Birthday party

Sorry it's taken me awhile to get pictures up from his pary. We had a great time and thank you everyone for coming and sharing the day with us. Thank you for all the great presents. I know that he enjoys every single one of them. The pictures are not in order, sorry!

Time to clean up after cake fun


Giving Danielle kisses!


New blanket that Great Grandma Schwab made for him and absolutely loves, very soft!


Sharing cake with Olivia and Kayla


Anyone else want some cake


Looking at new book from Aunt Kristi


Cup cake cake made my Me, Aunt Stephanie and Aunt Kristi. I was proud of the final product.


Digging in and tasting good!


Alex wanted to help!


Is everyone looking!


Aunt Carrie helping him down his new slide from Nana and Papa


Daddy helping with blocks


Aunt Carrie and Parker

Parker Daniel Monaghan 1 year pics

I can't believe it's almost here my baby is going to be 1 on the 24th. Time has flown by sooo fast and I love every minute. I took him to get his pictures done yesterday and almost cried. You can't say he isn't absolutely handsome.

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.