Beep Beep!

Shanon loves her tricycle. The best part is she thinks about safety too! She won't get on the tricycle without her helmet. You'll notice her left cheek has a red substance on it...that would be raspberry juice from shoving as may raspberries as she could into her mouth and missing a few times. She's getting taller and soon will be able to move the pedals on her own. For now she doesn't mind sitting on the tricycle and beeping the horn.

Shannon's 2nd Oktoberfest

Today Shannon experienced her second annual Greeley Oktoberfest. She seemed to have a lot of fun watching Erin & Grady play, doing the chicken dance, and eating bites of mommy's black cherry Tropical Sno. She also enjoyed watching the traditional German dancers. I didn't take too many pictures but did manage to grab some videos of Erin and Grady on the inflatable obstacle course and slide.

Grady at Oktoberfest from Jennifer Parrish on Vimeo.

Grady's Bliss from Jennifer Parrish on Vimeo.

For some perspective I glanced back at pictures of last year's Oktoberfest. Oh how fast a year goes and how much changes! Here's last year...

And now this year!

As you can see the kids were not happy about being forced to watch the dancers when there were pumpkins to decorate and more slides to go down on the other side of the park!

I need to blog more...

The purpose of this blog is for friends and family to see pictures of our happenings way out here in Colorado, but it seems like Facebook, Facetime, and picture messaging have made me lazy. Rather than write about what's going on, I just put a blurb on my Facebook status or press a button to Facetime my mom (who now has an iPad!) I'm also disappointed because Vimeo changed something about it's video embed code so that videos automatically play when this page loads, which is rather distracting.

Shannon is 16 months old now and it seems so easy to take care of her. She eats whatever we put in front of her, she plays with her friends for hours at a time, and she sleeps through the night. I know we are fortunate to have a child with this temperament. I wasn't that type of child, or so I hear. She's our sweetheart and I'll close with some pictures we recently took.

Videos & Pictures

Here are some videos and pictures of what's been going on lately.

Shannon is learning how to dance. Yes, that head shaking, leg moving thing is her attempt at dancing. I think she got her rhythm from daddy :-)
SORRY-VIMEO IS ACTING UP AND I REMOVED THIS :-(

We took a trip to Nashville to visit cousins Alyssa & Sam.


Here's Shannon in front of a picture of Sam at about the same age.


Shannon was reunited with Cache. Sniffing of behinds occurred.


We went to Alyssa's softball practice and enjoyed watching her play. The uniforms are so cute!




Dancing Buddies
SORRY-VIMEO IS ACTING UP AND I REMOVED THIS :-(

Happy Birthday Cousin Alyssa!

Shannon is so excited to go visit her cousins Sam and Alyssa at the end of April. Friday is Alyssa's birthday and Shannon's birthday will follow a week later.

Even though it's only March it feels more like spring lately. Temperatures have been in the 70's and the sun is always shining. Shannon and I enjoy getting out every afternoon to go for a walk or a run. She LOVES her chariot and I'm so happy because I'm getting back into shape. Here's Shannon enjoying her bottle and taking in the beautiful day.

We went out and about on St. Patrick's day, mainly to get me some Zyrtec to help my bouts with hives. Shannon loves going to the store and she won't keep a hat on despite my efforts. She also likes to take her shoes off and throw them but luckily with the new pink sneakers that lace up she can't tug hard enough to get them off.

We got a babysitter on St. Patrick's Day and went out to enjoy music and beer at the local brewery. Yes, that's Erin in the background. The event was kid friendly but ours goes to bed early so we opted to go kid free.

Erin & Grady share everything with Shannon, including viruses. They all had a rough one with high fevers followed by non-stop snot and coughs. Here they are watching March Madness and feeling pitiful. I texted the picture of Shannon to Deborah and she sent me the one of her pitiful crew to me. Basketball made it tolerable for all involoved.


I have an obsession with Pho (traditional Vietnamese noodle soup)and was so happy when Shannon devoured her rice noodles. I guess we'll have to go there more often!

Shannon loves her daddy. When she was sick she didn't want her mommy but just wanted to cuddle with daddy.

She's feeling better now and hopefully she'll have a wonderful first birthday next week.

Almost a year old!

Here are some fun pictures from the last few weeks.
Erin and Shannon playing at the mall. It was a rare rainy day so we all went to the mall and Shannon survived, and enjoyed, the chaos.

Shannon has been crawling around (fast) forever but hasn't been very motivated to stand up and cruise. Obviously, as shown here, she is more than capable. Now if we can only get her to pull herself up! (I stand her up to get her to play like this).




Shannon has some crazy hair. I wonder where she gets than from! Note the noodle on her shirt. Her new favorite food is cheese and noodles.


Shannon loves playing with all the toys she got from her cousins.


Daddy & Shannon have lots of fun. She's getting bigger and loves to ride on his shoulders.

Here's Shannon playing piano with daddy.

Untitled from Jennifer Parrish on Vimeo.

Erin's Carnival Birthday

Shannon went to a birthday party today. She was a little young but she didn't want to miss her buddy Erin's birthday carnival. There was bowling, fishing, bean-bag toss, balloon animals, and a pinata. She loved watching all the action and had her first taste of pizza. Well, she had some pizza crust that is! She quite enjoyed her first taste of white bread.

Erin and her buddy Everett fishing at the carnival.


A look at the decorating Deborah did. Nice job!


Erin playing bean-bag toss (Eric & Shannon were running the game).


Shannon found one of her favorite toys-a string-and gives us a good look at her new front tooth.


Deborah leading the children in pretending to be different animals and doing interpretive dance.


Shannon looking at something!


Heading home after a fun party. It was so warm we walked over.

Basketball Shannon

Peek a Boo

Shannon & Her Dog

Curly

Shannon has her mom's curly hair.

Shannon is going to be a talker

Shannon is not a fan of black beans

She loves the soccer bal

Another slide show

A New Slideshow

Shannon has been my subject (of course) in the testing of our new camera. Enjoy!