Marcus

M's 4 year old appt.

2011-01-16T13:57:00.000-08:00

So, I'm realizing I should be posting all the hilarious things Marcus says. Here are a few:

Mommy, I really miss sausage! (I decided to hold off on getting sausage for a month since he's eaten it for a year almost daily. We do give turkey sausage a lot of the time)

Mom, did you know in that fish book the names twirly whirly and twisty twirly rhyme? They rhyme with Fuh. Like Fuh-fish. ( he obviously needs more direction on what rhyming is!)

His 4 year old check up went like this:

3'6" tall
size 13 shoe
36lbs.
That is a whole lot taller and only 2lbs heavier from his 3 year old check up.
He's going to be a string bean like his dad.

Marcus' favorite thing to play right now is anything car related. He also loves his bucking bronc his papa gave him for his bday.

He also is a budding chef and loves to savor every flavor he can. He likes to find opposite flavors and take a bite of each and chew in his mouth at the same time. I think it's funny because that's exactly what the rat on ratatouille (however you spell that) does!
He's some pig, that's for sure.

So the Christmas post didn't work!

2010-12-29T18:23:00.000-08:00

But here is a little update on the big man. Marcus turned 4 on the 26th and since I've been feeling sick more and more these days I decided to make it easy on myself and have the party at the mall and the children's museum. He loved it. He is wild as ever and has some new favorite things:
Tv show- Food channel- Chopped and Diners, Drive-ins and Dives, also loves HGTV for House Hunters and Holmes on Homes. He's hilarious asking to watch these shows!
Favorite thing to do- race his cars
Favorite food- apples and peanut butter and jelly sandwiches
Wants to be a "fixer guy" when he's grown up (construction worker)
He still looooves music, bands, playing guitars and drums.
He's grown and inch and a half since July and is in a size 13 shoe and 5T if not 4/5 or 5/6 for clothes. He's going to outgrow me faster than I was prepared for!
He's a sassy one and loves to prove you wrong. Sounds like someone I might know... ;)

Christmas!

2010-12-25T07:26:00.000-08:00

Ok, I totally lied...

2010-08-17T12:59:00.000-07:00

last one I promise!

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wow..and more and more..

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and even more pics!

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More pics

2010-08-17T12:42:00.001-07:00

Here are more pics from the vacations

Summer- oh what a fun summer!

2010-08-17T12:36:00.000-07:00

We have just had a blast this summer. Lots of running around, swimming, vacationing, etc. I could not have asked for a better summer! What a blessing to be off of work and have the whole family all to myself. Marcus is growing like a weed and getting smarter by the day! He's really ready to go to preschool in September. More ready than I am to let him go! Oh well, he's going to grow up whether I like it or not, I better start liking it! Here are pics from our first Anderson Family Vacation, our Wesley Woods vacation and some random one's from the Blank Park Zoo & the State Fair. Enjoy!

March!

2010-03-27T18:14:00.000-07:00

So March was a fun month. Marcus has really shown his personality lately. He's our "family coordinator" as I call him. He loves to tell everyone what to do :>). We went to the fossil gorge twice, the johnson county historical museum, we've been outside and exercising a lot and more fun stuff. He's really picked up on putting on his shoes and clothes and getting all the way ready! He's growing like a weed. We moved him to a big boy car seat yesterday too which he just loves because he's "just like elly" now. He's finally eating again after a month long self induced starvation diet and his favorites are cantaloupe, goulash, bacon and sausage. He's really getting excited for this summer and swimming!!

this winter

2010-02-27T15:45:00.001-08:00

This winter has been a looooong one! Here are some pictures from Dec-Feb. Not too much going on but Marcus is really talking a lot! Marcus loves dinosaurs still and really likes to wear that rubber nose that is in that picture. It is kind of freaky!

Nia's build a bear day!

2010-01-24T17:54:00.000-08:00

Here are some pictures from Nia going to build-a-bear with her birthday money from mimi and papa.

more pics from the weekend

2009-12-29T17:25:00.001-08:00

3 years and counting-no seriously, he's counting...

