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10
Mar

Dear Parker-

Posted by Sandi in Parker

YOU may be the death of me.

Love, Mommy

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Dear Parker-

Why won't you wear clothes anymore? I love to buy you clothes. You now refuse to wear them. EVERY SINGLE DAY you wear your ugly shoes from Old Navy and a size four huggies diaper.   PERIOD.  I have given up the fight.  When you look back at the family pictures and wonder why you never had clothes on, I will happily share what a freakin' nightmare it was to dress you.  

Today we had some errands to run and it required you to get out of the car and go into public places.  This required you to be dressed.  It took both dad and I fifteen minutes of coaxing to get your clothes on.  If I didn't know you, I would read this and say, "Beat his ass and put his clothes on.  He is two, you are thirty eight.  Come on!!"  But no, not you.  YOU FREAK THE F OUT!!  You were inconsolable.  You acted like we were cutting off your extremities one by one.  Can you say HYSTERICAL?  Honestly, you are testing the limits of my sworn sobriety.  

Love, your extremely frustrated mommy 

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Dear Parker-

You are OCD.  If things are not perfect in your little world, you turn completely upside down and ruin the lives of those around you.  If your velcro straps are not straight on your shoes, you bawl like teenage girl.  

If there is a crumb, or a hair, or a spec of anything floating in your tub, you scream like an old lady and shout, "POOP POOP POOP" until we locate said foreign object and remove it from the water.  

If the faucet isn't straight, if the volume isn't perfect, if the lights are too low or too bright, or if somebody other than the person you had in mind attempts to talk to you, pick you up, or help you in way shape or form, you flip your ever livin' lid.  

Parker, you are hard as hell.  It's a good thing you are cute. 

Love, your very exhausted mother

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Dear Parker-

A little conversation for you to enjoy.  This took place today between you and dad.

Dad- Do you want to read this book?

Parker- "no no no book."

Dad-  "This one?"

Parker- "no no no one"

Dad- "Show me which book you want."

…and you show him, and you're happy, and as dad is carrying you back to the chair to read he says, "Parker you are so opinionated."

and you said, "no no no pin-ay-ted!"

Yeah right!!

You are obsessed with books, trash trucks, fire trucks, busses, and the moon.  You love taking pictures and making cookie dough with dad. You love your little sisters… sometimes too much and too aggressively.  You love the car and coming with me everywhere.  but I think it's only because you get to see trash trucks.  You love diet coke and sunchips.  You love to cook.  You love to CLEAN!  Your love affair with the vacuum is disturbing.  If there is a crumb on the floor, you have a wipe, the broom, or the vacuum, ready to go in an instant.  You are a neat freak.  I think it may be OCD.  Time will tell.  

You love music.  Classical/Jazz is your favorite.  You love to dance and have amazing rhythm.  The music at the beginning of Monsters inc. is your favorite.  We play it over and over.  You are talking more everyday.  You can name all the members of your family and the housekeepers.  Speaking of the housekeepers, you LOVE them.  You help them clean throughout the day.  I think you may drive a trash truck or work as a janitor.  At age two, those would be your dream jobs!

I love you Parker man.  You are the hardest two year old I have ever had, but I think you may be the most charming two year old on the face of the earth.  That charm… it allows you to live one more day… everyday.  

Love, mommy 

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08
Mar

place holder

Posted by Sandi in Ellie, My kids, Parker

Since I think that very little is cuter than babies in a sink.  I am going to let you all enjoy these two while I work on my next post.  

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07
Mar

guess who stole my camera again?

Posted by Sandi in Parker

  

  

  

  

Is this the cutest thing you have ever seen?  He walked around taking pictures of everything…. with the camera facing the WRONG WAY!  

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27
Feb

week in pictures (Part one)

Posted by Sandi in Parker, week in Pictures

This week in pictures is brought to you by Parker.  

Mr. Smartypants, in true two-year-old fashion, thinks he can do anything I can do and wanted to prove it.  He grabbed my camera from me the other day and took a dozen pictures.  

I think I may have a budding photographer on my hands.

We may be on to something here….  maybe Parker can have his own cooking and photography section on this blog. 

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28
Jan

Musical rooms

Posted by Sandi in New house, Parker, large families

We have lived in this house for exactly five weeks and we are already moving kids around.  This is a regular occurrence for this household, since the family dynamics are always shifting.  Family members come and go,  new babies arrive, sibling relationships change, and so do roommates.  

Today's musical room game was not brought on by any of the above mentioned reasons.  Today's juggle is courtesy of Parker and his new-found discovery of my bed.  I have the world's most fabulous bed and Parker has discovered a weak link in his parents.  I am usually so GOOD at crib training. At four months old I let the babies cry themselves to sleep and teach them very early on to stay in their bed all night long.  I pride myself on fabulous sleepers that ALL go to their own bed and fall asleep on their own at bedtime!  YAY me.

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Until Parker came into my life…..  

This kid is going to be the death of me!  He gets away with MURDER, and all because he is SO. DAMN. CUTE. ( Not that my other kids weren't as cute, but they may not have been so charming.) We tuck all the kids in at seven on a school night.  Parker snuggles down,  has his red blanket, aka "red," under his arm, and his thumb in his mouth, and we walk out the door. He doesn't make a peep. We think he is asleep, BUT by 7:20, he is sitting between us.   He doesn't pitch a fit, or even cry, he just climbs quietly out of his crib, opens his door, tiptoes out of his room, dragging "red", thumb still in mouth, and climbs right on up on the couch where we are sitting.  Brandon usually says, "What are you doing out of bed?" To which Parker signs, "later."  And we just think he is the cats meow, so we let him hang with us for a bit and re-tuck him in "later."

