The Red Tractor

I signed up for Keeping Up With My Blog 101 with my friend Amy. Fortunately, she sent me these pictures from her house to get me going! They have a cool tractor at their house right now that Parker just loved. It has buttons and gadgets all over it, just like he likes. He explored it for awhile before Craig took him for a ride. He cried at first, maybe because of the noise, but was smiling and giggling by the end. He cried again when Dale drove the tractor away from him. Unfortunately, it is not a long term toy of his.

Carsyn was kind enough to give him a tour of the buttons-- most importantly, the horn.

Some of Parker's Favorite Things

Parker loves his baseball...


Parker loves to chew on his baseball...

Parker loves the front seat of the car with the wheel and all of the buttons. We don't drive with him like this, so don't go making any phone calls! He loves buttons in any capacity, including light switches, remote controls, phones, the garage door opener, the dishwasher, etc. I know that's normal, but it's almost an obsession of his.

This is our new red truck, given to us by Craig's dad. We are so thankful for it, as it has allowed us to pick up all the building materials for the basement! Maybe we shouldn't be advertising this. People with trucks tend to be called on for favors, or so we've heard....

Parker loves to read.
He loves running water.

Belated Little Rock Fun

I've tried twice to put up pictures of the fun things we did in Little Rock ages ago, but twice, blogger has failed me. I'm not patient enough to keep retrying to upload pictures. So....if you really want to see them, you can check out the Dillard blog http://www.thedillards123.blogspot.com/. The pictures are several entries down, entitled "Walseth Weekend." Heather keeps up with her blog much more than I; in fact, she started ours... We took Parker on the wave runner. We all had a Southern boil meal out on the lake. We went to see the ducks march down the red carpet at the Peabody Hotel and rode the trolley downtown. Lots of fun things for the boys. They were great to host us for our now annual anniversary trip. Since then, they've stayed with us twice. August was a nice month for Dillard time. We're sad they live so far away :(

Caleb, their oldest, loves Parker (and Parker now loves him, after learning to share his personal space!). Caleb also loves crackers. While in Little Rock, he kept saying "Cracker," so we kept handing him crackers. He looked at us funny, but then ate the crackers as any 2-year-old would. It took us days to realize that he was pointing to Parker, and he really wasn't dying for a cracker. After their two visits, it's turned more into "Corker," but it still sounds an awful lot like "cracker." Corker/Cracker misses you, too. Caleb!