Presents, parties, and school

I am going to make this quick because I am trying to finish this while getting everything ready for my first day of class tomorrow and I have a LOT of reading to do. 

Parker had a great birthday.  The Jessops were here to celebrate with us and we had a big party with all of Parker’s friends.  We got to celebrate another Christmas with the Jessops, too.  Parker did great at her birthday party and loved every single one of her gifts.  We have had 2 more birthday parties to go to since hers.  All the babies are turning 1! 

Last Monday Parker had her first day of daycare.  She cried the first day but by the end of the week she was doing great.  We get notes everyday of her daily activities and apparently her teachers have caught onto the ways to make her happy–like putting on music so she can dance.  They said that she has dance-off with one of the other girls there.  They first discovered it when they were sitting in a circle singing and when the music came on Parker got up and started clapping and bouncing.  On Friday they sent her home with a “Happy Gram” which they give to the kids when they do something especially nice.  It said Parker’s friend was crying that day and she went over and hugged her to make her feel better:) 

On Thursday she had her 1 year check up at the doctor.  Everything is great!   She is 30.5 inches and 21.1 lbs. 

New things she did this week were learning more sign language (has started signing “more” at school), shaking her head up and down for “yes” (which her teachers have fun with because she loves doing it so much that you can ask her any question in the world and the answer will always be “yes”), and she finally started drinking real whole milk. 

There are a LOT of pictures and videos from the past 2 weeks and I also am posting the ones from the Jessops’ camera.  They had pictures from all of December when the dogs were staying with them. 

I don’t know how often I will be able to update this while I am taking classes, but I will keep it updated as often as I can!

12-28-09 to 1-10-10

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Jessop pictures:

Jessop December pics

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Here are our videos plus 2 at the end from the Jessops (don’t forget to click on “Read the rest of this entry” after the first video to see the rest of them):