Christmas at Pop and Loni's

We celebrated Christmas with my family on Saturday night. The adults have so much fun watching the excitement of all the kids. We had a wonderful time celebrating with my family.






Sam and Jack picked these out for my dad. Tom and Staci take them to the dollar store each year in order for them to complete their Christmas shopping. I always look forward to opening my gift from them. Too funny! This year I received some lovely princess mirrors and earrings, which could also double as stickers! Pop's large blue glasses took the cake.



They picked out pom-poms for Loni.
This is what we call safe TV viewing. You never know what kind of damage could be done to the head while watching Tom and Jerry. Atta boy, safety first!

Family Christmas

We celebrated Christmas on Saturday morning since we will be leaving for Texas and will be gone on Christmas day. It was so much fun. Kids make Christmas extra special.






waiting to open his presents





the excitement builds...



Scott is reading the story of Jesus' birth from Luke 2 before we open gifts.
and the gift opening begins. (I hesitated to post these pics as there is an extreme lack of makeup or showers for that matter! Please don't judge. :))

First Attempt at Cereal

While we were at the doctor last week, she mentioned that we could go ahead and start on rice cereal. I was so excited, I thought he was going to love it. Well....he hated it. I was frustrated and I am certain I made him frustrated. It didn't help that Scott was out of town on this very momentous occassion. I was wishing I was out of town after we began the cereal meal. We did get through about two bites, with tears from both of us! I'll have you know, he now loves the cereal and dives in for a bite before I have time to take the spoon from his mouth and scoop a new bite. So glad he is enjoying it now.









This picture cracks me up. He looks like a little bull dog.

4 Month Stats

Marshall had his four month appointment on Monday. Stats are:

weight: 18 pounds 1.5 ounces---95th percentile
length: 25 and a half inches---75 th percentile
head: I never pay attention to the exact measurement---90th percentile

He continues to be quite a big boy. All the more to love and kiss!!!

Time with Sam and Jack

Tom and Staci are on a cruise, I am trying really hard not to be jealous. Back to the point of this post, the boys have been with my mom and dad. Scott and I offered to take them on Saturday so that they could get some things done around their house and ready for thier Christmas party. We took all the boys to the playground, Sam and Jack have never been able to sit so close to eachother in the car, so the idea of poking eachother and sticking their fingers in eachother's mouths sounded pretty good. This all started in a very playful way, however, we could sense that it could quickly escalate. We told both of them to keep their hands to themselves. Immediately, Scott caught Sam in his mirror reaching over into Jack's car seat. He said, "Sam, when we get home, you are sitting by yourself for five minutes." Sam proceeded with, "I really don't want to Uncle Scott." Scott stood his ground and again stated what the punishment for disobeying would be. Little Jackie then pipes up with, "and you gonna spank him. and you gonna make it hurt!" All we could do was laugh, we tried to hide it, but not very well.

4 Months and Sleeping Like a Baby

Marshall is 4 months old today! He is such a sweet baby! I just realized that I should jot a few things down so that I will be able to recall what he is like at 4 months old.

*taking a 10 ounce bottle at 7:00 and sleeping until 7:00. let's hear it for 12 hours of sleep! yipee.
*rolled over from back to tummy for the first time today--on your four month birthday! what a big boy you are, marshall.
*giving giggles everyday. it's so funny the things that make you laugh-your giggle makes us giggle too!
*smile when people talk to you
*still loving music

You are so much fun and such a pleasant little (or really big) guy. We love you sweet boy.

Laughter is the best medicine.

One of the greatest sounds is Marshall's little giggle. He is VERY fascinated by the video camera and every time we try to get his giggle on video, he stops giggling to look at the camera. We finally got a good video of this most precious sound. You'll want to pause the music to hear the video!