Here Comes Peter Cottontail...

We spent Easter in Bryan with G.G., Papa Rock, Mimi, Lee, Frannie and the cousins. Before we left on Friday, Parks had fun painting paper eggs to give out. He decided that he wanted to give them to Aunt Frannie, Mimi and Reville (Mimi's dog). I thought he might decide later that the 3rd egg should go to G.G., but no dice...he really wanted Rev to have that egg!

Parks loves being outside, so Mimi's house is great. She lives right on the golf course...plenty of room to run and lots people to watch. It was a beautiful weekend, so alot of time was spent on the back porch. Ella, Sam and Lauren came from Houston on Saturday. Parks LOVES his cousins!!! Every night when he says his prayers, he includes them...and their dog, Buddy:) We spent Saturday night celebrating Dad's birthday and hanging out together. G.G. gave the kids all a little Easter gift, and scored big with the flashlight that straps onto your head. Parks was so cute running around the dark golf course with it on.

Sunday morning we awoke to gifts from the Easter bunny. Parks got a wheelbarrow and yard tools (which he loves, by the way...has been helping Daddy all this weekend with them!)...he also got a load of candy. Why does the Easter bunny bring so much candy??? Think he'd be smarter than that by now...especially since I eat it all!!! Davis got a stuffed bunny, a book and some other little goodies. He especially likes a little squeeze bunny that he chewed on (hope its not from China!!!). Of course, we had an Easter egg hunt out back. Parks found a golden egg with money in it...jackpot! He solicited his father's help with negotiating a trade for candy with his cousins...a Trump in the making:) **Side note here...the little guy really does like money...actually jumps up and down when someone gives him some change. He will rob me right in front of my face..."gonna get your money to put in my bank." He takes the money to his room, wrestles his stepping stool in place so that he can climb up and add it to his little baseball bank. Gets that saving gene from Daddy!!**After the big hunt, we went to brunch at the club and ate way too much. Enjoyed seeing Pam and Billy there. The boys were pretty well behaved. We set Parks next to Ella...for some reason he listens to her...she might have to move in with us! Francesca says their little relationship works out well because he listens to her, and she likes to boss people around...perfect match!

Great weekend...the only bummer was that Mimi had a terrible cold. I've never seen this woman sick! She rested for most of the weekend, so we missed getting to visit with her. She wasn't even able to make it to brunch with us after she did all of the arranging:( Hopefully she is feeling better by now...you can't keep Mimi down long!

The binky fairy has come and gone...

A couple of weeks ago, we decided that it was time for Parks to give up his binky. He's always only wanted it for naps and bedtime...I didn't realize he NEEDED it for naptime and bedtime! We did the whole binky fairy thing where we put the binkies outside his door for the binky fairy to take to "the babies"...this worked well, especially since the binky fairy was leaving some pretty good little treats. He didn't seem to mourn the actual binky much, but he did have trouble falling asleep...this was new for us because God blessed up with good sleepers (thanks for that!!) The first few nights he thought of every excuse for us to come back in...water, music back on, cover his baby up, ect... When he ran out of excuses, the crying began. Poor guy just couldn't soothe himself with out his binky!! As you can see from the picture, he came up with creative ways to spend his time while trying to fall asleep. I went in to check on him one afternnon, thinking he was asleep since it had been so quiet for so long...WRONG!! He completely unstuffed his baseball pillow. I couldn't be mad...he almost never destroys things...who could blame him??!?! He's now adjusted and doesn't even seem tempted by his brother's binkies anymore...what a big boy:)

First tooth, first cereal

When Daniel told me the other night that he felt a tooth coming in Davis' mouth, I didn't think that it could be. I wasn't expecting that for at least a couple of months...Parks' first tooth didn't come until he was 8 months old. I had to check it out for myself, and he was right...a little baby tooth poking through! That explained his fussiness...must admit I'm glad there was an explanation and not a personality change on my sweet, laid back boy:)

I guess since the boy has teeth coming in we should introduce him to some solid food. Funny how you put this off with the second child. We couldn't wait to feed Parks his first "real meal"...now, who has the time??? Pop a bottle in his mouth and DONE...I know, we're awful! Anyway, Davis enjoyed his rice cereal and big brother enjoyed helping out with feeding him.

Baby Davis

Davis is super busy growing these days. He turned 5 months old on Valentine's Day. What a sweet guy he is!! He just likes to sit and smile at whoever is looking at him. These days he is:

***loving his exersaucer...whoever came up with these things is GENIUS!!!!

***smiling when BIG BROTHER comes around.

***learning to turn over from stomach to back...he actually did this for the first time on Christmas Eve (on accident!!), but has only done it a very few times since then...now he's on a mission!!

***finding his voice...so cute when he squeals with delight and coos. Sometimes he looks at you and talks back like he is really saying something (I guess he is!!).

***laughing out loud, but only REALLY belly laughs for Daddy so far (that I know of).

***weighing 16 lbs. 3 oz. at last week's doctor appt.

***fully recovered from last week's stomach virus that he passed on to all of us...yuck!!

***eating 7 oz of formula every 3 or so hours.

***sleeping like a CHAMP...bed at 8:30 PM, up around 6-6:30 AM to eat, back to sleep until around 8...THAT'S MY BOY!!!!

***loving his little play gym that he lays under.

***grabbing whatever he can and jamming it in his mouth...especially the purple fish on his exersaucer.

What a special guy! How we hit the jackpot twice is beyond me, but we sure feel blessed that we did!

My Boy LOVES the snow!!!

We spent most of last week with the Zunker family in Breckenridge, CO...what a good time! We left Davis here with G.G. and Papa Rock (thanks for that, Mom!!!). We figure he can make it with us next year:) We didn't know what Parks would think of the snow, but he just LOVED, LOVED, LOVED it!! He was adorable all bundled up...he never even felt the cold. We put him on skis the first day...we wasn't so keen on that. He preferred just running around and falling down in the snow. We put him back on the skis later in the day and Uncle Johnny and Daddy pushed him back and forth a bit...he tolerated it, but was definitely not ready to hit the slopes! The place we stayed was perfect...right there at one of the main lifts. That worked out well because we could kind of take turns staying down with Parks while the rest of us skied. I'm a fair-weathered skier, so when the snow and wind came, I was GLAD to have Parks as an excuse to stay off the mountain! It was a great trip...thanks Grandma and Pop!!! Parks had a blast making snowballs to throw at us, making snow angels, building and talking to his snowman, Harold (yeah...that's what he named him...not sure where that came from???), eating the snow (yuck, but couldn't stop him!!!), sledding with Daddy, pulling the sled around ("come on, sled!!!"), riding the "gon-go-la", and just hanging out with his fam:)

No more diapers...its POTTY TIME!

Look at my BIG BOY!! Its all about potty time right now at our house. We jumped right in about 2 weeks ago...all was going well, but we all got side-lined with a stomach virus and then went skiing. It was back to diapers for a bit, but now full-steam ahead with the potty training! If Daniel and I (mostly me!!!) are vigilant, we are almost 100%, but Parks has not yet been consistent with asking to go...hopefully that will kick in soon! Doing good, big guy...Momma's proud! Thanks to Aunt Frannie for the big boy undies:)