Where does the time go?????

It never fails I try to be better about posting and then I look up and it has been months since my last post. Like my title of this blog says seriously where does the time go? Well since my last post daddy has come home from his deployment and life couldn't be better. All of the pieces that were missing, now fit perfectly together to make this beautiful thing called "family!" It truly feels like our family is complete with him home. We are so not looking forward to the next deployment which isn't too far away, but let's not talk about that yet;) It took a couple of weeks for Parker to really warm up to Michael but now it's as though the never left. Michael is honestly such a wonderful father any chance he can get to take Parker out and explore and do "guy" things he jumps on it. When it was warm it seemed like every weekend they would go to the river together and of course Parker loved it but I think Michael enjoyed it just as much if not more. The chance to bond with his son meant so much to him. He is such a hands on father and I am so appreciative of all that he does for me and his son! So as you can imagine with all of this male bonding time Parker is back to waiting at the front door when he sees daddy's car pull in the driveway after work, and he usually is jumping up and down so anxious to begin their nightly routine of wrestling, tackling, fort building (with my couch cushions) and just being roudy boys;) I guess I am not sufficient enough at this "wrestling" thing, because he has no desire to wrestle with me. It truly is amazing to see how much Parker is really starting to understand things. For example the other night we were having an all family wrestling moment, where daddy would pretend to sleep and Parker and I would count to three and tickle him well we were worn out and I got up to start dinner when I hear little fake snores coming from the floor we turn to see Parker pretending to sleep, snores and all peeking through one eye anxiously awaiting the tickle torture;) We thought it was so cool! I also am proud to see we have officially somewhat started to show interest in potty training well maybe not potty training but at least discomfort with a nasty diaper, where as before he could care less;) I was cooking the other day and he came into the kitchen shook my pant leg and said "mommy poop yuck" ha ha ha! I have never been so excited for my child to poop his pants! Like I said it's a start and we will take it considering we have heard little boys are harder to potty train, I can tell you right now it's not going to be an easy process with Mr.Parker, getting him to sit at all is hard let alone sit on a potty until he goes to the bathroom ughhh the horror ha ha ha! As always here is a smorgasbord of pictures! Well hopefully I will post before Christmas if not have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New YEAR!!!!