Parker's Resolution

I may have mentioned here and here and I'm sure in several other blog posts that Parker does not eat "big people" food.  He has had a texture aversion since the first time we tried giving him puffs at 7 months old.  Since then we have been on stage 2 and some stage 3 baby foods with an occasional smooth macaroni and cheese but that was it!  I think Parker has resolved to fix that this year!  I am not sure but this morning he ate some hash brown casserole that I made for brunch yesterday and for lunch, since he did so well with the hashbrowns, I tried giving him some of the leftover egg frittata I made.  Once again he ate that too! 

I guess since he's a walking boy he'd like to be an eating "big" boy food boy too!  Fine with me, I wouldn't mind us all sitting down at the dinner table and eating the same food together, now that would be awesome!

Hopefully Parker won't be amongst the majority who fail at their New Year's Resolutions.  We'll see!

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year bloggy family!  (Aaron so lovingly refers to my bloggy friends, facebook and WTE as my internet family so you guys are definitely my bloggy family!)

I wish you all an amazing 2010 and can't wait to see how the blog world turns. (Ha! I crack myself up!)  Seriously though, I hope you all start your year off with an amazing bang and would love to hear how you all spent your New Year's Eve/Day.

Later today I am having my side of the family over for brunch.  For New Year's Eve we just hung out as a family and relaxed.  I thought this might bother me but I am happy to be sitting here blogging and watching t.v. with Aaron.  There is nothing better than family!

Happy 2010!

Resolution Success

One year ago today I made a resolution here saying I would blog more this year and here I am, 130 something posts later saying I feel successful!  That is a little more than 1 post every 3 days, not too bad for someone who blogged a total of 6 times last year.  Yes it was my first year but 6 posts was not much, especially with the big events of last year. 

Cheers to 2009 and Welcome 2010, I can't wait to see what you have in store for me.  My 2009 resolution of blogging more is one I would like to continue with this coming year!  It is something I love and feel I can be completely successful at, what an awesome resolution!

Transition

I think we are in the transition stage. Most of tonight (and apparently most of today according to his day care) Parker has been walking to everything. I mean, he sits down for 5 seconds once he has reached the toy he was going for, but when he's ready to move on (in seriously 5 seconds) he stands up and wobbles on over!

"Here it is", "get ready" and "your life is never going to be the same," are just a few of the comments I have heard as we've begun this walking journey. I'm just curious, Parker could get everywhere in our house before, and rather quickly crawling I might add, and whenever I ask anyone how it changes they always say "it just does." What does that mean? I mean I know he's growing up, understanding more, getting bigger, but what does the walking actually change? (Other than the fact that I am now a super proud mommy to a walker rather than a speed crawler, of course!) He could already stand, take a couple steps and cruise, so if he wanted to get into that top utensil drawer, he could! What should I be watching for?

Now I would LOOOVE to show you all a video of this walking but I still don't know how to post them in blogger. Before I went to the new formatting of posts there was just a button on the bottom to add them and now there is not. I tried putting one on youtube and then putting it here with the embedding code and didn't work. Do I have other options, am I missing something? Help a sister bloggy friend out!

I Want to Cry

While this is not a sad post, it completely is to me.  I suck lately.  What the heck is my problem?  Believe me, I had time to blog in the past two weeks (TWO WEEKS!).  I even thought about things I needed to blog about, and yet still.... NOTHING.  It makes me mad at myself and sad.  I wish I could use the excuse that in that time, I was sick, Aaron was sick and Parker was sick, but they would be just that, excuses.  True ones, but still, I could have found the time to blog and I didn't.  Does anyone else care, I'm sure not really, because let's face it, it's not the end of the world to John Doe's mother's cousin's uncle that reads my blog if I go two weeks without updating.  But I have missed out on my own two weeks of life.  I guess due to laziness?  Maybe so!  I'm going to try and be better, I might even add a picture or two to this post.  I know, crazy, huh?!

So let's see what's really been going on.  I had inventory at work, which really sucks because we work for 3 days for 12 hour shifts.  Not that that is necessarily bad in itself (it's long, don't get me wrong) but it's 12 hours of logging and data entry and that my friends, is boring.  No catching up on blogs, facebook or twitter.  Just zombie eyes counting parts and entering numbers into the computer.  So those 3 days I give myself an excuse for not blogging.  3 out of 15 ain't bad, right?

Parker is getting cuter every single day.  No really, he is, I'm not being biased!  We visited Santa in the beginning of the month and he didn't even cry, what an angel!  See:

Right now Parker actually probably has pneumonia.  He has had an awful cough for about 3 weeks and when we took him in on Sunday they did a chest x-ray and they saw some slightly abnormal spots that were probably pneumonia.  There was not a radiologist there to confirm so the doctor decided to treat with antibiotics for the time being as a precaution.  Last night was the first relatively free cough free night so I'm hoping it's helping.  By coughing I don't mean *cough cough.*  It's more like *cough, gag, choke, gasp for air, cough, choke, gag* so I'm hoping we're done with that because staring at the motion sensor monitor all night was not good for my sleeping needs.  Just sayin'!

In other Parker news he's so close to walking it's ridiculous.  He has taken about 5 or 6 steps at a time and then falls, so we're not exactly there yet, but we're definitely close!  Here is a video, this was when he first started and he's better now but the mamarazzi in me has not yet caught it on video.
Ok I am blog/video retarded. I tried to upload the video from youtube and it's not working. Can someone please give me step by step instructions as I tried to just paste the "embed" code or whatever into the "edit html" section and it didn't work. *insert sad face here* HELP! (In case you're dying to see it, here's the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3et3gi3AJA)


Other than that we are all geared up for Christmas.  We will have Christmas breakfast at our house with part of Aaron's family and then Christmas dinner at my mom's house with my whole side of the family.  No wrapping has been done but we are done shopping, so I am happy about that!  And here I am saying it, it will be sooner rather than later before I post again!

It's Beginning.

To look a lot like Christmas. Or something! 

This morning while driving riding to work (as the passenger, love you Aaron!) the rain just looked funny.  Like it was splotchy and... WHITE!  That's right, this morning, in sunny California at a seasoned 36 degrees we were driving through...

Yes, that is SNOW!  It does NOT snow where I live.  I mean, obviously it does, but it's not anything we regularly see, or had yet to see until this morning.  Let me just tell you I was so excited to have my camera (even if I forgot the memory card so I could only take ONE picture) to take that clear vibrant snowy fuzzy, messy but SNOWY picture!

It was dark out still and I rolled down the window to try and show the snow was sticking to the sides of the road and obvously you can't really tell (unless you were there) but those flurries are the real deal.  This was a great way to start the week and made the traffic worth sitting in!

Mother of the Year, Again?

So I think this will be a new tradition for me, to see how many times I can get this award in just one year's time.  I just realized when I was complaining to Jessica that I had not seen pictures from her recently that I have not taken a picture of Parker in about a month.  Seriously?  I let a month slip by without a picture?  Well he did get professional ones done thanks to my mom (who took him when we were in Vegas) so I do have proof of his existence for the month but I can't believe I did that.  Tonight I'm going to shove that camera in his face until he cries.  Ok ok, I'm not going to do that obviously, but I feel like I missed out.  I mean it wasn't like I haven't taken the camera with me, it's in the car, I even had it inside on Thanksgiving, why didn't I take any pictures?  I have no reason, but just know that in the next few days you may be blown away with all the pictures I post, I hope!