22 months!

Parker is 22 months old!

Accomplishments this month include:

• New words: Golf Cart, drink, "Gooo Dawgs, sic 'em, hoo hoo hoo!", broom, bike, bite, "tickle tickle!".
• He's starting to put words together, like "Hi Daddy" and "here you go".
• Probably his biggest accomplishment: moving into his big boy bed!  He was starting to jump in his bed, and his waist would jump higher than the top of the crib.  We had wanted to keep him in the crib longer than this, but we made a split minute decision to go ahead and convert his crib to a toddler bed.
• Jumping (see note above)!
• He picked berries for the first time.
• He took his first trip to Florida.
• When leaving our neighborhood, we drive by a little horse farm and then a golf course.  He'll say "a woof woof" for the horses, and "GA KA!!!!" for the golf course, every time we drive by.
• He also does the above for water ("Hey a-woo!") and cows ("Mooooo!")
• He now reciprocates hugs by putting his arms around your neck.  It is so sweet.
• He seems to be enjoying swinging a little better now.
• He visited Athens for the first time!
• Celebrated his 3rd 4th of July.
• He does the funniest thing- when someone he doesn't know talks to him, he looks straight up.  Kind of like an "I don't see you so you can't see me" look.  It's hilarious!
• He got another haircut this month.
• He loves to dip his food into dips- ketchup, ranch, honey mustard... you name it!
• He wants to be Mr. Independent and won't let us feed him with a fork/spoon anymore- he takes it from us to do it himself.
• He's still working on drinking out of a cup.
• He can turn round doorknobs now.  We have to actually lock his door when we put him down for the night, because he constantly comes out of his room by opening the door.  He is so darn cute about it, too.  He'll shyly look around a corner at you and smile.  It's hard to be stern!
• If someone asks a question, like, "Who loves cookies?" he'll say, "meeeeee!"  It gets funny, when the questions are like, "Who is a pretty girl?" and he says, "meeee!".
• He can climb on beds, tall chairs, couches, etc.
• He can "sing" Wheels on the Bus, Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star, and even the tune to Caillou.  It's nothing intelligible, but you can hear the tune (and sometimes see the motions).

He loves golf carts.  

His big boy bed!

This is what he was doing when those girls were talking to him.