18 Weeks!

The picture on the left is at 18 weeks pregnant with Baby G2.  The picture on the right is at 18 weeks pregnant with Marlee (we held up a fruit/vegetable every week for a visual of the size of the baby).  I do believe I'm growing faster this time around.  Oh, joy!

We go to the doctor Thursday to find out if Baby G2 is a girl or boy!  The suspense is killing me!!

Enjoying the Sunshine

It has been so nice here the last two days.  I took Marlee to the park after school yesterday.  My little nature lover kept pointing to the birds while she was swinging (excuse her hair due...she ate "nana's" for lunch).

She was all about the grass, leaves, flowers, and sticks.  And the creek of course.  She kept running for it full speed.

She found this big slide and would climb on it, pretend to slide down, and then clap.  She did this over and over. ;)

Here is my little princess excited to wear short sleeves this morning.

We had a picnic in the backyard today for lunch.  Marlee loved it.  I think we will be doing this more often if the warm weather sticks around.

Story Time

I finally decided to try out story time at the library this week.  Marlee loves to read and also loves to sing songs with hand motions so I just knew that it would be a big hit.  

As soon as we walked into the children's section, Marlee noticed all of the colorful kites hanging on the ceiling and was pointing at all of them and screaming "Da!" (I guess that is code for kite).  She never really got over the kites the whole time we were there and would occasionally point up at the ceiling and scream "Da!".  

When we first got there, the kids were listening to a song and all of the other kids were sitting in their mom's laps listening or standing in front of their moms dancing (granted, some of them were older than Marlee, but there were also a few that were her age).  Not mine.  She was running over to the bookshelves, ripping the books off the shelves, going up to all of the other moms and kids to say hi, and running in circles.

The instructor then pulled out a book and asked all of the kids to gather around.  That caught Marlee's attention and she marched right up there and got in the instructor's lap.  But then the story was too long for Miss Marlee's attention, so she decided to venture on.  As she was walking away, she noticed a bunch of ducks out the window and screamed "DUCK!" while pointing and running to the window.

Needless to say, I decided story time was not for us, so we left and went outside to look at the ducks.  She kept trying to chase the ducks so I grabbed her hand because I didn't want her to walk into the pond (and she would have.  She has absolutely no fear).  She yanked her hand away and when I wouldn't let go, she fell on the ground like a limp noodle.  We repeated this about 10 times until I finally gave up and we left.

I'm afraid we are in for it with little Miss Marlee Mae.

Maybe we will try story time again when she gets a little older.

Jack & Jill

I don't know if I have mentioned this before, but James mom owns a preschool in Fort Smith.  We would love more than anything for Marlee to go there every day, but we obviously can't drive her down to Fort Smith and back on a daily basis.  However, occasionally my mom is busy and can't watch her on Monday or I have a work meeting some other day in the week and Marlee gets to spend the day with her Ma at Jack & Jill.

 They have a lot of theme days at Jack & Jill.  I am not sure what the theme was this day, but Marlee had a good time.

 And, just like her Dad did when he was little, she acts like she owns the place. ;)

15 Months Old

• Is saying Momma, Dada, Ma, Pa, cat, dog, bath, bubbles (buhbuh), tree (tee), ball, banana (nana), What's that (wsat?), plane (pane), Papaw, turtle (tada), teddy bear (sometimes teddy, sometimes bear), duck (duh).
• Wearing 18 month clothes and a size 3 diaper
• Still loves to read.
• Loves to sing songs.  Itsy Bitsy Spider is her favorite and she has started doing the motions (kind of).  I have a video of her singing it, but she is standing up naked in the bathtub so I will have to try to film her again
• Speaking of filming her, she will hardly let me take any new pictures or videos because she is obsessed with watching videos of herself.  Every time I pull out my phone or camera, she wants to look at pictures and watch videos.  And she has her favorites, too.  She will try to slide the screen if she wants to move on.

• We have had quite a week of teething.  At first I thought it was a canine tooth, but since there is a big gap between her other teeth, I think it might be a molar.  It has been lots of fun.  And James was quick to remind me that we have 15 more molars to go (including the new baby)...LOL

• I also noticed this week that she somehow chipped one of her front teeth.  Awesome.
• Learned how to open the doors in our house today...thanks to our lever-like door handles
• She doesn't eat Frank's food anymore.  I guess she finally figured out that it is pretty gross.  She does bring a piece to me if she finds one on the floor.  She will also bring me anything else she finds on the floor...even the tiniest crumb.
• Loves birds and planes.  She spends most of her time outside looking up at the sky.
• Bouncing with Tigger is one of her favorite past-times these days

Catching Up with Papaw and My Cousins

We headed home weekend before last to spend a much overdue day with Papaw and Marlee's cousins.

 Layla is so funny

 And her eyes light up when Bradley walks into a room

 She even got all bundled up and headed to the park with Papaw

All of that family time can wear a girl and her Dada out 

 Marlee had a good time, as always and even started saying "Papaw".  Now we just have to work on "Memaw"!

Going Private

Unfortunately there are a lot of creepy people out there that like to steal pictures from blogs and do weird things with them.  For that reason, I have decided to make my blog private.  I am not sure how this works, but I think I just have to add your email address to a list if you want to continue to keep up with Miss Marlee Mae.  So, email me at kendra.grady@gmail.com if you would like me to add you to the list.