Sledding!!!

It was 38 degrees out today!!! Yahoo!! We headed off to a big hill that daddy used to go sledding on as a kid and Parker had a blast!! Every time they came up the hill he would say "just 1 more time" they probably went about 20 times, and even got mommy to go once!! All day the boy kept saying "I really like sledding!"
I wish every Minnesota day could be this warm!

Merry Christmas!!

Santa came to our house!! Santa brought Parker the big Mega Rig Mars Mission that he wanted, a Star Wars coloring book, The Star Wars Trilogy (Episode's 1-3) on DVD, some toothbrushes, a spiderman cup, and some candy and cool underwear!

*Check out the video at the bottom

We headed to Grandma & Grandpa O's house for presents and lunch today!
Parker got some awesome pajamas, a Star Wars t-shirt, sweat pants, cars toothbrushes....

A bunch of Matchbox cars, real binoculars....

A Tow Truck that he loves, and some Lego's!

We also as a family got season passes to the Children's Museum!! Can't wait to go!!

*Santa video

Merry Christmas Eve!!

We decided to let Parker open the presents from us throughout the day today. The first one he opened was Zurg from Toy Story and as you can see, he is wearing his Park Ranger Uniform, he asked for it right when he woke up. We also got him some Star Wars pajamas, Spider man pajamas, walkie talkies, digital camera, Star Wars Lego's, Batman & Joker figures, Army helmet, and who knows what else.....can't remember!After nap we went to Grandma & Grandpa C's house for dinner and presents. We had lasagna for dinner and you can see it on Parker's shirt! He got so many toys from the family....
An Army Tank, tools,
Coloring book, Star Wars Action figures, shirts, pajamas, Matchbox Mars Mission, Star Wars Clone Wars DVD, a hat with his initials on it that nana made him, candy...I'm probably forgetting a bunch of stuff.

Even though we got home past bed time we let him stay up and play with a few toys!

Thanks for the presents everyone! Parker loves everything!

Junior Ranger

We were stuck in the house today and decided to play dress up. Parker wore the Junior Ranger outfit that Auntie Cathy sent him a few years ago. Auntie Cathy is a Park Ranger and Parker means "Keeper of the Parks" he loves this outfit, especially the glasses, hat and binoculars!

After 2 loooong hours.......

We finally got to see Santa!!! What a crazy night! We normally go to Brookdale to see Santa, but this year he wasn't coming to Brookdale so we had to head to Northtown. It was insane!! 2 hours of standing in line, for 20 seconds of sitting on Santa's lap. But Parker was very happy and excited.

When we were almost to Santa there was a little area where some of the kids burned off some steam after standing in line for an hour and fifty minutes.....Parker was sweaty and red after this, his hair even looks wet in his Santa picture.

Blizzard!!

Well, maybe not a blizzard, but lots of snow and wind! Daddy and Parker walked up to CVS and then played in the front yard for a while, and in the back for a while. It was very cold so they couldn't play outside for long.
Here's a video of Park's in the snow.....you can hear him say 2 of his most commonly used phrases......"Sorry snow", when he crashes into it (usually says "sorry ______" several times a day) and "never mind!"

Guess Who.....

Guess who came over to play today........Alex!

Winter at the river!!

It was 37 degrees so Daddy took Parker to the river today! They didn't stay long because it was a little windy and their hands got cold from making snowballs.The lower part of the river was blocked off so they couldn't go down (and the worry wart in me was thankful for this). They threw snowballs off the Stone Arch Bridge and watched the 55 ducks that were gathered on the ice. While they were on the bridge a car full of obviously lost people drove over the bridge (it is only a pedestrian bridge). So, they had quite an exciting day.
Then Parker made snow angels and they decided it was time to come home.

Uncle Brian and baby Paige came over today. Parker was very excited to take out the baby Lego's and play them with Paige. He was a little distracted by the big bucket of Toy Story toys uncle Brian brought over though!!

Parker passed his swimming class and will be starting "Little 2's" in January!!

Brookdale & Burger King!

We met Dawn & Alex at Brookdale and the kids played with the trains at Barne's & noble for a bit.....then we walked around the mall and went to the play area....I tried to get Parker to pose for a nice picture that I could use for Christmas cards.......You'll have to wait and see what we came up with!The boys met a little girl in the play area who was there with her grandpa, he wouldn't let her take her socks off so she couldn't get up the slide (for sanitary reasons you aren't supposed to take your socks off, but then you can't do anything fun!!) The boys found a way to get her up there!
Then we went to Burger King for lunch and it is the first time ever that Parker ate all of his chicken nuggets.....he climbed up to the top and was scared to come down....after we coaxed him down he kept going up and had a blast!

