Sea World

I'm going to try to post some chronological pictures of the stuff we did on vacation. Here are some from Sea World:


At a 3d movie w/ cousin

Looking at the Clidesdales w/ another cousin

Walking around. She spent as much time as possible holding hands with someone.

Jumpin' Cousins - Foot update

This was a fun game Parker played until all the big kids got tired of it. This is one of her cousins...Bob's sister's daughter.

I was just reminded that i never gave an update on Bob's foot. He went and got Xrays and nothing is broken. He got good marks for keeping his cuts clean, they were very impressed considering he'd been at the beach for a week.
He received a velcro shoe to limp around in and promptly mowed the yard when he got home!
If you aren't easily grossed out, here's a link to the pictures.
http://www.flickr.com/gp/41254716@N00/MQ6J28
It continued to swell through the week, to the point that his toes didn't touch the ground at times!
You'll notice that he's wearing a dishwashing glove to keep his foot clean from sand and showing off his sunburn from Sea World.

Parker's first sand dollar

She wasn't terribly impressed, but it's a cute picture.

Beach Pic-1

Here is the first of many. I'll try to get them up sporadically during the week. As you can expect, we have a lot to do. We (hoped)expected Parker to have a droopy sleepy lazy day today, but to our (horror) surprise, she's the opposite, running everywhere, thrilled to be home and playing with all of her toys. So today should be a busy day. Bob's going for foot xrays in a while, I'll report the findings when we get them.

We're home

We're home safe and sound! Stand by for photos and vacation recap in the next few days.

Vacation report

It's Thursday here ;-) we are still having lots of fun. The weather has been amazing. Sunny but cool. Bob's foot cuts are healing nicely, but we're wondering if his foot might be broken. Adding insult to injury, he got a really bad sunburn through his shirt at Sea World.

Parker is having such a wonderful time with her cousins. Today we went to a little carnival and she rode a lot of little rides, including the Tilt O'World, which slings you around in circles. She loved it, to my suprise, and rode it twice!

Milestone alert:
Parker can skip now. She says "watch my new dance".
I'll try to get video of it.

3 year checkup

I just noticed that I never posted this:

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Parker had her 3 year check up yesterday. She's doing great...weighs 27 lbs and is 36 inches tall, which puts her in the 25%tile in both. That's pretty much on the same growth curve as before, so we are pleased.

Hi from San Diego

No pictures yet, sorry. I'm borrowing a laptop to post this. We having a great time! The flight was fairly easy....Parker slept most of the way. Before getting on the plane, when we drove up at Park and Fly, Parker said:

"Where's the California?"

Today we are going to Sea World, which should be interesting...Bob injured his toes last night falling off a skateboard. We are probably going to have to push him around in a wheelchair. Seriously.
Parker is having a wonderful time playing with her cousins. It's like having free child care because she's constantly entertained and the center of someone's attention.

Dress up

Lately, the first thing Parker does in the morning is to put on her fairy wings and high heels. It's a nice way to start the day.
This picture will have to hold you for a while, because we'll be in San Diego for a week. I should have lots of good pictures and stories when we get back though.
Here's where we'll be :
http://www.missionbeachweather.com/
Notice there's a webcam too. I doubt we'll be organized enough to get in front of it at a certain time though.
http://www.sundiego.com/surf_cams_mission.php

Ignore the child, look at the plants

The patio plants are really looking nice thanks to all the rain. I've included Parker in the pictures for scale.

a game of jump the hat.....

I can't seem to do a photo that does the daylilies justice. I have some dark dark purple ones and some ruffled ones that are really neat. Those are jack beans growing up the shephard's crook.

Remember you can click on the photo
to see it larger.

She doesn't even like tomatoes, she's just eating one to be a goose for the camera. Remember to check out the plants in the background.

Pony explanation

Parker attended a birthday party for a little boy that was in her class at school. He had it at a petting zoo, and there were also pony rides and putt putt. I CANNOT BELIEVE she got on the pony and rode it up and down the grass. Her friends did it too and I think she was wisked up on the pony and was riding before she knew what happened. She is very brave in front of her peers, and didn't cry or let on that she was not enjoying herself, but she told me later she didn't like it.

