Catching up on sleep

So we are home now. Parker has been really nice with Levi but I think there will be an interesting change. As the attention balance shifts towards Levi Parker will have to be a little more independent ie put on his shoes, clothes, brush teeth etc. I think it will be good for him. Right now Parker is practicing taking photos which is just the start we needed with him.



And Levi and mommy are snoozing.

I'm going home!

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Levi Mariner Prindle

Paige's goddaughter, Ella, cheering us on all the way from Hawaii.



The day after Levi was born.



Levi Mariner Prindle 11.09.10 La Jolla, CA 8 lbs 6 oz 21 in

He's here! Levi arrived at 10:31pm on the night of November 9th. We lucked out with a quick and easy delivery, and Levi is healthy and happy. He has the softest light blonde hair and has been so mellow and quiet so far. We can't wait to bring him home!

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A Happy Halloween!

This was definitely our best Halloween so far! Our friends Joel and Liza came over with their six-month old daughter Juliette, who was the snuggliest monkey I've ever seen. We stayed in our own neighborhood for trick-or-treating, and I must say that I was really, really impressed! This place was rockin'--massive amounts of trick-or-treaters (sometimes felt like mobs in the streets), crazy haunted houses and huge displays of lights and decorations. After trick-or-treating at the first three houses on our block, Parker exclaimed, "This is great!" At the most insanely decorated house in our neighborhood, he said, "I wish we could live here!" He never seemed scared by any of the decorations, although we knew better than to venture into any of the haunted houses with him. It was so cool seeing him have so much fun this year--he loved his costume and he walked up to each door with a "Trick-or-Treat!" and gave almost everyone a "Thank You!" Once we got home, he organized his candy into a "candy store" about five times.


Parker added a light saber to his Superman costume, calling it "mixy-mixy," which I think his variation on "matchy-matchy." He said he was "a little bit Supermanish and a little bit Star Warsish." Cool. Why not?

Our First Blueberries

There were only three of them, but they tasted really good! Hopefully this will just be the beginning of some fabulous crops of blueberries right in our own back yard...

A Scary Halloween

Today Parker had a Halloween Party at school, and it was a little scary, although not because of any witches, ghosts, or bats. He started the day pretty excited to wear his Superman costume to class, but when he got there it turned out that all of the commotion and activity were a bit overwhelming for him. A lot of parents (and even some grandparents and younger siblings) stayed for the first half hour of class to take pictures and join in the general ruckus. A few of the older classes did a "costume parade" around the school, walking through each of the classrooms in their costumes. The whole thing was pretty chaotic, noisy, and busy, which in general just is not Parker's scene; I think it was actually made worse by the fact that I was there with him, because rather than just suck it up and deal with it, Parker really started holding on to me for comfort as he got increasingly uncomfortable. Finally, it was time for the parents to leave so that the kids could continue their regular school day--which means that it was also time for Parker to have a total emotional breakdown as I tried to break away from his nervous grip. The scene was what I had actually expected--but never happened--on his first day of school: lots of tears, red face, sobbing, pleas to come home with me, and clinging on to me for dear life. Luckily, one of his teachers saw what was happening and came over to nicely peel him off of me (as he struggled and sobbed), and redirected him her way as I made my way out the door. When I came back to pick him up at the end of class, his teacher said that Parker ended up being fine, and he did seem much more himself when we left class together. Hopefully this was just a temporary event and won't cause a lasting set-back in his preschool career, since things had been going so well up until today! At least Parker was still happy to wear his costume--he even wore it out to lunch this afternoon! So I think he'll still have fun trick-or-treating on Halloween...and dressing up as Superman whenever the mood strikes him.

37 Weeks

Tick tock, tick tock...