2009-12-29T17:20:00.000-08:00

Just got back from Christmas and birthday festivities. What fun we always have at grammy and papa's house :). Marcus is very lonely at home without his cousins! We missed Nia and the Howard's dearly at home, but we'll hopefully have a full holiday next year :)

Signs of Summer

2009-06-03T11:33:00.000-07:00

Marcus had his 1st bloody knee today. He calls it a "gape". He can't really say the "s" at the beginning of the word, so it's hard to know what he's trying to tell you sometimes.

He takes after his daddy because there was barely any blood but he was acting like his leg was broke! I told him pappa's bull rider technique, but he was not having it.

Here are some more of my fav's from this last couple of weeks:

Gwill- Squirrel

Grill- Girl

Goot over- Scoot over

Nake- Snake

The other day I had just come upstairs and was off of work. He asked "you offa work mommy?" "yes Marcus, I'm done working" I started to brush his hair after his bath and he said "Momma, you needa go backa work." What a funny little man.

Almost 2 1/2!

2009-05-24T14:39:00.001-07:00

Talking talking talking up a storm....here are some of my favs-

Marcus- Crying
Me- "Why are you crying??"
Marcus- "because! my face is wet!"
Me- "Honey, if you would stop crying your tears would stop and your face would dry up!"
Marcus- "Ok mommy." stopping immediately

If M is talking to someone else and you try to talk to him he will tell you "uh, mommy, i talking to daddy...geeze!"
We have to work on this!!

Potty training is going ok... we're about 1 full month in to it and he goes most of the time if he's naked. He will barely tell you when he's got to go if he's got a diaper or pull up on. Right now the naked method is the best, but that's not always an option for sure!!

fluent in flu

2009-03-11T20:19:00.000-07:00

Well, Marcus has been sick for 72 hours now and I am hoping we've turned a corner. I locked him out of the bathroom on purpose to see if he would cry tears and he did! Those tears came a streaming down, so that means he's on his way back from dehydration. It was touch and go there for a minute, so those tears were welcome tears. I took some pictures of him while he was looking at his "fishy's" so you all could see how skinny he's gotten. We had him at the Dr's on Saturday and he was just over 30 lbs. Today we weighed him and he was 25 lbs! Poor little munchkin. He's out of the chair and we don't have to have him wrapped in a towel 24/7 so I think it's almost over!!! Yay!!

Halloween 2008

2008-11-10T17:27:00.000-08:00

Verbal Gerbil

2008-10-31T12:56:00.000-07:00

Marcus- 22mos.
This little guy is talking. I don't mean he's saying one word and then another seperate word. He's full on talking. Here's some of the funny things he's said lately:
I was in the shower and he was watching Baby Einstein's on the couch.
All of a sudden he comes in the bathroom and says
"Mom! Phone's ringin!"
I thought, oh ya right. Sure enough! 3 missed calls. I'm sure it was ringing.
Next:
Yesterday when I picked him up from daycare Josh (Dee at daycare's spouse) says "Hey, today when I came out with my Honor Guard stuff on Marcus said Josh you look cute!"
Josh and Dee could hardly contain themselves. I didn't even know he knew how to use that word!
He's certainly growing up fast.
Tooth count:
almost 12. He's getting his molars top and bottom.
His favorite books are:
'Toot Toot'- Froggy learns to swim
'Oat-shin' - I'm the biggest thing in the ocean
'Tooth' - The big tooth book

All Boy

2008-08-08T15:45:00.000-07:00

Ok,

So I'm convinced, when people say the phrase "He's all boy" they are really nicely saying "your kid is CRAZY!!"

Marcus has been doing some nasty stuff lately, so I thought I would hop on the old blog and share it...

Act 1- Shadley and the kids come with us to Marcus' Dr's appt with Dr. Voss (ENT). They have a great office for kids. Lots of open space, seating and plenty of toys. I go to the restroom for 1 moment while Shadley and the kids are out in the waiting room and when I come back Marcus has someone else's kids sippy and just chugging away!!! Now, no one think that Shadley knew this because she didn't. This sippy was one of Marcus' kind and only I would have known it was NOT HIS!! NASTY!!! I took that thing away like it was hot let me tell you!

