Good Morning From Parker

These photos were taken at 6:30 am this morning! Parker woke up early so we got up and played with Sheepy and his friends. And I noticed that Parker's sleeper has a dog piloting an aircraft. He's starting to reach and grab things more with his hands, which is fun to watch. The leaf that he has in his hand makes a crinkly paper sound when he messes with it.

Animals + Vehicles

Parker has gone from his monkey-driving-a-train suit to this turtle-riding-a-surfboard t-shirt. Here are a few more photos from our crazy play time today. April went out for lunch so it was just da boyz kickin' it. Yes, I just wrote that.

Shoes?

These are my new shoes. They’re good shoes. They won’t make you rich like me, they won’t make you rebound like me, they definitely won’t make you handsome like me. They’ll only make you have shoes like me. That’s it.

~From a Charles Barkley commercial for basketball shoes, 1993

Bath Time and the Return of the Hypnotic Elephants

Relaxing Day

After a big trip to Brockville on the weekend April, Parker and I relaxed at home all day today. Parker was in a great mood all day, talking and making crazy sounds, and being pretty giddy most of the day. Today while he was trying to talk he made an "m" sound for the first time, which was pretty cool. It's so funny listening to him make noises because he has so much fun, and then we laugh (because he's funny) and then he laughs (because we're funny) and it's a continuous cycle of good baby times. We watched the Simpsons movie and Parker thought it was pretty funny, but not quite as intellectually stimulating as Sicko or Ghostbusters. The ramifications of shutting down the containment unit are mind-boggling.

Here are some photos!

Happy Shirtless Baby

Visit From Shannon

Shannon stopped by for a visit today! Her and April were friends in University and now she lives in Burlington. It's always awesome when people stop by to see Parker in person because he's much cuter that way. Well, he's cute in his photos, too.

Trips to Brockville

April and Parker went to Brockville yesterday to help Abuelita celebrate her birthday. Parker worked hard picking out a card for her but when April tried to get him to sign it he couldn't hold the pen. Hurry up and learn to develop your cursive writing skills, 2 month old baby! Jeeze! Hopefully he will be able to pseudo-sign everyone's Christmas cards, complete with backwards A's and E's. Since April and Parker were on the road yesterday and some of today, I actually haven't seen them much until now, but Parker is fast asleep. Here's a photo from the other day, just because.

Sheepy Strikes Back

Here's a photo of Parker playing on his mat with Sheepy, Horsey, and other creatures with names ending in y.

And here's Parker being (gasp!) NOT CUTE:

Parker Is Huuuuge

Today April put Parker in a 6-month outfit, even though he's just over 2 months old! The nice thing is that he's not a big fat fatty; instead, he's just super tall. I'm hoping that means he can dunk a basketball by age 3, but he'll have to break down my stellar D in order to get to the rim. I think I can still take him.

Here's Parker being a gigantor.

And here he is, not trashing Tokyo:

One of these days I'll have to take photos of him someplace other than propped up on our couch.

Immunization Is Scary

Today April and I took Parker to the doctor to get his first immunization shots. It actually wasn't as scary as we thought it would be because Parker is made of steel. He had 3 little cries and then he was fine! I think all of that hanging out with Superman has rubbed off on him a little bit. Now if I can just get him bench press our car we'll be all set.

The doctor also weighed and measured him: he's 12 pounds, 3 ounces and 24 inches tall. They said he was doing really well and is growing really well, so that's a good sign!

Happy Day

Like I mentioned in the update, Parker is back to normal again today. I wonder if all the travelling on Saturday kind of messed him up a bit, and it just took a few days to get back on track? We had a good day of running errands down town and we're doing a bit of an overhaul on our house that will probably take us all summer. Here are some more photos (and he hasn't pooped on his Aviator Club clothes yet! It's a new record!):

And to go along with the photo of April, Parker and the combine from Dresden, here's me, Parker, and the combiner Decepticon, Devastator:

Grumpy Day

Parker had a bit of a grumpy day today, which was a bit out of sorts because he's usually in a pretty good mood. So far he hasn't really napped all day, and every time we leave him to sleep he cries until we hang out with him again. We can tell he's super tired because as soon as we hold him he completely passes out. Hopefully he'll fall asleep and be able to take a Rip Van Winkle-esque nap (minus the liquor) soon!

Update: Parker didn't nap AT ALL yesterday! April and I managed to get a lot of work done around the house, tidying things up and stuff, but he refused to sleep for some reason. He was up from 9 am until 10 pm, which is way too long for a little baby! No wonder he was Mr. Grumpy. He ended up sleeping really well through the night and now he seems like normal Parker again. He's all smiles this morning!

Festival of Grandmas

Here are some more photos from our vacation in Dresden!

Us in front of the house I grew up in.

April and Parker in front of a combine that was in our back yard.

April and Parker in the field.

Great Grandma M came for a visit!
And then Great Grandma E came for a visit! There were grandmas-a-plenty.

First Swim Ever!

Here's a slideshow of Parker's first time in a pool with April. The jury is still out as to whether he enjoyed it or not because the water was actually fairly cold. When he first had his feet dipped in he was a bit scared, but he eventually went in up to his waist without a problem. Here's the link:

http://www.garrettelliott.com/parkerswim

Happy Parker Slideshow Time

The slideshows seem to be a big hit, so here's another one:

http://www.garrettelliott.com/happyparker

It's just a bunch of photos of Parker, propped up on a couch, being all happy and stuff. April was just about to take him for his first swim ever, so he had no idea of the terror that awaited him (photos to come). Mambo music makes it funny to me.

Adventures in Dresden

Here are some photos of Parker relaxing in Dresden at my parents' place:

Relaxing in his chair with a stained glass window (that my grandpa made) behind him.

Looking all cautious and stuff.

April holding him with my mom in the background on their couch.

Hanging out with my dad.

Daddy looks funny and prompts much laughing and smiling.

Sleeping in daddy's old "sleeping box" (I guess it might also be called a basonnette). But it looks like a box. A box with a baby in it.