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Sunday in the Pearl (and other updates)

First of all, I have been soooo bad at blogging lately! We realized that we have hardly been taking any pictures of Parker over the past few months. However, the sunshine seemed to turn that around. We spent Sunday afternoon exploring one of our favorite Portland places in sunny weather-the Pearl! We got our favorite bubble tea drinks from the Tea Zone (which Parker also loves), played in the fountain for awhile, took a long exploration/walk through the Pearl streets and into the Tanner Springs park, where Parker loved the stream and bridge. It was a glorious afternoon! Its seriously amazing what an affect the sunshine has on Portlanders, including ourselves!!

In other news, I am almost 23 weeks pregnant, but I look and feel further along! Its hard to believe that Peyton will be here in just a few months, but also hard to fathom how I have months to go when I am already so huge! People thought I was big with Parker, but I am already larger at this same stage with Peyton! I've been working at State Farm with Nate for just over 2 months now, and have been enjoying every minute of it. Its challenging, fun, and always different, which is exactly what I need. I am working 4 days a week, which is perfect as I get an extra day each week to spend time with P.

Parker has loved going to Gigi's while mommy and daddy work, where recently he spends two days with my best friend from middle/high school's little baby girl. Its great practice for him! The other day he was talking about the baby in my belly and I reminded him that its his little sister. He then said that he wants to be a sister too:)

Parker is 90% toilet trained. He has been fully potty trained for about 2 month (all we had to do was stop using pull-ups and he started going on the toilet every time vs a few months ago it was inconsistent). #2 is what we are still working on. He has moments where he has no problem going, but other times where he totally does not want to poop on the pot. We're getting there, and are just grateful that he is almost completely trained at not even 2 1/2 as a boy! I was having horrible thoughts of it taking forever, as I've heard boys can be more difficult, but overall he has proved us wrong. He even has many dry nights where he holds it until morning!

He is talking up a storm. His favorite things is to pretend/use his imagination to come up with some of the most hillarious scenarios. Monsters, dinosaurs, bears, bugs. . .its neverending. Each day he makes up crack up with the funny things he says and does. The other day he looked at me and said, "Mommy, I love you; you're my little boy". (He sometimes mixes up "you" and "me")

Nate is focused on work, as always. He doesn't give himself much time to do other things, but got to go to 6 of the NCAA basketball tournament games here in Portland a few weekends ago with Michael and just celebrated his 29th birthday. He was very happy to learn the great news of little Peyton on his birthday. He hopes to get a daddy's girl since I have my mommy's boy;)

We're excited to head to Arizona in May (just the two of us) to get a little R&R in before Peyton's arrival. Sadly, Grammy and Boomps won't be there anymore, but we are looking forward to the peace and warm weather!

We'll be better about regular blogging and pictures now that the weather is improving and we'll be out more. Until then. . .

ITS A. . . . .

GIRL!!!!
We can't believe it! So very excited to welcome Peyton Jane into the world in less than 5 months!!!

The ultra sound tech loved us and did some free 3-D pics, and she looks like her brother!

Boy or Girl??

Cast your votes! We thought it would be fun to take an informal poll and see who is right when we find out the gender of our baby on Thursday! We'll make a post on Friday to share the news.
We have no clue this time around. . . .What does everyone else think?!

Nearly 18 weeks!

Here are some pics from 17 1/2 weeks. I'm nearly 18 weeks along now, and we'll be finding out the sex of our baby next week on Nate's birthday! Stay tuned. . .

Happy Parker

Some cute shots of Parker's "happy" face, our little guy so intent on his trucks, and wearing new big boy boxers!

Parker Quote(s) of the Day

When asked where Daddy's hair went after a haircut, his response was, "bye bye to the haircut store"

Nate and I were hugging the other night and Parker looked at us and yells, "No huggin', Daddy!!"

Parker was being a bit naughty when we were getting ready for church. I was sitting on the stairs trying to not show my frustration, but he could sense it. He came over to me and asked, "Is something wrong Mommy? Did you get an owie?" (He hugged me after saying this and melted my heart!)

Today he was playing with my hair, looks me in the eyes and says, "you look cute, Mommy, you look cute."

Lately each time Parker is in the bathroom he tells us, "check mirror". We asked how he looks and he always says, "very good!" Last night he was commenting on his and my eyes when we were looking in the mirror. He initially said that he had tiger eyes, and I explained that mommy's eyes were more like tiger eyes because they are yellow/green and that Parker's eyes were like bear eyes, so now when he looks me in the eyes, he tells me I have tiger eyes:) Too cute!