Parker is also growing and moving like crazy. He has started swim lessons again and loves the pool. We have gone to the splash pool at the YMCA a couple of times and he does so well. He is so independent he runs in the water till he falls and refuses to let me hold his hand. He doesn't mind going under water if he falls, having the water rain down from the waterfall mushroom, or if he puts his face in on his own but doesn't like it if we put him under. He can count to 5, but usually skips 4. He can say A-B-C, and sings his own version of the alphabet. He loves music and loves to sing and dance. He talks up a storm, and will try to mimic anything you say. He has the funniest personality, and is the most amazing child ever!!
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Parker is a helper. He wants to do anything that I am doing, including cooking. In order to make dinner I have to give Parker his own cooking utensils and let him "stir" his own food. I try to pretend to put ingredients in by shaking the spices with lids on, but he is too smart for that. I normally end up putting some oatmeal or cereal in his bowl and have him stir it with blocks or something easily washable.
Notice the spatula in his hand here too. He was helping make dinner, but got hungry before it was done. He ended up using the spatula as his spoon and ate his whole dinner with it.
We turned the box from Parker's swing set into a clubhouse for him while the boys put the swing set together.
My little klutz has begun to climb, but he isn't very good at it. Parker has no grace or balance! Here he was trying to climb over the arm into the chair, but he got stuck half way there. In a matter of 2 days Parker fell enough times to cut the back of his head open on a rock, fall on his face and skin his chin, run into the futon and bruise his eye, fall and skin his knee, fall and skin his forehead, fall and skin the same knee in the same place for the second time in one day. From what I have heard that is just like his father when he was little. Let's hope he outgrows this cause he is going to give me a heart attack!
