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Parker sat in his bumbo last night while I made my birthday dinner - I made Linda Winfrey's portobello bread pudding and Benton cooked the ribeye steaks. I planned to make myself a strawberry cake, but decided that there were enough snickerdoodles left over from my party to hold me for the week. Parker loved playing with the frozen tub of strawberries - great for teething!



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Reflections on Turning Thirty

I couldn't be more excited to be turning thirty tomorrow.  I have so many things to be thankful for, and I cannot begin to count all of the blessings I have had in my life since I turned twenty.  I truly think I will look back on this period as some of the best days of my life.

Since turning twenty, I met my husband, have earned three college degrees, found a career I love,  surrounded myself with wonderful and supportive friends, gotten married, traveled to fabulous places, settled into our first home and moved to another home, and had my sweet baby Parker.

Tomorrow on September 13th I will be thirty years old and will have everything I could possibly want or need in life.  We had a wonderful party Saturday night with our friends and family to celebrate the big 3-0 and I was again reminded of how lucky I am.  My twenties were great, but I my thirties will be even better.

Parker is 5 Months Old!

In many ways I feel like month 4 went by slowly, not because it was a bad month, but because Parker has changed so much in four weeks. Each day he shows us more and more of his precious personality. He has just enough of me in him to try and get some attention, and just enough of his daddy in him to make you laugh.

For the last two weeks he has had a standing bath time at 6pm followed by his pajamas, a bottle, and bed. He's out like a light before 7pm and he always sleeps past 7am. No complaints in the sleep department around here!

His latest milestone is the freedom to roll - and roll from tummy to back and back to tummy whenever he pleases. Last night he fell asleep on his tummy after rolling over. At some point during the night he rolled back over, scooted to the other end of the crib, and turned himself perpendicular. He was pretty darn proud of himself when I went in there to hear him jabbering at 7:20 this morning.








This is my favorite picture of the week. I think he's way cuter than the Gerber baby and his grandmothers agree so it must be true!


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Bedroom is Finally Finished

Here is a picture of our finished master bedroom after paint, a new rug, and tablecloth for my bedside table. Only took six weeks!




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Almost 5 Months

Parker turns 5 months old on Thursday, but I couldn't wait until then to post these two pics. The first one is me at 5 months and the second one is of Parker from yesterday...pretty similar in my motherly opinion!







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Too Cool for My Own Good

We still love P in his shades, although they are a little big.  Watch out Fort Worth - come November, he'll be sporting some 9 month clothes, New Balances, and sunglasses for a TCU game.

The Sweetest Thing

All week long Parker has foresaken his 2.5 hour afternoon nap in order to to bed early. It takes all the stalling I can muster to keep him up until 7pm. The last two nights he has been zonked out by 6:45 after a bath, PJ's, and bottle. Tonight I kept him up a few minutes longer by reading him Dr. Seuss' "If I Ran the Circus". I've never been a huge Dr. Seuss fan, but I now have an appreciation for reading a rhyme before bedtime (see it's rubbed off on me). Here is the sweet precious before I put him in his crib:



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