Joshua and the blow dryer

Not much to say to that one. He takes after his father, who takes more time than I do to get ready

Here is the boys from February playing in the kitchen. As usual with most videos that involve both boys, I was taping Joshua and got Joseph playing in Daddy's shoes in the background. These two never cease to amaze me. Now that we have room on the camera again, expect more videos to come. Now that they are playing outside the hilarity ensues!

FINALLY AN UPDATE!!

So, I am running behind in my life as usual.... , but I finally uploaded all of the video to the computer so I am posting some videos of the kids.

Here is the first one, Easter Sunday when we got back from the Easter Egg Hunt. Joseph was enthralled with the snow and I love his enthusiasm. Keep your eye on Joshua as well....

Easter,
Well, here it is Easter Sunday. Of course the kids were up early, but I have to tell you I am quickly not liking this holiday very much. Don't get me wrong I love and respect the reason for the holiday, but I am not a fan of all of the candy and chocolate that seems to go along with it. I know you are all thinking that if you don't want your kids to have the sweets then just don't give them any, hey I am all for that, just tell that to the biggest kid in the house, my husband. :-) This morning Joshua wanted to eat his Fun Dip that came with the Easter Baskets that Mick bought for the kids without asking me. They of course were filled with candy, but back to the Fun Dip.; For those of you who don't know it's basically colored sugar that you eat with a candy stick. So, I told Joshua no, his response to me, very much something his dad would say, was I wish you were no here! I could not believe it. I know it's because daddy lets them do whatever they want. Yesterday was my day to sleep in, and when I came downstairs, our family room was filled with candy wrappers and the boys were bouncing off the walls. Mick had given them all of the cholcolate filled Easter eggs that they had gotten at school, and just let them eat whatever they wanted. It was crazy, they were so wired up on candy that we never really did get them down for naps. Anyway I am just venting.

HAVE A GREAT AND HAPPY EASTER!

Here is then last video of the day, it's Joshua playing his guitar and Joseph totally being the back up singer. Also some of Joseph talking

Here is one of Joseph asleep in the car. I finally figured out how to link these off of You Tube, so much quicker. Eventually I plan on having a link on the blog to take you straight to You Tube to watch the vidoes at you leisure, but until I can get that figured out, this will have to do. One last video to follow after this one

Here is a FUNNY Video of Joshua. Boy what a die-hard John Mayer fan he is!!!

Different Drug Problem

This was posted in my office today and I thought it was right on track, so I decided to share

The other day, someone at a store in our town read that a Meth lab had been found in an old farmhouse in the adjoining county and he asked me a rhtorical question, "Why didn't we have a drug problem when you and I were growing up?".
I replied, I had a drug problem when I was young: I was drug to church on Sunday morning. I was drug to church for weddings and funerals. I was drug to family reunions and community socials no matter the weather.
I was drug by my ears when I was disrespectful to adults. I was also drug to the woodshed when I disobeyed my parents, told a lie, brought home a bad report card, did not speak with respect, spoke ill of the teacher or the preacher, or if I didn't put forth my best effort in everything that was asked of me.
I was drug to the kitchen sink to have my mouth washed out with soap if I uttered a profanity. I was drug out to pull out weeds in my mom's garden and flower beds and cockleburs out of dad's fields. I was drug to the homes of family, friends and neighbors to help out some poor soul who had no one to mow the yard, repair the clotheline, or chop some firewood, and, if my mother had ever known that I took single dime as a tip for this kindness, she would have drug me back to the woodshed.
Those drugs are still in my veins and they affect my behavior in everything that I do, say, or think. They are stronger than cocaine, crack or heroin; and, if today's children had this kind of drug problem, America would be a better place.
God Bless the parents that drugged us.

Enough Said!

New Pictures uploaded to FLICKR!!! It's all I managed to get done, :-)

Soo...;
I am going to post some pictures and vidoes, and I will try and write a blog update, but I am definitely posting pics and videos. Please check out the pictures as it is all the Halloween pictures, Thanksgiving and just various pics from the last several months. There is even a bunch of pitures that Joshua took when he got hold of the camera :-) Updates coming soon

This is a sure scene of brotherly love (NOT)

I know!
I have been BAD, and I don't have a good excuse other than I have been SUPER busy! I had two trials back to back and then Christmas.... I am exhausted. I am trying to figure out why for the last several years, I always seem to be getting ready for a trial right at the holiday season, can't these lawyers just take some time off (hahahaha!)
I do have some great Halloween pictures of the kids and some cute videos from Christmas. We got an awesome new video camera from my dad, so we totally forgot to take pictures of the holiday. At least I can make some still shots from the video. I think that I should be back and running on all cylinders in about a week, so until then, you are just going to have to be patient (hahaha) I do have some video on my laptop, so if I can sneek anymore time in at work I'll upload a video today. Hope everyone had a great Christmas and New Years. My resolution is to actually get Christmas Cards sent out... two years in a row I have bought them only to be foiled by litigation and before I know it, it's after Christmas and they have not been sent... oh well. Updates coming soon!

Running Behind!
So, I have not gotten to posting the kids & Mick's pictures from Halloween, but it's coming soon. As usual things are hectic and on top of trying to get ready for Thanksgiving. Most of my dad's family is flying or driving in from out of town, so I am just nuts trying to get everything together. Just wanted you all to know that there will be updates soon!

