One Day Adri just decided to walk instead of crawl. Really. She said to heck with crawling!

Adri’s First Birthday

Such a kind older sister to push her little sister around teaching her proper balance

It’s going to be an amazing event!

Check out this video I put together:

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Included in these Pictures:

• Matt and Sean at Jim’s wedding
• Abby and Adri and Grampa and Gramma and VanDeez and Uncle Sean at Christmas
• Abby modeling for O’Neil. She already loves the smell of neoprene. Oh Ya!
• Abby’s first purchase - Peter Pan DVD - She paid for it herself and everyone in the store cheered as she walked out the door
• Easter weekend with the Calverts - Ethnie and Emma Easter Egg Hunting
• Dam tour
• Adri’s First B Day
• Take daughter to Work day (She came to the office with me in the morning and watched Nacho Libre on her portable DVD player)
• Monday Night FHE at the beach resumed with Matt and Megan
• Abby’s first taste of soda
• Abby and Adri loven S’mores
• With Matt and Megan at Disneyland
• Yes, I was working on a beard. Thought it would be funny to show up in Alaska with it. Couldn’t take it. It had to go.
• New sport - Pushing your baby stroller (with babies in it) and seeing how far it will go in an empty parking lot. The kids love it
• Heidi and I at the Petersen Automotive Museum the for Cure Duchenne’s Celebrity Poker Tournament. The Batmobile was cool. That’s Joel Murray (brother of Bill Murray) next to me and Heidi. He did the auction and we raised a lot of money that night.
• Me climbing Mt. Baldy (elevation 10,064 ft). Training for our Mt. Rainier climd to raise money for Cure Duchenne
• Pop Pop visit. Good times
• Heidi and I went back to Mt. Baldy together. She’s training for a Triatholon. The clouds moved in and it was cold! 37 degrees!!!

That’s all for now. Enjoy!

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UPDATE ON ADRI

-She will be a 1 yr old in two weeks I can’t believe it! She is an exceptionally smart little girl (Isn’t that what we all say about our own kids?)
-At 9 mos. She had her first word “DADA” and now before her first Bday she says: Mama, ding dong, thank you, nana, doggy and maybe a few more I can’t think of right now. She will also just repeat several sounds after me. She has the first part of her sisters name “AAA”
-She claps, blows kisses, and waves
-She thinks her head is called “Where is” because if you say “where is (anything)” she always touches her head.
-Unfortunately or fortunately she has been slower with her gross motor skills than she has been with her speech and fine motor. She didn’t crawl until 10 mos. and walking looks a bit far away also.
-Now she is pulling up onto everything and walking along furniture but is no where near alone walking.
-She is of course a “Joy” and a very easy baby. She already listens to me better than another small person in this house.

UPDATE ON ABBY

-Loves her new house where she has a front and back yard to play in.
-She almost loves outside as much as TV (her first love PBS and NOGGIN)
-She talks up a storm and gets some of her language from TV like: “Whats going to work? Team work”, “This is SERIOUS”(Ming ming Wonder Pets), and “I sneeze in my arm like Sid the Science Kid”
-The other day she told me that moms b__bs are like Arthur’s moms b__bs.  Scary!
-She loves going to nursery at church.
-She has her own mind. Does not like doing what we tell her to do even if its something fun. She does things her own way and on her own time. Which I guess will be better down the line with peer pressure. “No I don’t want to smoke that cigarette!
-She loves playing with her little Sis and is very protective of her. She also shouts it to the world every time Adri stands now “mom look Adri is standing! No mom you have to look”
-She loves the park and the beach. She will still play in the water no matter the temperature.
-She is lots of fun to be around and makes us laugh everyday

Last night we played Hide-and-Go-Seek for FHE. Good times.

Life is good.

Not till October?

Oh man!

I promise you’ll have a renewed conviction to be a better person…

A brief life lesson from one of my personal Hero’s.

-Sean

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You may also recognize this song from a scene from a very funny movie. In fact, it is arguably one of the funniest scenes of any movie ever made.

1 Million points to the person who can guess which scene and which movie. Oh, and we’ll also give you worldwide fame, at least aboard the Marshall Family Rocketship!

Drumroll……….

“Dada”

Yep. Maybe it’s easy to say. Maybe it sounds like other things. Or maybe Dad is just one cool guy. But Adrianna says Dada now and has associated it with me. She says it when I enter the room and all that so we know it’s actually a word and not just a cute noise.

Pretty cool eh?