Marley Update 2014

Now this one would be fun to write from Marley’s perspective… can you imagine? 

But really, Marley is so much stinking fun! She has started talking like crazy – although virtually none of it is understandable. She is experimenting with her laughs. Lately she’s kind of hooked on this one “fake” laugh. It sounds very guttural and busty. I love it. She does that laugh anytime she sees Scooter.

We are working on her “jump”. Even in the pool, she never jumped in, just kind of fell in. This is one of the reasons we wanted her to be a bunny for Halloween. We’ve been practicing her “jump” and she’s started bending her knees and making the effort – woohoo!

She is an amazing sleeper! I love that she sleeps through the night nearly without fail every night.

She is so good at daycare. She really is like a member of their family. Miss Kelly has told me a number of times how special Marley is to her. Don’t tell anyone but… she said that Marley is her favorite daycare kid (she had to specify “daycare kid,” she has two of her own). I was running late the other day to pick up Marley and she told me that she’d keep Marley forever if she could. This little miss is sweet and oh-so well behaved. And she better be, because she turns all sassy and demanding as soon as I bring her home. But that’s okay, because I also get the snuggles and kissesJ

Oh, her kisses! The BEST! Ya know how some kids go at you with their mouths wide open and goober all over you when you get a kiss? Okay, so I’m not saying those aren’t adorable as ever… but Marley’s kisses are so sweet they just about melt your heart. She always goes for the cheek with little pursed lips and makes the perfect smacking sound. She has always given kisses this way and I wouldn’t change it for the world.

Just like every other kid out there right now, she likes Frozen. Which is saying something about how entrenched it is in EVERYTHING because we don’t own it and I have only seen it once – while Marley was napping ironically enough. But she requests that I play the youtube videos of “Let it Go” and “In Summer” constantly. She won’t sit still long enough to watch anything full length which is definitely a double-edged sword. I would love for her to know the characters before DisneyLand and it would be nice to be able to turn on a movie and chill with her (or clean – which is what would really happen). But I do love the fact that she’d rather go for a walk (NOT in the stroller), collect rocks, and throw them into the canal.

Some of my favorite words that she says:

Chips are “pips”

Milk is “nelk”

Anything that you have that she wants is “ah? ah?” (with the mouth wide open)

Thank you is a VERY musical and drawn out “tink ew”

Bless you is “bess ew” (you get blessings for coughs too!)