Thanksgiving and Watering Cans

A few weeks ago, Parker and I headed to Brockville for Thanksgiving weekend while Garrett was away shooting a wedding. It was great to see so many people, eat such delicious food, and spend time with relatives, watering cans, guitars, and other things we love. Here are some photos ....

Parker and Mr. Watering Can. As you can see, they really hit it off.

Having a super serious conversation with Abuelita ... I think they're debating turkey vs. ham at Thanksgiving dinner.

Cousin Ali (the bride-to-be!), her fiance Darryl playing guitar, and Parker with Mackenzie, totally into Crowded House songs.

New Sweater Jacket And Yummy Croissant

Here's Parker wearing one of his Christmas presents last year from cousin Caroline -- an awesome sweater jacket!  I think he's ready for the GQ cover.

Parker loves croissants (so does Daddy!), although I call them bread for him.  Here he is all bundled up for a walk the other day, complete with bread in hand.  When ever I say, "Share with Daddy?" he goes, "Yeaaahhh!!!!" and holds it up so I can take a bite.  Best toddler ever.

Followers And Photos

So I just discovered a new feature on Blogger that allows you to "follow" blogs!  So if you're a fan of Parker's Adventures and want to show off, feel free to click the "follow" button in the top left corner!  Or say hi in the comments!  Hi Laura!  On to the photos!

Parker hanging out in his cool-guy shirt.  We're getting hair cuts this Thursday so his hair won't be as crazy.

Parker and Mommy reading a book!  Parker loves books, but I think he loves Mommy more.

It's hard to tell from the photo, but that blurry image on the page Parker is turning is Humpty Dumpty.  He's reading Mother Goose rhymes.  Back in the day he thought us saying Humpty Dumpty was pretty funny but now he's moved on to more sophisticated humour, like armpit tickling and silly dances.

The magic of balloons!  My clever framing cut the marketing material off the balloon.  Ha!  Take that, balloon marketing team!

Parker's favourite new past-time is to stack his MEGA BLOCKS!!!111eleven He has always enjoyed sticking them together and pulling them apart, but it was like a lightbulb went off the other morning and he realized he could stack them vertically in different patterns.  He probably spent about 20 minutes stacking, knocking them over, and re-stacking them.  And he actually has a pretty good eye for colour patterns, oftentimes gathering all the green ones and sticking them together, then moving on to purple, and so on.  

Here you can see how he stacked a bunch of orange ones next to each other, then some purple, and now he's working on some yellow.  He had some pretty nice patterns going on.  Genius?  Mayhaps.....

Not that there's any pressure or anything to be an artist.............

Climbing the stairs!

Cousin Kellen

Here's Parker's little cousin Kellen!  I think he was a bit thrown off by my camera (although it IS hypnotic).

Parker Doing Little Boy Things

Here are some random photos of Parker being a cute little boy!

While he was running around with the wooden spoon, I was trying to teach him to say it.  SPOOOOOON!

One of his favourite past-times is to climb the stairs.  He especially likes to do it if he thinks we're not watching him, but he always gives himself away by squealing and giggling!

He figured out that he can sit on the stairs, which he thinks is pretty sweet.

Brushing his hair with a......meat basting brush thing?

Hanging out, being cute.

Greenview Aviaries

While we were in Dresden we went to Greenview Aviaries to look at all of the crazy animals. Here are a bunch of photos in no particular order:

Parker pointing to the swings and giong, "Weeeeeee!" He calls swings (and slides) "weeee".


Parker and Papa on the swings!



When Parker saw this little duck he pointed and said, "Ming Ming!" Haha! Too much TV for you, Parker Bear.


Parker and this baby goat were BFFs. The baby goat came right over as soon as Parker got near the fence so they could hang out.

Scary lion! Are they sure it can't jump over that fence....?

This wolf totally wanted to eat Parker. It followed us all along the cage as we walked by, licking its lips and sort of pacing back and forth.

Parker has a pop-up book about a crocodile and he's getting closer to being able to say it! It sounds kind of like, "Crocdaahh!"

More of Parker's friends, the baby goats.


This was super cute: Parker had a bunch of little Goldfish snacks in the cup-holder on his stroller, and he wanted to share them with the Alpaca! He held them out towards his little food dish and waved them around, so my dad put a few in and the Alpaca ate them. Parker was pleased.



Riding a dinosaur! ROAR!

More Dresden Shenanigans

Parker sporting his new fall shirt.

Eating a delicious lunch of his favourite foods:  peas, macaroni (shaped like Disney characters, no less), raspberries, watermelon, and kidney beans.  Mmmmm....

Playing with his new toy, one of those things you push along the floor and the balls inside pop around.

Parker on the move!

Parker loves sitting in this little chair.  He pushes it around all over the house, and then he'll randomly sit down in it, look around, smile, and get back up and continue pushing.  I think he likes how he can sit in it and his feet touch the floor.  And I think he also likes how he can sit in it all by himself, like a big boy.

Older Dresden Videos

The last time we were in Dresden (I think it was about two weeks after Parker learned how to walk) we took a bunch of photos and videos with my parents' camera.  I didn't get a chance to post them then but now that we're back I've copied them over to my computer.  Here they are for your viewing pleasure.

Here he is sporting the latest in fall fashion:  the "I Just Escaped From Prison Pajamas".

Parker all cozied up in the big chair with a sippy cup of milk.  Mmmm.....  milk....

Here's Parker running around with a car and making the car sound, until he's distracted by how much fun it is to open and close the flap on his toy bag.

And here's Parker totally hypnotized by the giganticness of Nana and Papa's TV.