Fun with Parker

A fun Parker trick is to tell her something at bedtime, and she will remember it in the morning....she takes up right where she left off. The night before my birthday, Bob instructed her to tell me "Happy Birthday" in the morning. About 5am on my birthday, Parker woke up and called me up there, as is her normal routine (then we sleep until 7), and the first thing she said was "Happy Birthday Mommy" and went back to sleep. (!)

Another day, she was having trouble sleeping and kept calling us upstairs. Bob told her "if you us up here again, Daddy is going to be very upset." Luckily for both of them, after that she went to sleep. The next morning, she called me up there when she woke up. I crawled in her bed and she looked up and said "Good thing you're not daddy!".

PS, for my birthday, Bob surprised me with a nice fancy shiny laptop computer! I've been trying to get the hang of what I do on which computer, but I'm loving it so far!

Bathroom remodel progress

Last weekend was tile install weekend. Bob's brother Jeremy (and family) came over to assist and loan us tools. Jeremy was a great teacher, and laid part of the tile while Bob watch the Horns. Bob finished up on sunday evening after a LOOOOOONG day. It turned out very nicely although we still have to do the grout. Bob's taking a break this weekend from backbreaking labor to watch the TX/OU game.

So independent

Nearly any time I start to prepare anything in the kitchen, Parker yells "I wanna help!" . Here she is making her own peanut butter sandwich. She's not doing a bad job either. It's hard to tell, but underneath the apron, she's wearing last year's Halloween costume. We also did little quiches this week to, with Parker assisting in the dough cutting. She's really good with dough.

I think I've mentioned it before, but EVERY NIGHT before bed, she asks what we have planned for the next day, and then picks out an outfit and undies (looped on the hanger), socks, shoes and accesories, and then hangs it on her dresser. And then every morning, she has me bring it downstairs when we go down for breakfast. It really does make the morning go smoother. Maybe I can train her to do the same for Bob.
She also dressed herself completely yesterday. Top, skirt and undies. The top she picked out of the diaper bag and wanted to wear, she went upstairs by herself (that's a BIG DEAL, she never goes upstairs alone) and selected a coordinating skirt, unclipped it from the hanger and put it on. She's been capable of all that, but has never taken the initiative before. That picture is still in the camera. I'll post it next round.

Visit from Gigi and Papa

I'm catching up on posting pictures. Last weekend we had a visit from Bob's parents, Parker's Gigi and Papa. They stopped in and spent the afternoon on their way back from a trip.
Parker was thrilled to have an audience and captive participants in playing baby dolls.