Happy Easter!

It’s been a busy few weeks. Parker is great. She is saying more and more words all the time. She calls everything and everyone “dada” or “daddy.” She says “booo” for a cow and can roar like a lion. She says “bubble” and “WOW!” and “ball”– although with “ball” she somehow adds a “w” to the end of the word.
For Easter her school did an Easter bonnet parade. I went to watch it and, of course, the instant Parker saw me she started crying and needed me to walk with her. It was really cute and pretty ridiculous seeing all the kids dressed up. The infants were especially funny packed into their cribs.
Parker got extra upset when she met the Easter bunny. I didn’t realize it at the time, but she was sick when we got the pictures taken. It has been so hot here that I thought she was just warm from the outside temperature. Apparently she had a fever, which explained why she was extra clingy that day. So we have another picture of Parker screaming on a character’s lap.
She enjoyed her Easter basket on Sunday morning. When she was taking her first nap the Easter bunny came back and hid a bunch of eggs around the house for her, too. She did great with the egg hunt. We got a cute video of her first realizing the eggs had pieces of candy in them. She didn’t know if she was supposed to be eating them or not so she tried to be slow and sneaky about it.
We’ve been trying to take advantage of the nice weather. It’s been abnormally warm (hot!) and Parker wants to be outside at all times. She picks up our shoes and then tries to put them on our feet then stands there pointing to the door or pulling us to it and keeps signing “please” over and over again. It’s so hot and sticky out that we don’t necessarily want to be outside all day but it is sometimes all that makes Parker happy.
Grammy and Grandpa Schwartz come tomorrow to stay for about a week and Jared will be in Michigan for the weekend to go to the Tigers’ opening day. It will be so nice to have them here!
A lot of the pictures are coming out blurry so it gets frustrating, but you can pretty much see the picture. Also, just to explain the last picture here, Parker always pulls her drumset around if she needs something to sit on. Apparently she didn’t realize at this point that she had taken the top of it off and she sat into it and got stuck. The picture is blurry, but you can get the idea. It was cute. Especially because she didn’t get upset or anything, she just sat there silently looking sad:(

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