New Hideout

Last week after church Parker found a new place to play. There were a couple toys in the bottom shelf of our entertainment center and he followed them inside. It was so funny, and he didn't seem to mind that he couldn't sit all the way up.

Hey Mom, look where I am! Not quite sure what he is doing here... All done, time to go find something else to do!

Look what I'm doing!!!

So the other day I was doing the dishes or something and Parker was being really quiet, so I went to find him. His door was pretty much shut and when I looked in, I saw...Luckily I found him before he decided to pull all his clothes out of the drawer!

Island Park

Chris has been working in Island Park this past week and has been staying in a cabin, that his co-worker's grandparents own, with a few other people. On Friday Parker and I drove up and was able to stay the night with them and hangout while Chris worked. He had to work Saturday morning too, which is why I went up on Friday. When they got off work we drove up to Big Springs before going home. It's the beginning of the Snake River and is the clearest river I have EVER seen! We fed the fish and birds and walked over to see the spring where the water actually enters the river. It was pretty cool because you could see all these bubbles where the water was coming up from the ground.

Parker did pretty well, but didn't sleep all that well. I guess he just thought there was too much fun happening that he didn't want to miss it! He was the only one to escape the mosquitos. I was only there for 24 hours and managed to get like 15 mosquito bites!!! Oh well, it was a fun little getaway and a nice change from being home all day, everyday while Chris was gone. The pictures below are from Big Springs.

There was a muskrat that was trying to eat all the bread too. If you look close enough, you can see a couple of the fish...there were some huge fish too! The water is sooo clear... Parker and Daddy Parker was more interested in the birds than looking at the camera! Watching the birds trying to eat the bread... Chris and Parker standing in front of the spring...the ACTUAL beginning of the river... Parker and Mommy

Like Father, Like Son

This morning I walked into the bathroom to start getting ready for church and Chris was shaving....Parker wanted to be like daddy and had shaving cream on his face also! I was also able to get a picture of his newest/latest smile...showing ALL his teeth! The picture doesn't portray the actual smile, but it's pretty close, he usually crinkles up his nose. But he doesn't really do it when whe try to get him to smile, it's always random so this picture was as close as I could get!

The BEST TOY EvER!!!!

This past week Chris and I went to roundtable for scouts and I won a door prize...plastic balls that have holes. There were five of them all in different colors and they quickly became Parker's favorite toys! He loves to chase them all around the apartment. I was finally able to get a video of him doing it...he would always stop by the time I got the camera out.

And the Climbing Begins...

Yesterday afternoon I was reading on the couch and I looked over and saw Parker standing on the bar of the chair!! By the time I got the camera he had gotten down and didn't do it again until last night. He now does it all the time, and it won't be long before he is climbing on all the furniture!! I'm not really sure how I feel about that.

"I'm not doing anything Mom, you can look away now!" "Maybe I can make it into the chair..." "Oops, I have been caught!"

Morning TV

Yesterday morning Chris took Parker out to the living room to play with his toys after he had his bottle and then he went to get ready for work. I came out a few minutes later to watch him and this is what he was doing...
He had turned the TV on by himself and was watching it! And then while I was working out a little later that morning he decided he wanted to change the channel a few times...I guess now is the time to look for something to cover the buttons!!

Daddy's Little Helper

This morning Chris was doing the dishes and he went in the other room for a second and came back out to Parker standing at the dishwasher trying to take things out! I guess he just wanted to help out...it's never to early to start helping with the dishes!!

9 Months

On Monday Parker turned 9 months old. I can't believe how fast he is growing and changing and that in just 3 short months he will be 1 years old!!! Crazy! Today he went to the doctor for his 9-month check up. No shots this time, thankfully. Here are his stats:

- Weight: 16 lbs 11 oz, 3rd percentile (at 6 months: 14 lbs 10 oz, 7th percentile)
- Height: 27 1/2 inches, 25th percentile (at 6 months: 25 1/2 inches, 18th percentile)
- Head Circum.: 18 inches, 63rd percentile (at 6 months: 17 1/2 inches, 70th percentile!)

He is starting to even out, meaning that the rest of his body is starting to fit in with his head!! Some of the things Parker has been doing the last couple weeks: army crawling (has started to actually crawl in the last day or two), pulling himself up in the crib mainly but starting to pull himself up on other things, says "baba", "Mama", and "Dada", loves opening the doors on the entertainment center and drawers in the kitchen, and he now has 8 teeth (4 on top and 4 on bottom, looks like the molars are about to come in soon). Everyday it seems he is doing something new and entertaining and we just love watching him grow!

BBQing

A couple weeks ago we bought a small grill so we could BBQ steaks, hamburgers, etc. Well we finally put it togethr last week and had London Broil. It turned out really really good. Parker really wanted to help Chris put it together, but since there were a ton of little screws and washers and stuff we thought it probably wouldn't be the best thing. So we put him inside the bottom of the BBQ instead. He seemed to like it, that is until he fell backwards and hit his head on the chair!