Parker's new best friend

[This post is about 6 weeks overdue; these pictures are from late August until the 3rd week of September!]

Parker has a new best friend - Elmo. We got her this refrigerator toy the day of the typhoon to keep her busy, and he hasn't stopped singing since then! She carries around the plastic pots and mixing spoon and sometimes offers you a bite of her cooking! She also knows where I keep my baking pans and likes to entertain herself with them on weekend mornings when we are up and hanging out. Parker gets up between 5:00 and 5:30 am (when she sleeps in) every day, so we usually have a few hours to hang out before we can actually go anywhere on the weekends!
Parker doesn't really watch TV, but I did grab her for the "Elmo's World" segment of Sesame Street. She sat very attentively holding her Elmo toy while sitting next to her Elmo doll :)

I tried to put Parker in a cute outfit one day. She's cute, but the family room is a mess. We often joke that Typhoon Parker just hit!
This hair clip lasted about 15 seconds, but it was so cute.
We brought Jack back to Okinawa with us in May, and we were hesitant. He's been known to scratch and bite us back in San Antonio, and even my mom while he was staying with my parents in Pittsburgh. Bailey is unusually tolerant of Parker, but we were worried that Jack wouldn't put up with her constant poking, proding, and kneading. Luckily, we could not have been more wrong!
I made blueberry pancakes for Parker one night. She loves blueberries and she loves pancakes, but not together. She did think it was funny to make a huge mess, though.
Parker loves to wear sunglasses for about 10 seconds. I really want her to like them because it is so sunny here and I want to protect her eyes. I've started getting a few pair for a "dress-up bin" I've been thinking about, and hopefully she'll start to leave them on for more than a few seconds.
This is Parker in the cry room at church. They finished renovating one of the chapels and we tried it out a few weeks ago. Parker has been pretty unpredictable, but she did really well.
Jack thought he could escape by laying on her changing table/play yard... he was wrong!
Parker loves to play in piles of laundry and pretend that she is dressing herself. She will usually end up with the clothes around her neck and then smile proudly at us.
I bought a box of plastic baggies for our upcoming trip to China and Parker found them. I thought it would keep her occupied without too much hassle, and then I turned around and saw this mess.
We got Parker a new smock for eating/crafts. I've discovered that peaches and mandarin oranges leave stains that can ruin clothes, so this is my solution. She's actually pretty good as long as she is interested in the food.
Another day of playing in the laundry.
Parker has stinky feet. Seriously. I've had to throw out sandals. I have no idea why her feet are so stinky. Anyway, to distract her during diaper changes sometimes, I will pretend to smell her feet and then make a silly face and say, "ewwww, stinky feet!" She figured out that she can put her foot to her nose, so now when she's looking for attention, she will smell her own feet and then laugh!
She also smells our feet. Sometimes I wonder if she does this at daycare and if they are worried that there is something wrong with her! She is such a funny, silly girl.