Here are some more pictures of the party. How stinkin' cute is the little boy in his boots and hat?

Pony ride

I'll explain tomorrow.

Flashback Friday

Fancy meals

How lucky is Parker to have a mommy that makes her Mickey Mouse shaped hamburgers?! Too bad she wouldn't eat one single bite of it. She ate all of her carrots (dipped in ketchup) but wouldn't touch the hamburger. Too pretty to eat perhaps? 2 days ago, she ate a banana and dipped it in ketchup, how gross is that? The good news is that the burger didn't go to waste. Sierra loved it!

Babywearing

All the cool moms I know wear their babies around in a sling. It solved our stroller overcrowding problems until we got the new baby buggy (pics of that later). Although hers isn't a real baby sling, it's just a towel, but the baby doll doesn't seem to mind. You can't see it, but she's also thoughtfully tucked a small plastic egg inside the sling, "in case the baby gets hungry".

I'm sure we are quite a spectacle walking through the neighbhood pushing a stroller stuffed with dolls, that has a purse hanging from it, also stuffed with dolls, and wearing another baby doll in a towel.
Oh well, if it makes her tired and burns another 30 minutes of summer, I'm all for it.

More party pics

At the party place, they had several different rooms set up so the kids could pretend to do real life stuff. Parker spent a lot of time in the medical area, doctoring the babies. There's a little store there too, where the kids can pretend to buy groceries. While she pretended to be me and grocery shop, I pretended to be her and I threw several fits and complained a lot.

Here's a link to the rest of the party pictures. I hope it works, if not, let me know.

http://www.flickr.com/gp/41254716@N00/9w67zd

More Party pics

Happy Birthday Parker!

Parker is 3 today! We had a little party for her yesterday and she had a wonderful day being the birthday girl. More party pics later.

Extra pickles

Parker loves pickles (sweet pickles). We give them to her as a reward if she cleans her plate. Notice that she put about 5 different laters of pickles on the burger she made.

Far away eyes

I just figured out that if you hold down the cntl button and click multiple pictures, you can upload them all at once! yay!
This is after our long swimming day on saturday. Sleepy sleepy eyes.

quick note from the trenches

Parker is dancing by the tv (it's on a music station, 80's).
She said "I really like this song" and she's arranging her babies by it so they can enjoy it too.

The song is "Patience" by Guns N Roses.


Rock on!

Enough already!!!!

This morning's radar. Every time I hear thunder and look at the radar, this is what I see.....not just normal rain, but crazy lines of storms.
Good thing we got all of our swimming done yesterday!

swimming day and bedtime battles

We had a big day of swimming today. Parker looooooooves the pool! She wears arm floaties, but she can still manuever around very easily and go anywhere she wants, or just float and bob around. In the morning, she went to a birthday party at the pool, and this afternoon, she went with us to a grown up party, where they had a pool, so she swam more. Certainly she'll sleep well tonight.

Since she swam so much, I topped her off with a PBJ sandwich and milk when we got home, and let her watch a show. It was already past her bedtime, and since she got to watch a show, I told her we'd just read 1 story. "3 stories?", she asked. No, nice try, just one story. So when it was time to pick out a book, she chose the 1 inch thick Treasury of Nursery Rhymes, the thickest book she could find. Bob had told me she had pulled that on him too, but I thought maybe it was just a fluke. Guess not.

In the end she settled for just one story, and I compromised on letting her wear her Tinkerbell panties underneath a pullup. She didn't want to take them off, she said "but then Tinkerbell will be worried about me". She's also wearing one of her dresses as a nightgown, "like a princess sleeps in, a gown". There are just so many battles I'm willing to fight at 9:30pm.

Purple Heart

Here's a link to an article about my uncle receiving a Purple Heart recently for injuries in WWII (she said, feeling old).
I'm not totally clear why he's just now getting it, but it's a neat article.

http://www.theeagle.com/stories/060107/local_20070601038.php