Blowing Kisses

Sweet cheeks has learned how to blow kisses

A Weekend with Memaw & Papaw

James and I went to the horse races last weekend with our friends, so Marlee got to spend the weekend with her Memaw & Papaw.  Below are the pictures and videos Memaw & Papaw sent us throughout the day.  I sure do love the fact that I can get updates on my sweet baby girl while I am away!

Marlee started off her day with pancakes and bananas.  Two of her favorites.

Then lounged in Memaw's lap to watch some home videos

She loves to ride the horsey at Memaw & Papaw's house.  And she rode it all by herself for the first time.  She is such a big girl!! sidenote: this horsey was ridden by me when I was a little girl. :)

A trip to Memaw & Papaw's wouldn't be complete without a few trips down the slide...backwards, of course!

 A little reading with Papaw (Frank likes to make sure he isn't left out of the fun).

And she loves watching Papaw's video of a turtle.  And I love how sweet she sounds when she says turtle...her first two syllable word!  Sidenote: she also said puppy yesterday...or so Memaw says.

Memaw & Papaw's house is so much fun, but it makes for one tired little girl (with hair like her Papaw).

It's a....

GIRL!!

This is a sweet picture of our precious baby girl at 19 weeks.  Everyone just knew that baby G #2 was a boy, but everyone was wrong!!  We are thrilled to have two little girls so close in age. We think we have decided on a name, but we are not 100% sure yet, so stay tuned. :)

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. ;)