18 Months!

Funny Quirks


- Loves dragging the toilet plunger around the house, disgusting! I even began setting it up on top of the toilet tank and he still crawled on top/around the toilet to get it down.

- Loves the wastepaper basket in the bathroom, empties it out and wears it on his head, fills it up and carries it around

- Kris was working with PK on where his nose, etc was. He asked him where his butt was and he pointed to Kris’s mouth! Bahaha!

- Probably seems random but he has the most fun playing with odd things around the house he digs out that I don’t take away. He takes the mini-crock pot out of the cupboard and plays forever filling it up, carrying it around. Tupperware, empty garlic/cinnamon containers, big plastic spoons, plastic bowls. It’s all scattered around the house mixed in with his toys.

- There is small spot in the corner of the living room where there is just a little space for him where he will take all his favorite toys of the night with his blanket. He will get himself all situated in the corner and just sits and plays.

- Blowing his nose is the cutest thing; and he actually blows hard, it works!

- A habit I need to break… I let him sit on the counter when I cook supper. He loves watching and “helping”. I need one of those stool things he can climb up on that is counter height.

- On our back deck we put out a light up reindeer and snowman that are just for PK. We open the blinds on the door so he can see them. I’m not sure what he’s saying when he points at them, but he thinks they are pretty cool!

- PK got these cars that you pull back and let go for his birthday. Well all week while I’ve been making supper him and daddy have been racing them across the kitchen floor. Kris will let two go and he will run down and bring them back one by one. Kris started letting one go while PK was running to get the other one and he’d turn back while running making sure the car wasn’t going to get him. Or he’d stop and run back to Kris if a car was getting too close. We were having fun with it; he didn’t want to stop for supper.



Favorite Things

- Blankets

- Tractors

- Trucks

- Toilet Plunger

- Bathroom Wastebasket (wears on head)

- Balls

- Books

- Bananas

- Spaghetti

- Being Outside

- Wrestling on the floor

- Having someone chase him

- Emptying the toilet paper roll and wearing it around his neck

- Music/Dancing



Words

- Car

- Ball

- Socks

- “where it go?”

- Shoes

- Da!

- Mamamamama

- Tractor

- Truck

- Here you go

- Please



Everything Else

- I’m cutting his hair every two weeks it seems like now. It just grows so fast!

- Goes to bed around 8 and sleeps until after 7

- We are working on not throwing food on the floor if you don’t like it… work in progress.

- He’s getting pretty good at drinking out of a glass. Taught himself to blow bubbles in it tho. So once he is full he just sits there and plays. Ends up with a ring across his forehead from the glass.

- Having him walk over and give you a kiss without asking has to be the sweetest thing ever.

- At daycare he only has his blanket during naptime. When we get there and when we pick him up; he knows the drill and where it goes. And doesn’t let you forget to take it home!

Half Birthday!

Happy half birthday to my little man!

We went to Bass Pro tonight to "celebrate". We hadn't taken him out there yet to check out the animals. Was fun to see, will probably make more trips this winter to get out of the house.

First Snowfall

First Snowman!

Debating how to get to those "balls" when all bundled up...

Dad moved me closer, almost there!

No more snowman head!

Loading up snowballs in the dump truck

Watching dad throw snowballs out on the street

We were outside this morning around eight to play in our first snowfall.  PK was pretty excited when we got up and was pointing out the window during breakfast wondering what was going on out there.  Took him awhile to get used to the snow but I think he was just happy to be outside!

He learned to blow his nose this weekend.  I'm not sure how.  I've fought him all week with my ninja moves to wipe his nose.  So today I just handed him a kleenex and he held it up to his nose and blew!  Pretty cute stuff.  Then he'd run as fast as he could across the kitchen to throw it away.  We might have overdone the positive reinforecment because now he stands at the closet wanting more kleenex! ha!

Yum, Yogurt!

Quite interesting letting him feed himself... so much fun tho!

Nov. 30th

I know I missed a few days but I have to go back for the last day I had planned...

Today I'm thankful for my husband. He is an amazing husband and dad. He holds us together when we need it. He absolutely adores Parker and he is so loved by the both of us.

Kris works hard for our family and wants Parker to have everything he could ever want or need. When he was working out of town for nine months everyone was worried how I held it together but honestly it took more of a beating on him to be away and worrying about us. Most nights I can count on him to either have supper started or made when I get home, makes our nights go that much smoother and I'm grateful for him.

Thanks babe for all you do for Parker and I, we love you!

Sick Day

Lots of cuddle time with my little man today, he even fell asleep in my arms. Been a long time since that's happened... Wish I could spend all my days with him, it's going way to fast.

Harley Shop

Parker loved checking out the motorcycles with Grandpa this weekend. He was making vroom sounds the whole time.
He got pretty attached this weekend and when we met for lunch my dad went to the bathroom and was coming back and Parker was yelling "Pa, Pa"! Pretty cute.