18 Months (and 2 weeks)

So since we forgot about scheduling Parker's 15 month doctor appointment until he was 15 months and 2 weeks old (whoops) he is a little behind on his doctor appointments these days!  He went today for his 18 month appointment and did FABULOUS!  Morning is DEFINITLEY the time to take little man to the doctor's office.  He did everything the doctor and nurse asked for - made his mommy proud!  He counted to three, pointed at every body part (including pee pee - he volunteered that one - she didn't ask!), did every animal sound, answered her when she asked questions, ran around, jumped, stomped, let her listen to him all over and was the best kid ever!  He even did great with both vaccines.  He got the flu shot (H1N1 and regular flu shot are combined into one now - yippee!) - and he got his 2nd Hep A shot.  Both were super teeny needles and he, of course, cried for a few seconds when he was stung, but she immediatley handed him a sticker and he was A-OK... what shots?  And when mommy had to run to the car to find her debit card that got lost underneath her jungle of a driver's seat in the car yesterday, he got to stay behind the desk with the nurses and when I got back he was SURROUNDED by women who just could NOT get over how precious he is.  I am pretty used to this as he gets comments all the time - but I was a little taken aback with HOW many nurses were crammed into this little cubicle to see Parker.  He just sat there on one nurse's lap with his mouth wide open and staring up at them like they were crazy :)  He's clueless as to how handsome he is. 

Anyway!  He got a great bill of health - he's still a shorty at 31.5 inches (25-50%), weights 25 pounds (25-50%) and his head is on the big side at 19 3/8 (50-75%).

Reading the Tiger book and screaming out "ROAR" every few seconds.

Playing a game on mommy's phone - we are all about distractions at the doctor's office.

The stool - his all-time favorite toy!

He wanted to read the book to me.

 After I dressed him he kept saying "HOME - MAMA - HOME!"

PJ Day @ CCA!

Parker has a new little buddy at school!  His name is Davis and they have something VERY special in common!  Parker and Davis are only a  few hours apart!  Davis' mom and I both had emergency C-Sections on April 14, 2009 @ Northside Hospital in Atlanta!  We were in the same hospital for the same amount of time getting to know our first born child - what a small world.  Anyway - Parker and Davis are the two cutest kids I've ever seen and I can already tell they will be T-R-O-U-B-L-E!  :)  And they will probably get away with everything.  Anyway - here are a few pics of the cutie pies!

Here they are on the first day they met!  

 PJ DAY AT SCHOOL :)

 Kim, Davis' mom, was taking pictures same time as we were - and she has a flash as bright as the sun so that is why this picture is so bright :)  Still cute though - it's impossible to  make these kids not cute!

Burt's Pumpkin Patch

Sunday morning we went to Burt's Pumpkin Patch in north Georgia!  We had such a great time!  Parker LOVED the big pumpkins!

 Park and Kayley on the tractor!

 Burt's has an AWESOME hayride!  Parker was in awe the entire time.

 The singing pumpkins!

 Family picture at the patch!

 Park deciding where our pumpkins should go!

 This is the perfect spot mom!

 And the perfect spot for me!

 Baby, Mommy and Daddy pumpkin!

 Park with Nana and Hoppy  Hopkins

Parker now rides his 4-wheeler while standing - I guess we have the next Evil Kanevil (spelling?) on our hands!

KK's 2nd Birthday Party!

Handsome little man playing at the park!

 Cake time!

 Cupcakes + Parker = Shirt must come off!

 Chowing down!

 The Hull Bees :)

Jac in time out.  I thought it was cute. 

Redneck Riviera

While we were in Cape San Blas over Labor Day, we ate at an old gas station turned into a restaurant.  Well - needless to say - the "local folks" were - um - interesting.  People just pulled up there huge 5 feet off the ground pick up trucks and hung out on the front porch of this gas station/restaurant.  Here is just a quick snapshop of what it looked like from 4 shocked city folk from Atlanta.  Our mouths were naturally wide open in absolute "awe" of what we were witnessing.  I love the mullet guy - he's my favorite :)

Wellness, then Sickness, then HALF birthday party!

We had a great weekend with Parker last weekend!  We did the pumpkin patch, had a playdate with KK, we went out to eat to Buchkead pizza with KK and had so much fun!

Parker and KK at Buckhead Pizza - they were mesmerized with the live music!

 See!  A totally happy normal kid over the weekend!

Sunday, we went to church, played outside all day Sunday - then Monday morning he woke up a different kid.  He was breathing much harder than normal, was SUPER fussy (not normal) and just acted miserable.  I dropped him off at Whit's house hoping he would clear up as the day went on and he seemed to be a little better by 8 am, but I got a call around lunchtime from the nanny who said he wasn't eating, wasn't happy and something just wasn't right.  By the time I picked him up to go to the doctor's office, his breathing was MUCH worse and he had lost a lot of color in his face.  Turns out, he had bronchialitis and wasn't getting enough oxygen so all this past week he has been on breathing treatments 4 times a day and steroids 2 times a day.  Really - the breathing treatments aren't too bad - he had them once before when he had RSV as an infant - but he's much better now.  He even holds his mask up by himself!

