Caught In The Act & Independent Reading Time

Trying to climb out of the bath?  Busted.  Here he is showing off his climbing skills now that he's a humongous super giant:




And here he is concentrating pretty hard on a book. He could be playing with the pail, or the farm, or the blocks, but noooooooo -- he wants to read the book.


Parker's language skills are growing along with his height! Here's a rough list of words he knows (I might be forgetting some, but maybe once April wakes up I'll get her to check it over):

please keys trees peas cheese (notice a trend?) water milk juice up mama dada mail car apple banana (his first 3-syllable word!) beef corn home papa (although he calls the phone papa) nana bye-bye hi hair nose mouth eyes truck yeah no shoes book kitty woof-woof roar weeeeee (he calls swings and slides weeeees) chicken me pee-pee Elmo hello (sounds like wewwo, and he only says it when he holds the phone up to his ear) tummy bump-bump Toopy clock baby all-gone all-clean