Three Fabulous Years, Halloween, etc :)

I apologize for my terribly inconsistent blogging.  So much is happening all the time that I feel bad for not documenting it properly but at the same time I just am busy enjoying it all so I guess that is good.

Since I last blogged Ki and I celebrated our third anniversary.  Holy smokes :)  I love him so so much and sincerely can't imagine my life without him.  The past three years have been a grand adventure and I can't wait to see what the future has in store!  A few highlights of our third year of marriage include: me graduating, purchasing our first family home, and of course the most exciting thing of all -welcoming Parker into our family.  Parker by far has been the best thing to happen to us this year.  We love him more then we ever could've imagined, and now that I now how wonderful it is to have him, I can't believe it took Ki so long to convince me to get pregnant haha :)

To celebrate our anniversary we went up the canyon with Parker to walk around, eat a picnic, and just enjoy each others company :)

Up AF canyon

I love those chubby cheeks and that sweet smile!

Best buddies already!

Then one of my best friends in the whole world and her cute family came down to visit!  I was devastated when Tiff's husband Jake got a job that moved them to Idaho, so any time we get to spend with them is treasured!  We got to meet baby Max for the first time and he is such a cutie!  I am excited him and Parker get to grow up being buddies!  

Max and Parker meet and play for the first time :)

On our way to hike Cascade Springs with the munchkins

Some of my favorite people!

Tiff, Jake, & Max at Cascade Springs

Parker liked watching the moving water

Love this curious little baby :)

Next was Halloween :)  We dressed up as a safari tour guide, a panther, and a baby giraffe :)  We thought it was pretty clever for being so last minute.  I thought of the idea for Ki to have a sign that said Don't Feed the Animals with the Don't crossed out in the shower on Halloween day.  Get it?  Cause we want to get fed candy when we go trick or treating haha.  I thought I was pretty clever.  Coming from like the least creative person on the planet that is some serious progress :)  Parker was ADORABLE.  He was so cute all day, until we went trick or treating.  By then he was wore out so we only went to a couple of our friends' houses in the ward before we called it a night.

Safari Tour Guide, Panther, & baby giraffe :)

So.... my baby is 5 months old!  Holy cow.  Can you believe it?  I can't.  It is hard to believe that in a few weeks we will have had him in our lives for half a year.  Ever since Parker turned 3.5 months it has been new development after new development.  He is getting so fun!  We loved him as a newborn too, but it has been so exciting to see him learn new skills so quickly and develop into a little personality :)  I by no means have motherhood mastered, but I figure that is probably a life long journey :)  I just am doing my best and trying not to freak out when new circumstances arise haha.

Parker can now sit unassisted for about a minute as long as he doesn't try to look around too much, and is getting stronger and better all the time.  He can roll over, but still doesn't do so very often.  He now enjoys tummy time and plays peek a boo.  A neighbor and friend's 3 year old daughter Alyssa, makes Parker laugh so so hard!  We can get him to laugh a little bit, but for some reason he thinks she is way more entertaining.  He still isn't very big (in about the 15th percentile), but we are glad that he is consistently growing.  Parker's reflux is greatly improved, so we tried taking him off his reflux meds at 4 months.  He started having problems eating again though and wasn't quite ready, but we think he will be ready by 6 months and plan to try again then.  Overall he is a pretty good sleeper but he does still wakes up once in the very early morning for a feeding after going to bed at 7:30 or 8... I am hoping that will end soon, but we shall see.  Most days he naps well and he is overall a very happy baby!

One of Parker's quirks is that he loves his little bubba.  When he sleeps he loves to cuddle it and pull it on top of his face.  In fact when he wakes up in the middle of the night he finds the bubba in his crib and rubs it on his face to put himself back to sleep.  If he has the blanket on his face for too long during his naps we usually go take it off but 15 minutes later he will have pulled it back close to his face.  (I know letting him sleep with it is against the sleeping guidelines so spare me a lecture, but he is really good at controlling it and just loves it so much that I let him... maybe that makes me the worst mother of the year, but I just don't have the heart to take it away.) Another cute thing is that he loves to play with his feet.  His newest discovery is that he can pull off his socks and then suck on them haha.  Lately he has also developed this really special interest in his dad, his face lights up into a huge grin every time Ki walks in the room, and he loves to play with him.  This is probably in part due to the fact that Ki has been a stay at home dad with us the last 2 months.  Long story short is that his position at Linx was no longer an option and he decided he wasn't interested in all the traveling that would be required with the new position they were offering him so he decided it was time to find a new job.  This brings me to my next item of blog business...

Ki got a new job this week!  Woo Hoo!  Tuesday was a bittersweet day for us as we were really excited that Ki got offered a job at AtTask, and really disappointed that Romney lost the election.  But we don't dwell on the negative and feel so so so blessed to have found another job.  Ki will be an educator and teach the companies that purchase AtTask's software how to use it.  I think... haha.  He is really excited to start a new chapter in his professional life, especially since he was hoping to get this job ever since one of his best friends worked for and spoke so highly of AtTask.  He starts the Monday before Thanksgiving and we are SO thankful! 

In less important news I got a new calling as the webelo cub scout leader :)  Yeah... I feel like I don't know anything that I should so if you have any advice help me out!

That about sums up the most important information I think...

To end I will post a couple videos of Parker.  He is pretty cute.  Enjoy if you so choose :)  Thanks for checking in on the Jensen family!  I will try harder to keep the blog better updated.

this is Alyssa making Parker laugh :)

this is Parker playing peek a boo