Latest Parkerisms

Sorry I haven't posted in a while. We've gone through a couple rounds of sickness in our home over the last couple of weeks, but everyone seems to be better now so I'm back in the blogosphere. It's been a while since I've updated you all on Parker, so here goes.

-- Parker is still not potty-trained. This is becoming a real source of frustration, but what am I to do? Give up? I'm seriously considering it.
-- After a time when I thought I would never see a day without a serious meltdown from Parker, he has really chilled out and is usually now quite pleasant/fun to be around.
-- Parker's never been crazy about books, but he's really started enjoying them lately. He seems to especially enjoy "reading" books to us. Most of what he says is unintelligible, but you can understand certain things and they usually correlate to what he can see from the pictures on whatever page he is on.
-- A while back, Andrew and I were having a conversation and I jokingly told Andrew "you're ticking me off". A little while later, Parker came up to Andrew and said "Daddy, you're ticking MY off". I, of course, did what any other wife/mother would have done and laughed hysterically.
-- Probably at least 50% of the time, Parker calls Andrew and I by our given names. I don't even notice anymore, but other people are like "is he calling you Kasey"?!?!
-- A while back, I had gone to run some errands and left the kids at home with Andrew. When I came back, Parker came and sat down by me and I said "did you miss me?" and he said "yeah, prob-ree" (for probably).
-- One of his favorite lunches is homemade macaroni and cheese which he called "rockaroni".
-- Parker has just recently started calling Sadie by her actual name. Before that, when I would ask him for her NAME, he would give about 5 different answers (sissy, gu-wa, baby gu-wa, sister, little sissy) but never her real name.

I'm sure there are many more things that I can't think of at the moment, but I will post again later. I'll leave you with a couple of pictures that show a bit of Parker's personality. Many mornings when Parker wakes up, he will just play quietly in his room for a while. A few days ago, I went to get him up and I found him like this.....
He had taken off his footed pajamas so that he could put on his shoes. What you can't see is that he's also sitting in front of a full-length mirror so he can check out what's he looking like. And then just yesterday I looked over and saw this....

He had completely crammed himself into Sadie car seat. Hard to believe that such a short time ago he actually fit in there.