A Picture Update For the Month of June

Below is our month in pictures. We was a pretty busy month with lots of trips over the weekends. We did go camping one weekend but I forgot my camera, so we will have to wait to get pictures from Tina for the camping trip. It was  a great time though. 

Dad's friend Tony and his family moved to Maryland in June. We were fortunate enough to get to go up to their parent's cabin in Cascade with them the last weekend they were here. Below is a picture of you and Levi in the morning. You had so much fun playing with Lexie and Levi. We went on a hike, had a campfire and played cars in the dirt. 

It was finally nice enough the beginning of June that I was able to take you to Settler's Park to play in the water. I love these pictures of you. Wow though they make you look grown up. You are getting so big!

A picture of you and me in the car on the way to Warm Lake for our camping trip with Matt and Tina. 

This is your blanket you got from Matt and Tina for your birthday. You didn't want anything to do with it when you got it. Now you love it and you look super cute in it. 

G-Ma sent you a Bumblebee t-shirt in the mail last week. You were beyond excited. You instantly had to put the shirt on and proceeded to wear it to bed, then to daycare the next day, and then to bed again that night. You showed off your shirt to everyone. Below are a few pics from the evening. It was cute because after every picture you would tell me you wanted to see the picture. 

We took you to Trader Joe's tonight to buy picnic stuff for our trip to the park. They have mini shopping carts just your size and you LOVED it. As a little girl I remember shopping with Great Grandma and a store having these. It made shopping so much fun, so I was excited for you to be able to push it around. I must admit I was a pretty proud mommy with your food choices too. You chose to fill your shopping cart with broccoli, bananas, yogurt, and apple juice. 

Below is a picture from the MK Nature Center we took of you. 

My Favorite Marcus-isms.

Ever since your ear tube surgery you have been talking up a storm. There are so many things that you say that I just love and make me smile every time you say them. Here are a few of the more common ones right now.

"Pick you up!" You say this any time you want me to pick you up. Since I have asked in the past if you want me to pick you up, you think that is literally what it means and haven't transitioned to saying "pick me up" yet. 

"Marcus do it." Yes we have reached the independent stage where whenever we are doing something you want to do this is your response. 

"Transformers Meet Eye!!" You love Transformers right now. The song says "Transformers, more than meets the eye..." Hence your phrase. You say this usually at the top of your longs as you play with your auto bots and rescue bots. It is very cute to watch you play with them.

"Miss you, Mommy." This one melts my heart. It doesn't matter if it has been 15 minutes or a whole day. When we have been a part for a while you will come up to me and wrap your sweet arms around my neck and tell me this. I love it. 

"No, I got it." You learned this phrase from your Dad and it goes hand in hand with your independent phase. Frequently I will ask you if you need help and this is your response. 

"Hug you." This one cracks me up. Whenever you are in trouble and are crying you try to come up and give me a hug while saying "hug you." This all started because whenever you are in time out and it is over I give you a hug and tell you that I love you. So I think you don't like being in trouble and so your response a midst your crying is to come and say "hug you" to try to make the ordeal be over. 

"Milky milk." Okay so this one is more of a word, but I love it. For some reason I have a tendency to repeat things and occasionally talk in toddler talk. Case in point, milky milk. I started saying that whenever you asked for milk and now you call it milky milk when you are asking for it more than you just call it milk. Oh the powers of observation and influence. It is a slippery slope that is both beautiful and scary. 

"Amon!" "Amere!" This one is starting to slip away but I love it so I need to write it down. You frequently would say "Amon" and "Amere" for come on and come here. It is one of the cutest things that you say.

Lastly one that has come and gone which your Uncle Ryan got a kick out of when he was visiting here in February was "shur" for sure. Any time anyone asked you a question you would reply with "shur" instead of yes. I'm pretty sure your Uncle Ryan will now say this for the rest of his life. It was pretty stinking cute and I honestly wish you still said it too. 

Your First Birthday Party

You got invited to your very first "true" birthday party. It was for Brody (mommy's friend Lindsay's son). It was a success. They had a bounce house and a pinata. Not to mention someone else's toys for you to play with. You had a great time. Below are a few pics from the party.

An update in pictures

You are totally in to Transformers right now and you want to go to sleep with them all the time. I frequently am told that I need to kiss them good night. It's pretty cute. Some kids sleep with their stuffed animals, you sleep with your Transformers!

What can I say... you love your binkies. This was you living it up with two of them at the same time.

Words cannot describ how much I love that sweet smile of yours. 

I made you a smoothie. Apparently I made it to thick. I warned you to be careful as you were tipping the cup straight up. However the next time you went to get a drink you tipped it to far up again and thus the result below. Your Dad and I just started laughing as you walked up to me and said "smoothie on face." I was instructed by your Dad to get a picture before I cleaned you up. Needless to say I posted this to Facebook and it was one of the most 'liked' pictures that I have had in a while. It made a lot of people's days to see your sweet sad face over this outcome. 

I love this picture of us. Your angelic face here is perfect. This was the night before the smoothie incident and also got a lot of 'likes'. A lot of people liked the contrast between the two pictures.