October 5, 2011:- Parker was upstairs in James and my
bedroom when he all of a sudden said, "A big popsicle, and a little
popsicle." I was trying to figure out what he was talking about, and
then I realized he was pointing to our Papasan chair in our room and the
Papasan foot stool,, lol!
October 7, 2011:- We were riding in the car at night and
Parker was looking up at the moon. He asked whether the moon was a boy
or a girl. James told him that the moon wasn't really a boy OR a
girl." Then he asked if Parker thought the moon was a boy or a girl.
Parker said, "She's Susie...That's a girl, right?" I have no idea how
he came up with the name 'Susie' for the moon or decided that the moon
was a girl. I'm pretty sure we don't even know anyone named 'Susie', so
it really seemed to just come out of nowhere. haha!
- Parker was talking about the moon when we were riding in the car,
and then he said, "The moon and the sun are similar...they're both
round!" He's been really good about making observations about things
that are similar lately.
- Lately when we've been reading books to Parker, he likes to tell
us whether the people in the story are boys or girls. He'll say things
like "________ is a girl, because they said 'she'/'her'", or
"___________ is a boy because they said, 'he'/'his'" Knowing that
she/her is for a girl and he/his is for a boy can be a confusing concept
for kids so I am proud of him for knowing the difference. :)
October 8, 2011:
- Parker has been talking a lot about the
moon lately. He always notices it in the sky and tells us when he sees
it. The other day we were riding in the car and Parker started talking
about going to the moon. He said, "I think I will ride in a spaceship
to the moon and I would ask the man driving the spaceship if I could
catch the moon, and he would say 'yes' and then I would open the door
VERY carefully so I wouldn't fall out and I would catch the moon." I
love how imaginative he has been lately!
October 9, 2011:- Parker told me he wanted to come
upstairs with me while I got ready for church. He came upstairs and
played in the bathroom for a while, then he said, "I'll be right back,
mommy...I'm just going downstairs to get a car and then I'll be right
back up." He stood at the top stair turning back over his shoulder
looking at me for a while before he started going down the stairs. I
wasn't really sure why he was just standing there staring at me, then he
said, "Okay...I was just making sure you weren't sad." He thought I
was going to be sad that he was leaving me up in the bathroom by
myself. He's such a caring boy.
- Parker came out of his room at night and said, "I slipped out of
my room to put this toy bin out in the hall. Slipped doesn't mean that I
fell, it just meant that I came out of my room." I thought it was
pretty impressive that he knew that 'slipped' can mean different things
depending on what context you are using it in. :)
October 15, 2011:- Parker called from his room at nap
time and said, "Mommy and daddy, I need to go poop!" He then sat and
pooped on the toilet for the first time!! He has been "potty" trained
since about the end of August, but he had still never pooped in the
toilet until today! Oh the things we get excited about as parents, lol!
October 16, 2011:- When Parker was a young toddler, 18
months/2 years, etc. he really never got into anything or was extra
mischievous. He never went through a phase where he unrolled toilet
paper rolls, repeatedly drew on the walls or any of those other testing
type toddler behaviors. Apparently this weekend, he was trying to make
up for lost time. In the course of two days this weekend, Parker
managed to: pour glitter all of over guest bedroom comforter, spray his
leave in conditioner on a toy ball of his, (and then claim he didn't do
it even though I caught him with the leave in conditioner in his hand
with his hand on the button and the ball was wet and smelled like his
leave in conditioner), take his chapstick and rub it all over one of his
toy cars, and pour water into a container of his. When James asked him
how the water got into the container, Parker said something like, "Do
you know how that happened? There was water on the floor and it just
scooped itself up and got in there all by itself...can you believe it?"
The water actually came from a container that had been in his bathtub
the night before but it still had bubbles in it from bath time so he
brought it out to the living room with him...apparently this morning
after the bubbles had popped there was some water in the bottom of the
container that we didn't know about. So, we not only have the
mischievous behavior, we have him lying about it as well...terrific! We
still love him more than ever, but the behavior was a bit much for one
weekend, lol!
October 25, 2011:- We were at the grocery store and Parker
wanted to use my pen. I told him that I was using it right now, but he
could use it when I was done. He then said, "Mommy, you're being
ridiculous by not sharing with me!" When we got home, I told James what
Parker had said, because I thought it was really funny that he told me I
was being "ridiculous". Parker heard me telling James and he said,
"God will come help you share, mommy. Dear God, please come and help
mommy share, amen." It was the funniest, sweetest thing! Oh, and I DID
share the pen with him when I was done using it and we were checking
out. :)
October 26, 2011:- Parker sometimes really gets into
what's going on in the movies he watches. On this day, he was watching
Veggie Tales: An Easter Carol. There is a part where Mr. Nezzer talks
about wanting to tear down the church. Parker was watching and I could
hear him say, "Don't tear down the church, Mr. Nezzer!!" His tone
sounded very concerned and he was very adamant that Mr. Nezzer not tear
down the church...too cute!
October 29, 2011:- Parker made a water bottle with
colored water and oil in it at preschool today. Parker pointed out to
me that the oil was floating on top of the water. I then asked him why
he thought the oil floated on top of the water like that. He then said,
"I don't know, mommy. Probably just because a teacher told me that."
So apparently the teacher he had made the bottle with had talked with
them about why the oil floated on top, but Parker couldn't remember
why.
October 31, 2011:
- I had Parker's laundry basked sitting
in the living room with his clean clothes folded in it. He looked at
the basket and said, "Oh no mommy, not again! This is broken! Look at
the holes in it!" He thought the holes in the side of the basket meant
it was broken. Too cute! :)
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