Thursday, September 11, 2008

1st Birthday

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Our Summer

has flown by!! oh my gosh. i can't believe labor day has come and gone, and that we're feeling the fall weather. we've been busy with work (mom) and learning so many new things (me). i had my first trip to the zoo with aunt jen and uncle shawn in july. i got to pet a deer and i had a good time imitating the bear shaking his head. i spent some time with the dadichs in their pool. it was a rough start to the water play but now i love it. i also like playing with my cousins on their "pirate ship" swing set. i have fun swinging, but my favorite is the slide. my mom got me a little swing and slide set for our backyard and i can go down the slide all by myself. it's small enough that we can even bring it in the house when the weather gets cold :)



i had fun at my birthday party. and i hope everyone else did too. i got alot of great toys and books and puzzles and clothes. the cake was delish!! the bummer was that i had my very first ear infection so i wasn't feeling all that well.

but since i turned the big o-n-e alot has changed. I CAN WALK NOW!! and it's great. i am everywhere, into everything and i want to do it all by myself. the dog and the dog food are not safe from me. our current record is 21 pieces of dog food in my mouth at one time. the cats are smart, they stay on the other side of the gate at the basement steps. but i keep trying to coax them to come out with my binky and lots of "meow"s. it's only a matter of time cats. only a matter of time.

grandma and grandpa have taken me to 3 different fairs this summer. i love the fair. the food. the rides. the animals. they are my favorite :) i talk to them all in their own language (moo, baa, bak bak, and cock-a-doodle-doo) and i'm not afraid to pet them either. i'm definelty turning into an animal lover!

hope you enjoy the pictures. i'll be busy next week moving into the todder room at daycare. see ya babies! i'm a big girl now!

love - MARLEY

Monday, June 9, 2008

i have not forgotten

about you, dear blog reader friends. it's just been crazy. all aspects of life have been crazy. it's now 10:30pm and i'm just getting time to sit down and have a minute. of course, there are a zillion things that need to be done. anyone feel like folding laundry or unloading a dishwasher for me? come on! you know you want to!!

marley has been changing every day. in little ways and in big ways. she's a crawling maniac, constantly on the move. and fast too! and she can climb up the steps. the entire flight. which she loves to do. i've got gates sitting here waiting for me to figure out how to install. she really likes her hippo push toy and is now walking behind it like a big girl. she's stood by herself a couple of times, but falls pretty quickly. so we aren't quite walking, but probably by the end of summer.

and her mouth moves just as much as her legs do :) she loves music and dances along. she has also figured out how to "sing" to herself. she does her rocking/dancing and then vocalizes along in this high-pitched sing-songy voice. she loves to play "peek a boo" and "so big". she blows kisses, and gives hugs and kisses. she waves hi and bye, and can say both. she says "mom" now, very clearly. and has used "papa" for her grandpa. "da" is for the peyton, and "ka" is for the cat. she also produces a great "s" sound and can clearly say "ass". i am so proud! she signs "more" and "milk", and is getting very interested in watching the sign language stuff. we found some old school sesame street you tube videos and she's so intrigued by them. especially "ladybug picnic".

marley has also developed quite a temper. she understands "no" very well, but has begun to sass back a little. she's also been known to slap at people when she's mad.

i'm starting to introduce milk. she got ahold of aidan's sippy cup of chocolate milk one day and drank the whole thing. no problems after, so i figured why not give it a try. i think she'll go easily to whole milk completely, but i think we're going to have some problems giving up the bottle. i bought a straw cup to try with her. she can drink well from a straw, so i'm hoping that that works a little better than a regular sippy cup as far as replacing the bottle. wish me luck!

we had our first vacation. we went to north carolina for marley's cousin kate's 1st birthday. it was so much fun. kate and marley played very nicely together, and seemed to really enjoy each other's company. it was a long trip back, just the 2 of us. and i've had some trouble putting marley to bed at night since we came back too. she got used to sharing a room with mommy I guess. oh well. i guess before i know it i'll be begging her to cuddle with me!!

i'll try to get some recent pictures loaded this weekend! enjoy the heat :)

Monday, April 21, 2008

Our First Trip to the ER

oh yes. it starts early in the frost household.

wednesday night, marley was just not going to sleep and maybe seemed a little off. by 10 pm (she has never been up that late) i decided to take her temp b/c her cheeks were flushed. she wasn't warm mind you, but hey, at least i felt like i was doing something. no fever of course. she's just kinda lying on my bed, i stand up to put her dirty diaper on top of the dresser away from the cat and dog, and the next thing i know she's sliding off the bed head first onto the floor. the hardwood floor. so we call the dr. on call, are told what to watch for as far as any possible head-injury and go about our night. she cried, yeah, but the thing never even bruised.

thursday they say she's fine all day at daycare. i get her home and barely inside the door and she starts puking. one of the things to watch for. i call the dr, get the on-call message, which basically tells you to go to the e.r. so we picked up grandma at work (thank god she happened to be working late that night) and off we went.

turns out it was a virul tummy issue rather than a head injury. you'd think that would be just a simple trip to the er right?? if you've been reading this blog at all, you know that wouldn't be the case for us . . .

1. on monday i had taken marley for her 9 mo well baby visit, to be told that for some still-unknown-yet-now-resolved-reason her health insurance had been termintated. so i'm sitting the the waiting room sweating what to do if they turn us away or send me a huge bill.
2. they have these crazy pediatric bed/cribs that i put the railing up on just to see how it worked and then couldn't get it back down. with my baby inside of it. puking.
3. there was a mom and kid in the room next too us, i'm not sure what the kid was having done but the mom fainted. which resulted in alot of staff yelling and running. you would have thought it was a full code like on "trauma in the e.r." on t.l.c. ended up the mom had to be then admitted into the e.r. herself.
4. they had a fire drill.
5. i got the flu. then so did jonah, aidan, marcy, tim and my dad. jury's still out on my mom and andrew (who unsuspectingly came home for a visit and ended up having to run ginger ale and pedialite back and forth to everyone - we love you uncle drew xoxo).

only us.

i did take pictures on my cell phone and i'll try to figure that jazz out so you can see them.