Nikki Picky: We're Growing!!! [Parker Edition]

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Yes, I realize my pictures are a bit all over the place and not from a consistent spot... but you get the idea.

Parker is a growing boy! As you can probably tell from the last picture he is a different build than Lando was; he's bigger, stronger, and just a solid little dude. The first doctor's appointment with our pediatrician (she was out of town when Parker was born) she said, "Well, he certainly has no problem putting on weight" (something I have NEVER heard said about Landon). He's just a naturally bigger boy than his older brother - something I suspected when he was in the womb trying to break out of my skin.

I also like to call him my "feisty" child. He will let us know if the littlest thing is off and even from the second he was born, we knew he had a loud voice. I wouldn't call him colicky, but he has some major discomfort from gas (there is a lot of leg-pumping going on over here). But I like that he and Landon are two totally different boys. Variety is the spice of life, right?! And, like I said, he is STRONG. He has had good neck control from the start and I have to pin his arms down at times to get through a feeding. Also, I am yet to put him down on his tummy for tummy time without him rolling over on to his back. He's is all muscle, this guy.

Nicknames are starting to arrive. Mostly, I call him "Parker boy" which is especially cute out of his older brother's mouth. There have also been others like, PC, Punkin (I know it's pumpkin, but that spelling is more phonetically correct to how I say it), Little Brudder, and "my feisty child."

Another thing you may have seen in the pictures is we have arrived at the age of smiles. YAY! I love looking down and seeing a full-faced smile coming from this boy. It makes my day and I'm pretty much putty in his hand when he does it.

Now, I don't have bloopers but I thought I would show you the new difficulty in taking the monthly picture... He looks a little like this:

Landon loves "helping" and I would say some of his jealousy shows up when we are doing something like monthly pictures where the attention is totally on Parker. So a lot of pictures end up looking a little like this: