All About Parker

Monday morning I looked into the kitchen to see Parker climbing all the way in to his favorite kitchen cabinet. I didn't get a picture of him inside the cabinet, but I did get some shots shortly thereafter. Other pictures posted here show him playing with toys our neighbors, Danny and Mary, brought over to the house last Friday. I'm withholding their last names simply because this is potentially such a public forum.

Not long ago I noticed that Parker had gotten two new teeth on bottom which gave him an even four on top and four on bottom, each set lined up in a tidy little row. I may have mentioned it here. I don't remember. I meant at the time to give Michael credit for seeing them before I did. He told me Parker had new teeth and I didn't believe him. Well today I got my finger inside his mouth and discovered two even newer teeth for a grand total of ten! These new ones are on the top, way back in the back and they are well exposed. There may be one or two teeth due to come in between each of the new ones and those that were already in place. This is a very exciting finding for us and I must be certain I mark it in my calendar where, as you know, I keep track of all sorts of details of this nature.

Incidentally, I came across Parker's name in an Evelyn Waugh novel I began last night, Decline and Fall. Mr. Prendergast shares how he abandoned a vocation in the church to become a shoolmaster with the protagonist, Paul Pennyfeather:

"...It wasn't any ordinary sort of Doubt about Cain's wife or the Old Testament miracles or the consecration of Archbishop Parker. I'd been taught how to explain all those while I was at college. No, it was something deeper than all that. I couldn't understand why God had made the world at all (38, italics theirs)."

I wonder what our friend Ben would say about this, seminarian that he is. What kind of doubts are those that drive us to community and what are those kinds of doubts that drive us away? So maybe this post isn't all about Parker.

(Please note: I'm still having difficulty managing pictures through blogger. I've tried to fix things so the look nicer and flow better, but I just can't. I find I'm just not interested enough to do the research needed to solve the problem, though I am certainly interested enough to complain within the confines of the forum. You guys may be more interested in the pictures than in the commentary anyway.)