Have I mentioned lately how damn cute he is?  

Anyway, the past few nights this is happening at 1 am, 2 am, 4 am….  You get where I am going with this?  And we are simply too tired to haul his butt back to bed, so he just snuggles in between and goes to sleep.  I love sleeping with babies.  The more the merrier.  When I married Brandon, that all changed.  Brandon came to this family with a "no kids in his bed" rule. I married him anyway.  I told you all I made sacrifices, that was the ONE.  

So Brandon is softening and Parker is gaining power over us very quickly.  

In an effort to make Brandon's life easier, we are moving Parker into the nursery.  It is attached to our room with it's own private staircase.  He is going to join Ellie up there, and maybe that alone will make him think twice about leaving his crib.  He will now, for the first time in his life, have a roommate.  

This could end up being the biggest waste of time, or the best decision of our lives.  I am not sure yet.  But for now, I am off to move his crib down one flight of stairs and up another.  If this move is a success, and Parker and Ellie share well together, and Parker stays in his crib, then I will probably move Ellie to Parker's room.  Or, I may move Kate and Jazzi to that room and give Pickle her own room….. So many possibilities.  

Stay tuned for more musical rooms as we still try and find the right place for everything and everyone in the new house.  

After this morning's shuffle, this is the room situation.

Bronson and Hunter

Hadley

Jayden, Colby, and Jace

Jazzi, Kate, and Pickle

Empty room

Dalin and TY

Ellie and Parker in the nursery

Sailor Grace has fifteen more days of "up all night long, bottles when she wants them, half the night on her mom's chest because mom is too exhausted to walk ten feet to her crib," cushy life.  AND then, we endure 4 days of hell, horror, and "thank God she is the last one," awful nights.  But she will will come out knowing how to sleep all night long and will move upstairs to the nursery with her fellow siblings.  

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24
Nov

Parker and Pickle packing (say that ten times)

Posted by Sandi in Parker, Pickle

Parker has never had so much fun.  You all know how he likes to clean, well this packing stuff falls right in line.  He may be a little OCD.  This video is a mere 13 seconds long, but you get the idea. Parker and Pickle packed seven boxes of books.  We are packing up and getting ready to move.  It’s going very well with all the live-in help I have….. And you all thought I was nuts to have so many….  You can’t imagine how much I am saving doing this packing myself!

I may adopt a few more.  

I could save myself even more time and money. 

 

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21
Nov

Parker is TWO!

Posted by Sandi in Parker, birthday

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Parker man-

You had a birthday yesterday.  You are TWO years old.  You prevented this birthday post yesterday because you are a demanding little monster who runs my entire life.  YOU ARE THE BOSS of this family.  

I tried twice to sit down here and write and you flipped your ever living lid.  If I am at the computer, you think it’s time to watch "Signing Time," and frankly it’s getting obnoxious.  Listen, I love Rachel Coleman, But she is already constantly on the family room TV and constantly on Pickle’s TV, so I find it annoying that you think she needs to be on my computer as well.

I talked to your dad yesterday and told him that the only thing you NEEDED for your birthday, was for Rachel herself to come over in her yellow and orange jacket and sing songs to you all day long. If I had unlimited funds in my bank account, I would have called and offered her large sums of money to fly down here.  Your dad laughed and may have mumbled something under his breath to the tune of, I will make damn sure you never have unlimited funds……

I can’t believe you are two.  I can’t remember life without you, yet you’ve been acting like a two year old since day one.  

We call you two-point-o (2.0) because you are newer, faster, version of Kate-Kate.  She is all attitude and you have seen her attitude and upped it about 3 mega bytes.  LORD help US!

I have always thought how lucky you last few babies are to have two full time parents, but I am seeing how extra easy that is to spoil you rotten and create absolute monsters.  I may be contemplating getting a full time job myself.  

BUT when Signing time is playing on three screens and you have possession of my diet coke and my undivided attention.  Oh boy you are a JOY.  You are the cutest little shit I have ever seen.  You re so smart and learning so many new things and new signs and new words everyday.  You are finally starting to talk.  You say, thank you, no, mama, dada, baby, yes, dot com, and a lot of crazy talk. But you are starting to talk and I am thrilled. YAY!! 

You can read.  Which I love.  Not books, but when the words on signing time come on the screen before it starts and without pictures, you know which one is coming on.  If it’s "time to eat," you sign "eat." If it’s "who has the frog?" You sign "frog."  You know all sixteen episodes backwards and forwards.  Unfortunately so do I. 

Today we are having a birthday party at Scooters Jungle for both you and Pickle.  I hope you have a blast.  

I love you little man.  You light up my life.  You have most certainly filled it with song!  

Sorry this post is a day late, but without any help yesterday, there was no way to sit here sans Rachel and write this.  I hope you understand.  

I Love you so much-

Mommy

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07
Nov

Diet Coke does wonders

Posted by Sandi in Parker

 "Parker please look at mommy."

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"Parker please smile for mommy."

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"Will you do it for a coke?"

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CHEESE!

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I AM NOT ABOVE BRIBERY.

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22
Oct

a new sister

Posted by Sandi in Parker, Sailor

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Parker is in love with this little peanut.  She has become the "VACUUM."  He even pitches holy fits when we don’t let him hold her. And by hold her, I mean CARRY HER, as in all by himself.  Like he thinks he can pack her around.  He scares me to death.  He LOVES her too much.   He takes his role VERY seriously.  Being a big brother is an important part of who he is.  He is going to be great at it.  Ellie and Sailor are lucky little girls. Here’s hoping they survive toddlerhood with Parker around.   

 

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14
Sep

Because even spilled Diet Coke is too good to waste

Posted by Sandi in Parker, Random

Charlie and Parker sharing a drink 

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