Kayley was a big help to Nanny Julie during Parker's breathing treatments!

By the third day, he was falling asleep during treatments.

 If a doctor ever gives you steroids to give you child - RUN!  These things make your kid CRAZY.  On Wednesday, he bit our nanny twice - on either side of her shoulder - and drew blood once!  Needless to say - I have not been following strict dosage orders on the steroids - but no worries - he's doing great!  Even though the week started out terribly (6 hours in the doctor's office in 2 days is always fun!) we ended the week RIGHT by throwing Parker a party!  Thursday was his 1 and a half years birthday so we celebrated with our Life_Group and Parker loved it! 

He went straight for the candles and licked all the frosting off!

 Dipping his candle in and back out to lick it :)

 Precious 18 month old!  (He's in his PJs!)

HAPPY HALF BIRTHDAY PARKER!!!!!!!!!!

Melvin House of Fun

A few weeks ago, we took the long trek over to Woodstock to visit our awesome friends, The Melvins.  They are in the process of adopting a baby from Africa and they had this money-raising garage sale a few weeks ago that we couldn't go in person - but don't you worry - I shopped my heart out.  Coty sent me pictures of different areas of the sale and I picked out what I wanted!  That is my kind of garage sale shopping!  Needless to say, I am dunzo with Christmas shopping for Parker - nothing like USED toys that cost pennies :)  AND I got to help the awesome Melvins raise money to help them through their adoption process!  I also got one thing for ME! 

 I luh-HUV this lamp!

Anyway - we actually had a great time visiting with our awesome friends thanks to their JUMPY HOUSE!  Yes - they have a jumpy house IN their house!  It folds up into this little tiny cube but when you unfold and plug in - voila! - you have a jumpy house!  They got it as a gift but it cost like $150 and I'm thinking one may be in need in the future.  NOTHING has EVER kept our child occupied and HAPPY for so long - and also tired him out completely for an enjoyable ride home :)

Parker, Riley and Rowen in the best invention ever :)

Ro and Park

How he got out of the jump house! 

CCA Spirit Week! and School Picture Day!

KK and Park had Spirit Week at school a few weeks ago!  Green is their school color (I think) so they both wore green on Tuesday!  We went to Cici's Pizza for "School Night" and enjoyed cheap pizza with 200 other pre-schoolers and their parents!  Yippee!  Here they are posing in the back of our Edge after dinner.

Something seemed interesting...

Whitney said "Show me you hands!" and this is what we got! 

Precious boy...

Last week, P and KK had school pictures!  Parker's actually turned out horrible - he wasn't even smiling!  I mean - they obviously didn't even really try.  It's hard to get a picture without Parker smiling!  HE'S ALWAYS SMILING!    Here are Park and Kayley before picture day at school! 

Always smiling?  Yes.  Always paying attention?  Not so much...

"Oooooo,,,,, kittyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy" 

Basket Head

Again - this is for my nephew Jac who called me personally and asked for "Moe-ah T.V. of Pah-kuh on thuh com-poo-tuh".

Parker has a new found love for putting things on his head... well... the waste paper basket in our little office nook is his new head cover-er of choice!  Too cute not to video. 

Listen to what he's saying in the beginning of the video as he's walking up!  He sees the camera and automatically says, "CHEEEEEEEEEZE"!  I have trained him well! 

Oh - and please excuse Jack's butt hold he so proudly displays about 1/2 way through the video.  Lovely.

BALL!!!!!

This past weekend we went to a Pumpkin Patch in Birmingham, Georgia (about halfway between our house and my office) and had such a great time!  KK also came to our house this weekend and had a play date with Parker (as if they don't see each other enough) so that her mommy and daddy could go to the Georgia Tech Homecoming game! 

Here is a sweet shot I caught of Kayley at our house.

 As soon as we got to the patch, Parker was in "ball" heaven!  This child is absolutely obsessed with balls - whenever he sees any round shaped anything, he yells "BALL!" and runs straight to it.  So - naturally - when we pull up to the pumpkin patch, he starts screaming "Balls!" and pretty much did it the entire time.

 Parker went for the very ugliest pumpkins!  Those were his favorite!  I actually like them too!  He also tried to pick up every pumpkin!

Precious boy.

 He loved to sit on top of them, too!

 Checking out the hottie with the green sippy cup behind him :)

Mommy and Son.  I think he actually kind of looks like me here.... doesn't happen too often.

Our pumpkin we came home with!  We got totally ripped off by going to a "smaller" pumpkin patch in a pretty nice area of town... $15 bucks for this ugly thing... but Parker loved it :) 

Next weekend, we are hauling up to north Georgia to go to Burt's pumpkin patch!