Liam is 7 months old!

I'm posting late!!  Liam turned 7 months on June 4th.  I can't believe it is going by so fast!

-I don't have Liam's weight this month :-(

-He is still an awesome sleeper.  He goes to bed between 6-7pm and sleeps until the same time the next morning!

-Not only has he mastered army crawling.  He is now a full-on real crawler!!!  YAY LIAM!

-He's also learned to sit himself up from a crawling position.  I thought maybe because he was such a big boy he would have trouble, but he proved me wrong!

- He has such a weird eating pattern recently.  He eats 7oz at his morning feeding.  Then between 10:30-11am he eats fruit, cereal and 3-5oz.  Then he eats again between 2-3pm and he will eat veggies, cereal and a 3-5 oz bottle.  And between 5:30-6pm he eats a 7oz bottle and fruit.  Sometimes he will have pear yogurt for a snack and of course water throughout the day.

-He now eats apples/prunes, prunes, apples/bananas/pears, apples/vanilla/mixed grain, pears, squash, sweet potatoes, carrots, peas, and green beans.  But he doesn't like green beans. He didn't like peas at first either, but now he does.  He's also tried little puffy gerber snacks.  He didn't like the sweet potato flavor, but he likes the banana ones!

-He's a stroller boy these days.  We just use the umbrella stroller whenever we run errands.  It's so much easier than carrying the big guy.  

-He has this new thing where he talks with his mouth shut.  It sounds so funny! 

-He is such a sister's boy!  He LOVES Syd so much.  She can make him laugh all the time.  She can get him to stop crying anytime.  I'm so happy they love each other so much!

-He's obsessed with remote controls!  If he sees one, he's there in .5 seconds!

-He still takes 2 naps a day.  He naps around 12pm between 30 minutes to an hour.  And he naps around 4 for about the same amount of time.  Sometimes in his crib, and sometimes he falls asleep on me in the big chair and I put him in his pack and play. 

-He is wearing 18-24 month, 2t clothes as well as 3t and 4t jammies.  Love my chubby bubby.

-He wears a size 5 diaper!!!  AHHH!  He better potty train early or he'll be squeezing in those diapers!

-He still is a binkie baby.  For now that's fine.  Hopefully we can break him of it when we need to!

-His hair is getting SO LONG!!!!!  He has WAY more hair than Sydni had when she was 1!

- We're still working on the sippy cup and him holding it and a bottle!

-He loves spending time outside.

- He is starting to stand up!!!!!!

- No shots this month!

Oh the things I have running through my head

First of all let me just say....when am I going to find a freaking job?!??!  I have been job searching FOREVER.  And I've applied for probably 50 teaching positions and I haven't even gotten an interview.  I must have the worst resume in the world.  Did I mention that this is at the front of my mind everyday!?  Luckily, I don't need a job financially for our family right now, but it would be nice to get one....I'd like the extra money, I'd like to put my degree to use, and it would be nice to be paying for my student loans for a reason!!  So...anyways....I just applied for a job that I REALLY want....so shoot your nice thoughts this way and let's hope that I at least get an interview.

Second...my baby big girl is.....well...a big girl!!!!!!!!!!!!  Tomorrow is her last day of Kindergarten.  Her "graduation" was yesterday and she was also recognized for having outstanding character and being a great student and friend to her classmates.  Her class voted, and she won!  There was only one student from each class that got the recognition.  I'm one proud momma.  Let's just stay...those statistics can eat it because this teen mom (and teen dad) did an AMAZING job raising an AMAZING daughter.  So boo!  Yes, I was patting my self on the back and rightly so I think.

Next....my other baby is growing up so fast!!  He'll be 7 months this week!!!  I can't even wrap my brain around it.  I feel like it was yesterday that I was trying to keep him in as long as possible!  Guess that means I'll be ready for #3 in a few years!  HA!  We'll see!!

I've also been thinking about next weekend.  Jimmy and I will be celebrating our 6th Wedding Anniversary...but not in a typical way.  Next weekend is also my grandparents joint memorial service in Iowa, where they will have a burial service....on my wedding anniversary (June 11).  It's a little weird, because I want to be excited for that day, but I'll also be so sad, too.  Whenever I think about going to Iowa, I'm like "Oh yay!  I get to see Grandma and Grandpa!  They'll be so excited to see the kids!"  And then I'm like....oh wait...  Ugh.  Such a weird feeling.

Well.  I think that will catch everyone up on my thoughts lately.  I will be posting again soon for Liam's 7 month!!

It seems as though I've been MIA

Whoa.  I feel like I haven't blogged in weeks.  OH WAIT.  I haven't.

Let's see.  What's been up with the Marshalls.  Ummmm I got sick.  Yuck.  Sydni got sick.  Yuckier.  My eye exploded...OH NO WAIT I'm just a moron.  I put the wrong contacts in the wrong eye.  Wow.  What a moment that was for me.  AND I went to the eye dr so that I could admit that and get a new prescription. Embarrassing?  Absolutely.  So that would be a total of $195 in co-pays in one week.  OMG.

