Everyone Loves Marco

When Lily was born, I started a tradition of taking a picture of everyone who held her so that one day I could look back and show her everyone who loved her.  I got to a slow start with Marco, but I wanted him to have the same gift. So as of the first five months of Marco's life... here are the people who love Marco.  

(More to be continued later!)

~ FAMILY ~

Grammy

Grandpa

Uncle Sam

~ MICHAL'S FRIENDS ~

Camron Mitchell

Lael Cox

~ CHURCH FRIENDS ~

Emily Sharpe

Katlyn Keaton

Henderson Family

Marianne Dunn

Chris Marsh

Giffords

Paige Bell

Amanda Maki

Ty Brown

Marilyn Brown

~ OTHER FRIENDS ~

Libby

Laura Hayasaka

Marin Shreve

~ ARMSTRONG FAMILY ~

Rebecca

Andy

Jake

Sarah

Rachel

~ UTAH FRIENDS ~

Jennifer Kinghorn

Heather Collier Valerga

Joy Hanson

Kristina Rodriguez

Melisa Mulvey

Julie Haney

~ Sirrine Family ~

Nancy and Kimberly

Brittany

Adventures in our Neighborhood

I love to go on walks in my neighborhood... unfortunately, unless we are chasing "big trucks" around... or have animals that we can see... Lily gets bored of our walks.  Often times our walks consist of Marco in the baby carrier on me, Lily in the stroller with an iPhone or iPad watching a Disney movie... and me becoming more entertained than the both of them by our surroundings.

Monday walks are entertaining.  Who doesn't love playing hide-and-seek with the garbage truck?

And then lately they decided to rip up the asphalt on our road and repave our road (along with several other roads along our walking route).  So it gave us a lot of new "big trucks" to look at and admire... and less phone time for Lily.

On one specific road they decided to add sewer pipes... and it has taken them five weeks (and as of 7/19 they still aren't done)... but Lily is in awe and wonder as we walk by these big different trucks.

When trucks aren't around we go hunting for different animals.  So far we have seen deer, bunnies, geese, cows, dogs, cats, a turtle, and a few dead snakes and shed snake skins.  

We know that Lily enjoys the animals when she waves to them and says hello.  I know it's not the North Carolina zoo or anything, but I'm trying... and our neighborhood is sure becoming a close second!

However, it doesn't matter what surrounds us... and what their is to see... Marco is one happy camper. 

June 2015 Photoshoot (Lily - 2 years 4 months, Marco - 5 months)

On June 26, I took the kids to fotofly to get their photos taken.  I love fotofly - it cost me less than a hundred dollars for an hours worth of time and and editing on top of that.  Too often photographers ask for a lot of money, and I don't mind spending a lot of money when the occasion merits - but all I wanted on this specific trip was one photo... just one... that I could hang on my wall.  And I got it.  (Plus some).

Here's the winning photo which will go above my mantel.

And here are all the other great photos which we lucked out with from this session!

Thanks fotofly!  For a great session and great photos!  For how uncooperative my kids were, you'd never know because you worked some crazy awesome photo taking magic!

Marco 5 Months

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See that picture above?  That's the picture I took of Marco when he turned five months old.  In other words, it looks like I failed this month at taking photos of Baby Boy.  On the other hand.... this photo was taken on June 26, just four days after he turned five months old.  That should count right?

Five Months:
Expert - Laughing
Firsts - Dream Feeding
Firsts - Prunes, Baby Cereal, Beans, Apples
New Skill - Holding his feet
New Skill - eating his hands, Mommy's hands, Lily's hands, Daddy's Hands
New Skill - playing with toys (or cooking utensils)
My favorites - watching him watch and smile at Lily
Unusual Traits - likes to have his foot up in the air or on top of your arm when laying down
Unusual Traits - goes to bed early (like before 7pm early) and although he doesn't sleep through the night anymore, he only wakes up once after dream feeding occurs