Cookies!!

We made cookies after dinner and Parker put the sprinkles on....he kept saying "I really like helping you with cookies!"He really liked eating them too, but he only liked the ones without frosting.

Uncle Larry

We went to Grandma & Grandpa O's house tonight to meet Uncle Larry, mor mor's brother. Parker played with his trucks and cars and the dogs and ran around like crazy.... His first milk mustache! Hard to see, I know....

Parker, daddy and Uncle Larry. Parker seemed really comfortable with Uncle Larry and really seemed to like him.

Happy Thanksgiving!

We went to Grandma & Grandpa C's house for Thanksgiving today. After lunch the boys played outside for quite a while...here's Lee, Parker and Daddy. They do all sorts of fun stuff out there and explore the 2.5 acres, Parker loves it!We were to full to eat our desert until later and Parker had a cupcake that Auntie Maureen brought over.

He pretty much ate the frosting and left the cake......silly boy.
It was a really nice day filled with yummy food and lots of fun!

Morning with the Knight's

I had to work early at the college today doing guest speaking so Dawn was brave enough to take Parker for a few hours, and even bring him to Alex's swimming class!Sidewalk chalk all bundled up and even with gloves! Gotta love Minnesota!
Parker told me he had a really, really, really, really, really good time!

Thanks a bunch guys, you are life savers!

Cute, funny & a little sad......

Me: "What are you doin' Parks?"

The Boy: "Warmin' me up. Feels so , so good."

He does have clothes, he just prefers to be naked. We have to force him to wear underwear. The heat does feel good coming out of the register.....Guess we need to turn it up more!

Choo Choo Bob's

We went to Choo Choo Bob's with our bestest friends Dawn & Alex today....There were lots of little boys playing with trains and fighting over trains. There were 6 tables and 5 boys...they could have each had their own!
We also watched the trains at the front of the store that we aren't allowed to touch....that's asking for a lot!!

After playing we got to do the coolest thing ever (according to Parker)!! We got to eat lunch in Dawn's van!! Woo Hoo!!

Last day at the river??

70 degree's again today!! Headed to the river with Lee, Dawn, Alex, daddy, mommy & Parker....We went to a different area today that Parker calls "Spooky Tunnel". We had never brought Dawn & Alex here. There are bridges to cross, rocks to throw, hills to climb, tunnels to see, and tables to jump off! Alex found something that we thought was limestone so we left our mark.....Dawn said after that we should have reversed the names and it would stand for PAL instead of LAP!
All the boys were having fun jumping off the picnic tables. The mom's laid in the grass and took action shots!

Can you tell they were having fun??

Here's a video of the jumping.......

Fall

It was a gorgeous fall day and Parker wanted to help daddy with the leaves. Look at the huge yellow one he found!! He brought it to the house to show mommy......I then saw him carry it around with him for 20 minutes! Almost 70 degrees today!!

Happy Halloween!!

We started off the day doing some "Halloween practice"......Parker dressed up and we headed to my work to see everyone and raid the candy jars. Then we went to Great Grandma Marie's and wandered the halls and got more candy. Then we came home and took a long nap in preparation for the long night. After nap we picked up Lee, ate dinner and headed to Grandma & Grandpa C's house. We did some trick-or-treating in their neighborhood and Grandma gave both the boys huge bags full of all kinds of stuff!!Waiting patiently.....
Then we headed to our own neck of the woods and went to a few houses around here, Parker got a juice box and that seemed to be the big winner of the night for him!!

Look at the awesome cupcakes that Mor Mor gave Parker, she also gave him a big Halloween tin with popcorn in it and a bunch of other candy!!

Seriously, he is 3!! What are we ever going to do with all this candy???

After all that we took cousin Lee home and came home to get Parker into bed.....at 10:00!! I think this is officially the latest he has ever stayed up!

Halloween at Byerly's

Potty training is going really well. Today Park's went into the bathroom several times to go potty without us having to ask him. When he is going #2 he likes to read or be read to. No accidents in over 3 days, and only 1 accident in 6 days. No #2 accidents in 9 days!!!Today we got to have an early Halloween and this kid was SO excited!!

We met baby Paige and a friend of hers at Byerly's to go Trick-or-Treating.....

Ivy and Alex were also there!!!

We even got a button of the following pose!

It was good practice for the real thing on Friday, we made him say trick-or-treat and of course thank you! He got so much stuff.......cookies, candy bars, chocolate milk, a matchbox car, carrot sticks, apples, popcorn. He had lots of fun!!