Donuts...and happy birthday daddy.

Why is daddy laughing? Well, the birthday donut tradition is a big hit in our house. Parker loves the birthday donut cake and had to take a bite of each and every donut. He would then offer daddy a bite, but when he was close to taking his bite Parker would shake his head no and pull the donut away. He was so torn. He wanted to share his donut, but just couldn't bring himself to share. Frankly, I don't blame him. (And yes, he has total bed head!)

Happy birthday daddy. We love you. You are the best!

I help...

Everything I read about 15 month olds is that they like to do what you are doing. Well, Parker likes to fold clothes, help me vaccum and swiffer. This morning, he walked all over the house with the swiffer chasing Pismo, running into walls, and screeching in pure joy. It was fun to watch him figure out how to keep the swiffer on the floor while pushing forward (walking backward was much easer).

Keep this up kid and you can clean the house for mommy and daddy!

Christmas Day

Christmas morning we spend with my parents and Aunt Ally. Chris had to work, but came home for an hour to watch Parker open gifts. He is so much fun and everyone showered him with trucks, trains, Elmo dolls, books, and other fun treasures. Christmas IS so magical with a little one!

Christmas Eve

We spent Christmas Eve with the Cavners' with a pan of lasagna and lots of gifts for Parker. Parker did take a moment from opening gifts to give his GranDiva two charms for her bracelet. And the boxes the charms came in were two of his favorite toys.

Whip it

We like a little sugar in our house and it was only a matter of time before Parker caught on to the yummy goodness of cookies, ice cream, cake, and whip cream (not one of my favorites unless on pumpkin pie).

This morning, Chris introduced Parker to whip cream from the can. This is just one of the million differences between mommy and daddy. I would have never sprayed whip cream directly in P's mouth. Daddy thought it would be fun and it was. Parker loved it!

All Aboard!

Thanks to Papa Bob, we boarded the Polar Express on December 8th. Parker wore his jams just like the movie and we embarked on a cookie eating, hot chocolate drinking trip to the North Pole. Santa greeted all of the children by giving them the first Christmas bell. Parker had so much fun on the adventure...enjoying the unlimited number of oatmeal raisin cookies was by far his favorite part.

Ready for bed.

Sound asleep

So I ran home between meetings on Thursday and found Chris and Parker fast asleep in bed. He was having a bit of a rough day. Loves from his daddy made it all better.

Cookie Jar

Parker loves the Mother's frosted animal cookies. They are his absolute favorite. After dinner a few nights a week we will give him two cookies. We give him two because he has two hands and likes a cookie in each hand.

Well, tonight I gave him two cookies. He ate them quickly, I cleaned him up and let him go to play. I walked out of the room to put laundry away and realized that it was unusually quite, which typically means Parker is up to no good. I came back in the kitchen to find Parker on the floor with his face stuffed with cookies. Yup, I forgot to put the cookie tub back in the cupboard and Parke is tall enough to pull things off of the counter.

His facial expressions were priceless. They ranged from big "I'm so happy and proud of myself" smiles to "You better not take this away from me, I found it fair and square" scowls. It was such a fun mommy moment.

I let him eat a few (he did outsmart me) before putting them away.