Just her size...

Today we ventured to Target to get Parker her birthday present. I know it's a little early, but we were excited and figured she wouldn't mind getting it early...and it even worked out because when we got there, we discovered that it was actually on sale for $20 off! We wanted to get her a chair that is just her size. She walked straight up to the chair, and climbed on...

She enjoyed sitting...

...standing...

...leaning backward...

...then, of course, she had to go get her ball and sit in the chair with it...

...then we brought out her new purple ball that is almost bigger than her, and she liked to walk around with that for a bit...

...and put the new purple ball in the new chair...

...then we put her in her new chair with the new ball...

...she literally wore herself out climbing on that chair today. We really have to watch her because she likes to sit on the arm of the chair and stand...all things that are not safe. But it was so fun to watch her because you could tell she was so excited to use it because it was just her size...

...and breathe...

I was able to stop and breathe today because I was not in school and was home with Parker! It was the best medicine after a long week! It may be my imagination, but I think she grew an inch taller this week! Seriously...I don't know if it was an inch, but I guess not being with her 24/7, I actually noticed that she grew.

So enough about me and my week. This is something that I have been trying to get around to sharing for about a week or so...

I had mentioned the other day how Parker likes to carry around her pajama pants and this is so fun to her, but actually...what she really does is...she randomly find something (pajamas, a shirt, pants, blanket, etc.) and for whatever reason, this becomes her favorite little 'item.' It remains her 'favorite item' for about 20 minutes or so and during this time, she walks around with it, she may try to pick up her ball at the same time (and gets pretty frustrated when she is not successful...sometimes I have to take this item away from her if she starts throwing her head back and falling onto the ground in a fit for no apparent reason other than this clothing item is making her upset????) and has newly started draping them over her shoulders like a shawl, or putting it on top of her head (I guess she is trying to "put it on" like we put her shirts on over her head). Too cute...


And she also likes to pick up the phone, push some buttons, and then put the phone up to her neck (that's close enough ;). Or even if she's just pushing buttons on the phone and then we say "Hello?"...she stops, looks up at us, and then puts the phone up. Where does she get this from? Hmmmmmm.....