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Seriously . . .? This cant be true! Parker will be 1 in 28 days!! That is CRAZY TALK!! I guess I better start the Party Planning! :) In the mean time, he is 11 months and Here are some snapshots and a few of our favorite things right now. (Keep in mind these are getting Harder and Harder to take each month! He has absolutely NO desire to sit still. So here is Parker in Action!) I LOVE TO READ!! I'm How Old?? STRETCH!!! Check out that Double Chin!! He LOVES to play with his push toys, and as a matter of fact likes to turn every object he finds into push toys. This includes: Books, Buckets, Vacuums, Chairs, bags, boxes, etc. I'm WALKING!! Some days I love it, and some days I just don't want to, but I still can if I want ! I LOVE TO TALK!! I talk all day everyday! I can even say Thank You! I'm just so handsome! And such a Big Boy Now! He is Such a Silly goose! I love him! Parker is such a good eater now! He will eat everything and anything we put in front of him. And...

OK , so honestly I feel kind of silly posting this, but I am so proud of myself lately and want to share!! I have really been trying to catch up with our scrapbook lately. Mostly so I can get to Parker's scrapbook before this little lady joins our family. I have been very motivated lately and have been working on stuff every night after Parker goes to bed. I have been playing with my Cricut lately, which is AMAZING by the way. I hadn't really had much time to play with it chasing Parker around all the time so I waited to bust everything out at once and now I am even more excited to use it!! I feel like it adds so much to my pages! So here are some snapshots of the pages I just finished up today. I go through these weird things where I don't like it at first, but I'm just happy it is on the page; then I let it sit a couple of days, embellish it and then love it!! Which is always a great feeling. Not to mention the wonderful feeling of accomplishment. So here they are...

Finally!!! I have had a lot of requests, especially since Parker started walking. So here are a few. He was especially Hyper last night, so most of these are from then, but the very last one was from a couple of weeks ago when he first started to walk. There are also some of my chasing him, he is so hilarious! This is his favorite thing lately. And P.S. sorry they are super shaky, it is hard to summon/follow him and hold the camera. Also, they came in opposite the order I was hoping and it wont let me arrange them. They are all really short, otherwise the blog wont let me load them. Hope you enjoy my silly boy! Side note, this first one cracks me up! I wish I got him on the camera more, but just the way he falls is too funny!

Dear friends, please help. I have been trying to get parker to use a sippy cup for almost 5 months and have had NO success!! I have gone out and bought at least 5 different kinds and none of them seem to impress my little man. I really do not want to have a child using a bottle forever! In fact, I wanted to have him weaned off the bottle by 1 which is now only one month away. Do you have any tips or suggestions for me? I dont know what else to try. Thank you!

Tonight P took 14 steps on his own!! It was awesome!! I don't know if I should be happy or worried for what this means. I guess I'll just be both! :) Hopefully video to come soon! p.s. I went a little blog crazy tonight and just did 6 post ! Enjoy!

We do FHE every week with our good friends the Wilsions and Marquezes. We usually just visit, have a quick lesson, and treats. This week we changed plans a little because of 24 (little did we know we had the time wrong anyway, but that is a different story!). So they all came over. Janneke gave a great lesson, the Wilsons brought AMAZING treats, and since we had the time wrong for 24 we played a little game of Tripoley. It was a lot of fun! Vince Dominated, so poor folk like me and Janneke had to borrow from him. But it was a blast! I hadn't made a Cake in a long time, and just got the greatest tool so I wanted to make one for our celebrating the season premire of 24. I did it in a hurry so it is not quite how I had hoped it would have turned out, but I think it looks pretty good. And it tasted great which is most important. If you look close you can see I tried to do the numbers digital like they are on the show, kind of worked. Anyway, it was fun! Thanks Danny and Janne...

Along with our sweet clothes purchases at the outlets, we jumped into a Kitchen tool store. It was fun browsing at all of the gismos and gadgets but there was one Jeff really had his heart set on, a mini torch for Creme Brulee! It was much cheaper then I was expecting so we decided to get it! Of course, one of the first things we did once we got home . . . make Creme Brulee! Jeff, really excited about the mini torch! The supplies (to the tune of PB&J) First you get the sugar and you sprinkle, you sprinkle Then you get the torch and your burn it, you burn it And then . . . ENJOY!