Monkeying Around Times Two

Parker here. Mom and Dad have some really cool friends! Their friends Jason and Alyce gave me this awesome towel with a monkey on it. It even has my name on it!!!!!


Then Mom's friend Jen from work gave me this awesome sleeper with monkey feet. It's a little big on me still, but Mom said she couldn't resist putting me in it. Hi Jen! Thanks for my awesome monkey sleeper and my neat matching blanket. I'm so stylish!

Train time is your own time

Aunt Nancy and Uncle Bill bought me a cool Thomas the Tank Engine train set. I can't stop playing with it! Mom and Dad got me a few extra pieces of track and I borrowed a tunnel from Doreen's house so now I have a great little set up!

While I am busy playing with my trains, Parker is learning how to play the guitar.
Here he is laughing about what an awesome guitar player he is!
Check out Dad and Parker's matching Led Zeppelin shirts. I used to wear the one Parker has on. It's still a little big on him. Mom calls him a peanut and I tell her, "He's not a peanut, mama, he's a baby!"

Tummy Time

Parker here. Do you like the carpet in my room? I do! It's super soft and plush. I like to lay on my back...

... and my tummy!
This is my surprised face.
Here I am sticking out my tongue.
And watching TV.
Mom got the camera right in my face for this picture. My blocked tear duct is still blocked, but some days are really good and some days are still kind of gooey.

September Activities

September has been a busy month! Not only did I give up my passies and start school, but I played alot too! And Parker had some excitement of his own. I'll let him tell you about it.

One weekend we went to an American Legion BBQ. It was raining all morning and the playground was wet, but that didn't stop me! Luckily, there were a few other kids and they used their tushies to mop up most of the water before I played on anything! Amber pushed me on the swing.

Hey! Parker here. I had my 2-month visit with Dr. Lange. She is so nice and she gives out cool band-aids too! See them on my leg? I had two shots and a sip of some yummy vaccine.

Here's my two-month stats:

Height: 24 inches. That's 90th percentile.
Weight: 11 pounds, 12 ounces. That's 50th percentile.
Head: 25th percentile, but Mom doesn't remember the centimeters.
Do you see my funny brother down below? He is standing on some BIIIIIIIIGGGGGG feet! Those feet are in the subway. We took the subway to go to Daddy's friend Vivian's house in Manhattan. Page and Vivian's son, Ben, played on the playground while I chilled with Mommy. It was alot of fun to ride the subway!

Passie Free!!!!!!!!!!

Hi All:

I don't have a picture to share for this momentous occasion, but I wanted to let you all know that I have been passie free for two and a half days.

(Mom here: Andrewand I poked holes in all his passies a few days ago. Then, two nights ago we cut the tips off. After whining for a few minutes, Dad managed to convince him to try it for the night. Page decided that he didn't need them because, as he said, "Little Bear doesn't sleep with passies." Little Bear is his favorite TV show right now. He sits...actually sits...and smiles the whole time the show is on the screen. So he went to bed. When he woke up 15 minutes later, Andrew told him I would buy him a pillow the next day because Little Bear has a pillow. So we went to the store, got a pillow and Page has been a super duper champ since then. Everyone hope he can keep it up!!!!)

Miracles in Glendale

You might remember that I was not a very good sleeper when Mom and Dad brought me home. In fact, I kept Mom up for the better part of 4 months until her friend Farrell told her about the Miracle Blanket. Until Mom wrapped me up like a baby burrito in this contraption, I only slept about 3 hours at night in a row and then I would get up and want to play. The first night I wore this blanket, I think I slept 6 hours.
Well, Mom's no fool so she started putting Parker in it from his first day home from the hospital. He really seems to dig it as much as I did!

Me in my Miracle Blanket a two years ago and Parker in the Godsend below. Thanks again Farrell!!!!!

