An Hour in the Life of Parker

Tanner has been going to preschool two days a week in the mornings. That leaves me and Parker with a couple of hours to hang out. One morning he was just as funny as could be, and here is the picture and video journal of his morning.

Here he is sitting in the fridge drawer as I cleaned out the fridge.

Josh and Scouting

Josh just finished his first year of scouting, and I think he rather enjoyed himself. He earned his Bear award this past Monday night, and now moves on to Webelos. (For all you non-scouters out there, we just learned that that means WE BE LOyal Scouts.) We are looking into some day camps for him and Luke. (Yes, Luke will start this summer as a Wolf.) Am I using too may parantheses? (I feel like I am today.) Anyway, our first year of scouting went relatively well. Josh earned lots of belt loops and some arrow points for his uniform, and he is looking forward to next year. Luke is beside himself at the thought of starting scouts. Of course, that could be because the scouters are the first ones at Pack Meeting to get treats, and they often get two. I hope he wants to do the activites as much as he wants to eat the treats. I guess we'll find out soon enough.

Science Projects

Luke and Josh were in a science club this year, and as part of the club, they both did science projects. Each of them did a project with a friend, so we worked on two projects. (Note to self: Next year make them work together so that Mom only has one project to help with instead of two.) Josh and his friend Heidi did a project on growing salt and sugar crystals, and Luke and his friend Luke (how's that for confusing) did one on making electromagnets. Shane helped with that one, thank you Honey!! Here are some of their pictures:



I can't seem to find where I put Luke's pictures. He and Shane made their magnets with copper-coated wires and nails. They got to use a drill to wrap the wire around the nail, and then hooked the wires to a battery and tried to pick up washers. Those two boys had a great time seeing how many washers they could pick up.

The science fair was kind of nice to do in that the projects weren't graded, and everyone who participated got a ribbon. There was no 1st place, 2nd place, no place. Maybe we can even do this again next year. =>

Luke's Color Program

The first graders at Luke's school put on a little musical about colors yesterday. He was so nervous, but he did so well. He even danced and sang quite a bit, which really impressed his mother. Sometimes he's not so excited about doing those things, but he did a great job. He even had his two parts memorized and said them so we could understand them. Good job, Luke!

Sorry Grandma Medellin!! and the Sonic Stealer

I was talking with my dear mother-in-law, and she informed me that Grandma Medellin says I'm not blogging enough. I guess I have been waiting for something big and wonderful or dramatic to write about, but life is pretty "normal" around here and I haven't been that inspired. I guess I just need to focus on the everyday "fun" and craziness that makes up our life around here. So, Grandma, this blog is for you. And I promise that I will try to blog a lot more often from now on.

I came home from a meeting last Saturday with the dregs of a Sonic strawberry limeaid. It had yummy chunks of strawberry in it, along with the lovely little pieces of ice. I was looking forward to eating the chunks with a spoon, and put down the cup for just a minute while I went to get my stuff out of the car. A minute was all it took for Parker to hijack my drink.

Our Little Nut

Shane gave each of the kids a "nut" nickname over the weekend. Kaitlin is "coconut", Josh is "peanut", Luke is "walnut" (which he hates, by the way), Tanner is "peppernut" , and Parker is "acorn." This post is about "Acorn" and his new found nuttiness.

Parker has developed a fascination with belly buttons. He read a book showing baby parts, and then he saw a Veggie Tale movie about veggies without belly buttons, and now he tries to find them all the time. Hence these pictures:



Trying to find Josh's belly button:


He also likes to hide out behind the computer, mostly because Leo, our cat, likes to sleep there. Before we took out the red-eye, this was a pretty mean looking picture:



He also figured out that he could tuck his legs inside his onesie, and this resulted:


He sure has been a funny little duck lately.

Easter Fun

The schools here only give us 2 days for a spring break, but they add an extra day just before Easter so families have more together time. So on Friday, we had a early egg-decorating session with the kids home, and then did a small Easter egg hunt. It wasn't quite as fun as Grandma Clayson's, but I think the kids enjoyed it. Tanner kept saying, "Look at how beautiful my eggs are!" All of his were blue, and most of them had a "T" on them. He has figured out that that is the first letter of his name, and now he looks for them everywhere. When he finds one he says, "There is my T!" You may have noticed that Parker is not decorating eggs with us. I was a big chicken and decided that my nerves would remain intact if Parker weren't trying to tip the colors over, so he took a nap while the others colored eggs. He did love the egg hunt, though.


Here is a little video about our egg hunt. Fortunately this was a good day weather-wise, and we were able to do it outside with no rain.