Welcome, Spring!

Our typical, gorgeous Florida spring weather decided to bypass us this year, and we went straight into hot, humid, and not so gorgeous.  This has made our outdoor adventures more limited, but we do our best with short walks and short trips to the park.

Michael is still busy with work, but we have enjoyed some fun family adventures lately :) 

Downtown Tampa

Downtown Tampa

Pap Paw's birthday at Texas de Brazil

We took a trip east a few weekends ago to visit family and during bath time at Nana and Pap Paw's, Parker said his first word: "bubbles"!  He has a bath toy that sings a song about bubbles and I guess he was trying to sing along!

Love for Kasie :)

Nee Naw's little buddy!

GiGi trying to make Parker sophisticated! 

He is just too cool.

Michael's latest adventure - fish tanks.  Yes, Michael, not me.  We now have a 10 gallon "Mickey Mouse" aquarium for Parker in our living room and a 75 gallon tank in our kitchen with a large oscar and a parrot fish.  When we got home from visiting, we set up the fish tanks for Parker and sure enough, he starts pointing at the tank, "ish, ish, ish"...second word:  "fish"!  I am one happy Mommy :)

We have been busy, but I try to stop for a minute each day and just take it all in.  I have realized how important all of these memories are and I am happy to be able to share them all with you!

All our love,
The Millers :)

Adventures With Parker's Toddler Bed...

Shortly after my last blog, Michael and I decided we would try to transition Parker to his toddler bed before we heard the dreaded "THUMP" of him climbing and falling out of his crib.  We figured, he has a convertible crib, this will be easy!  My advice to all parents of future toddlers:  Save all those little blots that you think the company just nicely sent you in case you lost one.  No.  Those are essential in transforming the crib.  Two trips to the hardware store later, we figured it out.

Night number one:

Yeah, that plan worked great.

First nap "in" is toddler bed:

My view under his door...

The second night, I lost count at the 5th time Parker woke up.  We figured he was just trying to figure out the new bed and fell back to sleep on his own.  When I woke up and walked down the hall to the office the next morning, his room was a bright beacon of light at the end of the hallway.  No wonder he kept waking up, he turned every light on in his room!  The next day, we made a trip to Home Depot and put lightswtich covers - no issues since :)

This is where I found him after night 2:

I guess he wore himself out from all his wood working in the night.

Once he finally figured out that his bed was much more comfortable than the floor, I began to find random items in his bed.  Here is the progression:

If you notice, the stool has become a permanent fixture in his bed now.  No matter how many times I take that thing out of his bed, I find it in there when I go in to get him after he wakes up!  He has become quite the little bedtime hoarder.  That CANNOT be comfortable, dude!

Surprise!

We received an invitation to Uncle Brian's surprise birthday party and decided to see what ticket prices were to go visit.  To OUR surprise, they were more than reasonable, so Parker and Mommy decided to make a surprise visit to Maine!  We needed to let Mimi in on the secret to ensure we had a ride from the airport, but not even Papa knew we were coming!

Parker was very entertained by all the commotion at the Tampa airport! ...even at 5:15 a.m...

Here we come! 

Waiting for the birthday boy!

SURPRISE! :)

Papa's little cuddle buddy

Reading with Grammie Cindy

Yes, there was still snow when we arrived on March 27th.

A lot.

Parker was not a fan of all the bulky layers!

"Hi, Spur!"

Lunch time giggles with Papa

:)

"But Mom, Mimi said I could!"

This makes me happy.

"Hey, Mom."  Hanging out with Alex and Mayleigh

"No, no baby Parker, you can't do that."

What a goober!

I guess he didn't want me to forget to pack him!

Story time!

Chinese food is delicious!

This was our flight home :)  Glorious.

Mimi had already planned a visit down to Florida, so we coordinated our trip to Maine and all flew back the same day!

"Sharing" Mimi's donut with her

Mimi and her boys :)

Mimi trying to convince Parker that the tube is not as scary as he thinks it is...

Pit stop at the outlets

Sea World adventures!

We had such a great visit to Maine and with Mimi down here in Florida!  We are looking forward to our next visit to Maine (hopefully with Daddy)!  ...but we have decided that visiting in the Spring would be better withOUT all the snow!