Happy Times

We recently went to a Grizzlie game at the FedEx Forum in Memphis and they were playing the Jazz. It was a good game and the Jazz won.

I started tending a little 4 month old baby named Abby. Abby's mom is a student at SCO with Murray and is in her second year. Mary really likes Abby and enjoys finding toys around the room and bringing them to her. It gets pretty busy at times with two, but it is a lot of fun!

We went to a Mardi Gras party that our friend Lori had at her house. Lori has lived in a lot of different places and one of them was New Orleans. We got to eat a lot of yummy cajun food. Mary really loved the bead necklaces!

Mary has been saying "happy" a lot lately. One night she had a hard time sleeping. Early in the morning or the middle of the night, I'm not sure; I brought her into bed with us and she just kept saying "happy" really loudly. Murray and I weren't feeling so "happy". It seems to be her favorite word. She also started signing "more" by putting her fingers together. Usually she does it when she wants to eat more snacks. We think it is so cute to see her small fingers sign!

Birthday Pictures

Birthday Fun

Mary celebrated her FIRST Birthday! We had a party for her last weekend and it was so much fun! We had several friends over to celebrate with us. We had such a great time with them. We had lunch (pizza, fruit, some veggies and punch), opened presents and ate Elmo cake and cupcakes :) Mary wasn't interested in her first slice of cake like we were hoping she would be. She was pretty tired and just wanted her warm bottle of milk and a nap!

We set up the train that Grandma Mary sent and a little pool from Uncle Alex that we filled with balls. The bigger kids liked riding the train and the babies loved the pool of balls. It seemed like everyone had a pretty good time.

Mary loved the balloons we got for decorations and thought it was so neat how they floated. The balloons may have been her most favorite thing about the party. We took a lot of great pictures but I will have to post them later.

We got a new computer but all of the pictures haven't been transferred over yet. My motivation for posting even without the pictures is to push down the video of the lollipop routine as far down the page as possible. Embarrassing!

Video - Margaret Lip Synching and Dancing

Here is a fun video of Margaret dancing and lip synching with some friends to the song "Lollipop". Margaret put together a talent show for the children at church and she started off the talent show with this act. The children loved it. Margaret is the second from the left.