Parkinson Family: Jared's 4th birthday

Wednesday, June 11, 2014

Jared's 4th birthday

On May 19th, we celebrated Jared's birthday. It was a simple but nice day spent with our family. The morning of his birthday after we sent the older kids off to school, Jared, Jordan and I went running with the stroller. Jared didn't want to ride in the stroller- he wanted to run too. So, I let him go for as long as he could. I was amazed to see that he could run about 1 and 1/4 miles. Of course, we went quite a bit slower than I normally run, but he ran that whole distance. I actually think he could've run longer but I finally said, "Ok, time for mommy to run- get in the stroller!" Mornings running with the boys are so nice. I usually go about 4 miles, just jogging around the streets of Garland and enjoying the morning sounds.

After I showered, we went to the grocery store and got Jared some balloons for his birthday. He got one with "Lighning McQueen" on it, of course. Right now Jared is so into "Cars 2" and talks about it all the time. He wanted a "Holly Shiftwell" cake so I did my best to make one. This was more like a "Cars 1" cake, but oh well. Holly Shiftwell arrived in the mail that day, just in time to put her on the cake. She was the main present Jared wanted. (Almost every present he got was purchased online- mommy's best friend). He also got a lightsaber, some cars, and a cars umbrella, and some books.

That evening for Jared's birthday, he wanted pizza. So, we made homemade pizza with our family and watched "Cars 2". It was a great day!

On Wednesday, 2 days after Jared's birthday, we had a casual "birthday picnic/playdate" with a bunch of moms and kids from the neighborhood. We brought around invitations and then people just showed up to our backyard for some play time and brought a picnic lunch. It was a good excuse for a bunch of moms to get together and visit and allowed the kids some social time, too!

We love our Jared!! He is such a fun boy, so full of life and excitement. I love having him home with me. He is quite the character. He is usually so intense- either one way or the other. He keeps life exciting for us!

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Parkinson funnies

Nov 2012- Aaron was watching football on TV and Jared came out saying, "I want to go watch grass!"

Dec 2011- Heidi said one morning, "Mom, there's frosting on the house!" (on a cold day when frost was on the house).

June 2, 2011- Driving in the car Kyle said to his sister, "If you don't learn to talk, Jesus will make you talk Spanish." (He explained later that he actually meant sign language. That's how he thought it worked.)

Feb 28, 2011- Kyle said, "I don't like to have babysitters because they are only supposed to take care of babies!" Then we explained that they can take care of bigger kids too.

Dec 15, 2010- Kyle said, "I know how they make egg nog. First they dump in the eggs and mix them around. Then they put in the nog..."

Oct 20, 2010- Kyle said, "Mom, is some cheese blue?" I said it is called blue cheese but isn't really that blue. He said, "Well, then does it taste like blueberries?" I love all the questions he asks about how the world works- He's really trying to figure things out.

Oct 7, 2010- We were driving by Arctic Circle and Kyle said, "Is that the hamburger hut? I like that hut." I am wondering if he was remembering a time when we went to "Pizza Hut".

Aug 12, 2010- We were driving by a farm where there was a big fire burning up the field and Kyle said, "Dad, is that where the indians live?"

Aug 8, 2010- We were driving in the car and Kyle said, "Dad, I think I 'm truck-sick." "You mean car sick?" "No, truck sick- when you're sick in the truck."

Aug 2, 2010- We were headed off to a doctor's appointment for the baby and he was crying. Kyle said, "Mom, I think he's crying because you said he is going to get a shot."

June 28, 2010- The other day at dinner it was Heidi's turn to pray and daddy was helping her. She was just repeating everything word for word when he got to "Please bless it.." and said it 3 times. Finally I had to open my eyes to see what the hold up was. Well, little Heidi was just stuffing spaghetti in her mouth as fast as she could and it was hanging out all over. We all just bust up laughing. I guess she just couldn't wait any longer!

May 19, 2010- On the way home from the hospital after seeing their new baby brother, Erika said, "When I was born mom and dad said that I looked blue." Kyle said, "And when I was born I was pink and red. "

Dec 9,2009- The other day we were eating dinner and Kyle didn't want to eat. He said, "I don't like to eat aliens!" We told him there were no aliens in his dinner. Then, realizing what he was talking about, I said, "You mean onions?" He kept calling onions "aliens" and we got a kick out of it.

Nov 20, 2009- Erika lost another tooth at school today. Kyle said to her, "Erika, when my tooth gets loose and comes out, I'll give mine to you."

Oct 10, 2009- Today Erika said, "Mom, someday when I'm older, I want to get that recipe from you!"

Sept 9, 2009- We couldn't find our puppy anywhere and had driven all over the neighborhood to find him. Finally about 2 hours later Kyle showed up holding him and I said, "Where did you find him?" He said, "In the killer-box". "The what?" "The cooler-box". He had stuck him in a cooler in our backyard and forgotten about it. We were glad he was okay!! I felt terrible and gave him some extra TLC for a little while.

Sept 4, 2009- Erika said tonight, "You know what my favorite thing is about school? It's lunch... and learning... and break!" We said, "Isn't that the whole thing?"

Aug 17,2009- We were camping and had brought all our bikes. As we were leaving camp for a little while, Aaron commented that it might have been wise to bring a chain to lock up our bikes so they wouldn't get stolen. Erika said, "Or, we could have just brought a sign that said, 'DON'T STEAL!'".

July 12, 2009- Today at church Kyle looked at my Young Women's Medallion and said, "Mom, is that you on the necklace?"

July 3, 2009- Kyle had been sleeping down in Erika's room with some friends and came upstairs before we went to bed. He said, "Mom, there was some noise down there. I think it was the tooth fairy, coming to get the loose tooth."