March 1, 2011 - March 29, 2011

March 1, 2011:- Parker was sitting near me, staring at his finger.  When I asked him what he was doing, he said, "Oh, let's not worry about that booger right now...It was on my finger but I rubbed it off."  pretty sure I don't want to know WHERE he chose to "rub it off", but at least he was honest...

March 2, 2011:- It was around this time that Parker started really talking about Spiderman and Batman and saying how they were the best, etc.  He has still to this day (september 2011), never even seen either Spiderman or Batman, yet he hears all about them at preschool so he thinks he knows a lot about them.  We don't want him growing up thinking that these "superheros" are the best (mainly since they typically use violence as a way to "win"), so I asked Parker if he knew who was even bigger and better than either Spiderman or Batman.  He said, "Jesus!"  I told him he was right and that God and Jesus were the biggest and best.  He then said, "and Jesus protects Spiderman and Batman!"  I love that he is starting to understand things like Jesus protecting people! :)

March 7, 2011:- Parker will frequently recite segments from various books of his.  One of the cutest was today when he sat and read "5 Little Monkeys with Nothing to do".  I got some of this on video but not all of it because I knew if he saw me, he would quit reading and/or tell me to turn off the camera.

March 8, 2011:- Probably within the last week or two, Parker has been calling his stuffed animals that he sleeps with at night his "brothers".  He would round them up in the morning and say, "These sleeping friends are my brothers, mommy."  I have no idea where he came up with it but it's pretty funny!

March 12, 2011:- Parker and I were just sitting in the office when Parker started getting really silly and said, "I'm going to color on your wall!"  I talked with him about how we only color on paper and would never color on the wall.  Parker then said, "Yes I can...look" (as he pointed to a place on the wall where there were obviously crayon marks)_I then asked Parker who had done that, Parker said, "Probably a baby did that"  I said, "Parker, no babies live here."  Parker then said, "Oh, probably I did that."  When I told James this story later, he said that Parker had confessed to him earlier in the week and had said that "baby Robbie" (a friend of mine has a baby named Robbie) had been the one to color on the wall.  At least he was consistent with his lie...I hope this doesn't mean trouble for the future...

March 14, 2011:- I was changing Parker's diaper at nap time when he said to me, "Jesus loves you, mommy...Jesus loves daddy, too!"  I then said to him, "Does Jesus love Parker, too?"  Parker then said, "Oh yes, mommy...Jesus loves all the children.  Jesus and God live in Heaven, far far away."

March 25, 2011:- Parker and I went to dinner with a friend of mine and her baby Robbie (6 months old at the time).  Robbie was sitting in his car seat under the table.  Parker kept peeking at him under the table saying "hi" while waving to him.  Parker probably did this 20 times in a row.  When Robbie didn't answer (because he was 6 months old), Parker said, "I guess he doesn't have any questions..." Too funny!

March 29, 2011:- At preschool on this day, Parker's teachers told us that he sat on the toilet and said "uh oh" all of a sudden.  He had actually gone potty for the first time!  He had said "uh oh" because I think he didn't realize that he was even going until it happened and it was getting on the floor, lol!  He went again at school on the potty 2 days later and a third time the following day!  I was very excited when this first happened, thinking it meant that potty training was eminent...little did I know that shortly after this, he would totally regress and not be interested.  It wasn't a huge deal because then about 5 months later with very minimal effort, he ended up being potty trained.