Oh, and included in those dr. visits was my trip to the hepatologist.  Did I mention he is the best?  Like seriously.  He worked at the NIH, is the head of the research dept at SLU, is the EXPERT in chronic hep b, knows everything about anything to do with it (which he should) and is top-dog awesome.  Did I mention he's super nice, too and listens to everything I say and doesn't blow it off as babbling?


Anyways, that visit was good my hep b dna is up (not the best news, but it wasn't high), but my liver enzymes were even better than last month (the most important to detect liver damage), so that was good news.  Now instead of going to get blood work every month, I go whenever I do my clinical research stuff.  
FYI- I'm doing clinical research stuff.  That just means that I signed up to give them my blood for future research.  A fool would say no, I mean it will either help me or someone like me, so why not??  So I will go back in 3 months, and then every 6 months after that unless I have a super flare up in my dna level.

Ummm.  OH!  Sydni's dance recital is TOMORROW.  I can't wait!!  Good thing she is fever free!!  Here is her dance picture.

She got a certificate from her dance teacher for "pretty performer" and after class her teacher asked me if she was taking dance again next year because if she wasn't she needed to because she's a natural and will grow up to be an amazing dancer because it's so natural to her.  AWWWW.  Super mom moment.  I was  like, "OF COURSE!!!!!"

Big Li is being such a good boy!!!  Here's a picture of him just for fun!!  

Also, totally random, I've been obsessing with Crackle/Shatter fingernail polish.  I have found that OPI is way better than the Sally Hansen kind for you nail ladies out there.  

Thanks for catching up!!!!!

He's 6 months old! That's half of a year! OMG!

Actually, he's 6 months and 6 days, but who's counting? 

-Liam weighs 20lbs8oz and he's 29 inches long. O.M.G.  He is the same size that Sydni was when she was 1.  If he stays on the same growth pattern, when he's 1, he'll be the same size as her when she was 2.  Monster baby!

-He is still sleeping 10-12 hours a night.  After being sick he decided he was going to go through a mini growth spurt and wake up at 3:30am to eat.  Thank goodness that's over with!

-He's a rolling over fool.  He's now figured out how to roll all around in his crib while he's sleeping.  We find him in the funniest positions!

- He is still eating 7 oz at each feeding.  He eats cereal 3 times a day and fruits twice a day.  He now eats 2.5oz of fruit twice a day. and cereal twice a day. He still is only eating apples and pears since bananas hinder his ability to go to the bathroom!  He just switched to mixed grain cereal.  He had his first veggie today!!  Sweet Potatoes!!  He ate them like he'd had them a million times already!

-He is riding around comfortably in his Moby.  He loves it and it's comfortable for me, too!

-He is "talking" all the time!  

-He loves looking at himself in the mirror.  He starts smiling and laughing and then he throws his head in the other direction like he's embarrassed!

- He's such a happy baby.  He now laughs when we laugh, which is hilarious because it's just continuous because we laugh because he laughs, too!

-He's definitely not going to take after his sister.  If he sees it, it's his.  Anything he sees goes in his mouth and anything he sees he has to touch.  Oh joy!

- He's still obsessed with his feet!

-He still takes 2 naps a day.  His favorite place to nap is still on our bed with my body boppy pillow has the cushion, but I am in the process of trying to get him to nap in his crib.  It takes him a while to fall asleep and then he will only sleep for an hour if that.  

-He army crawls all around!  He gets where he wants to be and that makes him one happy guy!

-He is rocking back and forth on his hands and knees, so the full on crawl will be happening very soon!

-He is still wearing 18-24 month clothes. These jammies are 3t!!!! 

-He wears a size 4 diaper, but I did buy a box of 5's for when the 4's run out!

-He still chews his fingers CONSTANTLY.  If he isn't doing that, normally a binkie is in his mouth.

- He's doing great at learning how to sit up!  He now is attempting to sit without using his hands to support him.

- He hip sits all the time.  He looks like he's posing!!

-He wears his hair like this most of the time because he's a rockstar.

- He's learning how to use a sippy cup.  He get so excited when we give it to him!

-He loves spending time outside.

- He went on the swing at the park for the first time and he loved it!!!!

- 4 shots this month, but he doesn't seem as crabby this time! :-)

Happy Easter!

This is a quicky...so HAPPY EASTER!!!!  Hope everyone is having a great day!!

Fabulous Fridays

Well lets start off by stating that IT IS FRIDAY!  What isn't fabulous about that???


My new furniture comes in TWO DAYS.  I can't wait.  I'm seriously counting down the days.  Official dork.  I'll be posting a blog about it after it arrives and I'll do a before and after, so you can see what a hot mess my living room was before.  So look for it and check it out!!


Easter egg hunt tomorrow....pending weather.  Can't wait!  Sydni LOVES it.

Jimmy got paid today.  Who doesn't love a little money in the bank?  I do!!!!

Happy Friday!

Fabulous Fridays

I got my Thiry-One Order Today!  I love it, and if I had more money I'd buy everything!!

Finally some warm weather.  It might not seem like much, but it sure does make the day better.

A happy baby.  Seriously.  A crabby baby makes things not so fabulous.

My house is CLEAN.  It's the small things in life that make me so happy.  With a sick baby last week, that is a huge accomplishment and it makes me feel so much more relaxed.

Fabulous Week!