The Prayers of a Toddler

Part of our bed time routine is to pray together, after a story... or a few stories that is. Either way we love this part of our evening, mostly because Marin loves praying and takes it really REALLY seriously. SO I wanted to share tonight's prayer with you all.

Mommy: Marin are you ready to pray?
Marin: Pay Parker--sick, healfey, safe; Mama--safe; Doddy--safe; Papa John--safe; Parker--safe play outside; Doddy--safe; food good; Baby Merebeth--AMEN!

She often prays for her friends and family, but tonight she added a dinner prayer to all her safe requests :)

Autumn Fun

We love Autumn in Florida, we really like it that about 9 months of the year feel like Spring or Autumn and then the rest is Summer. Here are some family photos of our little Autumn adventures.

For starters just because you think a toddler is quiet does not mean they are sleeping! Marin is such a girl, she just loves any kind of cosmetic!

Cuddling on a cool Fall morning with daddy.

Cedar Key Seafood Festival



Marin was invited to a Halloween themed birthday party for her little friend Lulu. The kids could come in costume if they wanted and so Marin went as some sort of a garden pixie. After lots of fun, sugar, petting baby goats, jumping on the trampoline, and other fun birthday party events, she was beat, and didn't even make it a mile before she was asleep. Notice all the paint on her shirt, this is from painting pumpkins.

Fall Festival at our church, good times!

We hope you all are having a wonderful Autumn too! We'll post some pictures of Halloween soon!

What's Your Avatar?

I was looking at a friend's blog (hey Robin) and she had done an avatar of her husband and herself. Well today I am home trying to rest after having a wisdom tooth extracted this morning, and taking some meds that might be altering my state of mind. But all that put aside, you all should do this thing its so fun. This is what my family looks like. Now keep in mind that Marin is like 19 so its a bit futuristic for her. But it makes Todd and I look years younger
Marin

Todd

Holli

What fun!

Toddler Art Party

Today we hosted a little art party for Marin. She and her buddies of course had a wonderful time. I'll let the pictures speak for themselves :)

Making noodle necklaces

Elliot and Marin on the parachute





Paint walking


Paint falling, it was very slippery

Marin and Hazel making cupcakes


Chalk drawing



Marin is cleaning the paint off herself and Lulu is giving her moral support :)

Words From A Toddler Part 2

I noticed a few more funny Marin words today and wanted to add them to the last post. One week from today Marin will be TWO! Crazy!

Marin's Dictionary:

yikedis = I like this

peesehelp = please help

doddy make dat = daddy made that

doddy makedis = daddy made this

doddy wookin' = daddy's working

*we have noticed that Marin does not believe in ending words with "ing" but "in' " e.g. swimmin' walkin' workin' talkin' cleanin' playin' doin' climbin' jumpin'. These are just to name a few :)

Favorite Words From A Toddler

As Marin approaches TWO we are encountering many new phrases and words or word combination's. Here are just a few:

Yip-kiss = lipstick or chapstick

Roller = roll over

Pinkin = penguin

April = oapmeal

back-kak = backpack

Poop wimming = hey look my poop is swimming in the toilet

ee-oo's wimming white mullk = cheerio's swimming in while milk

bieto baby = swaddling a baby a.k.a burrito

bieto Mae Mae = Marin is burrito-ed

see yies = see this

debble hole = devils hole (Its a sink hole in town)

lellow kool bus = yellow school bus

doddy = daddy

This is our little hippie child wearing her baby to the mail box.

Rolling Rascals

Marin is taking her first gymnastics class, and she loves it! Here she is learning to gallop.
The Ball Pit

Walking up the wedge
Balance beam, one of her favorites. I'm sure there will be more posts with pictures of the rolling rascals class.

Where is she?

Last week Marin and I (Holli) were home working around the house. I started washing the dishes and after a while I realized that Marin had been quiet for too long so I rushed out of the kitchen to see what kind of mischievous deeds my toddler was up to and this is what I found:


ahhh the joys of lazy Summer days, reading half naked in bed.

Playing the Piano

Marin's cousin Nathanael (and his parents) came for a visit. We took them by Todd's office and the kids found the piano. Marin is singing her heart out... at least it looks that way!

Playing Dress Up

Marin's best buddy came over a few days ago and they got out the dress up cloths. The boots are always a popular accessory.

Marin decided to go with the grass skirt. This is her new trick, she can now stack nesting boxes!

Eco Babies Wear Green

Here's a great book and I think the whole series is probably really cute. We just got this book for a friend who is having a baby, and is of course a hippie parent and will love it.

Eco Babies Wear Green


I think the foodie one looks quite funny.

Happy Birthday America

Marin and Todd picked up a big surprise while out one day. This is Marin's new water toy. We all love it.
Hey Mom I'm on a "big turtle!"
Mommy and Marin floating along.
Mairn learning to swim. This is her coming out of the water. She's very brave but not very good at floating yet.
Happy Birthday America! Marin and Parker went to their Thursday morning story time and Mrs. Wilma gave them these water bottle noise makers and pinwheel headbands. Then later in the day Marin and Parker did a paint project--see the painting behind her on the wall. This was done by dipping or dunking little toy balls into paint and then throwing them onto the paper.
This is how Marin smiles when we say "Marin smile for the picture"
and then this is how she protests smiling.


Later in the evening of the 4th we went to see fireworks in a near by town. It was a lot of fun, however Marin decided she really wanted to go home.