Peek-a-BOO!

So much for my planned blog-o-rama tonight. I got overly involved in two television programs (thank goodness for Tivo!) and between watching those and folding laundry, I simply could not divert my attention anywhere else! At least one of the programs was watching my Gamecocks win the first game of the College World Series, but the other one is a guilty pleasure I'd rather not admit! Both programs were fantastic tonight though! :)

Anyway, before I head to bed, I did think I'd share one more picture.

Part of our staging the house to put it up for sale involved installing curtains on all the windows that didn't previously have them. Parker loves the added toys and loves to play peek-a-boo in the curtains when I let him. He wraps himself up in the curtain completely and then emerges with a great big smile. He's so cute, how can I say "no"?

Washing the dog...or not!

There was about a day between when Thomas stopped running a fever and Parker started running one during our recent bout with Hand Foot & Mouth. On that day, Trey let the boys "help" him wash our dog. This basically meant that Trey washed the dog while the boys played with the water hose.


It looks like Thomas was just fine!




Finally Parker got his turn...


He was mighty pleased!


When did our baby get so BIG!?!?


This is such a "Parker look." When he is up to something (usually that he should not be doing!), he has his tongue out just like that. He has that look quite a lot!


Thomas was happy when it was his turn again...to torture his brother some more...






These boys just love the water...in all forms!

Bumps, bugs and waterbugs

June has been a crazy month. We had a trip to the mountains. We have spent a good bit of time in the water. And Thomas had a short stint* at camp (*reason why stint was so short is to follow). We have put our house on the market and had four showings, one offer and no contracts. Things are crazy. But the most crazy parts of the month have been the accidents and illnesses...

Parker has decided he loves to bump his head...

(As soon as that got better (well, after it moved down into his eyes and gave him slightly black eyes), he fell on the hard floor and got another bruise there...though no more goose egg, thank goodness!)

And Thomas went to camp at his school for Weird Science week just long enough to pick up his first true case of Hand Foot & Mouth disease. He had a fever up to nearly 105 for the first few days and then the "spots" started appearing on, well, his hands, feet (one foot, actually) and in his mouth. As soon as he started to get better, Parker started with the fever and his own set of spots (hands and mouth). They were a pathetic pair!


Thank goodness there were no house showings during that week of fun. But as soon as they got better, there were two (no luck with either). To escape one last Thursday I took the boys up to the lake at my parents' house (it was the first day they were well enough and not contagious so we could actually leave the house!). Then on Friday I took them to the water park at James Island County Park (that was insanely crazy...don't think I'll go back on a Friday again. The big kids were so rude, it was alarming. I even pulled one kid off the slide at one point who cut in front of me and Parker!). On Saturday we avoided the water, but on Sunday we spent nearly three hours at the pool. I definitely have two water bugs on my hands...but at least they are finally (knock on wood!) WELL water bugs!

I plan to do my very best to catch up on some way overdue blogs tonight while I watch the Gamecocks at the College World Series. Hopefully the boys won't drive me insane between now and then so that I can accomplish this feat!

Eight years

On June 22nd, Trey and I celebrated eight years of marriage. What a crazy eight years it has been! Hopefully for the next eight we can actually live together in the same house every single night (though not in the house where we are now!). That will be a welcome change after all the traveling and work/military-caused separation of our first eight years.

We haven't been able to have a date night yet for our anniversary, but on that night we did take the boys out to a restaurant of their choice (Thomas picked Jim N' Nicks...he loves cheese biscuits!). Afterward, we walked around the block to the church where we were married. Eight years ago we exited those doors as man and wife. And now our boys played on those very same steps.







I don't have access to most of our pictures and only a few are online, but here's a few I found. One of my favorites and the best one I have on those same steps...

And us leaving the church.

Happy eight years to my terrific husband! I wonder what the next eight years will bring? :)

Parker Hammumumumum

So I've totally fallen off the blogosphere, and I'm sorry. Trey started a new job and he's home every night. I started this blog mostly to help him keep up with us while he was gone, but that's not a necessity anymore. However, I also blog to keep a record of our lives, and there is still a need for that! However, since I last blogged, we decided to put our house on the market and we finally have done that, but not without a considerable amount of work and effort. And Thomas finished school for the summer...and we've just been generally busy. Now I'm so behind and I have so many posts to make that I'm so overwhelmed every time I even think about it. But I will do it...but not tonight.

What I will do is try to share a little video of Parker. He is such a little chatty boy and I keep thinking how I need to video it to remember these little conversations he has. He cracks me up. And his sentence structure is not great, but I must say, I find his verbal skills quite impressive for a 25 month old. He does say things like, "Want it, that," or "Do it, self" or "Mommy, get it, truck." But he does talk so much! Anyway, so hopefully this video shares a little of our life these days. And the smile at the very end is something I can rarely catch on camera with him, but it is so very Parker. He is a mess! Oh, and I should say, what he is doing in this video is pretending he's running a Chick-Fil-A out of his "house." It's something the boys do quite a lot. We don't even go to CFA that often anymore, but they love to do this (when Thomas play ordered a "number 2 combo with fries and a lemonade and a chicken sandwich with no butter on the bun and no pickles" I decided we were going a bit too much!).


Photo Sharing - Video Sharing - Photo Printing
I promise I will try to make some serious updates to this blog soon!