Markessa 3 years old

• Love to make up songs
• Don't like to play with the boys at school, but your best friend is the boy next door
• Trouble
• Learning your letters
• Love to dance
• Do magic tricks
• Love storytime
• Love to ride your Cinderella bike
• Love to play house and be the mommy
• Love craftime
• Love family home evening
• Love to play tag, hide and seek, tickle monster
• Favorite food - peanut butter and jelly
• Still have your hot pink poca dot blanket
• Favorite question - Can I watch a show?"
• Protect baby brother
• Make Grady laugh and scream
• Make mommy laugh and smile a lot

I love you darlin you bring me so much joy and happiness. Keep dancing, laughing, and smiling.

Rain Rain Go Away

We didn't let the rain stop us from crazy egg gathering. We got way too many eggs, mostly because they were filled with mommy's favorite candy - reeses peanut butter cups. Ya having a hard time "just saying NO!!!"

Die Easter Eggs? No Dye Easter Eggs.

I am trying to teach Markessa that some words have more than one meaning, like "butt" or "but". "Mom, we don't say butt!! (With her hands on her hips and her best scowl) So when it was time to dye Easter eggs she looked at me strangely wondering why on earth we would "die" eggs. Super Fun!!

Fun at the Museum

One of our favorite places is the Mesa Art Museum. We found a new room this week.

So far she hasn't cut up anything too valuable, but she LOVES scissors.

"Okay mom, I'm posing. Hurry and take the picture."

Look what I found in these silly chairs.

Let's get wet

We wanted to go to the Fountains today, but they weren't working so we made our own fountain at home. Grady is showcasing his first major boo boo. Right smack on his cute little nose. He took a face plant over the threshold onto the cement, then soon after his sister helped him onto his face again. That day was a rough one.

All About You at One

Toe Head
Blue Eyed Blue
So BIG
So Sweet
You feed yourself
You RUN
You climb
You love music and to dance
You have eight teeth and four molars on the way
You say Go, Oh, Mama, Dada, Chugga, Tickle, More, and Sissy
You love putting things away, and getting them out
You love playing tag, ring around the rosies, hide and seek, peek a boo, and wrestling
You are my Cuddle Bug
You could play outside all day
You give mama things when I ask
You love story time
You wave bye bye and hi
You are ALL Boy
You are Papa's Boy
You love playing with the kids
You are a tease
People say you will be a movie star - if mommy would let you :)
You bring us all so much joy

Turning One is so FUN

We celebrated Grady's first birthday at the McCormick Ranch Train Park in Scottsdale. The kids seemed to like it :). Grady loved his Mickey Mouse balloons, but he wasn't very interested in hitting Mickey with the bat, so we just let him push him around. He also was not going to get messy (at least with cake) no matter what we tried. Happy Birthday baby. We love you.

So Sleepy . . . Anywhere