Artwork from School

Second attemp to post this.

It looks like this one is going to stick, so here's my commentary:

This is some artwork Parker made a school Tuesday. Ok, now I'm pretty biased, but isn't this GREAT? When I picked her up from school, they had everyone's out in the hallway to dry, and hers was by far the best. Look how nicely she lined up the triangles along the back. I asked the teacher if she had help, and she said no. And later I quizzed Parker on making it and she said the teacher put the glue on the pieces and handed it to her and she put it on the paper.I don't know why she's making a weird face in this picture.She seemed to be in a MUCH better mood today (Thursday), so hopefully she's feeling a lot better. We have a pretty easy day at home tomorrow, so I bet by the weekend she'll be back to her normal busy rascally self.

Shopping at Lowes

Parker requested that Bob take her picture with his phone today at Lowes. This is how she rides in the cart now, in the basket part, and I have to pile groceries in the front part. She's quite a goose today, and has taken to calling us 'mom' and 'dad' today instead of mama and dada....although at the store, she was yelling "Carla!!" to get my attention.

Answers to comments

Emily - no the teddy bear pictures weren't professionally done, I just took a few snaps yesterday morning and did some editing on them. I have a friend that's a graphic designer that gave me a little help though.

Mom - For some reason I've had a hard time getting the artwork picture to post. It seems to work better this morning. If you still can't see it, I'll try again.

I'm just loving these pictures!

Snuggling with teddybear

Ear update

Looks like Parker still has an ear infection. She'd make things much easier if she would just tell me her ear hurts instead of making us guess. We get another 10 days of antibiotics, and these might cause 'tummy trouble' to put it delicately, so that should be fun. Parker, aside from acting a little puny, is no worse for wear. She loves going to the doctor, especially these visits when she doesn't get shots because she gets a sucker at the end.

"I'm a beautiful princess"

Following up from yesterday's post about Parker's new room.....
She spent her second night upstairs in her new room and it went well. So far, she has only slept in her bed for one nap, but she really really likes it, so I'm sure she will soon. I guess she feels more secure in her crib (crib is upstairs too). She's a little iffy about being up there by herself, but she's getting used to it. Night before last was not so good, she was up for a couple hours and it was exhausting (for me). I think it was a combination of her ear infection coming back, and being excited about her new room. We're going back to the doctor this afternoon because she's still running a bit of a fever. :-(

In other news, we got some big girl toothpaste, the kind that has floride in it and should not be swallowed, so she is learning to spit. The key to teaching a child to spit is to have them keep their mouth open, by the way.

I can't remember if I mentioned it or not,but she's developed an alter-ego name Elizabeth, and likes to pretend to be Elizabeth all the time. "I'm not Parker, I'm Elizabeth...say Hi Elizabeth." Hopefully this is normal, I'm afraid to look it up. Or she likes to switch roles: "you be dada, and I'll be you", and 1 million combinations of her being someone else and us being someone else, and then having a conversation.

I'll try and get some pictures taken of her room after we get back from the doctor.

Life with Racoon

Busy busy busy.
We've moved Parker up to her big girl room upstairs so I've been super busy and are behind on pictures. She finally started feeling better last week and made up for lost time by digging through all the drawers.