Home with a sick baby

 He's had a fever since Saturday...it's a low grade fever, but he's coughing, too. I have to count my blessings because he is honestly the healthiest child. Seriously..he never gets sick, praise the Lord! We're taking him to the dr. this afternoon to see what's going on.

He's in the laundry basket because he was pouting...he wanted to go play outside.

 I pacified him by letting him have extra tv time. We're watching Peter Pan.

 And we're out.

Lately

 Phillip wanted a picture of the two of us to put up in his office.

Just before this picture was taken, we had "Facetimed" with Marmee. Marmee showed him a dump truck she'd bought to give him when she come to keep him in a few weeks. Translated into Parker's mind=Marmee and Poppa are coming up today to keep me. He insisted on painting Marmee a picture. It took us all day to convince him they weren't coming today.

Lily came to stay!

And we had so much fun!

My sweet baby

I have been really bad about keeping up the blog, so I want to take a quick post to highlight Parker. It seems like lately he's been really changing and growing. He loves watching Cars and Polar Express. When he wakes up in the morning he'll say, "That twain woke that boy up. And he opened the door and went to the twain. That twain not wake me up." To which I try to explain that we NEVER open the door unless Mommy and Daddy are with us. I mean, am I the only parent who thinks that it's probably not a good idea to give kids that idea? The kid seriously just opens up the door and gets on a train with complete strangers. Moving on.

He's become very possessive of Tulip. I put her outside during dinner the other day, and he became very angry. He said, "Tulip needs to come inside!" Over and over again. When I kick her off the bed, he'll say, "Tulip just wants to cuddle." He's been wanting her to sleep in his room a lot. I usually force her to stay in there and then go get her once he's fallen asleep.

He's also become very aware of who the "boss" is. I have to remind him that it's his babysitter's job to get on to the other children. (I seriously have no idea where he gets his bossiness.) I will admit that I got into a slight argument with him last night because he told me it wasn't my job to get on to him that it was Ms. Vickie's. Yep. Still working on explaining that Daddy and I are the bosses at our home.

Speaking of his daddy, since Phillip is home more now, he's become quite the Daddy's boy.

Some other favorite sayings: "I want to go to a westauwant." This is usually said on a daily basis.
-"I want something special"-i.e. a special food treat. Sweets are generally called "something special".

And when he asks a question, he never frames it as a question. He always states it as a sentence, but he says it in a questioning tone.

He's really at a fun age right now. The conversations we have with him are priceless. I wish I could record them all.

A new favorite quote

One of Parker's new favorite quotes is, "I'm not so sure about this, guys." I have no clue where he picked this up!

I'm not so sure about Tulip's eyes here....Red eye correction didn't work on them!

So proud!

    We are so proud of Phillip! He graduated from nursing school back in December. He has done an amazing job the past two and a half years-working full time and going to school. We figured it up and he's been in school since Parker was one week old! He won the Top Clinical Student Award for his Accelerated class. That's right-he finished school in 1.5 years as opposed to the usual 2 it takes.

As many of you know, he's been working weekends for a long time, so we've not had a lot of family time together. Now I can officially say he's started his new job as Assistant Director of Nursing at the assisted living facility where he's been working, and he'll have a "normal" schedule. It's a huge accomplishment, an AMAZING job, and truly a blessing from the Lord.

I can wholeheartedly say that the following verse has been true: "And my God will meet all your needs according to his glorious riches in Christ Jesus." Philippians 4:19

Walking to get "pinned"

We looked up from the stage and saw Parker licking the glass that separated the balcony from below.

Can you see the relief on his face? And mine? and Parkers?

Poppa was in charge of pictures....

Marmee and Poppa came to celebrate with us.

He was really, really good!

His favorite part was running across the bridge.

A fun day

We spent yesterday at an indoor play place. We had so much fun! His favorite activity was the train table.

Where, oh where did these big blue eyes come from???????? They melt my heart!