4 Months old

Marley is 4 months old today! She is 10 lbs exactly (with a very full belly!) and 24 inches long. She is still in the 2nd percentile for weight and the 50th percentile for height! She likes to sit up but she loves to stand up! Her new found like is the Exersauser! She likes to grab for all the toys that are on it and watch Baby Einstein in a standing position rather than a sitting one! She is doing great with Rice Cereal and drinking from her sippy cup as well as grabbing toys and getting them into her mouth! She has learned to pull hair and oddly enough MaKieley says "Don't stop her I like it when she does that!" I keep telling her if we let her do it now she will think it is an ok thing to do and she will still be doing it when she goes to Kindergarten. It will not be so funny or cute then.
Marley is growing well and is very healthy! She went to church today with Pudden and Pap her great-grandparents and then traveled home! During the first part of our trip I said she was not as good a traveler as MaKieley was but after our trip home I would say she is on her way to being a good traveler! She slept almost the whole way! :)

Merry Christmas from our family to yours!

Marley Talking

Gabcast! John's Girls #4

16 weeks

The above picture is of Marley's hand at 7 weeks old and the two pictures below are of Marley's hand at 16 weeks old. See how much she has grown!

Marley now loves to sit in her "HIGH Chair" ( as MaKieley calls it ) while I am cooking or doing dishes. She sits there and plays with toys while carrying on a great conversation. She does these things so intently that she wears herself out as you can see in the above and below pictures.

She has become very good with her hands! She can hold toys and fingers and get them in her mouth on the first try! She is doing great with her sippy cup! The first few times we gave MaKieley her sippy cup at 3 months old she thought we were crazy! What is this thing you are putting in my mouth? were the looks we got from her. Marley on the other hand drank out of it the first time we gave it to her and is now trying to hold the cup on her own! She loves Grammie's shiny shirts too! Mom has these really pretty shirts that have little sparkly things on them and Marley loves to look at them and try to get them off the shirt (below picture). Last Saturday our friend Denise was holding Marley and she loved her shirt too! It was a kind of swirly pattern with lots of bold colors! She definitely has an eye for color and light!

15 weeks

Marley is 15 weeks old today! She does not realize it but she loves Christmas! She loves all the lights around!
We took the picture here with MaKieley at 3 months so I decided to do it at the same time with Marley! I love this picture!

100 Days Old

One Hundred Days Old! I can hardly believe it! At school MaKieley celebrates the 100th day of school so she thought we should celebrate the 100th day of Marley's life! So that is what we did!


MaKieley decided to make a list of the top 100 things she loves about Marley! Here is as far as she got:
1. she is cute
2. she smiles at me
3. she is special to me
4. she is small
5. she has cute clothes
6. she has pretty eyes
7. she talks to me
8. she is my sister
9. she has pink toenails
10. she rides by me in the car


Well I guess if you multiply what she got by 10 you will have 100!

MaKieley Reading October

Gabcast! John's Girls #1 - MaKieley Reading October

a poem

MaKieley Reading November

Gabcast! John's Girls #2 - MaKieley Reading November

a poem

A Visit From Santa

Saturday was an eventful day! We got up early and went grocery shopping for the food we needed to make for the Silvertone's! We went to Mom and Dad's and started cooking! Kristi came over later in the afternoon and helped me cook. The Silvertone's (the senior group from our church) were having a Christmas Progressive Dinner and we were the appetizer stop! It was a lot of fun.

After they left us they went on for salads and the main course at other houses. We then met back up with them at the church building for desserts and a visit from Santa and his elf. MaKieley thought it was great and Marley could have cared less.
On a more somber note - our friend Keith McCord who has been battling cancer went home to be with God on Friday night. Please keep his wife Stephanie and her son Lincoln in your prayers as they figure out how to go on from here. Please also pray for his parents along with the rest of his family. The memorial service is tomorrow in Greenville and the funeral and burial will be on Friday in Tennessee. Please pray for everyone's safe travel.

Snow, MaKieley and The News

The picture below was on the 10 pm news twice and the news this morning!Yesterday we had snow! It caused school to be delayed 2 hours. MaKieley could not wait to get into the snow! Since John still had to be at work early and I had a very bad headache I told her I needed her to wait until after school. She asked me if I was sure it would still be there after school. I told her I was pretty sure.
So after school she played for about an hour - throwing snow above her head, falling down and running around the back yard and through snow drifts like a mad woman! And you guessed it...

... she made Snow Angels! Didn't her snow angel turn out great?

WELL...this is what her pants and boots looked like after running through the snow! When she was done she got in a hot tub and thawed out! She spent last night with Grammie and Dangran as it took us almost an hour and a half to get her across town for school yesterday morning - there was a sheet of ice under the snow! We all thought it would be worse this morning because everything thawed yesterday and then refroze over night. John called a little while ago, after driving to work, and said the roads were not as bad as we thought they were going to be.

Thank you God for keeping us all safe as we drove on the bad roads yesterday and please keep us safe as we are out again today!