Parker and Baby Brayden

Our friends Dan and Lauren came over for dinner Friday night with their new little guy, Brayden. Parker absolutely adores baby Brayden and is all over the poor little kid. He gave Brayden hugs and kiss, and would go up to him and tickle him. Parker even loved his baby car seat, and decided he needed to sit in it and play in it. Brayden was born May 8, so he is exactly two years and a few days younger than Parker.

Oh yeah, Parker even held baby Brayden. This is his first time holding a baby all on his own, and he was a champ at it!

Parker's Birthday Party

Opening his first present.

Getting ready to sing Happy Birthday.

He got his Buzz Lightyear and Woody toys and couldn't have been happier!

Yeah! He got a turtle sandbox from Aunt Susie, Uncle Ron, and Hopie. I had the same one as a kid.

Easter

Some Randoms

One afternoon, Parker kept pulling his bibs out of the drawer and insisting I keep putting them on him, until he had all the clean bibs we had on. This is the result.

Double Trouble!

Goofing around.

Playing with daddy.

Back Splash

Tim and I had our back splash put in in the kitchen finally this past weekend. This is the view of the side of the kitchen.

Here is the main part.

...and here is the rest of it.

Parker Update

He is finally starting to actually look at the camera once in a while and say "cheese" to me! Granted, he has his milk cup dangling from his mouth, but hey, it is a start.

I was watching our neighbor's eight year old daughter on Friday, and Parker snagged her DS. He just liked pushing the buttons. This expensive little toy kept him entertained for quite some time.

Reading with daddy.

Some days the weather is actually nice enough to go outside and play in.

Blowing bubbles with daddy. He loves to have the bubbles floating over, and then he likes to say "Pop! Pop! Pop!" which he got from one of his Sesame Street books.

Where's Parker?

Peek-a-boo! Here he is!

Graceland

I have been wanting to go check out Graceland for a while now. Since we are only about five hours away, Tim and I decided to go a few weekends ago. So, we left Parker with our friends the Caseys overnight, and headed on over to Memphis. We stayed at the Heartbreak hotel, and toured entire mansion, which wasn't as big as I expected, and got to see all things Elvis. There was a car museum dedicated to his cars, and fashion museum with all of his clothes, and his two planes were open for tour. It was a pretty neat tour, something I can now check off my bucket list for sure.
It was insane the amount of gold and platinum records Elvis has received. There were walls upon walls lined with them, and he is still receiving them since his records are still selling.

In front of the famous pink caddy!