Whitney came to visit!

I'm sorry I haven't posted in while the lil monster is starting to stay awake longer throughout the day. He honestly is so fun now with all of his smiling and cooing. Michael and I love when he starts "telling stories" ha ha! We had a special treat this month, our great friend Whitney came to visit! Parker loved snuggling with her and mom really loved being able to take a shower that lasted longer than 5 minutes=) I also loved having some adult conversation during the day=) I mean I love "talking" with my lil man but you can't beat sitting and catching up with a great friend. I stole Whitney's pictures that she took while she was here. As you can see Parker has found his hand and boy he loves to suck on it. He actually has found his thumb a couple of times and went to town sucking on it. So we will see if he is going to be a binkie baby or a thumb sucking baby?? He also LOVES his swing and so does mom. He takes about a 3-4 hour nap every morning in that thing. OH it is wonderful I get most of my house work done in the morning and then have the rest of the day to play with my lil man. I had my first time alone with Parker, Michael was away at shooting school for a week. He REALLY missed his lil P while he was away. He couldn't wait to get home and love on him. We were really excited to show daddy that we now sleep 5-6 hours straight through the night WOO HOO! Parker has his two month appt coming up and we are anxious to see how much our lil guy weighs at his 2 month appt. At around a month he was weighing around 12.2 lbs. His ped calls him the football player. The nurse that weighed him couldn't believe how big he was, mommy knows how big he is, she pushed him out, ha ha!!! Well that is about it hope everyone is fantastic. Have a blessed and happy Thanksgiving I know we will!!!!

Our beautiful baby in his Sunday best

I took some pictures of Parker in his Sunday outfit and FINALLY had time to post them. He has just started to smile and coo, it is so wonderful! We had professional pictures taken today so I will hopefully be able to post some of those soon. At 4 weeks Parker was weighing 12.2 lbs so who knows how big our baby is now. I had my 6 week check up and everything looked great. The Keenan family is fantastic. We will be in town from Nov. 26th to Jan 2nd and we can't wait. Michael will leave for a school for a couple of weeks but will then come back to KC!!!! We can't wait for all of our friends and family to meet our WONDERFUL baby boy!

In awe of my friend

What an amazing picture, I took this off of her myspace

I just wanted to take the time to post about my friend who I am truly in awe of. Michael and I met this couple while in North Carolina. Michael was in the same school as my friends husband. I met her at the pool in my apartment complex, at a time when I really needed a good friend God sent her to me and we quickly became good friends. Our husbands also got along great and we enjoyed many date nights together! We unfortunately did not get stationed at the same base so we went our separate ways but still kept in touch. We found out around the sametime that we were pregnant and shared in our joy over the phone. We continued to talk through out our pregnancies updating eachother often and sharing pictures of our bellies over our cell phones. We were both hoping for girls but God had different plans and blessed us both with baby boys. Her baby boy was due exactly one week after Parker. Of course as you all know Parker decided to come late so my friend ended up having her baby the day after I had Parker. How amazing! We talked on the phone as we both sat in the hospital. The only difference is that Parker was beside me as my friend sat without her baby boy because he was taken to another hospital due to some complications. She was very strong about it and had such a good attitude about it all. I was amazed at how well she was handling it. It made me feel bad for complaining about being in the hospital and being so anxious to get home. Her baby has not gotten better, he is a month and 5 days old and they have told her and her husband that he will not ever be able to breathe on his own and basically will never be there mentally. She sat and told me all of this and sounded so strong I on the other hand broke down and began to sob, of course making her cry we both sat on the phone and cried. I didn't know what to say, what do you say? They have decided that it would be best for their baby boy to take him off the breathing machine and of course the nurses and doctors will not do anything to revive him, they will let him go. Over the weekend they had a photographer come in and take professional pictures of their family and the nurses made molds of the baby's hands and feet. I am in awe of my friend and her strength through all of this. She told me she felt blessed to have had this time with him. She chose not to focus on him dying but on him living. I know this has made me realize that the little insignificant problems in my life are really not that bad. I thought I would share this story to make us all appreciate the time we have with your loved ones and not to sweat the small things that happen in life. I pray to God every night that they will find comfort in their time of sorrow. God never gives you something that you can't handle he must know what a strong family they are. Please pray for this family. This post is for my friend to let her know how amazing I think she is, I am blessed to know someone that is so strong and a true inspiration to me.

Happy Halloween

We hope everyone had a wonderful Halloween! Michael and I did; Parker on the other hand slept through most of the trick or treaters. He FINALLY woke up and we stuck him in his tiger costume and took a few pictures. We really wanted to take more but the lil monster was not cooperating. It seems the evenings tend to be when he wants to be a fussy pants, and eat, and eat, and eat. Michael and I really enjoyed all of the cute trick or treaters and we both can't wait until Parker is old enough to take trick or treating. I had to laugh when I told Michael to only give out 2 pieces of candy to each kid, he seemed to follow those instructions with the older kids but when it came to the cute young ones not so much. This lil guy in a monster outfit holding a sword pointed right at Michael when he opened the door really stole Michael's heart and are candy, ha ha! Overall we enjoyed our first Halloween with lil P!