Photo Dump

As you know with my photo dumps, these have nothing in common, but were just too cute not to post.

We went to Cracker Barrel on Saturday morning. It's the first time Parker has been since he was only a couple months old. He loved sharing pancakes with Daddy, but mostly he liked eating the orange slice garnishes (our waitress actually brought us a whole bowl of them!) and chewing on the empty creamer containers.

But most of all, Parker enjoyed his first ever Cracker Barrel candy stick.

He was in heaven!

It was a beautiful morning, so after breakfast, we let the kids sit outside in the rocking chairs and enjoy their candy sticks. The boys were so darn cute in the little kid-sized rockers (despite the fact that Payton's eyes are closed in this picture).

 Payton used his own money to purchase a hand held "noise machine" like the one his friend Lilly has. Here he is giggling while making farty noises with it.

Parker wasn't sure quite what to make of it, but as long as Payton was laughing, he knew it was a good toy!

And speaking of good toys... when Payton turned 1 year old, my friend Rachel bought him a toy grill that came with plastic hot dogs, hamburgers, ketchup, mustard, grill tools, etc. and the grill talked! It said things like, "Fire up the grill!" and "This grill is hot!" Payton adored it! He played with it for so many years, we just ended up keeping it on the porch in the storage bench.

Can you believe 6 years later, we replaced the batteries in that thing this morning... and it still works?!? Parker LOVES it!!!

I love a well-made toy. And apparently, so do my kids.