My first Day of School

Last week was my first day of school. I am going to the Village Preschool at the Village Church in Bayville. Mom Grandma and Grandpa and Parker took me to school on the first day, but first I tried on my "pack-pack" at Grandma's house. Mom got my initials put on the pack-pack but I insist that it says my name and I even spell it. I say, "P-e-e-e-e-e. Page."





The school must have known I was coming because they put balloons out for me. How did they know how much I like balloons?

Mom thought that maybe I would have a little separation anxiety after spending the summer with her, but alas, I walked into the room, saw all the toys, shrugged my pack-pack onto the floor and took off. I didn't even say goodbye! My teacher, Mrs. Sgueglia (and yes, I can even pronounce her name!!!), is super nice and has great toys.

Parker's World

Parker is holding his head up pretty well already and Mom and Dad tell me that's a good thing. We put him in this special chair called a bumbo. I like to say bumbo. Apparently I never like the bumbo chair when I was little, but now, I can't keep my tushie (or my feet) out of it. Parker seems to like it!

When I was a baby, My Tante Hella, Onkel Hans and cousins in Austria sent me some clothes. Mom loved this T-shirt, but I was already too big for it. Look how cool Parker is in it. It says, "How Cute We're." Isn't that funny?
This is another outfit that never fit me really well. Mom put it on Parker and it's a little big, but she was happy to use it!
Blake and Claudine came over for dinner the other night. Dad asked Blake to be Parker's Godfather. He was really excited. So is the whole family!
The other night at Nonno's, Dad asked Aunt Lauren to be Parker's Godmother. She was so happy she cried. Mom said people can cry when they are happy. Actually, Mom got a little teary too when she saw how happy Lauren was!
Grandma Nancy was happy to hold Parker too.

Happy Anniversary Grandma and Grandpa!

When we were in Lake Placid, I took Grandma and Grandpa out for their anniversary. They have been married for 40 years!!!!!! Granny and Papa were visiting too, so we all got dressed and walked the one block to the Crowne Plaza. The grownups had some cocktails and I had PEZ, my new favorite candy.
After cocktails, we walked in the pouring rain across the street to the Veranda, a fancy french restaurant that Aunt Amber used to work in when she lived in Lake Placid. Did you know that Aunt Amber served dinner to Bill Clinton on his 54th birthday at the Veranda? The food was yummy. I had smoked salmon. Don't ask me what the grownups ate, but I do know that Grandpa had snails called by a fancy name.

The whole family.
Granny and Papa.

Me and Mom.
Parker, napping as usual.

Wild about the Wild Center

Mom, Dad Aunt Amber Eric, Parker and I went to the Wild Center in Tupper Lake. It is a really neat natural history museum about the Adirondacks. I got to see sea otters, trout and all sorts of nature. There was a neat playground there too, and you all know how much I love playgrounds. This one was supposed to connect kids to nature. You know ... I am nature guy! Here I am with an uprooted tree.
And here's me contemplating nature while surrounded by nature.
And here I am conquering nature!

"Placidly" Enjoying Lake Placid

After seeing this Playground at Lake Placid Elementary, I tried to convince Mom and Dad to find jobs in the Adirondacks just so I could play on this baby every day. As it was we went to the school about 7 times in the 10 days we were up there! check me out!


Here's a great shot that lets you see just how monstrous the "big toy" is!




Parker did a lot of hanging out while we were upstate. I can't wait till he gets off Mom and runs around with me. Hurry up Parker!
Dad took about 800 pictures of me in these tires. I wasn't being very cooperative about smiling nicely. Don't I look like I should be in an episode of Sesame Street here?

Mom did some snuggling on the couch with us after park time. We even both got our passies! I help Parker put his back in when he drops it. I am very gentle. I know what gentle means and I hear that word about a million times a day!
Dad took me to Mirror Lake to swim. The water was quite warm!
Parker hung out in his sun tent with Mom.
He also did "tummy time" at the house. It didn't look like much fun to me, but he wasn't complaining.