The Blabber Mouth and the Belly Laughs

I finally got a couple of new good videos of Parker. The first one is his new blabbering that his Aunt Megan says she didn't teach him, but I think she really did. Either she did or his Uncle Jason did. Parker has been doing this NON-STOP since he spent the day with those 2 crazy kids last weekend. (and close to the beginning of the video i can just picture him with heavy gold chains flung around his neck and a mohawk and spouting off "I pity tha fool who don't give me that camera!" The look of frustration and disappointment on his face is blatantly obvious.)

I have been trying FOREVER to get a good video of Parker belly laughing. It took his Grammie coming over today to get him to finally do it. He tends to squeal a little bit when he gets excited about something. And who would have thought that a pillow attack would be so funny?!?!

I FINALLY have a weekend off from school and work, so I'm off to do some relaxing!

Until next time,

Sarah

Aging and Accomplishments

So it's been a little while since we updated, and in the interest of limited time and busy schedules, we will try to keep this one short and to the point. Here's what's been going on for the past week in our house.

The man human is getting OLD. Yesterday was his 30TH birthday! The lady human and baby human wanted to remind him that even though he's pretty ancient, he still can be a kid at heart, so they bought him something called a Playstation 3. Now the lady human thinks she may see a lot less of the man human helping out with the baby human, since he has a newfound obsession. Here's Parker playing with his favorite part of the present.

Last week the grown ups traveled to Corpus Christi so Sarah could do her clinical fundamentals check-offs and health assessment for nursing school. We are told everything went great and that she is now doing clinicals every other weekend at St. Mark's Medical Center in La Grange. So she's working there for 40 hours a week and doing clinicals there for 25 hours every other weekend. We're going to miss seeing her around. (but maybe since she won't be around that little fella won't be around as much either, and we can finally sleep in peace for once!)

Sorry this post is so short and uneventful...if anything exciting happens in our world in the next few days we'll be sure to update you!

Until then,

Lexi and Sadie

Please fasten your safety belt and keep your arms inside the vehicle at all times...

Disclaimer: This will probably be a lengthy entry. Enter at your own risk!

WOW....WHAT A RIDE! This week has been a crazy rollercoaster and has convinced me that I am absolutely a Type A personality. I never realized just how much I favor organization and a schedule until this week. I went through a rollercoaster of feelings from day to day. Let me explain....

SUNDAY - feeling of the day: crafty

So for some reason last Sunday I had the urge to be crafty. I'm invited to a couple of baby showers and was tired of giving the same ol' gifts, so I decided to try my hand at making diaper cakes. Not too shabby, if I may say so myself! Here are the two that I have completed thus far...

Overall I thought this was not a bad start to my week.

MONDAY - feeling of the day: organized

On Monday I had my schedule for the whole week all worked out. I'd work Monday-Thursday, Ryan and I would travel to Corpus Christi on Thursday night, we'd stay there Friday night and head back to LaGrange Saturday evening. For those of you who don't know, I am currently working on my Bachelor's in Nursing degree in a self-paced, online program through Texas A&M Corpus Christi. The only thing standing between me and starting my clinicals is a quick trip to Corpus to meet with my instructor to a) do a medication administration check-off and b) do a head-to-toe health assessment on an adult "patient" (Ryan) from memory and complete the appropriate documentation afterwards. I've been nervous and anxious about the assessment for weeks, but finally I was feeling like I was prepared. So on Friday I'd do the medication check-off and have some practice time in the lab with my instructor on other nursing skills. Saturday morning we'd go up to the school and complete the assessment with documentation and get back on the road and be back in LaGrange by dinnertime.

Enter Hurricane Ike.

TUESDAY - feeling of the day: anxious

Tuesday started with me watching pretty much every single online news outlet and getting all of their predictions on what Hurricane Ike was going to do. They all agreed. Ike was heading straight for Corpus, but shouldn't get there until early Saturday morning. But wait, I'M SUPPOSED TO BE IN CORPUS EARLY SATURDAY MORNING. dammit. what now? several emails and phone calls later, me and my advisor decide that we can cram everything we need to do into one day. So Ryan and I will travel to Corpus Wednesday night, do my thing Thursday, and get out of town Thursday night while Ike is still out in the gulf, slowly churning towards land. Disaster averted.

WEDNESDAY - feeling of the day: pissed off

Still checking radar and various weather outlets frequently. Ike is not turning. Ike is strengthening. And still on course for Corpus. They are predicting a bad, bad storm. Yikes, should I reschedule my trip? I DON'T WANT TO RESCHEDULE MY TRIP! I WANT TO GET THIS MESS OVER WITH ALREADY SO I CAN START MY CLINICALS! Later in the morning I get an email from my advisor..."Sarah, I think we'd better reschedule. This looks too serious to mess with." Well sonofa....doesn't this beast of nature know that I FAVOR ORGANIZATION AND STRUCTURE??? Ok fine, he wins. I'll reschedule. I reschedule for this coming week Wednesday. We will travel to Corpus Tuesday night, do my thing all day Wednesday, and head back Wednesday night. YIPPEE!! MORE TIME TO GET ANXIOUS AND FREAK OUT AND WONDER IF I'M PREPARED! I LOVE MOTHER NATURE! To put it bluntly...Mother Nature, you are a b#*ch.

