Helper

He was just helping me get the spoon clean. He doesn't seem to mind!

I Just Love Him!

Marshall's Best Daddy

Marshall LOVES his daddy. His face lights up when Scott walks in the room, when Scott walks out of the room he says, "dada, dada, dada?" Dada was most definitely his first word and continues to be his favorite. Nobody can get Marshall to giggle quite like his daddy can. I so appreciate that Scott is hands-on in every aspect of life with a baby. When Scott gives Marshall his nighttime bottle I like to stand right outside the door and listen to him sing to him and pray for him, those are some of the sweetest sounds.

I have got two of the best boys!

Happy Father's Day, Scott. We love you.

a post about nothing with old pictures

Nothing too exciting happening around here, I haven't been taking very many pictures since we are by the pool most of the day. The basement is coming along pretty well, hopefully it should be finished in the next couple of weeks.

Marshall is taking more and more steps each day. He loves it when we cheer for him and if by chance we don't, he sits down and cheers for himself. This is his big motivation to walk. We tried holding out a treat to see if he would walk to it. He got really excited when he saw it but decided it's much quicker to drop to his knees and crawl to it.

He has really caught on to sign language. I have been working on this since he was six months old, he just never really seemed interested. I was about ready to give it up and then wouldn't you know it, he signed "more" after he had a small taste of a french fry! He hasn't stopped since. He now signs "more" all the time, even when I had been singing "If You're Happy and You Know It" and stopped, he signed "more." I sang it to him again and he was happy. He has also started signing "eat" and "all done." I am working really hard on "please." I would like the little guy to have some manners. Hopefully he will continue to pick up more simple signs as we teach him. I had forgotten just how cute a baby signing is. It really is precious.

This is random, but I gave him a small taste of lemon and his face was hysterical. I couldn't help but give him a few (or maybe 12, I can't say for sure) more tastes. We plan to get this on video, we seriously cracked up every time. He is such a little ham.

On another random note, Marshall has found his "goods." Without missing a beat, Scott taught him the correct name for it and when asked, "Marshall where's your p****?" He can correctly identify that body part. I'm just glad that's not the first body part he learned. I can honestly say, he learned nose before p****. (I just feel wrong writing that word on the blog.)

Enjoy the old pics. Hopefully we will have some updated ones soon. I do realize a lot of his pictures are taken while he is in his highchair. That is the only place where he will sit long enough for me to get some pictures. He is constant motion.

10 Months

Today our baby is ten months old.

Marshall Wade,

You really need to stop this whole growing up thing, okay?

Thanks,
Mommy







I don't know what this face is all about but I thought it was pretty funny.






at ten months...

-you crawl and pull up on everything and you are pretty stable on your feet
-you are cruising on furniture and your push toy
-you say: dada, mama, and hi appropriately (you have lots of other funny sounds you like to make too)
-you LOVE your lovey, you would carry it around with you all day if I let you, you wave bye-bye to lovey every morning
-you love fruit and continue to be a good eater
-the words you understand: bath, lovey, daddy, mommy, Sam, Jack, Tom, Staci, Pop, Loni, toothbrush, ball, outside, eat, more, airplane, bird, book, swing, bye-bye, hi, bottle, no-no, all done, kiss (I'll have to continue adding to this list as I think of more.)
-you will snuggle, but only if you have your lovey
-you love to swing with daddy at Pop and Loni's house
-ice cream is your favorite, and you know that Loni is the one to give it to you
-you have taken several steps on your own, but haven't taken off completely yet
-you love to give big wet kisses
-cousin Sam is your most favorite person in all the world, your face lights up and your arms and legs go crazy when you see him

We love you Marsh-Man! You are one special little boy!

Spot

It is safe to say that the Spot books are Marshall's absolute favorite!!! He will sit on our lap and listen to them over and over again. He only has four, which means we are getting sick of them, but he is yet to tire of his favorite books (Spot Sleeps Over, Spot Goes to the Beach, Spot Loves His Mommy, and Spot Goes to School). I could recite each of them word for word. The best is when he crawls over to us with a Spot book in hand and works his way onto our lap. He makes it pretty clear what he wants!

Some of the best times are spent quietly reading together.

Strawberries

I'm not sure what we are going to do when all of the great summer fruits are out of season. Marshall especially loves strawberries and watermelon. He has enjoyed munching on strawberries each morning as part of his breakfast. I took these pictures right in a row so that you could see the true enjoyment on his face. He even gets excited when he sees me washing and cutting the fruit. I have had to hide it so that he will eat other things and not just fill up on fruit.













so delicious!