The pics above are all pics of Parker taken at home! For some reason lately I can't seem to quit thinking about all of the great memories that we have together and how lucky I have been to be able to be home daily to enjoy the simple things. We constantly come up with things to do: playing in mud puddles, cooking together, taking endless stroller rides, flying kites, swinging, looking for pecans, playing in the woods...this list is endless as is Parker's imagination at this point! Play has def. evolved from stroller rides and just crawling in the grass to magic tree house adventures and endless other things that we seem to find ourselves getting into. I wish that this time would never end, that Parker would never have to grow up and that we could stay in our magic tree house forever! Parker will sometimes tell me that he doesn't want to get big because then he won't fit in my lap or that he wants to be my baby forever...I always tell him that he has to get big and it will be fun getting big too not forgetting to throw in that he will always be my baby no matter how big/old he gets! I feel like we only have until he begins school (unless I choose to home school: and even if I choose that avenue, Parker is still going to grow up and things won't be the same.) I know that at each stage in a child's life their are wonderful memories made and experiences to try together but none as simple or as precious as what we have now. Sleeping in until Parker decides to wake up which is usually 7:15. Cartoons in mommy's bed. Breakfast together with conversation about our plans for the day. Clean up time, then learning and craft time...This is followed by outside fun until lunch, again making lunch together and then sitting down to enjoy our creation. Playing again until rest time which is always followed by a "mommy movie" (1 episode of Little House on the Prairie). Playtime again until it is time to come in for supper preparation. Parker usually helps with that as well or colors at his little table in the kitchen. Then Daddy gets home! When Parker was a newborn that time couldn't get here fast enough because those days were much harder and longer with a "refluxy, non sleeper" but now (on most days) Daddy is pulling up in the drive before we know it! I love my family and our precious time together, I love being a mom, and I love the Lord the most for giving me all of these wonderful gifts and people in my life! (I know that I need to be better about my walk with Christ as well so I am not proclaiming to be some great soul!) Our time here is short, our memories will fade or be erased by time or age but all I can do is live in the moment and have faith that one day on the new Earth which God promises those who make it to Heaven I can bask in wonderful memories and simpler times again!
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