Toddler Takeover

Confession... I am tipsy.... and I need to be. You see, Daniel has been in Canada ALL week (he gets home at 2am tonight.. YIPPEEE!) but he leaves again for another week on Monday and I have been home with Mr. Parkerman who is teething all 4 molars at once. Super fun. I know you're all jealous. Sleep... well that has been non-existent and I've even resorted to drugging my precious teething child at night to sleep with little to no positive results (judge all you want... it had to happen). He's SOO chipper during the day but he SCREAMS at night in pain and thus for both our sakes, I drugged him (with the dr's permission)... anyways... it hasn't worked... and tonight when my love bug went to sleep... I drank... cheap yummy wine.

PS- I'm watching Dateline right now and Anne Curry's lipstick is way too dark.. like Gothic dark...

Back to the actual reason for my blog today....

I invited 15 toddlers and their mommies to my house the other day... crazy... I know... but it worked out pretty well. 12 of the 15 showed up and we had a great and chaotic time! We played in the baby pools and water table, destroyed my house, painted magnets, shattered a few as well, ate my turkey dog octopus macaroni creation, puked it up on my carpet (thank you Brooklyn) and enjoyed each other's company with minimal time outs! Overall, a great success! Check out the pictures of our mayhem!

Miles, Jett and Parker playing with the water table:

My insane den!

Man, this slip n slide water is COLD!

Baby pool fun!

My ocean themed lunch!

WOW! Having friends over is fun but exhausting!

We LOVE our friends and the memories we make with them! When my house finally recovers from our playdate, we'll do it again!

Preppy Baby goes to the Nature Museum

Today my girlfriend and I took the kiddies to the Charlotte Nature Museum. It's located beside Freedom Park which is a beautiful and large park I plan to revisit when it isn't so stinkin' hot! The facility wasn't large but that didn't stop the kids from having fun! There were snakes, turtles, butterflies, baby mice, an owl (or oooowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwlllllllllll according to Parker), water table, reading room, slides and tunnels and more! I'm not sure if Parker got anything out of it educationally at this age but I enjoyed visiting a new place and mostly eating Monterray's for lunch while we were on that side of town!

This was obviously going to be a major picture taking outing so I put Parker in the most naturish outfit he has.... a blue gingham crab and starfish jon jon. ha ha... Actually, he has a monogrammed and appliqued T-shirt with a snail that would have been more appropriate but it's in the wash. Darn!

Here's a recap of the museum...in pictures, of course!

Pressing buttons to hear what sounds each insect makes and checking out turtles!

Playing with blocks



What a dramatic little ham!



Overall, fun time had by all and I definitely recommend planning a trip there if you have young kids in the Charlotte area! My advice would be to go in the morning when it opens (don't bother with a stroller), wait until about an hour before it closes or wait until Summer camps are over since the facility is SO small and the camp counselors are middle school girls on their cell phones not watching the kids! ha ha I give it 1 1/2 thumbs up for toddler friendliness!