"I'm Ba-ack!"

So Mark is back in full force since he was sick a couple of weeks ago. He has all of his energy back and definitly has his appetite back. Now if his achey tooth would just come in he would be feeling 100%. Anyway he and Daddy were having a grand ol' time at bath time the other night. I'm not sure who got more wet!

Isn't he such a ham?

And last but not least the 12 month pic on his bear rug! It took two of us to get this pic. One to throw him on the rug and the other to immediately snap the picture!

Happy, happy birthday baby

Thats right! Mark Thomas turns one year old tommorrow and we had a little birthday celebration yesterday. I was so worried he wouldn't nap well or be cranky for his big party but he did great. In fact I had to wake him up from his nap 10 minutes before his guests arrived in order to feed him some lunch. We can't have cake on an empty stomach! Anyway his first birthday party theme was trains as he LOVES choo choo trains. His invitation said things like "all aboard" and "meet at Mark's train station" His cake, as you can see below, went right along with the theme.

So the next several pics are the sequence of the cake destroying process! Mark had his own little smash cake that seemed pretty small until you realized that he ate the ENTIRE thing! I mean, holy cow. I got a lot of calls today asking how Mark's tummy did after he ate all of his cake! So he just touched the top of his cake while we sang happy birthday to him. Next he leaned forward to see if he could just take a bite out of it. But he realized he wouldn't reach so that's when he just picked it up and brought the little cake to his mouth!! Too funny!


We all started serving and eating our own cake and ice cream and Mark just went on his happy little way eating his entire cake! He even two-fisted it for awhile. And then he was really happy!



He actually wasn't too hyped up after all of the sugar. He didn't take another nap that day which isn't all that unusual but he didn't eat dinner, which is unusual. And other than a few extra poopy diapers, I don't think the cake bothered him too much.

Other breaking news in Mark world is that he thinks he can walk. He actually starts out on every little venture trying to walk and then once he falls he just crawls the rest of the way because it is so much faster than his little "drunk" walking. I will try to post a video soon.

Tis the Season

Well we have been sicker than dogs around here lately, and to that I say "tis the season" because the flu and RSV and a nasty stomach virus are all running rampant right now. Mark went to ONE day, yes just one day, of daycare and came home with a stomach virus. He was what we affectionately call, "Chester Poopy Pants" for 8 days and boy was he miserable. Well at the same time I had a cold which I passed on to him by letting him drink out of my glass because I was desperate to get any sort of fluids down him. So, he got my cold. Only it just so happened to be RSV and his breathing and coughing even had me worried for a little bit. But he is much better now. Still coughing a little, but now he is eating and drinking and playing and smiling...which there was none of for a week. Now John and I just have some sinus thing going on but I think we are all going to pull through! Mark has a new baby-sitter now (we just aren't ready for daycare) and hopefully he will actually get to spend some time with her next week if he is healthy! The picture above was taken yesterday when he finally decided he was well enough to smile! He's my sweet pea.

Have I mentionned that we are moving? And again I say "tis the season" because we know quite a few people who are moving these days. We had been looking for some land to buy and build on at a later date when we saw some nice houses and then the interest rates dropped. So we thought, well lets just see if our house will sell and then we'll look at houses. Then our house sold super-fast! So we're moving in the middle of February. We've been busy packing up the house and as you can see Mark enjoys helping.

Mr. Kisses

Here is a cute little clip of Mark and Papa at my grandparents for christmas. There were 6 little ones there so there is a lot of background noise. But you can still tell Mark is just hamming it up and giving Papa his open mouth wet kisses!