Christmas... Whew!!!

Real quick... look at this smiling, precious face...



We are still trying to recover from a wonderful Christmas! First, we went to Birmingham for Parker Christmas, saw Emily and the Hensons, then landed in Scottsboro for a few days. After a few days back at home, it was time for Christmas Eve at our house with the Childresses, Holts, Herds, etc. We went to the river after that to wait for Santa. Yes, it was midnight when we got there.

Wesson wanted a 5:30 bottle, which was his schedule for a few days, so I tried to talk the family into seeing what Santa brought then but I lost. We went back to bed until about 9. After a day of opening Santa's gifts one person at a time, we snacked in the afternoon and ate a huge supper. We have all starches on Christmas night so that we can get ready for the New Year - dressing, mashed potatoes, mac n cheese, green beans, turkey, cranberry sauce, ham. We had it all.

Grandmother's house (Wesson's great-grandmother) in Lawrenceburg was next on the 26th. Wesson met his cousin Will for the first time. My Grandmother is so thankful to have three healthy great-grandchildren to see grow up, and we are equally as thankful for her to be in their lives.

We came home about 4:00 to meet DAVE! We had Dave up for the night as well as hosted a few of my friends from high school that have children or wanted to meet the children. It was early to bed for us because Sunday morning we went to pick up AUNT KATIE at the airport!!! It was so nice to have her around while Lee had to head back work. We had a great time with Aunt Katie but her visit was way too short!

Just in time for Lee to go back to work, Wesson has decided it is really fun to sleep at night (hope I don't jinx us by saying that). He has a 9pm or so bottle then heads to dreamland and snoozes until 6 or so. Its been wonderful! Its odd that I will actually have to wake him up to eat so I can get in the shower for work. I'm not complaining though!

You are probably wondering where the pictures are... There are so many I want to share so I started a Shutterfly page. Go to http://www.theparkersinpictures.shutterfly.com/ to see ALL of Wesson's pictures.

Major Shopping Day... and Santa!!!

We went shopping yesterday with Well Well and Aunt Ginny... what a day! It was my first day without Lee to manhandle the car seat in and out of the vehicle and my first day to use the stroller. It is huge!!! Well Well had an emotional breakdown when she realized she was finally pushing her grandbaby in a stroller through the mall. She said, "I have been dreaming of this day for a really long time!" So we took her picture...

My first failure as a mother was not to think that a mall in Nashville has Santa set up for pictures 24-7. We couldn't pass it up though, seeing that "Barry Clause" at the hospital tomorrow will be skinny and have a fake beard. We attempted to buy him a Christmas outfit and come back but nothing was small enough. We opted to just wrap him in his blanket and call it my fault. Santa was great to take a little nap with Wesson....

More Week 3

We got Wesson some shoulder protectors for his car seat and its hilarious! He looks like he is going to space, especially when he puts his hands on the straps.
Next to his monkey for week 3!

We went to Big Daddy and WellWell's for their annual Christmas Cheer. After WellWell got the party over with, she was ready for some Wesson time!

Wesson's Third Week on Earth

Well we've made it to Wesson's third week. Here are some of our adventures...

First family photo since we were in the hospital.
First big boy bath... We weren't worried about him peepeeing on us because he went down his leg outside his diaper while I was waiting on the water to warm up!

We went to Colby and Catherine's for dinner and Wesson loved their tree!

First Christmas parade. He was all decked out!

Our baby has decided that if he is going to cure cancer some day he needed to get busy growing up. He is so strong already. He rolled from his belly to his back all by himself this weekend!!!

Busy Week for Wesson

We have had quite the show at our house the past few days. Here are some of the adventures...

On Lee's birthday, we took Wesson to Aunt Ginny's house for a few hours so we could go see The Blind Side. I took a picture just in case one of them didn't make it.

This is Wesson after we let him hang out in his bassinette and throw a little fit. He was so mad he took his shirt off!

This is Lee's little adventure with Hot Dog Relish. Got to keep your finger on the lid, Dad!