Happy Halloween

This entire week I have been "collecting" pictures of Lane and Marlee in their costumes. We began the week with a little photo session for my little gangster and flapper girl at home.I got a few cute pictures, but the session ended with two screaming children!
Then one evening, we went to the pumpkin patch to pick a pumpkin and take some more pictures.

By the time we got to Halloween night we were ready to go!

We just went to a few of our neighbor's houses. I did the chauffeuring.

And Dad went with Lane from the stroller to the door. Lane had so much fun saying Trick or Treat.

When we got home Clint and the kiddos sat outside and gave out candy. Lane didn't want to let his pumpkin out of his sight. He unwrapped all four of the suckers he got. Clint took one for the team and ate three and let Lane have one.

Miss Marlee took a few pictures in my first Halloween costume, minus the clown hat.
She made a super cute vintage clown!

Then we all loaded up and went to dinner. Lane spilt his water in the restaurant so he lost his pants and suit jacket. He was happy to wear the rest of his costume out to the car! See, he wouldn't let go of that pumpkin!

Happy Halloween! We hope you had as much fun as we did! I did hide Lane's pumpkin out in the garage after he went to bed tonight. We'll see if he looks for it in the morning...

Go Bears!

Saturday evening we got to go to the Baylor/ UT Game. We made the half mile plus trek to the stadium from our parking spot worn out and ready to sit.

We found our amazing seats and settled in for the game. For some reason I didn't realize that we would be standing the ENTIRE game! I guess we're used to Baylor football games at home - a nice half empty stadium with $5 parking at the stadium, where you can pretty much do whatever you want. That's not the case at UT, we were packed in like sardines!

The mooch made friends with a girl sitting next to us. He was able to score some of her beads.

We had a great time and it was so fun to see Baylor beat UT! We were some of the few wearing our green in the sea of burnt orange.

EE & The Beads

Lane has always liked to wear beads, not sure why but he loves them. Lane is also crazy about his monkey, EE. Monkey has always been his favorite buddy, but lately they have been extra tight. Like this morning Lane left EE in bed, we went down for breakfast and the next thing I know Lane's holding EE. He went back upstairs all by himself to get EE out of bed.

This morning while playing, Lane pulled EE through the beads around his neck so both he and EE could wear the beads. Then, quite by accident, Lane found that EE could hang from the beads and he didn't have to hold on to him. Lane is now running around the house with EE hands free!
What a great discovery!

...And She's Over!

Tonight was a big night! Miss MGM rolled over from her back to her tummy three times! Clint and I put her on her playmat to play tonight while we watched a show from our majorly overloaded DVR. I could hear Marlee pulling on her toys, but besides that she was really quite. I looked down to check on her and not five minutes later when Clint looked down, she was over on her tummy!
I ran to get my camera while Clint put her on her back again. I just had to wait a minute before she did it again! It was so exciting to have Clint here with us to see it! Too bad Hubba was asleep, he would have been so proud of his baby sister.

I looked it up on Lane's daily calendar, he was a few days over 15 weeks when he rolled over for the first time, and now Marlee is a few days over 16 weeks. Way to go Marlee! We are so proud of you!!

Sisterly Love

Tonight we went out for a little treat, Murph got to go along. Marlee was covered up with a nice warm blanket and Miss Murph just couldn't resist cuddling.

She actually climbed right into Marlee's carseat.
Two sweet girls.

Choo Choo

Saturday we went for a day long train ride! We took Grammy and Grampy along for the fun. The ride was 2 1/2 hours each way with a couple hour layover for lunch and a little shopping in Burnet. Lane loves trains and was so excited to be on the train!We passed a couple of trains on our trip. We'd never been so close to a train before!Marlee has started sucking her two fingers just like brother!
They both enjoyed a good part of our ride with their fingers in their mouths.

It was a fun day for all!

Everyone was worn out on our way home. Grampy and Marlee took a little cat nap together.

While we were on the train we learned all about the train whistle, how many whistles and the lenght of them all mean different things. This is Lane's impersonation of the train whistle. It cracks us up every time.

Happy Girl

Marlee is laughing! Friday I decided that I just had to get her to laugh. She smiles all the time, but never laughed. I worked and worked on her Friday to no avail. Finally, late Friday afternoon I got a courtesy laugh - a tiny giggle. Then, Saturday she for me at Dinner and laughed for Dad at Bedtime. Sunday she laughed at Brother while he did a dance for us, and now he's addicted to trying to get her to laugh too!

She won't laugh at just anything, it has to be something she really thinks is funny. Her Grammy says she gets that from her. I think now that she has laughed she laughs a little more easily but at any rate, we will do anything for a laugh!

Singing & Bouncing

Today was another big day. Miss Marlee Grace finally got to play in the bouncer! She's been eyeing it since we got it out of the attic about a week ago. She did great in it, I even almost got a picture of her smiling. She really liked the color wheel and the lights below the little hanging animals. She played while Lane played with his activity table next to her. He played the little piano keys and told me he was singing. He didn't sing any words just made noise. It was really cute. Oh, and in between his "songs" he would get up and give the bouncer a push to get the music going for Marlee.

I got a video of the two of them in action. I must warn you -It's over two minutes, and pretty uneventful, but it's history in the making! I will tell you if you make it to the end you'll see what Murph does all day.

CoEd Bathing

Last night the whole fam crammed into the bathroom for our first ever brother - sister bath! I hyped it up all day long so by the time bathtime came Lane was ready!
After both kiddos has been soaped up Lane decided that Marlee's little tub looked like more fun. He climbed in and decided to help rinse Marlee off.
He loves to help, bless little Marlee. With all of brother's "help" she's going to be one tough little girl.

Shortly after we got this video, Lane reached for the tube of soap behind Marlee and wouldn't you know it he slipped right on top of her. She now has a sweet little scratch to show for her first bath with Brother. She's a trooper!

Movin' on Up

The day Marlee Grace turned three Months old she officially moved out of Mom and Dad's bathroom. Poor girl was so ready to get out on her own she couldn't stand it any longer. I would have kept her there until she was 18 at least, I had plans to take out the garden tub to put in a bed for her. Too bad for me, her Dad wouldn't hear of it.
We actually tried to move her out the night before. I put her in her big bed, she only lasted a couple hours. She cried out every hour and the second time she was not going back in that bed! She came back down to her little bed and was as happy as a clam.

The next night we moved her little bed up to her room and that did the trick. She slept through the night like a champ.

We are on night 4 of Marlee being in her room. Marlee now fusses at night to let us know she is ready to go up to her room. We glide in her glider, read a book, and she is ready to put herself to sleep! She is such a sweet little thing. I can't take my eyes off of her, even if I have to look at her through the monitor.And how cute is this? The other afternoon I found bear sitting in Marlee's swing wrapped in a blanket. Little Lane wanted to make sure Bear was happy! I called him in to take a picture with Bear just the way I found him. He is such a sweet little guy to take such good care of Bear!