Costume Fun

Yesterday we made our way to the next Halloween Bash.  I think Halloween is shaping up to be Marlow's favorite holiday!  My little leopard was such a little cutie, she won a little best costume prize.

Teeth

Last weekend Marlow was unusually cranky for her grandparents visit.  I couldn't figure out what was going on with all her whining.  She's not much of a crier but the whining led me to think she was uncomfortable with something so I took a look in her mouth and there was a translucent little spot on her lower gums.  My mom confessed she felt around and thought she felt a tooth!

Sure enough... a few days later she has 2!!

Happy Marloween!

We've been on the go go go... Marlow had her first visit to the zoo with Daddy and I'm not sure who was more excited, her or her Dad!  We also spent some time visiting some local pumpkin patches and of course we hosted our very first costume party playdate with fun crafts.

I couldn't believe Marlow let me put this costume on her!

 Easy playdate snack of powdered donuts and green m&m's with decorator gel... so easy!

Upside down footprints made great little ghosts and were easy crafts for the kiddos! 

7 months!

I can't believe our little girl is growing so fast!

Marlow on a playdate with Baby Vivien! 

September Wrap Up

My sporadic blogging habit has got to stop!!  Forgive me for the enormous post ahead...

 

I recently spent nearly 5 hours cataloging all of my photos... ALL OF THEM!!  And if you're a stay at home mom, 5 solid hours is like a sparkly unicorn.  5 solid hours meant 2am bedtime. 

It's unbelieveable how many photos I have.  I think I have one of Marlow for every single day of her life.

I absolutely must become a regular blogger again so I can at least share all the joy!

For the sake of catching up... here's September in a nutshell.

Got a jumper to play with!

Had a playdate with cousin Noah

We tried on some costume possiblities.  Thank you Auntie Tammy for my little china doll ;).  Not sure Marlow was so thrilled, though.  Forgive the camera phone quality but I had to get a picture quick!  We do have a kitty cat back up costume. 

I keep saying I don't want Marlow to be like her neurotic momma.... My birthday was this month and I had 3 backup outfits for our night out.  I kept saying I don't want Marlow to be like that!!  But I realized we have 3 costumes for her just in case... at least she has 3 Halloween parties to attend, right?

Marlow continues to demonstrate her new big girl abilites to feed herself and attempt to pull up on furniture.  My overachiever thinks she can just skip over crawling or at least that's what I'm telling myself so that I don't become neurotic about milestones.

We spent some time with the great granparents.  Marlow's so lucky to have them!

Playtime!

Learned to roll the ball.

Marlow wore my old baptism dress for her special day.

Of course she slept through her big party with family, friends, food, and flowers!  The food was so tasty that everyone beat me to it before I could snap a photo...but enjoy the flowers!

 And of course our park playdates where Marlow discovered the bright green grass.

Playdate at the Park with Daddy

Daddy came home early the other day.  He said the weather was just too nice to be at work so we went on a family playdate to the park!

 Marlow loves reading magazines just like her momma!