Parker's activities

Parker is growing and learning new things at such a rate, it's a little striking to his Mama to still calls him her "baby".

Parker loves to sit & read books.  Never for very long at a time, and I think he misses most of the story, since he turns 2-5 pages at a time, but he's a good little speed-reader (Auntie Denise should be proud).

When we came home from Costco the other day, he helped me bring in the groceries.  The first thing I put away went on Keith's workbench in the garage, so Parker wanted to put everything away there.  Which is why Keith still has a bottle of Claritin on this work bench.

Of course, I couldn't get a photo of it, but Parker carried in a giant bag of walnuts from the car.  It was pretty cute, this little guy wandering around clutching a bag of nuts almost as big as him to his chest.

Parker is also learning to bake.  This week he helped me make biscuits & cornbread.  He loved dumping in the ingredients and mixing the batter.  Daddy wasn't so excited about the flour he had to clean off of everything, but mess is a part of learning.

And, Parker's learning how to clean-up, here he's wiping off the counters after we made the cornbread.

Parker got a new step stool at Ikea on Friday, so now he can see everything that's going on in the kitchen. 

He also insisted on eating his snack at the kitchen counter.

Then, we colored.  Like his vampire drool?  One side is pink marker, the other chocolate from his trail mix.  This guy has inherited his Daddy's addiction to trail mix.  I have to explain to him every morning that we don't eat trail mix for breakfast.

All these new activities make for one sleepy boy!  I was too slow getting the camera, but Parker was originally sleeping with his arms wrapped around his giraffe.  He really is the cutest thing ever!