7-3-10 Memphis Moments

Memphis: Uncle Thomas, you wanna fight?!!!!
U Thomas: I'm gonna kick your butt.
Memphis: I'm gonna PINCH YOUR butt!!!
U Thomas: That's just weird buddy.
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Momma: Come on Little Lovey, hurry up.
Memphis: Okay...I'm coming my dear.
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Grama: (giving Memphis fruit snacks) There you go Buddy.
Memphis: Thanks Cutie.

7-8-10

Today is Nona Tina's birthday - she would have been 60 today...and she would have ADORED her beautiful grandchildren.

Marylou has QUITE A BIT of her Nona Tina in her already. Her favorite thing to do right now is find the phone, push some buttons, and then put it up to her ear and say, "Hiyeeee!"

Oh how I wish she could have snuggled my BEAUTIFUL babies.

6-15-10

Marylou's hair is getting long. She wore her first low piggy tails this morning. Meme took them out for nap time. When we went to get her after nap she woke up with CRAZY HAIR and seemed to really think she was something else! It reminded me of when Memphis woke up with crazy hair at this age.

At dinner tonight Memphis asked Meme, "Meme, can you blow this hot off? Please..." He thought his food was too hot and wanted a little help. Cutie.

6-14-10 - Big boy & marvelous music

Memphis turned his first somersault today - all on his own, without prompting. He was very proud and did 4 or 5 in a row and then got a little nervous. He announced, "I'm going to show Daddy when he gets home! He in be SO PROUD a me!" He also managed to get himself up onto his big guy swing and give himself a push, AND get himself into the car and buckled (even opened the door on his own). Very independent.

Marylou had THE BEST music class tonight. She was in her glory - dancing, "singing" and signing away. She knew all the hand movements to "Robing Red Breast" and did hand movements to a bunch of other songs too. She also imitated the egg shakers and sticks. I was surprised at how much she really knows. Memphis enjoyed himself too...attending to almost all the songs on his own. He sang at the top of his voice for a few and made me smile. When the music stopped she would sign "more" "more" "more"!

REVIVAL!!!!

I am really trying to revive my blogging habit. I thought I could keep all these memories straight in my head...but I just can't. I promise I will try to remain faithful!

1-29-10 Marylou 1st art project

Marylou made her first art project - a finger painting - today. I globbed on a few globs of blue and yellow and let her go to town. She seemed to enjoy the feeling of the paint, rubbing her hands back and forth. A few times she lifted her hands up, looked at them, and open-shut-open-shut them...trying to figure out what was going on.

Memphis decided to forgo the finger paints (been there, done that - right?) and go for the stamps instead. He chose the vehicle stamps - which he LOVED! He commented on how the stop sign stamp was yellow, adn that it really should be red...and the fire truck stamp was blue, and it really should be red. He said, "Momma, these stamps is all mixed up! They is so silly!"

Snow Day!

We had an unexpected snow today. Memphis was very excited, "Momma, it's snowing! Look! Snow is fallin' down, down, down...out a da sky. Yeah, snow!" I suggested we go out to explore, and Memphis happily agreed. He brought 2 cars with him so he could make snow tracks in the yard. Marylou also crawled around on the ground - and was pretty happy until her arm gave way and she face planted in the snow. After that she was much happier to ride about in the stroller. We took the stroller for a short walk to the pond. The pond was mostly frozen over, but the section right next to the bridge was still open water. Memphis found a few rocks to throw in - and giggled. Next, we made a few snow balls and Memphis tried throwing them in. He was very interested to see that they didn't sink like rocks, but instead floated on top of the water. One of the snow balls got caught in the current and was sucked under the bridge - we ran to the other side to see if we could find it when it came out. Memphis was SO EXCITED to see it and said, "WEEEeeeeee!" as the snowball rode its' way down the falls. We then (of course) had to repeat this process a dozen times. On our way home we saw a sand truck, he waved hello to us, and Memphis happily chattered about the dirt in the road, "I like dirt! Yeah, I do. I like it a lot!"