Parker's birthday party!

We had a great time at Parker's party this weekend. I always get nervous before parties: what if people don't have a good time? What if people hate the food? What if our house is too small? Afterwards, I'm always glad we did.

We did a robot themed party. I swear, now that the party's over, I will drop the robot thing. I get latched on to things but now I'm ready to let it go. We used some of the decorations from Parker's bedroom, and I made a few more with my cricut. Other than robot decorations and labeling the food "nuts and bolts" (chex mix) and "wires" (twizzlers), etc. there wasn't anything to make it a robot party. Mainly people just hung out and talked. It was a lot of fun. I have some really great friends, and the whole day just made me feel really blessed.

Speaking of being blessed, my visiting teacher is AMAZING. Crazy amazing. We had a rough morning. Parker had a diaper rash and the Dr. said we should let him run around naked. Um, ok... so we were trying to set up while Parker was doing his thing all over the backyard. (Don't worry... we cleaned up after him... eww.). Ashlee was a saint and helped us with all of that chaos when normal people would have run away screaming. Really, I'm so lucky to have her as a friend.

Walking!!

Parkers first steps came at the perfect time. We were in our hotel at the beach, feeling pretty depressed about how the rain ruined a majority of our plans and the fact Parker refused to sleep. Then, a miracle! Parker walked over to Jon! He's been toddeling around since. He still prefers crawling, but he is well on his way. He can take about a dozen consecutive steps.

Pioneer day

Mad props to Jon for taking Parker to pioneer day while I slept in...

Puppy love

They are finally getting along better!!

Begging for scraps

Parker is seriously worse than the dog... any time he sees anyone with food, he crawls over and starts begging. He even does a weird panting noise. Oh brother!

11 months old

I'm freaking out that Parker will be a whole year old in a month.

Here's what he's up to this month:
-2 teeth
-26 lbs
-still squeezing into 12 month clothes, but transitioning to 18 month
-climbing stairs (the baby gate is in the mail!)
-eating lots of adult food
-throwing temper tantrums...all the time. the funniest is when he gets mad when I won't carry him from room to room and he has to crawl... he lays on the floor with his head in his arms and looks so pathetic
-unloading the dishwasher
-dancing to music
-participating more in storytime at the library (ie sitting and listening vs crawling around)
-getting along with the dog better... soft pets and bringing her dog toys
-aprox two naps a day if I'm lucky
-loves being read to, he will bring me a book if he wants me to read
-trying really hard to figure out stacking/nesting cups, and his little shape sorter. He looks so cute when he's concentrating.

Although its been a rough month with the addition of temper tantrums, its been so fun to watch him grow and develop. I'm feeling nostalgic with his birthday coming up. My little baby is going to be a toddler soon!

Parkers first trip to the movies

Regal Cinenmas is running a promotion this summer for $1 kids movies so I took Parker this morning. We saw the first half of Journey 2 Mysterious Island. He got scared during the movie so we had to leave early. Oh well, we were only out $1 (I didn't have to pay for him). It was fun while it lasted- he was so amazed when he first saw the giant movie screen. I tried to take some pictures of him at the theater, but he's either frowning or blurry. Overall it was a fun little outing!