroyed it.

Happy Birthday

Well today is it, whether I like it or not I've hit the first big number 30. Brian has to work until 9 and Kayla is at her mom's. Mom and Matt have been sick, so we won't be going over there, so I think Parker and I will go out to dinner. It's no fun getting older, but until I get to the point that I start feeling older, it is just another number. At least I will always be younger than Steph and she will hit the bigger number first. That makes me feel better. Hope all are doing well. I will post some more pics soon.

Kayla update

Ok I think I did a good job updating this on my own. Steph will be very proud of me now let's see if I can keep it up. I need to get some pics of Kayla on here too. She is doing very good and is doing better in school. Her goal is to keep working on a positive attitude to earn some stars because she really.... wants to go to Build A Bear Workshop and if she earns a certain amount of stars for good behavior than she gets to pick something special to do. It's hard to believe that she is 6. Her teeth are finally starting to come in after over a year and is going thru a growth spurt, she is in the 50% for height and weight. Hopefully some day she will be in the 75% with her dad's height!

Too big

I can still fit...I know I can

Trying to climb thru

Now I'm stuck

How much mama loves me

He crawled up to me on the floor and fell right to sleep. I cherish those times because it doesn't happen too often.



It's not very often that I get a picture of him and I, so I thought I would take it myself. He thought it was funny.

MR. ELEPHANT is his sleeping buddy!

He loves to watch ELMO. We don't have cable, so that I one of the only things that I let him watch rarely. He likes Curious George too.

Look at those teeth

Daddy's boy

He loves putting Daddy's hat and sunglasses on. He is the first one that gets a smile out of daddy every morning.

Bath time

He loves taking a bath. When it's bath time all I have to say "Let's go take and bath and he makes a dash for the tub. He definatley doesn't have to be told twice. At least not these days.

Trick or Treat

Parker and his buddy Hawk-one of the few things that I can't hurt that is bigger than him.



Stopped by Carrie, Heather, Danielle and Tylers too!!


Went to Mema and Pepa's and Aunt Kristi stopped by before she went to pass out candy

Halloween

Aunt Kristi came and carved pumpkins. Can you believe how warm it was?

Update

Ok well I just started my blog over because I didn't know what I was doing so here we go we will give it another try. Well Parker is 10 months old tomorrow. Where in the world did all this time go. He is a handsome, fun, active and very loving boy.