Growing up

We're sitting up all by ourself just like a big girl! 

6 Months Old

Happy Half Birthday Marley!

Now lets spend the morning at the doctors office and the afternoon at the hospital. Yup, we just returned from the hospital. Yesterday, on a few occasions you found yourself gasping for air. At first we thought you had just learned something new to do with your throat but kept an eye on it. This morning you woke up wheezy and breathing a lot heavier so I made the call to the doctor. He thinks youre just congested being cold and flu season and along with all the drool pouring out your mouth you may have choked back on some and caused the congestion that way. But just to be sure he sent us for a chest x-ray and RSV test. We'll be getting the results in a couple of hours.

So, get better sweet girl.

Other than that youve been such a happy girl. You laugh and squeal almost all day long. Especially at Paddington.

You can sit up all by yourself for a good bit now. And now you definitely want to ever be laid down unless youre sleeping. Even changing your diaper you put up a good fight laying down.

You can get up on your hands and knees like youre going to crawl but can't quite get the balance/strength to get moving from there. I'm sure it won't be long. You also love to stand up on your feet with only a little bit of our help to keep your balance. I've been told I started walking at 8 months so maybe you'll be an early mover too.

We had a great thanksgiving and you've met Santa this month. And you take your first plane ride in the next week! 

Birth – 7lbs 6oz /// 21” June 9th 2010

1 Months – 9lbs 4oz /// 21”

2 Months – 11lbs 12oz /// 23”

***3 Months - 12lbs 8oz /// 24”

4 Months – 16lbs /// 26"

 ***5 Months - 17lbs /// 27"

6 Months - 17lbs 10oz /// 27"

Santa!

 

We had a great time at the Festival of Tree's. You watched the school kids sing and play their instruments, iced cookies and got to sit on Santa's lap! 

What do you want for Christmas? 

Your two front teeth.

There a couple of teeth that are definitely so close to breaking through. Hopefully they will before our trip.

Counting down the days...

 

16 days!

In just over 2 weeks we'll be on our way to England and we can't wait. We've already started packing! Although my mum and I wish Marley and I were traveling over with her on the 12th  I'm sure the time will go by quickly as we have quite a few things going on over the next couple of days/weeks. Friday and Saturday is the Festival of Trees and Marley will be meeting Santa Claus. Next Thursday I will be going to see the Rockettes in Jacksonville.

Cyber Monday?

We took advantage of the deals on Monda y and ordered Marley's new car seat. Her current one weight and height restrictions are 29" tall and 22lbs. According to my measurements and scales she was 17lbs and 27" tall so we knew it wouldn't be long into the new year that we'd be needing to upgrade.  Over the weekend we had been in Savannah and looked around at Babies R Us for some ideas and get an idea on what it was going to cost. 

We decided on the Graco Nautilus 3 in 1 car seat. She could ride in it now with the rear facing and 5 point harness, and it would upgrade to forward facing, then a high back booster to just a regular backless booster. And had a reasonable price tag of $179.99.

Monday morning I realized that most stores were having online sales after the crazy shopping weekend. (it was not fun working on Friday) So I decided to check out what deals they had going on at Babies R Us and our car seat was 20% off! Although we don't need it right now we took advantage of the sale and free shipping and ordered it. It's exactly the same pattern just instead of the yellow on her current car seat this one is pink. . Marley's growing up to be a big girl. Can't believe she'll be 6 months in just a couple of days.

We're on the move.

Marley is sort of crawling.
She's got a way of throwing her body around, using a booty scoot, and body rolls to get to where she wants to go. We think she'll be properly crawling by Christmas.

Watch out everybody here she comes!


Paddington has no idea what's about to happen.

Peppermint Squares

I made these for Thanksgiving. I first made them in September for Becky's birthday as she loves grasshopper pie. I still need to work on the middle layer the consistency of the icing isn't quite right yet. But they are yummy!

Ingredients:

Bottom Layer:
1/2 cup hard margarine (or butter), softened
1 cup brown sugar, packed
2 large eggs
1/2 teaspoon vanilla

1/2 cup all-purpose flour
1/4 cup cocoa, sifted if lumpy
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/8 teaspoon salt
Middle Layer:
2/3 cup hard margarine (or butter), softened
2 cups icing (confectioner's) sugar
1 1/2 tablespoons milk
1 teaspoon peppermint flavoring
5-6 drops of green food coloring
Top Layer:
1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
3 tablespoons hard margarine (or butter)

 

Directions:

Bottom Layer:

Cream margarine and brown sugar together in medium bowl. Beat in eggs, 1 at a time, beating well after each addition. Add vanilla. Mix.

Add next 4 ingredients. Beat until moistened. Turn into greased 9 x 9 inch pan. Bake in 350°F oven for 15 minutes. Do not overcook. Cool thoroughly.

Middle Layer:

Beat all 5 ingredients together in separate medium bowl. Spread over bottom layer.

Top Layer:

Heat and stir chocolate chips and margarine in small heavy saucepan on low until melted and smooth. Spread over mint layer. Chill overnight until set. Cuts into 36 squares. 

Recipe and Picture form The Nest.