Monday, November 21, 2011

8 Months!

Happy 8 months to Mark James! We love our little guy more than you can imagine, but there are a few things that make us love him even more each day, if that is possible (equally so with Isabelle, but I will get to that in another post).

 First, if you are ever having a bad, difficult, or sad day you MUST go to Mark. It takes less than 5 seconds to become happy again. He will give you a huge smile, his big eyes will sparkle, and you will surely get a slobbery kiss on the face. We call it a kiss. It's more of a face grab with a smear of slobber. Nevertheless, it makes you laugh and wonder how he could possibly always be so happy. (Even at 2 in the morning when I'm at wits end trying to get him to stay asleep).
Second, if you are missing anything smaller than the size of a penny, no worries. Mark will find it, grab it, and put it in a very safe place. His mouth.

Third, Mark loves to crawl into small places which is really fun for him until he gets stuck and can't find his way out. This requires mom or dad to crawl under these small places for the rescue, which he finds amusing.

He loves to help himself to any toy that looks fun and doesn't think twice about it disappearing when Isabelle grabs it from his hand. He'll just look at her like, "fine, take it," and moves on to the next toy, with this happening again and again until Isabelle finally finds something that he can have at which point he doesn't really want to play this game anymore and crawls off to new and better adventures.

If you need your floors cleaned, Mark will do it for free. He drools enough to clean up any spots. Just some drool, a quick crawl over it to wipe it up, and your floors look like new again. We've got it made between Mark and Sierra. We my as well just get rid of the vacuum and the mop.

Don't ever try to go to the bathroom, to the kitchen for water or food, or anywhere that will leave you out of sight for longer than 1 second. He will protest.

Hold him and life couldn't be better. He is happy, you are happy, everyone is happy!! Love you Mark James!

1 comment:

The O'Reillys said...

Mark looks so much bigger and his hair is growing a lot! I love the part about how be doesn't mind when Belle takes something from him. That's exactly how Belle was with George! She never once minded when he would take something from her... Which was pretty much constant :)