JOSHUA'S 3RD BIRTHDAY

So, I am posting pictures to Flickr from Joshua's 3rd Birthday. Joshua asked to have his party at Chuck E Cheeses and a fun time was had by all! It was great fun and we did not have to cook, clean or make any food, BONUS!! The Diego cake was made by Myra from the daycare. It was amazing and it was a job keeping the kids off the cake until it was time to blow out the candles! I still have a hard time believing that Joshua is 3 years old!!

Happy Halloween, well almost, here are some pictures of the Pumpkins that we made for Halloween. Mick loves the holiday as he tells me that it is celebrated quite differently here than in the UK. I guess over in England they carve turnips not pumpkins (wow!). I thought that he was lying, but he swears that he is telling the truth. So, what I was getting at is Mick loves Halloween. :-)

Here is a picture of the momma elephant at the Louisville Zoo. My boss is on the Board of Trustees and he arranged for us to have a behind the scenes tour at the zoo. We got to see the new babies and hang out the elephants and the most fun was feeding the polar bear marshmallows!! Yes it was really cool. I am posting some of the pictures here and on Flickr!!!

So here is a family picture from Sarah Petersen's wedding in Panama City, Fl in August. It's rare that we ever get a good family picture, so I am quite happy with this one, check out Tzeitel, for those who have not seen her since she was little. I am very proud of her for actually dressing up! Anyway things here are crazy, Joseph is sick and I am slammed at work, but can't get anything done at home because the little guy is so miserable, so I am going to get some work done, just wanted to share the picture.

Finally,

I know I am horrible, but I started a myspace page as well and keeping up with both had been a nightmare.

We are all doing well, I just wrapped a week long trial and have another one starting in less than a month. I started working at this family law practice, and I did not think I would like it, but I have been pleasantly suprised. I don't always like the cases, but I really like the attorney that I am working with the work is challenging.

Gosh the kids are growing like weeds. Joshua is pretty much potty trained, he has nights like last night where he has accidents, but for the most part he is doing really well. I am so proud of him especially since he is not even three yet. He and Joseph play pretty well, they have their days, but they reallydo enjoy each other.

Joshua is going to be musician we have decided, there is not a muscial instrument that he does not enjoy playing. If there is music he picks up his guitar or grabs his piano and plays along or dances, it's quite entertaining. His teacher at the pre-school today grabbed me this morning and told me how advanced he is. I was excited and a little suprised, I quit reading all of the development books once he passed 1 as I did not want to pigeonhole him or push him, but he LOVES to read and count and is always brining me letter and number books to read with him.

Joseph is too funny for words. He is just as smart as his big brother, but a little bit more devious. (hahahaha) His latest thing is he now calls me Daddy instead of mommy. Iam not sure why, but he likes to do it. If you tell him to say mommy he will, but then will laugh and call me daddy! He is talking a lot and can say dog, thank you, no, eat, Katie, debbie, bath, bottle, and bye bye.

Well, I had better get back to work, I am posting a ton of pictures to flickr to check them out.

I promise there will be more frequent posts from now on :-)

Oh, I have a myspace page now (at the insistence of my friends) so here is the link for that

www.myspace.com/leaparrott

Take care

Hi All
I know I was supposed to keep up with this better, but you know how life goes
:-)
We are all doing really well. Joshua is talking up a storm and the stuff that he says amazes me on a daily basis. We are still working on potty training. We have good and bad days, but more good days than bad lately. I let him go pick out his own "big boy" underwear and he was quite pleased with that!
Joseph is now standing on his own and is getting his two top teeth in at the same time. He has been a bit cranky the last couple of days and now it all makes sense. I can not believe how fast my little one has grown up! It seems like just yesterday he was born and now he will be 1 in June.

I am doing well just working a lot, but my plan is to take the month of July off and spend it with the boys, I can't wait!
Mick continues to work on the deck and pool it is all ready except for the new stuff that he adds daily (hahaha) This is just a quick update, I will add some new pictures of the boys soon.

Well, despite the cold and the sickness here at the Parrott house we had a pretty good Easter. I think the picture of Joshua about says it all :-) The boys have both been sick and now Mommy is sick too, but we are all happy anyway.
I won this HUGE Easter basket from a raffle I had entered from the American Cancer Society. Joshua stole the hat off one of the bunnies and has worn it all weekend. Mick finally got him to take the flowers off of the hat, but he still insisted on wearing the hat!
Joseph had so much fun chasing the cars on the racetrack that Joshua got, and chasing the cat everywhere. I am often amazed that Oz comes around him but he does, and Joseph usually rewards him with a big kiss and a tug on his fur or his tail. I added the rest of the Easter pictures to Flickr. I know there is a cool way to link the photos directly to this post, but I have not figured it out yet, I am going to have to call Sally Gulde, my blog guru and ask her :-) Until; then next to the post is a link that says Flickr which should take you to some recent pictures of the kids and the Easter pictures.
It's late and I am going to bed, but wanted to post these before I went down. Here is a shot of Joseph chasing Oz this afternoon
Have a great night