Sunday, May 06, 2007

Parker's First Birthday is Rapidly Approaching






With Parker's 1st birthday rapidly approaching, now is as good a time as any to add some more pics for the most photographed baby in the common era, and update his comings and goings for those who are interested.
Parker can now crawl the 40 yard dash in just over 4.6 seconds. Now only if we can get him to be able to catch a tight spiral, he has a place as a tight-end in the NFL. He now has 6 teeth. He is constantly pulling himself up on just about anything that is semi-immobile. His most recent actions are clapping, which started about 2 weeks ago and strumming his lip, both of which he can do on command. He even claps when he does things he shouldn't, which of course presents a dilemma. Does he associate his clapping (approval) with the naughty thing he just did (feeding the dogs all the crackers on his tray)? Who knows.
And speaking of food, Parker is still eating baby food (fruits and vegetables) and drinking formula. He has also supplemented this with a helping of Cheerios, which he is eating in the top picture, Cheese-Its (his Mother's favorite) and other baby crackers and dried corn kernals.
For the most part, he is extremely happy. He usually gets to sleep by 8:30 or 9:00 p.m. He has been waking up once a night typically and wakes up in the morning about this time (8:00 a.m.). He can stay awake until 11:00 to 12:00 p.m. and takes a nap for 2-3 hours. He usually takes one afternoon nap for about 30-60 minutes around 5:00 p.m. and has his bath around 7:30 to 8:00 p.m.
That's all for now.

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