Marley turned 5 months old today! It is incredible at what a little lady she is and how strong she is. A sister was sitting by us and has a daughter six days older than Marley and was mentioning how strong she is holding herself the way she was (sitting up and the upper body strength) and how her daughter wasn't even fully doing the things Marley was doing all by herself. I guess I create macho babies because I always thought we were right on track with her development...I guess we are ahead. Even her pediatrician always comments on how strong she is! (Its all that dreaded tummy time she has. Give TJ the credit because I hated doing it to her and listening to her cry)
Everything is going great in this household. We are beginning to get ready for the holidays and it is particularly nice having a little munchkin around the make the holidays more warm and loving. Thanksgiving was great, we decided we wanted to start our own Thanksgiving traditions starting with eating a whole pie to ourselves....note to all: It wasn't as fun as we thought it was going to be. I know it makes us sound like fatty's but we couldn't even go half way, we felt so sick!
I never did the '30 days of gratefulness' because I am terrible at being repetitive and forgetful. So here goes my schpeel. I am grateful for my family, near and far. They are so wonderful and do so much for me and I don't think I can ever repay them in how much gratitude I have for them because it goes on forever how much I care and love each one. For loving talks I have with my grandma to enjoying laughs with all my sisters I have now. I am most importantly grateful for the man who gives me my every want and need. What he does for our family is incredible, working all day so I can stay home with our daughter and then proceed to come home and care for me. The way he is with Marley is remarkable and I don't know what I would do without him. He really is the love of my life and I am so grateful to have him forever and beyond.
Enough of that smushy stuff. We are doing so great here! TJ had the first experience at paint ball. I was excited (as bad as it sounds) for him to get shot and have paintball wounds because I always talk about how painful it is for the first few minutes and having these welts on your body. Yeah, its like he is super human shield towards getting hit apparently because he would get hit like twice and it didn't even rupture or hit him. Its that Carney skin and blood he has...makes him super human (which is a good thing in my book). Marley and I have been having so much fun here at home while TJ is working. We like to sing and dance, and basically do everything together! She will sit in the bumbo and watch me cook and we turn on the music and dance and sing at the top of our lungs! She gets a kick out of it because she gets all happy and smiley when we start up the tunes.
Her doctor says she has a terrible but curable disease. Its called "Only Child Syndrome" and will soon be cured with us having another baby but she is sure enjoying the time she gets with us and that meaning she likes to be the center of attention and always being up with us. She will only cry if she is on the floor and we are in the other room where she cannot see us.
Marley Milestones: She is quiet the talker, which is all good until it comes to church and likes to talk a little too much. ;) She makes Indian noises and loves when we do them to her, at first she would just eat our fingers and stop making the noises (ahhhhh noises to clarify) but now when we put our fingers on her mouth she begins to make the sounds and continues til she gets bored of it or we stop. She is also learning to blow bubbles and gets them all over her face like a bubble beard...it is so cute and then I see how wet she is and cannot help but laughing. What a hoot she is! Still a happy happy baby, I swear she is sleeping like a teenager. She goes to bed around 8 or 9 and sleeps til 6 or 7 then heads back to bed until 9 or 10 if I let her. I realize because of her sleep schedule I am in no hurry wanting to wake up a ton for a newborn. Maybe this is Marley's way of saying she wants to be an only child for a longer time, haha. She has become interested in toys now and really the only toy she likes is her noisy book (sounds like crumbled paper of some sort...anyways its loud!) which we have learned is not a good church toy but it is the only thing that keeps her quiet. We are trying a few other toys out but they are not that much quieter. She is also such a squiggle worm, moving ALL the time and when we hold her in our laps she likes to squiggle until she can head-butt us. Its hysterical if its not you being head-butted or up until you get the head-butting.
Anyways, here are some pictures of our life recently:
I love how she is holding onto her blanket..TJ said she has the perfect layout of a crime scene body...creep.
So she has learned about her fingers and what they do. She will randomly touch her head with her index finger and then pull the bow into her eyes...its become a normal thing for her to have her bow in her eyes.
Chillin' in one of her favorite spots
More of the bow in her eyes...
We went to Miracle on 25th street in Ogden to kick off the Christmas season and lighting of the downtown lights. It was an alright parade until this walked by and it made my entire night! I couldn't get better pictures since majority of them were on the other side of the street. They were fun but had really no point of being in the parade which I think made it that much better in my opinion!
Now on to the favorite part of the blog today: TJ's beard!
This was his entire month of beard growing, not much there but I LOVED it!
He found his razor!
And time to shave the beard off :'(
It was a sad moment for me because I really loved it.
The aftermath! I still love his baby face as well, seriously looks like he is 20!
Marley's normal place of residency. She loves it up there and is always so happy when placed on daddy's shoulders :)
Our happy little 5 month old; I cannot believe how fast time has gone by. And what a little flirt she has become, seriously we are in trouble!
Until next time!
