A "Good" outing

Today we took a "Good" outing to Good's Furniture in Kewanee.  Kewanee is about 45 minutes from Galesburg and none of us had ever been.

Good's is HUGE...very easy to spend a day browsing.  There are lots of glass elevators so bringing a stroller was not a problem.. Everyone was very friendly and oodled over Parker....he made lots of new friends...mostly older women....much older....older than both of his Grandma's...but friends none the less.

Isn't this cool?  Parker was envisioning all the books and toys he could neatly put on his shelves.  There are 3 drawers under the bed for P.J.'s and sports shorts too.

Isn't this high back, mission style bed neat?  I love mission style furniture!  What would make this bed even better would be if it had little things like this...

on all 4 posts.

Dream shopping is great!  No budgets to follow!

We took a walk over the sky walk to "Good's East" and ate in their winery bistro.  It was very good and quite upscale, but still on the affordable side.  We were worried about Parker but he did a really good job.

We saw Proud Mary's plane...and actually ran into Mary the owner twice.  I should have been brave and asked for her picture...but that would have embarrassed both Stecher men to the fullest. 

We had a great day window shopping.  I would recommend anyone looking for a fun day getaway to check out Good's in Kewanee!

Mr. Crabby

 Hmmm...I wonder what that is...

What's making that water?????

YIKES!  Retreat...retreat....MOM!

The only way I'm going back in...is if you give me that shiny can...deal?

Now THIS is fun!

I had a great time in my crab pool today!

Naptime Bandit

Parker has been going to bed/nap with a receiving blanket lately. He seems to find comfort in the blanket and we thought we might have a blankie lovin' man on our hands.  

We have also been having problems getting him to fall asleep for nap time.  He'll sit in his crib for an hour or more just quiet enough we think he's asleep and then out of no where start talking or laughing.  We have also found him "playing" with his stuffed toys through the crib.  see here...  So we've started covering the toys when it's nap time with a flannel blanket we used when it was cold out.

Today, after only 37 minutes of a nap this morning, Travis put Parker down at 2PM for a much needed nap.  After an hour of "play" Travis finally took the "toy" away....the blankie...

After about 20 minutes it was quiet so we went to check on him and this is what we found...keep in mind there was no blanket, no toys, no distraction...

This is Parker on the far left side of the crib...with a blanket...

This is the toy bin on the far right side of the crib....blanket"less".

I think this is Parker's way of telling us not to take his blankie away...

or maybe he was just wanting to play but it took all of his remaining energy to pull the cover off the top and fell asleep before he could make it back to the toys...

non the less, I think we should move the toy bin, and invest in a video monitor!

Little League

We are St. Louis Cardinals fans through and through...

but on Saturday night we became Yankee fans for one of Parker's friends.

The Yankees played a great game!  It was a nail biter to the end! Way to go Kannon!  We're all proud of you!

  We look forward to many little league games in the future!

Both boys were tuckered out from all the action.

Happy Birthday Cousin Tyler

This weekend we went to celebrate Tyler's birthday at Grandma and Grandpa's house.  Tyler is the youngest of the Chervenka kids.

Parker and Travis had a good time too!  The puppy Travis has is named Snickers and is the Chervenka's new dog.

After the birthday celebration we took all the kids to the new park in downtown Rock Island.

It was really nicely done and we look forward to spending time there!

Picky Sleeper?

Parker will not sleep at the babysitters.  He will not sleep in the pack and play.  He will not sleep in the basement at Grandma Vancil's.  He will not sleep upstairs at Grandma Stecher's.  He is a picky sleeper....

but he will sleep on the floor with toys all around, a TV going, and gates up when he is not at home in his preferred sleeping spot..

Picky? ummmm...

Game face?

Daddy calls this my game face...

Mommy calls this "I'm so mad at you mom" face...

I call it my "I want it, I don't want it, ooo, ooo, ooo" face...

What do you call it?

Boom in the night!

So last night we put Parker to bed at 6:30 P.M..... in his clothes.  Then at 8:00 P.M. we woke him up and put him in the car where he fell right back to sleep.  At 9:15P.M. we put him in a stroller on top of a Rock Island parking garage, and rolled him through The District of Rock Island....crazy right?

This is how he woke up!

 

We went to Rock Island for Parker's 1st fireworks display.  It was supposed to be a good one and we...I...was concerned he might not get to see them tonight because of the rain.

When the first firework went of with a BIG BOOM!  Babies all around us started crying...but not Parker...he started looking around for the babies!  He wasn't fazed in the least! When we finally got him to turn around he was mesmerized...we knew all those toys with lights and sounds would come in handy...

He did a really good job for it being 10 at night!  The fireworks were FANTASTIC!  They were supposed to be set to music, but where we were sitting you couldn't hear the music.  It didn't matter though because the fireworks were huge and beautiful reflecting on the river! After fireworks Parker fell back asleep in the car before we were even out of the parking garage and slept all the way home.  We put him back in his crib at midnight and he slept until morning!

We can't wait for the possibility of more fireworks tonight!

Happy Fourth of July!