Snow!

I thought I’d better update this before I get too far behind. The past couple weeks have been rough. Jared and Parker were both sick last weekend. Parker had to stay home from school at the end of the week, so Jared had to stay with her. Then he got sick and they were both pretty miserable all weekend. I’ve had a lot of reading and studying to do so it’s been stressful around here. But now everyone is healthy and happy again:) We got a big snow the other night and in Charlotte that means the whole city shuts down. Schools are already closed for tomorrow even though it hasn’t snowed since yesterday and most of it melted today. The roads are awful since they aren’t prepared to clear them down here. It’s fun watching the cars try to get up the hill in front of our house…
The pictures on here are starting from 2 weeks ago. The scratches she has on her nose are from her tripping while running down our driveway and falling face-first into the road. (As always, she was fine, and it looked worse than it was). There is a good one in the beginning of her crying where you can really see her lonely molar she has–although I did feel 2 more poking through her gums tonight so it won’t be lonely for long.
There are some pictures of her in her adorable dress from Uncle Matt. Unfortunately she doesn’t have cute shoes to wear with it yet so she has only worn it around the house. It’s too cold for dresses right now anyway.
There are a few of her in a ridiculous outfit she had to wear when we ran out of clothes that weren’t covered in some sort of bodily fluid when she was really sick. I thought she looked cute:) Until she puked all over that shirt, too…
She really likes sitting on my lap and typing on her keyboard so I got a couple pictures of her doing that.
We finally got to bring some of her artwork from school home and I took pictures of a couple pieces. She’s so talented! ha
We put her out in the snow yesterday to play a little and took some pictures. There wasn’t much to do and we really don’t have the right clothes for her to wear in it so she didn’t really appreciate being taken out of the warm house full of all her toys to be thrown in the cold snow with nothing to do. But at least she got to experience it.
Then we were going stir crazy so we headed to the mall just to get out of the house. She had fun playing in the kids area. She even made a friend who liked to hug her and follow her everywhere she went. Parker got sick of her real quick but the girl just wouldn’t leave her alone.
Today we got Parker some new shoes and they look so HUGE compared to her little legs. She wasn’t wearing pants after spilling milk all over them at lunch and already looked ridiculous so Jared had the idea to take it a step further and add the shoes. She looked hilarious. Then she kept “writing” notes on a piece of paper all evening. When she kept losing the original sheet was using and getting upset, Jared wrote out a new one full of made up numbers for her to use. She kept carrying it around, stopping and writing something, carrying it to a different spot, then writing more. It was cute. It was like she thought she had written the letters and numbers. It kept her busy for a long time!
So things are great here. Parker is getting bigger and bigger every day and doing so many “kid” things and not “baby” things it’s crazy. She has a best friend at school and, according to her teachers, they hug eachother so much sometimes that they fall on the floor. She’s doing more sign language now, and easily follows any directions we give her. She has really found a love for books, playing the piano and her little drumset full of instruments, and even kicking a soccer ball around upstairs. Apparently she’s an artist, too, judging by the work we’ve seen!

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