Kansas City Visit!!!

As you can see from the pictures we have had a blast in Kansas City!! I am always sad to leave, it is extremely hard not to live close to family. Even more so now that we have Parker. BUT I am excited to return home and see Michael it has been three weeks now since I have seen him. I know he is dying to get his hands on his baby boy. While we were in KC we celebrated Papa's birthday at Chuckie Cheese, oh the things Papa's will do for thier grandbabies=) Parker was a little overwhelmed at first but actually started to enjoy some of the rides. It was so wonderful to see him get excited when the ride would start up it was priceless. I was so happy that we got to spend time with my mom's side and my dad's side of the family! We celebrated my Aunt's last treatment of chemo WOO HOO by going out to lunch, it was wonderful to see her she is one tough woman! We also enjoyed some quality time with Michael's side of the family but of course I forgot to take a camera (not mine because as always I left it at home in TN) so I don't have any pictures. Hopefully I can get some and post them on here. Parker enjoyed watching his cousins run around and play, one day soon he will be able to join in=) Speaking of running around, Parker took his first steps. He was holding on to the couch and wanted to reach his Nana so he turned around and took two steps to get to her!!! It was exciting and scary all in one. Because with walking comes bumps and bruises and I just don't think I am ready for that. Hopefully it will be a little while longer before he is up and walking. He really shows no interest in crawling he just wants to pull up and stand. I was happy that Nana and Papa got to see it but sad that Michael missed out. It was such a great visit but as always I am extremely sad to leave=(

Professional photos

I was very excited to get Parker's six months pictures taken (six month and 3 weeks to be exact, haha) by our great friend Kayla. She does such an amazing job!!! She sent me a few so I could have a little sneak peek at what is to come. I LOVE them. I can't wait to see all of them. It really made me realize my baby is not looking so much like a baby anymore=( It is exciting and sad to see him growing up.

We hope everyone had a fantastic Easter! Sorry I have been bad about blogging, I heard about it from a few family members (you know who you are, haha). All of the pictures I have posted were taking in the last two days so you can see how big our lil man is getting. He now has two bottom teeth, it makes him look so much older=(. Everyone still thinks he is at least nine months and is shocked when I tell them he is only a little over six months. He is such a delightful child and is getting better with the whole sleep thing so overall he is a pretty easy baby. He looked so stinkin cute in his Easter Sunday outfit but I forgot to put his cute shoes on, oops. I will have to remember those when we go to church in KC next Sunday YAY!! Ok well....... I will try to update the blog a little faster, thanks for keeping up with us!!!

Catchin up....

Sorry it's been awhile since I have updated this. Parker has reverted back to newborn days of waking up to nurse during the night. I thought I had weaned him off but now we are back to nursing twice during the night so mommy is back to feel exhausted during the day ughhh. We went and bought a book on getting your baby to sleep through the night (without just letting them cry until they fall asleep) so hopefully this works. I know it will be a lot of work at first but hopefully it pays off. So hopefully a well rested me will be giving you positive update later=) Anyways as you can see I have caught you up with a ton of pics from the end of February to now. My mother came and visited, what a wonerful visit!! It was so much fun to have her here, and Parker LOVED spending time with his Nana. We are leaving to go back to TN on Saturday so last night we went to spend some time with our friends and Parker's lil girlfriend as you can see in the pics they love eachother, haha ha!!! It was pretty funny Resa was so gentle when touching Parker and then Parker would like suck her face off, oh lil boys!! Parker is finally feeling better after two doctor visits and two different antibiotics=( He still has a runny nose YUCK but he is seems to be feeling much better. All is well here God is good!!

I caved and it was a good thing.....

I decided to take Parker to the doctor last Saturday because the runny nose came back and he started pulling on his ears. Yes EARS plural not one but both. I just knew he had an ear infection and we all know that won't go away without an antibiotic. Michael and I took him to the pediatrician and she only told me what I already knew he had a double ear infection and one ear she said was really bad. She put him on amoxicillian for 10 days. So 8 days later going on little to no sleep and Parker still pulling on his ears I decided to take him back to the pediatrician. Sure enough he still has a double ear infection so now we are on a stronger antibiotic and she gave us numbing ear drops to help him possibly sleep better at night. So last night with the new antibiotic, numbing drops, and Tylenol in his system we thought for sure he would sleep but NO! The antibiotic is really upsetting his stomach, he has extremely bad gas and is not really interested in nursing. Basically we are in for some sleepless nights until he is finished with his medication. Poor baby, I can't wait until this is all over!! The one great thing about going to the pediatrician is we love seeing how much he has grown. He now weighs 19.5 lbs and is in the 95th percentile for his weight and height. Nice, healthy big boy=)

Love to stand up on daddy
Daddy and I laughing together, daddy is so funny

My new Sunday church outfit

LOVE my Valentines Day outfit thank you Nana

I was lucky enough this year to have two very special valentines on Valentines Day! Michael, Parker and I all went out to eat and then to get ice cream. It was a wonderful night. As you can see from the pictures above Nana sent the cutest little Valentines Day outfit. Thanks Nana! Well Parker has officially caught his first cold and I really didn't freak out like I thought I would when he got sick for the first time=) He really never acted sick just had a bad cough and runny nose. He never ran a fever so I held out on taking him to the doctor. I didn't want to be "that" first time mom that takes her baby to the doctor at the sight of a runny nose. Even though I totally wanted to, ha ha! He is doing really good and the runny nose is almost gone, YAY! He is now sleeping through the night again. I felt like I had a newborn again there for awhile because when he was sick he would wake up about every two hours and I would have to clean his nose out, poor baby. So we are hopefully just about through his first cold! Well we hope everyone had a wonderful Valentines Day.

I thought I would post a picture of Parker and me together since I'm always the one taking the pictures and never in them! I have started back working out and am beginning to feel much better and actually starting to lose some of the baby weight (which I gained WAY too much of). Michael and I both couldn't believe how much Parker is looking less and less like a baby and more like a toddler. My how time flies. We are all doing great. Michael comes home pretty late every evening due to the workload of the school he is in, but he is enjoying it. I'm sorry I can't tell you much more than that about his school because I don't know what he is doing, ha ha. Oh the life of a special forces wife we never know what they are doing, but I think I like it that way=) Parker is growing like a weed and LOVES to bounce in his bouncer seat. He has gotten MUCH better about being in his carseat now that he can hold on to his toys and chew them to death! He really is a great baby he sleeps through the night from 10-7 am now what more can you ask for. We also have moved him into the other room, I was forced by Michael. It was time, everytime we even moved he would wake up so we knew it was time for him to be in his own room. He did great, I did not. I checked on him a MILLION times throughout the night but we made it and he now sleeps great all by himself what a BIG boy! He is still sleeping in his pack n play since we are in NC but he will be in his crib when we get back. I am doing great. I am LOVING being a stay at home mom. It is so wonderful to spend every day with our baby. I also have joined a gym here and Parker goes to the childcare area while I workout so we get a little break from one another. But I tell you what, it was WAY harder to leave him then I thought it would be. I knew I was attached to him but I really got to see just how much when I had to leave him with someone else. Once again he did great I however checked on him numerous times throughout my workout. We have gone a total of 6 times now and everytime I check a little less, LITTLE was the key word=) The Keenans are doing great! OH OH OH and Nana is coming to visit the first week of March WOO HOO!!!