The Parker Family

Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Fishes

It's like we have two totally different girls in the swimming pool now. For the past two weeks (since we came back from Louisville) they have been swimming like fishes and neither one wears floaties anymore (very often, anyway)! It's crazy. Today they were both begging me to throw them. I love it.

This video is the first night we went swimming with our *new* kids. :)

Monday, June 25, 2012

Sometimes I dream that he is me...

"I'm like CORBIN!" -Ty
(BMC player)

I thought it was hilarious awhile back when I asked someone if they remembered those glass Gatorade bottles with the skinny necks. The girl looked at me like I had grown two heads. For real- 30 is old...

Sunday, June 24, 2012

Basketball Camp

The boys basketball camps started yesterday at BMC with the K-2nd grade clinic.

Do you see our little Kindergarten "boy" on the far left?/.

Yep. The lone girl at the boys' camp.

I have some experience with that.

My advice: stick your nose right in there, do your best, and follow directions. No one will mess with you about being the only girl if they think you can play.

(Maybe a bit much for a 6-year-old, but from all accounts she did what I said!)

B-E-E-F

(I've gotta tell you- when JD was explaining what that stands for (shot form acronym) I zoned out and flashed back to PE in the "little gym." I admit, I zoned out then too.)

Pitiful help side D:

She may not have been the best player there, but she was far from the worst.

(I know, I know- it doesn't matter.)

It was a pretty small group, but the coaches agreed it was plenty! (haha!)

Halle had a great time. She was so sad that it was just one day. :)

Friday, June 22, 2012

Baby Mine

28 weeks.

Things I saw yesterday:

It really is a boy.

He smiles.

He isn't just a little skeleton-baby in there.

Monday, June 18, 2012

Charlie

I am not a cat person.

For the record.

I do like animals, though. And when this little guy was rescued (and shoved at us in a box- thanks friends!) at Halle's last t-ball game, I couldn't say no.

He's tiny, and we're not 100% sure he'll make it without a mama. But we're trying, and so far he's doing just fine.

At first we weren't going to let the kids name him until we knew he would survive. But after a few days of them calling him this and that (T-ball*, Frances, Grace, Noisy, etc.) I started throwing in suggestions too. :)

So we started thinking of cats in books (a good place to start, right?) and we landed on good old Charlie- my favorite book Grammy used to read to us at her house. Even though our Charlie isn't a tiger cat, the girls agree that he does like to play "tiger in the grass":

And, as Cate pointed out- he's brown(ish-black) so Charlie Brown works too! :)

Not to worry, though- our real pet is still Indy. (Haha!) And she is happier than she's ever been, here at our new house where there's no fence and she gets smothered by little petting hands multiple times per day.

We have a stray dog that thinks it has adopted us too. A little black and white thing that has been hanging out with Indy since we got back from Louisville. He doesn't come very close when we're outside, but I'm thinking he's not leaving a place with fresh water, plenty of food, and a friend who shares the best shade. (Sigh.) Wonderful.

*T-ball was my personal favorite name too, but Cate was vehemently against it. So we moved on. :)

Six.

Halle wanted a "flower birthday." So I interpreted that this way:

She claimed it was perfect. :)

It worked out that our friends, the Henrys, were stopping by on their way home from the beach the night of Halle's birthday- so they joined in our little party!

The "Water Slide":