Happy Birthday Grace

One of my sweet little nieces birthday is today. It is hard to believe that she is celebrating her 8th birthday today. I hope that she had a great birthday and that her wishes come true.

Happy Birthday Grace!

We Need Your Help.....

Please click on Photopaintings by Kelley link under my favorites and vote in the January photo contest!!!! I submitted Whitt's Christmas dinner picture and would love for his masterpiece to win the contest. All that you have to do is click on the comments link under the photos and place your vote for #3. The voting continues through Thursday, so help us out. Above is the picture in case you have forgotten!

Thanks!

Arthur Live!

Today is the big day for Whitt and I to see Arthur Live. When he woke this morning and asked, "Do we go see Arthur today?", I was finally able to say YES! We are going to the 12:30 show at the VBCC. The show is based on the book, Arthur Tricks the Tooth Fairy. We have only checked that book out 100 times from the public library.

IT'S SNOWING!!!!!

Today was a great day for Whitt. He got to go to preschool, eat lunch with Claire and JuJu, his Nina came over, and play in the snow! He was soooo excited! He was soooo excited! He was telling us he'd never seen anything so cool. He wanted it to snow enough to do snow angels, but as always it snowed very little. We take what we can get in Alabama.

Stay warm.....

4 Month Check Up....

Everything went great today with Hudson. He was such a big guy and hardly cried with his shots. Did the usual flirting with Dr. Zbell and the nurses. These are his stats: 17.3 pounds 90% 26 inches long 95% and hc 44 90%. He also got the oral rodovirus vaccine. This was not around when Whitt was a baby, but the nurse told me that they have not had many babies that have had the vaccine come back with the virus. Let's keep our fingers crossed! Isn't it amazing how much things change in almost 4 years! wow.

Look at How Big He Is!!!!

Got this cute little picture of Hudson after church on Sunday. He is rolling all over the place and loves to be moving. I take him in the morning for his 4 month check-up. Can't wait to see what Dr. Zbell has to say about him!

Like Father Like Son...

Last night, Michael gave Hudson his first dill pickle. Hudson LOVED it! Never made a sour face, just doing snow angels on the kitchen counter!

If you know Michael you know that he also loves pickles and pickle juice. He will drink all the juice off the pickles and leave them dry! Whitt and Hudson definately fall into those foot steps of their daddy!

Rock On....

Whitt got an amplifier for his guitars that Santa brought him last year. He finally really used it last night and it was so funny! Just had to share a picture of my little rocker. He eats, breathes and sleeps music. He has decided that we are having a rock band birthday party this year so if you have any suggestions/ideas, please post those.

Rub a Dub Dub....

I Finally got brave enough to put Whitt and Hudson in the tub together. It went a lot better than I thought that it would. I got some really cute pictures, even of Whitt dumping water all over Hudson. Poor little guy never even cried. He is having to be a pretty tough little cookie these days! Let's just say there is never a dull moment in the Marks home, and we love it!

Hudson's First Food

Well, Hudson finally has started baby food and he LOVES it. We started with carrots, just like Whitt did. So far he has had carrots, pears, squash and bananas. I think that squash might be his favorite so far. He is not as messy now with his food as he was this first time.

I have been tagged again by one of friends/babysitter Carly. Lets see if I can do this!

RULES:Use the 1st letter of your name to answer each of the following.Your answers have to be real names, places, and things and you can’t use your own name for the boy or girl name.

What’s your name? Mandy
Car: Murano
City: Montgomery
Boy name: Michael
Girl name: Mary
Occupation: Mathematician
Something you can wear: Make-up
Celebrity: Maggie Gyllenhaal
Food:Maccaroni
Reason for being late: My car wouldn't start.
Cartoon character: Mickey Mouse
Something you shout: My goodness!

I tag Kelley, Lacy and Anna Leigh!

One Day on Sugar busters.....

whooo hoooo! First day is done and hopefully I am going to do ok on this! I love salads so i think that there will be lots of salads, grilled chicken and fruit in my future. Great little place called Clementines in Jones Valley has awesome salads so if you are ever over there check it out.

Have you ever noticed how many food commercials they have on tv these days? I finally had to just turn it off and go to bed. Learning to like the taste of Diet drinks and drank a ton of water. Lets see if I can hang in there with my husband.

Wish me luck!
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Hudson's 3 month pictures

Well yesterday was quite a day! As I woke up, I realized that Hudson is almost 4 months and I have not had his 3 month pictures made. With Whitt I did a panel of pictures of 3, 6, 9 and 12 month pictures. I want to do this for Hudson so I called Portrait Innovations yesterday at 9. I am not a fan of posed pictures and so I knew that I had to keep an open mind.

As soon as I got off the phone with them and we had our time, I frantically searched for the same clothes that Whitt had his 3 month picture made in. After finding it I crossed my fingers and put it on Hudson. Whew, barely fit.

So I got us all dressed and in the car at 11:30, wow! So off to Huntsville for appointment at 12:30. I have never been a fan of posed pictures but I want the boys first year panels to be alike so I knew that this was what I had to do. I practically did the photo shoot and I am sure that I was the topic when we left. Sorry Christine! I am posting some of the pictures that we got.

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