Happy 2nd Birthday Parker Man!!

So this weekend we celebrated Parker's 2nd birthday! It is so fun seeing him grow up so big and cute! When Parker was born he was 4 weeks early! He had to be in the NICU for 4 days and was oxygen for 9 weeks! So, needless to say, he has come a long way! Here he is 2 days old in the hospital weighing 5lbs 4oz...

Here is Parker, 11 days old and Madison 14 month old..

Some of the cute things that he is saying are:

Sissy (Madison) = He He

Gum = Mum

Mouse = Mow

Grammy = Mammy

Frankie our dog = Te Te

Drink = Dink

*Parker is very polite and he usually always says thankyou and no thank you. Even when you ask him if he is ready for bed he will say "No thankyou Mommy"

*He loves his sissy. He always thinks of her. If you give him a piece of gum, he will always say "He He Mum", meaning he needs one to give to Madison.

*He has a silky blanket that he has to sleep with. It's not actually a blanket at all. It is my purple flowered silky robe that he has taken possession of.

*He loves balls of any kind, and he calles them all "footballs". He loves watching basketball on TV with Daddy. He has a pretty good throwing arm also....we are hoping for the NFL or NBA!!

*When he sees someone pulls up in a car that he knows, he'll say" Papo Hew", meaning Papo is here.

* Matthew always wears a stocking hat and nothing will do but for Parker to have one on also. When he wants to go outside he will say "Ma Hat" in this cute way.

*He is very much into trains, especially Thomas! He calls Thomas "Toot Toot" and he always has to be wearing Thomas jammies and could watch him all the time on TV.

So I had my mom make the cake and then we were going to decorate it when I got to her house. Several different events happened that morning, but this was the major event:

The wildflowers decided to help them selves to some cake while no one was paying attention! We managed to salvage it thank goodness:

We had his party at my parents house. So there was Matthew's parents, his brother Scott, my sister and parents. We had a delicious spaghetti dinner, complete with belvedere salad, bread, green beans cake, strawberries and cream and cake and ice cream.....yummy!!

Happy Birthday to you.....

The Birthday Boy....

Papo Larry and Parker....

Grammy Patty and Parker...

Christel, Scott and Matthew

Blowing out his cake......

Mmmmm, Not too shabby.....

Awe.....

Madison playing with Parker's new Little People Farm....

Grammy Karen....

Parker's new bike he got from my parents.... Isn't the cutest thing ever!!

He loves it!!

Sharing with sissy....

New Thomas jammies....

We love you Parker....you bring us joy every single day and we are so thankful to have you!