THURSDAY - feeling of the day: worried

Weather man said on Wednesday night that if Ike stayed on his current course the eye could be expected to pass directly over LaGrange Saturday afternoon. WHAT?!?! ARE YOU KIDDING ME??? A category 1 hurricane directly over my house. Neat. What else yet?? I call my mom and ask if I should be joining the rest of the crazies at the store stocking up on bottled water, flashlights, batteries and canned meat. She assures me that this storm is going to turn - they always do. I'm reluctant to believe her, but I do anyway. She's always right, after all. Yet still, I have an uneasy feeling the entire day. My house has flooded before, and it didn't take a hurricane to do it. I decide to just put batteries in the flashlights I have and finally take the weather radio I won in a raffle out of the box and put some batteries in it too. Bring it on Ike.

FRIDAY - feeling of the day: disappointed

I check the news outlets Friday morning to find out that Ike has, of course, changed his path. He's now headed straight for Galveston and Houston. But LaGrange is still predicted to get some tropical storm force winds and 2-4 inches of rain. Ok, that's fine. I'll take your wind and your rain. But did you have to prematurely ruin my trip to Corpus? Ryan and I end the night battening down the hatches and put Parker in bed with us just incase things turn ugly.

SATURDAY - feeling of the day: disbelief

Ryan and I wake up Saturday morning and look outside to see what kind of devastation we have been handed. And we see...NOTHING. NOT A DAMN THING. the ground is dry and there is a balmy breeze a blowin. That's all. Later in the day we get 10 sprinkles of rain and then the humidity jumps to at least 250% and the temperature soars to upwards of 160 degrees. Or so it seems. All of this preparation and anxiety and this is all we get. Ike....I HATE YOU.

SUNDAY - feelings of the day: lazy and forgetful

Parker and I went to lunch with my mom and stepdad and Heather, Russell and Landon. As we finish our meal I realize that I cannot find my keys. They are nowhere. We check and double-check the diaperbag, my pockets, the table, the car seat, the floor. They are nowhere to be found. I KNOW I brought them in with me - I had them in my pocket. and now they are gone. isn't that special? I go to the counter to ask if anyone has turned in a set of keys and I see them laying there. So i grab 'em and make sure they are to my car. They are. apparently they fell out of my pocket at some point. Finally we can leave. We go back to my mom's and spend a lazy afternoon watching a movie. Then we come home and are hanging out outside when Ryan's dad calls. "Just wondering if y'all are coming over here"..."over where?"..."To Katie's for Brynn's birthday party." CRAP!!! I TOTALLY FORGOT! I'm tellin' ya, if there is not an invitation hanging on my fridge i'm not going to remember the event. We throw together a diaper bag and i throw my hair in a cap (I look like total poop at this point) and we head to the party. We stay for a little over an hour before heading home to give parker his bath and get him to bed. Bathtime is always exciting in our house. Parker LOVES to make a mess. Here's some proof (this is NOT kiddie porn...please don't turn me in)

So here we are...ready to start another week...I think. This week I'll be praying for the strength to get through my Corpus stuff without going insane, and for all of those people who didn't fare so well with Hurricane Ike. Hope you'll be doing the same.

Until next time,

Sarah

just another day

....it was a close call, but the young lad was able to narrowly and miraculously escape the grasp of the slime-slinging monster who attacked him out of nowhere....





.....and who would have thought that Pampers are not pleasing to the palate??

Parker-isms

Well well....it's been quite some time since we updated, and boy, you humans sure do get impatient when a blog is not updated weekly like you expect it to be! Maybe you all should work while you are at work instead of checking up on us!

Things have been relatively calm at our place since we last wrote. Well, calm for us at least! The lady human has been STRESSING OUT over something called nursing school. The man human has been putting in extra hours at work. And the little human....he is EVERYWHERE! Although he's not walking yet, he has mastered the ability to crawl on all fours. We were able to do that within hours of our birth...it's taken him more than 7 months. Yet the grown up humans are in awe over this. We don't understand your kind....


A couple of things the kid has NOT figured out yet...what the heck he's supposed to do with a sippy cup, and how to cut a tooth. He will be 8 months old tomorrow (WHERE THE HECK DID THE TIME GO?!?!) and still hasn't a single chomper in that mouth of his. The grown ups think it may not be a bad thing if he never gets teeth, because surely a set of dentures is cheaper than braces are. And since Sarah had jacked up teeth when she was young, she's not holding out much hope that Parker's will be perfect (unless he happened to inherit his daddy's nice, straight teeth). And as far as sippy cups go....the poor fella has no clue what he's supposed to do with it. In the mouth, out of the mouth. Pour some on the floor. Chew on the bottom of the cup. Repeat.


Parker went to his first ever parade with the grown ups on Saturday for the Fayette County Fair. Here is a picture of him with his Grannie (Sarah's Grannie, so technically Parker's "Great-Grannie", but we don't call her that because it would make her seem old, and she is NOT old!)



Oh, and for the record, Parker's daddy made him wear the hat...
And here's a pic of Parker with his daddy after the parade was over.



We will leave you this week with several Parker videos of Parker just being Parker...enjoy the Parker-isms!

"PARKER THE SPEED RACER"

Up close and personal...

Who'da thought a kid with no teeth would love pickles so much???

Alrighty, that's all for this week. We will write more next week....maybe.

Until then,

Los Gatos