Swimming

Tonight, after the tornado warning, we went to Grandpa Vancil's to go swimming.  Grandpa has been heating the pool for some time now for Parker to come over and we had a great time tonight!

Parker LOVED splashing around.  As he splashed in the pool  he also moved his feet up and down like he was bouncing! His head didn't go under, but it sure did get wet from all the splashing!  He also liked when mom or dad would "push" the water down toward the bottom and create a lot of bubbles to come all around him.  I think we have found a new summer past time!

Thanks Grandpa!  We had a blast!

Night Owl Reading

Tunk, Thunk, Tunk, Thunk,

bah, bah, ma, da da da da, bah, bah, ma, ma da,

Tunk, Thunk, Thunk, Tunk

This is the sound I woke up to this morning.  I thought, it must be almost 5:30AM...Parker's ready for his medicine. 

Tunk, Tunk, Thunk,

So I got up and stumbled into the kitchen, I realized it was darker than it has been at 5:30 AM but I figured it was due to another rain storm going through.

When I looked at the clock imagine my surprise when I saw 3:12 AM!!!  So I made a bottle and started into Parker's room.....still half asleep, when WHACK! I ran right into a clothes basket with my shin....Who does that?  Who leaves a clothes basket in the middle of the hallway!  So naturally, I yelped, which resulted in a bottom lip coming out (of Parker) and the makings of a potential melt down...however, we were able to prevent such a melt down.

So when I did walk into Parker's room this is what I found:  Parker sitting up in his crib, with a softie book that he had grabbed from his toy bin next to his crib, pulled through the rungs, and was "reading" it to us through the monitor...

These pictures are a reenactment of our 3AM shenanigans.  I didn't want to risk hitting my shin again in order to get the camera in the middle of the night!

Parker does sleep in P.J.'s, but he pooped through them this morning, which explains the naked baby photos.

This was one time I wished we had "hidden cameras" in our house, I'm sure the events of this early morning would win us some money on America's Funniest Home Video!

Standing Good Morning!

Good Morning Mom and Dad!

Look what I have learned to do!

Father's Day-- Part 1

As part of Travis' Father's Day weekend he wanted to go fishing with his dad and sister's family at Lake George. 
Parker got to go with us!

What are you people doing to me?

Can someone tell my mother that dad was right...this life jacket is on backwards!

Help me...please...

All the dad's...all the kids...(well, almost, Heather is taking a picture with her camera)

Oooohh, that's so much better!  That life jacket was HOT!

Tyler is teaching Parker about bobbers.

Annica wanted to share her pink hat.

Parker and Grandpa Stecher enjoyed some shade time this afternoon.

Parker CRAWLS!

I am 9 months old TODAY!!
Look at what I can do!

What are we up to?

Wondering what we're up to this week?
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Summer Vacation: Day 1

Ahhhh.....summer!

We are finally done for the summer!  So what does a family do on their first summer vacation with a baby you ask?

You go to prompt care, Wal-mart pharmacy, prompt care, Wal-mart pharmacy....

Today Travis went to prompt care and was diagnosed with a double ear infection, and a sinus infection.  Parker and I were at home taking a 3 hour nap.  I was actually drugged (Benyadryl).  When he came home from Prompt care he suggested perhaps I needed to go too.  So off I went.  I have a double ear infection, and a sinus infection.  Not only did I get the same diagnosis as Travis, but I got the added pleasure of having my ears flushed out.  If you want to feel unclean and gross, I suggest asking your doctor to flush your ears at your next appointment! YUCK!!!!  He needed to flush my ears in order to see if I had an ear infection.  There was so much wax he couldn't even see my eardrum! Again, YUCK!

We are now both on the same antibiotics for the same diagnosis...

Besides our unhealthy house hold, Parker is still on an antibiotic for his ear infection, we had a great day! 

Happy Summer! :)

Nielson Field Day

Today was Nielson Field day.  So when Dad was at school playing outside, I decided to play outside with Grandma Stecher.  This is when I had a traffic tie up around the tree ring out front.

Bet you can't see me huh?

How much longer until we can camp out dad?

Then I told Grandma I wanted to go and see dad at work.  So she took me to field day...only too bad for me, because dad was inside so I didn't get to play in any events with him.

His class members sure liked seeing me though.  I clung tight to dad...you never know who has a runny nose around there!

Even though I couldn't play in field day this year.  I had so much fun that I fell asleep at 4:45PM and have been asleep ever since! (it's 9:33PM)  Do you think I'll sleep until tomorrow morning?

King Field Day

Today was the King School Field Day.  This is a great celebration of the end of the year, Ms. Howard our PE teacher, did a great job creating and implementing our day.  We are lucky to have her!  The children spend all day rotating through stations where they work as a team on themed field sports.  This years field day was an Olympic theme.  Each classroom was to select a country to represent and learn about that particular country.  Mrs. Stecher's B-3 choose to represent Greece.  We created a modified flag, made Greek olive headpieces, and created Olympic torches to carry.

As the end of the year draws to a close a teacher must do what a teacher must do to survive the last days of school.  This past week I made a behavior "deal" with my students aka a bribe :)

If the kids would be on their best behavior all week I would get into the rented dunk tank that was being provided for our principal and outreach worker.  Little did I know that dunking their beloved teacher was all the motivation that would be needed to have ship shape behavior!

Although it was 90 + degrees today, the dunk tank had a constant flow of hose water so it was FREEZING!

However, I was so confident that my little darlings would have such a rough time actually dunking me I talked to my maternity sub, Mrs. Hale, and told her that if no one was able to dunk me she could come up and hit the target at the very end so I would at least end up in the bucket one time...

The first child came up...throw one miss

throw two

BULLS EYE!

Out of 19 students I was dunked 14 times!

I really did have a great time, but once I got home I felt like I had been swimming all day long...I'm pooped!

What a great way to end a great year!  We were all winners today!

Happy Field Day!

May Birthday Celebration

Today we celebrated the May birhtdays of Kay and Annica.  Chervenka's were home to celebrate so we all went to Incredible Pizza in Davenport.  This is a relatively new pizza place that reminded me a lot of Chuckie Cheese, however, there were a lot more games for all ages and it was run more like a casino than I remember Chuckie Cheese being run....

http://www.incrediblepizza.com/davenport

You put money on  "card" and then swipe the card at each game.  Instead of winning actual tickets, Incredible Pizza has "gone green" and keeps track of your winnings on your swipe card.  We had so much fun, Travis and I can't wait to go back for a date night without Parker!....AND we still have 100 points to spend! :)

Parker's first ride on a mechanical duck!

"Tastes like chicken"

For 100 points we "purchased" this great foam hat....and approximently 1 minute 20 seconds after purchasing it, Parker riped it in half.  Great usage of points! :)

Heather made this fairy cake for Annica and Kay.  Isn't it cool??? That is a real "barbie like" toy INSIDE the cake.  Neat idea and yummy too!

Uncle Kirk exposed Parker to Mt. Dew....

hmmm...what is this?  Let me try...oooohhh it feels good on my throbbing gums!