easter part 2

we went out to dave's lake house

after parker woke up.

 and the boys found another caterpillar.

 that the big boys decided they needed to kill.

 park's new favorite treat,

chocolate puddin'.

 

papa took him on his first 4-wheeler ride.

 

 and then daddy needed to take a turn.

 we sat on the back porch and relaxed

while our belly's were full.

braden plays so well is parker.

he calls him like a dog "come here Parker! come here!"

it's so adorable.

and pj just follows him around.

and braden is always trying to give away his toys to him

if he thinks parker likes it.

 they started off on the patio....

and slowly migrated into the dirt.

 little boys are just attracted to dirt.

it was such a wonderful easter.

and birthday :)

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Easter, birthday, 18 mon

all of those happened for us on sunday.

we celebrated easter with both sides of the fam.

it was my 27th birthday.

and it was pj's 18 month birthday.

wow.

(after we go to parker's well baby visit next monday

i'll do a dedicated post to update just on him)

we honestly couldn't have asked for better weather this year.

it usually rains on my bday

or sometimes snows

or sometimes we could swim it's so hot.

but this year was a perfect 70 degrees with a tiny breeze.

d surprised me and got parker up and fed in the morning.

without me having to nudge  kick him and remind him it's his morning

and then made cinnamon rolls.

(all i asked for from danny for my bday

was to go shopping for as long as i wanted

without any children. not too much to ask, right?

i'm so giddy just thinking about it!)

so we started off 

at my parents after church.

 

the 3 cutest little bunnies.

this was the most decent of the 40 attempts.

 i changed him out of his khakis

for the egg hunt since

he's still not walking :)

 after he opened the first egg he found

he was pretty much done with the whole hunting thing.

found some smarties and

got what he came for.

 how can you say no to this face?!

so he got to eat an entire pack of smarties at 11am.

NBD.

 oh, you see a bruise on his forehead??

he decided to tip over his little chair

and dive head first onto our basement CARPET.

it was a week old here so you can imagine the day of.

i'll have to post some iphone pics i took right afterwards.

 they actually did so well hunting the eggs together.

reid was telling parker 'good job' 

after he found one behind the tree :)

 as long as nu-nu is close by...

all is good in the world.

 we found a caterpillar they so nicely shared.

 the boys got a ridiculous amount of stuff.

it was like christmas all over again!

then we went to d's side after parker's nap.

i'll post that tomorrow.

one at a time folks.

i gotta ease back into this. i haven't posted in so long :)

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iPhone dump

if you're friends with me on facebook, you've probably already seen all of these. so just deal :)

the zoo

erica was on spring break

and it was my day off for the week

so she and her boys, 

plus me and pj

plus my mom and aunt di were down for the adventure.

this was our first trip to the zoo this year.

parker went once last year

but had no clue what was going on.

this time included LOTS of pointing

and waving.

at people and animals and even the trees.

 the elephants came really close.

 and even sucked up water

and spit it back out of his trunk.

 we went in to the butterfly house

while nana fed hayes a bottle.

 

i let parker out of his stroller for a bit

which meant crawling over the bench of course.

 and here's my attempt at a cute cousin pic....

and then we went over to the penguin house.

but didn't go inside bc there was a line

and we don't do lines.

 

they were out and about swimming

and jumping in and out of the water.

and the black bears were showing off like crazy too!

 erica and reid rode the carousel.

i got motion sick just watching

so unless daddy is along, 

pj gets the shaft and has to sit and watch.

sorry dude, but

you're on your own at six flags.

and then i took some pics of this random lady's hair

bc my mom liked her haircut 

so i played paparazzi while the lady snapped pics of her own kids.

 and i tried again to get a cute photo

of the boys by the flowers.

ya, not so much.

they chose to dig their fingernails in the dirt instead.

and lastly we had a picnic by our car

we all decided if parker could talk

he'd go home and tell his dad that was his favorite part of the day.

crawling around on the blankets

with his shoes off.

we got home and pj slept for 3 hrs straight.

i'd call that a successful day!

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