What we've been up to

It's been a while since I've updated, so there's a lot to fill in.  In the last few weeks, we have taken two trips to the zoo, Parker got a new bunk bed, Kaeson is pulling himself up onto furniture, and Kaeson got his first ear infection. Here's a few pictures of our happenings. Warning:  long post!  You don't have to read it; a lot of this is for my records.

Parker at the zoo.  The gorillas are his favorite part of the zoo. I finally got a zoo pass, so I have a feeling the zoo and us are going to be good friends over the next few months.
Parker climbing into his "big high bed".  He loves his new bed, and tells us all about his new big high bed about five times a day.
Along with Kaeson's newfound mobility has come a whole new bunch of struggles in the napping department.  As soon as you lay him down, he gets up and crawls all around his crib. For the first few days, I would go in and try to lay him back down, only to have him get right back up again; and we would repeat this about five times with every nap. It breaks my heart to walk in there and see him standing at the end of his crib just staring at the door and crying! Finally, I had to just let him figure it out and cry.  So because he moves all over the place until exhaustion hits, he falls asleep in some interesting positions as seen above.  It's so cute to see how he falls asleep!

Between Parker being on the top bunk of a bunk bed and Kaeson pulling himself up in his crib, we have discovered another new sleeping challenge. Parker loves to pop up out of his bed and play peek-a-boo with Kaeson, and Kaeson LOVES it!  He giggles so hard.  It's usually only a problem at naptime, because Kaeson goes to sleep earlier than Parker at night.  So Parker now naps in our room!  Last night, they both went down at the same time.  About ten minutes after laying Kaeson down, Lance and I heard him burst into his adorable little giggle, followed by a really loud bang, so we went to investigate.  We walked in and Parker was rubbing his head, and I asked what happened, he said, "I bumped my head"  I asked how he bumped his head (already knowing the answer), and he looked down at Kaeson and said, "um.....playing peek-a-boo."  I couldn't even get mad, because Parker is so adorable!  We left them alone, and for the next half hour or so we would hear another random little giggle from Kaeson.  I wasn't sure if I should separate them, but I decided to just let it go for a while and hope that eventually they went to sleep.  Eventually exhaustion took over and Kaeson just laid down and slept. When I went in after Kaeson feel asleep, Parker was all sad and told me, "Kaeson's not playing anymore."  I wonder how long it will be before our sibling adventures turn from cute and fun to fighting and screaming?!

One of Parker's new favorite things to play with Kaeson is wrestling!  As you can see, Kaeson's not quite sure it's his favorite just yet!

Just a cute picture of Kaeson riding the little car.
One of Kaeson's favorite places in the house: under the table.
I was in Parker's room the other day and came back out to find this! He got out of it on his own, but I, being the wonderful, caring mother that I am, put it back on to take a picture
This is Parker and Ella, a little girl I babysit once a week.  She is so sweet and we love having her!  She is Parker's best bud!  He loves it when she is here, but he gets frustrated, because he thinks she should follow his every command, and well, she doesn't!