Marlee: Dancing & Talking

Marlee is just so dang cute!  I love it when she masters an new skill.  It makes me think she is the smartest and cutest kid in the whole world.  Ha, Ha!  I'm sure all parents think that about their children, right?! 


One fun thing Marlee is doing is dancing!  She will sway back and forth and do this little jump/squat thing.  She also starts dancing whenever there is music.  My favorite was when she started dancing in Bath & Body at the mall. The stores always play their music loud and she just busted out right there :) All the people passing by were smiling and getting a kick out of it too!

Another thing Marlee is doing is talking.  She will jabber so seriously that it seems like I should know what she is talking about.  Other times she starts laughing after she has finished talking.  It's like she just told a funny joke :) It's hard to get her talking on video because she gets distracted by the camera.  This is the best one I've been able to get so far. 

Mother's Day Flowers

            For Mother's day Marlee and Sam (mostly Sam) gave me a planter box for our balcony.  They also told me I could go pick out whatever flowers I wanted.  This is how it all turned out.  

 I chose two Petunias and two Impaitens.  Petunias because the last one I had was brought back from the brink of death several times and still grew and blossomed many times over.  Impatiens because I just thought they were pretty.  

 Top view.  So far they are doing well.  A few of the flowers have been torn up from the high winds we have been getting.  Overall though they look healthy and happy.  

Marlee has lots of fun playing in the dirt.  I let her help me fill up the flower box and then she played in the dirt for a while before I put the flowers in.  She wanted to keep going after they were in too!  She shows gardening potential.  I'm sure its the genes she gets from her Grandpas!

 Here are a few shots of Marlee helping me plant and water the new flowers!