Quiet book

so I've been thinking that I wanted to make a quiet book for parker. I've seen some really cute ones, even pinned some on pinterest. they looked easy enough. hahaha! boy was I naive! This all went down over spring break at my parents. so I drew out a plan, bought some felt and used this site for some inspiration. Imagine Our Life blog has some super super cute page ideas! This is my attempt at a few of them. oh, P.S. everything is hand stitched. seriously, what was I thinking!

CIRCUS TRAIN

ICE CREAM SHOP

MATCHING SOCKS

MR. MUSTACHE

thats all I could get done over the week. still have about....five more pages to do, bind them all and make a cover. My mom and sister, Paige joined this fun time and helped stitch too! thanks guys!

I can tell, you're all inspired to make one now too, huh?!

Amazing weather = park

today feels A-MAZZZZZ-ING! I can't even believe how good it feels. Mid-70s has never felt better. to enjoy the day we went to the park with friends! Our complex has a playground but we want to try out a different one that is close by. This one actually had real baby swings! Parker LOVED it! for the first little while he just sat back with arms resting on the side like he owned the place.

Lovin bath time

so seriously, parker LOVES taking baths. he basically tries to crawl into the tub- fully clothed- while its filling up. He loves to splash, play with toys, splash some more. He also likes to stand up then plop down. He was quite the little entertainer tonight during his bath. look at these silly faces.

oh i love this kid!

sometimes..

the only thing that keeps me going is this face.

Valentines Day

So I got home from Ohio on Valentines Day to this from Drew:

there were peanut butter M&Ms too, but I ate those :)

Take a closer look at the card from Drew, its classic.

leave it to drew to draw mustaches, my dad even said that he thought they looked better with them.

That night we took advantage of my dad and sister being in town and went out to dinner. Famous Daves! I LOVE Famous Daves. I'm so glad that Kentucky has it! Nothing says love like St. Louis style ribs, right?

as for Drews present: a snuggie, or as my mom says a snuggly. as you can tell, he really enjoys it.

Ohio & HC

This last weekend Parker and I took our second trip to Ohio with my parents. The reasoning? To see my newest nephew of course. Harrison Cole- HC. Born thursday 2/9, 8 lbs 15 oz. and can you believe this is their smallest baby! yeah, Rasmussens are big kids. But he just seemed sooooo tiny! Its hard to believe Parker was ever that small!

Parker seemed to like Harrison. He would always crawl over to where he was on the couch and try to climb up, once someone let Parker on the couch he would just reach for him. I think maybe he was just jealous because grandma was holding Harrison instead of him. haha! They are almost exactly 9 months apart. So, they obviously knew eachother in passing. (makes me think of Saturday warriors- where the people are in heaven waiting to come down, remember that?)

the man of the weekend, Mr. HC himself

Parker liked to play with cousins. Parker and Jayden

hanging with grandma/pa, Abi, and Jay watching Up.

So while we were there Parker went swimming for the first time. He wasnt too sure how he felt about it at first. He kept his hand on me for the first couple of minutes unsure.

P & P - still not too sure

something clicked and he realized it was basically a huge bathtub! he went a little crazy splashing!

still splashing.

showing off for grandma.

because Parker is so perfect, the 5.5 hour ride home was no big deal.

this kid just cracks me up!

people in weird places

have you guys ever looked at your blog stats? like where the pageviews are coming from? Well I was looking at mine and found some viewers from some very uncommon places. I dont know how people even find my blog. Heres the list from just this week.

United states- thats a given, but alaska is on there (do I even know people in alaska?)
Australia
France
Canada
Germany
Moldova (I honestly don't even know where this is)
Russia

Random, right?!

throw Mexico, Netherlands, and Taiwan on there for the month views.

and for all time views add UK, South Korea, and Ukraine to the list.

seriously, how do people find this blog!