Act 2- Over email I get a message that reads:

"your son is making me a laughingstock. He just socked me one in thenose and gave me a nosebleed and then went running from me with thetoilet ring around his neck. all the kids are laughing!!"

#1- that is nasty, #2-I'm glad she can laugh at my child being so naughty.

I have my work cut out for me. Marcus really is a good little guy, he's just

"All Boy".

Alright alright, here is something new...

2008-07-14T10:09:00.000-07:00

So Marcus can really talk these days. He's saying things like-

Mom! Mom! Hanny! When he wants me to hold his hand in the car. Which, he does on almost every trip. It sure is precious.

My other favorite is when he is asking for our keys... "Teeeees!" is what he calls them. If we try to explain they are for parents only it only ends in him being even more precious asking "peeeeessss! teeeeees!" while rubbing his chest in the baby signs motion. Then we give him the keys.

I know I'm making a monster, I just know it. But- I can't stop. It's too cute. I still share a bed with him and do whatever he wants me to. I can't stop myself. Will and I agree this is our only one until he's in college, then we might think about having more ;).

it's been a long time since i've put some pics on....

2008-05-19T13:58:00.000-07:00

here are some newest pics of mr. marcus. he's 16 months now!! i think it was a year ago since i put the last ones on.

after the picnic

2007-07-24T16:14:00.000-07:00

We "borrowed" bub and dan's camera to take some pics of Marcus. They always have the best equiptment. He is just loving the picture sessions these days. I sure hope he'll still be a football player and not an actor! Sorry Will!!

new pics

2007-07-20T15:21:00.000-07:00

Tippers...

2007-06-16T11:37:00.000-07:00

Ok, so I woke up the other day and I found Marcus petting Tippy's head. It was the cutest thing. Since Marcus STILL sleeps with me (mommies choice) then I was sleeping and he was playing....maybe I should rethink my strategy. Tippy doesn't seem to like Marcus, but doesn't mind him some times.

DISCLAIMER

2007-06-05T13:04:00.000-07:00

no...Marcus didn't drive a leg of the IA City to Clarinda trip....I'm not Brittany Spears.....

2007-06-04T08:52:00.000-07:00

This is on the way home. We couldn't resist. He didn't seem to mind us dressing him up if it involved him getting out of his car seat!

2007-06-04T08:50:00.000-07:00

These are some random pics of Marcus. He fights with this ducky Abby bought for him.. He gets pretty in to it sometimes!

TGIF!

2007-06-01T14:50:00.000-07:00

Well, Marcus is growing like a weed. He is getting a lot less chubby and very very long and just thick. We were at the pediatricians yesterday and the nurse referred to him as
"ham hocks".....hmmmmmm. Will agreed with her. I think those legs and cankes are cute. I'm sure he'll be 6'5'' soon enough so Will and I better enjoy those little ham hocks while we can! Marcus is now saying "bubble" and "mamama" all the time...he's not really saying it but I did sing him "mamambabababa...now marcus say it" and he said it back! I'm sure he'll be taking soon enough. He already eats cereal, some veggies and is trying to sit up!! HIMS SUCH A BIG BOY!!!

On the Road Again

2007-05-25T12:47:00.000-07:00

We are going to grammy (mimi) and papa's house this weekend for Maggie and Brian's shower. I can't wait! Marcus hasn't seen his papa for a looooong time and he will never believe how big he has gotten!! Can't wait! Marcus can touch his 1st horsey and mule. Maybe even get to ride ;). NOW OFF WE GO!!

those pics i told you about

2007-05-21T13:05:00.001-07:00

My little man

2007-05-21T11:42:00.000-07:00

Ok, I'm not going to be as witty and probably won't even spell everything correctly...but I thought you all might like to see little man a little more. :) So here are some pics!!