Morning Milk!

My mom got Marshall this chair for his birthday!

It is the perfect spot for him to drink his morning milk!

 He only sits in it for about a minute before sliding down and using it as a pillow!

Love my little morning monkey!

PB&J!!!

Marshall got to have his first peanut butter and jelly sandwich today!!!

Good thing he liked it!
It's one of my faves!

My 2 front teeth!

You can just barely see my boys 2 top teeth here!

Boy was it hard, painful times getting those 2 to cut thru!

Glad he's back to smiling and laughing again!

Little Drummer Boy

 Marshall recently took a liking to his big sister's drum set!

 So stinkin cute!

His way

Recently Marshall has started to get stuck in the standing position and instead of just sitting down he will fuss until I help him.
Kinda weird as he has always just sat down and moved on.
Today he discovered a new way to lower himself to the ground!

What a flexible little devil huh?!?!
Hey, whatever works I guess ;)

Get Well Mimi!!

Caleb's Grandma (whom I am pretty sure I adore more then he does!) fell and broke her hip and wrist yesterday.
She is 86yrs old with CHF.
I was soooooooo worried about how she was going to handle the surgery needed to fix both fractures.
This morning Mia made this get better poster for Mim.
I took a picture of it and emailed it to grampa and he was able to show it to her on his tablet before her surgery!

We heard this evening that the surgery went beautifully!
Mimi's heart did just fine with all the hoopla!
As grampa always says :That Mim is one tough broad!
It is so true!
Now the really hard part begins.
The recovery. Ugh
I hope she is ready to work hard and get herself back in to shape!
We love our Mimi and look forward to visiting her this spring and want her in tip top shape!

Mama got a new toy!

My crafting just got more fun!

I am so excited!
I have really been enjoying using wood with my crafts lately
For example:

But asking the guys at Lowe's and HomeDepot to cut a 2x4 into small blocks or a plank into 5 pieces was like asking them to stick wood splinters under their fingernails!
So I did a little research, checked with my hubby and voila! I am a power saw girl now!

For my first project I made Mia an over sized cork board!

It turned out just as I had envisioned! And She loves it!
Now, what else can I make?!?!

Random cute pics

I have been absolutely horrible at keeping up my photo albums this past YEAR!
At least I keep the blog up!
So I decided to put these cute pics on here so that I will always have them!
Love these 2 sooooo much!

1 year well check

Marshall had his 1 year check up today.
Here are his stats:
18#6oz (0-3%!!)
28in (50%)
I love my little guy!

Happy Birthday Marshall!!!

 Here are some pics from Marshall's birthday party!

 Thanks Mama d for my cool chair!

 Thanks Uncle Randy, Aunt Bebe, Finn and Cole for my Lettersaurus!

 I made Monkey cupcakes for my Magic Monkey!

 I also made him this special hat that he wouldn't keep on for longer then 2 seconds!

Thanks daddy for catching a fast shot before he yanked it off! 

Hmmm, let me try this

 I think he liked it!

I made Marsh this birthday banner.

I plan on hanging it up on his birthday every. single. year.

 I got this inflatable for Mia's 2nd birthday (or was it her 3rd?!?)

And it has become a tradition to take her picture with it each year!

Now Marshall will have the tradition as well!

1 year old!

 

Happy 1st birthday Marshall Ramsay!

We are soooooo glad you were born!!!

As long as I am living....

...my baby he will be.

My sweet boy awoke at 6:15am today.
I brought him into bed with us and he lay on my chest resting quietly for a bit.
As I lay there with my eyes closed
feeling his warm little body against mine,
listening to him breathe,
I thought back to this time last year.
Then he was brand new,
so tiny on my chest.

Now he is getting so big
he talks to us (in his own language)
he gets into mischief
he eats like a boy
he has discovered the stairs
he will walk soon
he loves his daddy
nobody can make him laugh like I can
he looks up to his sister
he is forever taking his socks off
can pull out the outlet covers
he loves going to Grammy's room for a visit
and nothing calms him like Baby Einstein.

I am so thankful for this precious boy
thankful for his health
his giggles
his snuggles
his excitement over his favorite book (Where is Baby's Belly Button)
I am thankful for every late night
every early morning
every moment of every day with him.

Tomorrow he turns 1

Bathing Beauties

Mia has decided that she is now a big girl and needs to take showers!
(I am pretty happy with this decision! I dread bath night- it is a lot of work bathing and lotioning 2 kiddos!)
She did a great job and felt like a big girl indeed!

She even used a hair towel like mommy!

This cleared the way for Marshall to ditch his tub chair and be a free man in the tub!
He loves taking a bath!

 I had to include this naked tooshie shot!

Pretty sure this is the only time saddlebags are cute!!!