Nada

that's what has been going on around our house lately.

a whole lot of nuttin' honey.

but i figured i need to post anyway,

to prove we haven't fallen off the face of the earth!

i've been playing catch up with this blog

since i started it after park was born,

but i'm finally up to date.

he's 3 1/2 months old

so we go for his 4 month well-baby visit on the 7th

and i'll be sure to report his stats.

on jan 10 he decided to roll over.

bam! my kid's a genius!

i haven't got it on video YET but i swear he did it.

and we thought it was a fluke,

but oh no, he's just that good.

daddy says it's only because his head's so big,

when he leans it one way his whole body just follows :)

i'll post a vid soon as we get our cheap-o camera working.

he also discovered his tongue last week.

hilarious!

we've been seeing a lot of this:

and this:

but surprisigly, no drool......yet

and then he found out....

he has hands!

it's like a bad car accident,

he just can't stop staring at them.



we've also been blessed enough to have a baby that developed a flat head

yah us!

before i became a mother,

i thought all those kids were from parents who never held them,

and just laid them on the floor all the time.

so not the case!

i mean, we hold him....like A LOT.

so i decided to document his lovely noggin.

but who cares about a stupid flat head,

i still so precious! :)

and loves me some shoe socks

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January Bee-Days

so in my family we still get together for everyone's birthday.

and i mean everyone....cousins, aunts, uncles

you get the picture.

age doesn't discriminate present opening.

and those of you that know me in real life (not blog world)

tend to make fun of this from time to time.

"hey, wanna hang out saturday, or do you have another birthday?"

ha....you know you're just jealous you aren't in my fam :)

january is the month for matt and mark.

see, we do combine those that occur during the same month,

otherwise i think we'd be together EVERY weekend!

make a wish!

                        

park enjoying the party

and a mad game of cranium!

january is also the month that my oldest and first nephew was born.

and we had the pleasure of going to chuckie cheese!

boo ya!

no honestly, it really wasn't that bad.

but man have things changed since that last time i was there,

i mean, no germ-infested ball pit...come on folks!

whew, playin' all these games wears a boy out!

           

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3 months...

102 days

that's how old  my  our little man is today!

for reals?!

it seems like i've loved him for more days than that,

like we've had him at our home for for more days than that,

and in our family.

heck, i forgot what life was like for the last 25ish years before him!

so i'm trying to embrace the different stages.

i caught myself thinking - oh i can't wait until next year when parker's older...

it's already going so fast, i don't want to rush it.

when our pastor came to visit us in the hospital,

he and his wife gave us a good piece of advice.

and that's to enjoy every day with him at every age.

and don't let people convince you to dread the terrible two's

or the teenage years,

but look forward to them!

life's a journey!

alright so get to the good stuff, i know.
here's your baby fix for the day...you're welcome.

i'll let you love on him...alittle.

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photo shoot

during maternity leave

my mom and i had a lot of extra time on our hands.

thank goodness she's retired and watching reid or i'm pretty sure i'd have gone crazy.

turns out i don't like to be cooped up at home alone all day.

so one day, we decided to have a photo shoot of the cousins.

sidenote: nana bought them matching christmas outfits,

erica and i swore we'd never do it to our kids,

we caved.

and they wore them, and they were presh!

(but we will NOT cave on our pact to never drive a mini-van)

so after almost TWO hrs, and lots of bribing

we did manage to get a couple....

props to all you photographers out there.

i'm obviously not cut out to do it.

sweet kisses...wonder how many years we can get them to do that....

where's reid??

so flippin' close to a good one.

                    PLEASE no more!

                                                             it's killing me!



here...have a candy cane :)

ok fine, were done.

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christmas this year was unlike any other.

hello, we have a kid now!

and although he had not a clue what was going on and slept thru most of it,

i tell myself he loved it,

and loved being passed around our families

(and i must say, i didn't mind having a whole other set of presents to open..score!)

so here's a tidbit of p's first christmas

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