The good and the bad

We have had a very busy couple weeks. To start off Steve got a job. It is in East Mesa. He will be programing simulations to train soldiers in the military. He will be starting the background check soon and then hopefully will start working soon. That is the good news. The bad news is that Steve is in the hospital. I took him the the ER while we were up in Bullhead City visiting his parents a week and a half ago on Saturday. They told us he had bronchitis and a virus. With sleep and good rest he should get better in a few days. We came home and he wasn't really getting better. Finally on Wednesday he agreed to go to urgent care to see why he was still so sick. Walked in and they took his vitals and told us if they couldn't get his breathing up we would have to go to the ER. Well they couldn't so we went to the ER. Turns out he has a very severe case of pneumonia and he also has influenza. So they admitted him right away.  His release date keeps getting pushed back because he isn't improving very quickly. Yesterday they pushed his release date to the 2nd of April. When we first got to the hospital they put him into isolation and he is still in a isolation room. They made us put on these masks, gloves and gowns. Now we don't have to put them on unless we get within three feet of him. And on another note I had to take Parker into the doctor on Friday because he was getting sick also and we didn't want him to get what Steve has. It turns out that he just has another ear infection and is on antibiotics and should get better soon. I just want to say thank you to all our friends and family who have helped us during this time. 

FUN

Parker, Amanda, Kiersten, Mom and I were able to go to a rodeo a few weeks ago. Parker loved to see the horses, cattle and bulls. But most of all he loved to eat the Cowboy Popcorn. 

Parker got a puzzle awhile ago that has the alphabet on cardboard pieces. Well he decided that those pieces needed to go inside the Wii. So he ejected the disk in the Wii and started putting in puzzle pieces. And of course we didn't notice him doing this (because he is sneaky).  So the next time we started the Wii we couldn't figure out why it wasn't working. Then we saw the disk hidden and figured it out. Steve had to take apart the Wii to get the puzzle pieces out. We were so worried that it wasn't going to work and even more worried that we would lose all our data. All that hard work to pass Mario Kart (April would love that). Well my brilliant husband was able to not only get the pieces out but it worked and still had all our data on it. If you look really hard on the last picture you can see in the circle holes blue and pink, those are the puzzle pieces. 

Here are a few pictures of what we do during the day. Yes, that is Parker in our entertainment center reading his books.

 

Wii

We got Mario Kart Wii a few weeks ago and Parker has decided to start playing with us. He is so cute to watch play. Here is a video of him playing. 

All play

As Parker grows he is becoming more active and even more brave. The other week we took Parker to McDonald's and let him go on the playground by himself. I was so nervous because it was a Saturday and there were a lot of kids playing. We let him play at the play ground in the park so I figured that he would be able to handle this. Well he did. He had so much fun climbing up to the top  and then climbing down the slide, yes, climbed down the slide. 

Here is Parker with Steve's sunglasses on. He thinks he is so cool. 

Words

Parker's vocabulary has been growing so quickly. He really likes to say yes and no to questions that you ask him. Well today I asked him if he wanted to go take his bath and he said no and shook his head at the same time. And it was so funny. All day long whenever we ask him something and he wants to say no to it he will shake his head also and then laugh with us afterwards. He has started to say short sentences. Just small things like "Who is it?" or "What is that?". It is amazing to see him understand pretty much everything we say. He is growing up so fast.

Christmas

We had so much fun together for Christmas. On Christmas Eve Parker woke up from his nap with a temperature of 103.1 and we decided to call our pediatrician to see if we should bring him in or just wait and see if Tylenol would work. He said just to give him Motrin and Tylenol and see if it worked and it did. But Christmas morning again he had another high temperature but it went away with more medicine. It was like that off and on for a few days and then he started putting his finger in his ear so it was time to take him in. He ended up having pretty severe ear infections in both ears. But other than that we had a great Christmas and Parker loves his new toys.

 Here is Parker with his new vacuum. He was vacuuming his new playhouse. It was so cute!

trip and gingerbread houses

My friend Katie and I went to California this weekend for the OC swap meet. It was so much fun. It was an all day activity. We walked around and around looking at all the shops and found some pretty good deals. Then we went on an auto ferry. I have never been on one before and it was a little weird feeling the car rock back and forth with the waves. Next we went to an art festival and saw a glass blower make a fish. Very cool. Then we went to the beach and later that night went to the mall. Yes, I know what your thinking. Was that really all in one day? Yes, yes it was. We had so much fun and will definitely have to do it again.

We made our traditional gingerbread houses. Parker had a blast doing it this year. Every time we handed him a piece of candy he would try to put it in his mouth and we would have to stop him and show him he could put it on the house. Every time. It was like he wanted to lick every piece before putting it on.

Here is mine.

Parker's.

Stephen's.