Santa

Sorry Emma, but everyone has to sit on Santa at least once :c).

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Update

Sooo…Its been a while!! Sarah and I decided that we have not been posting as much as we used to because we both feel like our lives are very mundane right now. So I thought that maybe we could let other people be the judge of whether or not our lives are to mundane to blog about.

Emma is becoming quite a little fussy lady. She loves to get her way, and loves to scream if she doesn’t. She is starting to catch on that her older friends, 18- 2yr’s, at “school” can get their way by pushing other kids out of the way, grabbing toys, and screaming. So she is starting to try these new strategies to the dismay of her Mom and Dad. We have adopted a word for these behaviors from our wonderful English office manager, Naughty. It seems to fit.

Sarah is doing well with her pregnancy, or so she says. I don’t think that throwing up most mornings, not being able to look at, or smell, foods my child is about to eat, and having “tummy” pains all the time constitutes doing well. Maybe I’m just a complainer and Sarah is just the sweetest, strongest pregnancy trooper I’ve met.

Me, well this week I have cut my self several times, burned myself twice, and gotten an electrical shock from working with wires twice. Normal week :c).

Sarah’s Mom and Aunt Kay came into town this weekend to visit Emma. We have hit up the Quarter, Café Maspero, Café du Monde, a pumpkin patch, Buds Broiler, drove to the west bank by ferry, and visited Oak Alley Plantation for an Arts and Crafts Show. And I hear that today Johnny’s Po Boys will provide lunch.

Overall Sarah, Emma, and I are loving our mundane life her in New Orleans, but missing our family and friends in South Carolina.

On a Sport note, we are Ultra Proud of our Saints for going 5-0, glad the Panthers have won 2 in row, proud of how well the Gamecocks are doing, and hoping the Tigers (of Clemson) keep on winning.

Calloway Gardens

This past weekend the girls and I spent the weekend with our Best friends Kelly, Paul, and Brogan in Pine Mountain, Ga. We stayed in the hotel across from the Gardens and had some fun adventures. We played with butterflies, learned about raptors, and dug around in weeds and trees looking for Geo-Cashes. It was the most fun I had had in the last 2 years. Here are some pictures:





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My Picassa is full :c(

Okay so my picassa account is full so we are uploading all new pictures to Sarah's account.
Soo March 2007 through August 27th, 2009 is on http://picasaweb.google.com/mattjparks

and

August 28th, 2009 through Present is on http://picasaweb.google.com/sarahmparks

Saints, Cousins, and Waffle House

Last Friday (Aust 14th), thanks to our wonderful boss, Sarah, Emma and I were able to go to the Saints first pre-season game (we also have tickets to their first real game). We all had a lot of fun and Emma lasted till Half-Time...Yeay Emma! And the Saint won!!
The next day my cousin Kristen, her husband Christopher, and their sweet little man Elias, had beignets with us at Cafe' Du Monde. They were in town from North Carolina for a short vacation and called us up. Yeay for family!! This was also Emma's first experience with beignets, because she had always been to young for them before. She enjoyed her piece, but we have found Emma does not LOVE doughnuts...she just enjoys them. So she did not beg for more she just kinda nibbled at her piece. I guess that is a good thing.
Yesterday we went to the new waffle house in the lower 9th ward of new Orleans (offically Arabi). Waffles houses here in New Orleans (I know hard to believe for fellow southerners) are sort of a rarity, but this one was even more special, because my brother designed the site plan and landscape for it, all the way from Greenville, SC. He is quite talented, though I don't think a Waffle House parking lot offers much of a canvas to work with.
And Some Emma sure is cute pictures. That cute dress is one of Sarah's dresses that she wore when she was Emma's age...So cute! Two beauties sharing the same dress. I guess this means Emma's already borrowing her mom's clothes :c).

Woooah Emma is 15 months

Today Emma turns 15 months old. Where have the months gone? We look at pictures of her when she was little (birth-12 months) and she looks so little.
Emma's new favorite word is "woooah" I believe she learned it from Daddy. He saw "finding nemo" the other day and loves the part when they swim with the surfer turtles. So daddy says "woah" a lot. This was heightened by daddy taking her to home depot and driving the cart "crazy" and saying "woah". Its quite cute when she trips or falls and looks around and says "woooah".
A few of the kids in Emma's nursery are potty training and she became very interested so we got her a cheap little potty and stick her on, in the morning, after naps, and when she says pee pee, or poo poo. So far she has gone pee pee a few times and 3 good poops. Of course she is preety oblevious to the fact stuff is coming out of her, we just catch her when normally does her "stuff" (right Brogan). Its good experince for her though when she does start "feeling it".