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

Bath pic-edited

I like this crop better

Baby doll sleep over

Parker has been spending all day every day messing with her dolls. Feeding them, arranging them, walking them, moving them from one location to another. Here she has them all having a sleepover, which is sort of odd, because usually this is where the 'pool' is too. Until today, we have been struggling for covers, but her Grandma made her some doll blankets, so that problem is solved. Pictures of that later.

Fun with video

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Bob got me a new camera for mother's day, and it's super easy to take little video clips with it. Here's another quick one of Parker sitting under the dog-drying towel.

Dinner with friends

(This picture was taken a few weeks ago, before the non-stop rain began. )
Here's Parker and one of her friends. The shocking part of this photo is that Parker has finished her fish sticks and he has not. We've been having a nice time lately spending evenings with friends that have kids Parker's age. She's finally at the age where she will run and play all evening, and the grown-ups get to sit and chat. Win-win.
If you click on the picture to see it larger, you can see in the background on the left where the tree that split in The Storm used to be. A couple weeks ago they came and cut the rest of it down. Turns out it was in the utility easement (so are our new privit bushes, whoops) so the neighborhood paid to remove it. Bob is scrambling to come up with a new screening option/tree solution to put back there.

Life with Bob

2 hours before company was about to arrive, I can't find Bob. I look around and find that he's decided to do some tree trimming real quick. Most of my friends complain that they can't get their husbands to do stuff around the house.....I can't get mine to stop!

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I'm working on changing the look of the header.

Circus act

Let know if you don't see a video clip....I'm having trouble uploading it.
Edit: Ok, Emily reported that she was able to see it. You just never know what you'll see when you hear Bob and Parker tell you "Watch this, mom!". This is the kind of thing that goes on when we are bored and stuck inside because it won't. stop. raining. She has really good balance, doesn't she?

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If you're spoiled and you know it.....

This is after playing in the sprinkers and helping Bob bathe the dog. The towel was used to dry off the dog and at some point, Bob made a tent out of it for Parker. She loooooooves a tent.

Sign language - Flashback

Last week Parker and I were trying to fill our day and were looking back through old pictures. I found these that show her doing her baby signs.

"Butterfly"

" Bear " (she thinks the silhouette of the soldier in the magazine is a bear)

"Duck "

More fair pictures

This is Parker and her little friend walking around after a brief shower. Her friend is exactly a year older than her, if you are comparing sizes.