Update

My dear friend Katie had her bridal shower on Saturday and I got to make her cake for her. She said that she didn't care what it looked like so I decided to go very nontraditional. Amanda helped me make it and Kiersten watched Parker while we made it. They were such a great help. 

We have been swimming with Parker and he has been getting pretty good. Here is a video of him swimming to Steve. 

Job

Steve's job finally got his background check finished and he will start on Monday! I am so excited for him to be able to start working and to start this new chapter in our lives. Steve also had another chest x-ray to make sure that things are clearing up in his lungs and everything is looking good. He has some scarring in his lungs, but we are just happy at how quickly everything has cleared up. We got Parker's hair cut again. Only this time we had it cut the shortest it has ever been. He looks a lot older now, but I do realize that my little baby is growing up and is now a big boy. It is hard to call him a big boy instead of my baby. I will post pictures soon of Parker's new hair cut.

One smart boy

We give Parker our old cell phones to play with because he likes to talk  on phones. Well yesterday he got one of them and figured out that he could plug them in to the same chargers that we use for our own cell phones and he could get his to turn on. So he did it and here is a video of him doing it. He definitely got his daddy's smarts about electronics. He also figured out how to open up the xbox 360 and take out the DVD and put a new one in and close it up. Then he will turn on the TV. And right now while I am writing this on the laptop he got the power cord and put it in for me. He is growing up so fast.

I forgot to put up Parker's 18 month measurements last month so here they are.

Weight- 25.8 (25%)

Height- 34 1/4 (95%)

Head- 19 1/2 (95%)

Yes we have one skinny boy. 

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.