Parker Update

I haven't done much of an update on Parker in forever other than his birthday party so I thought I'd share some things about him!

If you couldn't tell by his Lego birthday party, he is really into Legos!

Not only does he like playing with them, but he loves building the sets! Many of the sets he has, he built by himself! I'm so impressed that he can read the instructions and get the creations built right! There are some pieces he usually needs help with or figuring out the directions but otherwise he is really good at Legos!

 He also likes building his own creations with just a bucket of bricks. For his birthday, I bought a cedar chest from Goodwill, sanded it, and painted it. Grandma Gail bought some Lego plates that  I glued to the top of the trunk, in addition to a bunch of extra plates for just building.

It came out pretty good!

Lately Parker has been really into writing and crafts. He loves to write cards for people. I bought a ton of blank cards and he has written many! He loves writing on the magna doodle, drawing pictures, painting, and cutting. He is obsessed with spelling lately! He wants to know how to spell everything! He loves cutting too.

He made crowns for him and Beckham.

He loves playing outside and we are both so glad the weather is better! We love going to the park, having picnics, playing on the playground, going to the creek, taking walks, and going for bike rides. 

We love Hummel Park for the creek and bike trails!

We got a new wagon that is much comfier for two!



A little selfie video action in the bike trailer :)

(He's in the blue shirt.) 

He has always been pretty adventurous! I was glad to see him socializing with other kids too! He can be shy at times.

He loves his brother!

He did gymnastics at Westside last spring and he was interested in going again this year. So I signed him for the 2nd spring session which ended last week and again for the first summer session. He really enjoys it and he is getting better!

Being at home this year is nice, because I got to sign him up for the daytime class! It is so much calmer during the day and the class is small.

He also did swim lessons at BDHS in March. He did well but it kind of was a chaotic session. I will probably look somewhere else next time.

Parker also loves working out in the basement, mostly with daddy but sometimes I get in there too. He can certainly show us a move or two ;)

Earlier this year I started checking out preschools and found one in Avon that I really liked called Apple House Preschool Cooperative. I was just a bit late on finding it because his age class was already full. However, he is the first kid on the waitlist so I am pretty confident he'll make it in. We took a tour a few weeks back and although he wanted to stay in the car while I went it, he ended up really liking it!

He went straight to the name writing station when they started free time :)

They planted seeds that day and let Parker do one too. I cracked up at how he wrote all the letters backwards because he had to write it vertically!

If you remember when we redid the bedrooms last spring, we bought Parker a new bed that was actually a bunk bed. We had the intentions of putting them together once Beckham was bigger. Well, Parker really wanted them together now. He really thought Beckham was going to be able to sleep on the bottom since he can stand in his crib but we explained that he's still too small :)

yep, just a tad too small ;)

He fell asleep watching me sit in the rocking chair :)

Parker has always been a big book lover! He really enjoys reading alone and also now with Beckham.

Now just some hodge podge pics and vids...

He LOVES helping cook!!

Cat jammies made by grandma Laurie

reading with his friends and granny

Clint has been working in Bloomington for a while so we met him for lunch and visited the Wonderlab. It was a lot of fun!

Parker loves to use the filters on Snapchat and this is one of my favorites:

clean teeth!

celebrating daddy's birthday!

Hanging out with grandpa before they moved.

indoor park day

Batman!!

I can't believe how fast he is growing and changing! 

Spring Break in Destin

I may not be teaching this year but I still got to go on a spring break vacation :) Clint was really slow at work one week and a couple of his friends were going to be in Destin, so we decided on a whim to go down there as well! I booked a condo on AirBnB on Sunday and we left Indy on Tuesday night. We went the last week of March for 4 nights and it was just right!

We left about 9:30 on Tuesday night and made it down there with stopping just twice! Both times it was because we needed gas. The boys did great driving overnight and slept really well. It was also nice driving at night because there was no traffic! 

Beckham the gas station party animal at 3am!

Because we booked last minute there wasn't a lot of accommodations to choose from. However, the condo we booked was great! It was in the middle of  Destin so everything was close by. Our little 'neighborhood' of condos had a nice pool and it was right across the street from the beach. We also had a nice view of a lake out our back door. We had a full kitchen which we liked because we ended up bringing most of the food we ate. We went out for pizza one night and breakfast one morning. The pizza was pretty good but the breakfast was ok. Now that we are traveling with 2 kids, we would rather not spend a lot of time at restaurants. There's not much worse that waiting forever for a table with a tired toddler or baby just to wait more at the table for you food. We also saved a ton of money by bringing and making our food! 

The water was a bit chilly but the weather was great! We enjoyed going for wagon walks, getting ice cream, floating in the pool, and digging all over the beach! We are super excited to take our beach babes to Myrtle Beach in July!