Thursday, June 28, 2012
Quote of the Day
Marlo was exhausted at bedtime the other night. After the last book, when she usually begins to employ her night time delay tactics ("I need my bear" "I need water" etc.), she crawled over to her pillow and said "I need to go sleep. Aday (today) too many ladies, too many boys and too many chickens." she was snoring within 10 minutes.
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I was loading up to go to work and Marlo noticed the breast pump bag.
Marlo- What that Mommy?
Mommy- It's a pump so that I can get baby Louis milk while he's at school.
Marlo- You bring it for show and tell Mommy?
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Marlo (guitar in hand)- I'm going to play a song called Twinkle Twinkle Little Star How I Wonder What You are up above the World so High Like a Diamond in the Sky. (Starts playing guitar and singing the song. Pretty long title for such a short song.)
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I was loading up to go to work and Marlo noticed the breast pump bag.
Marlo- What that Mommy?
Mommy- It's a pump so that I can get baby Louis milk while he's at school.
Marlo- You bring it for show and tell Mommy?
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Marlo (guitar in hand)- I'm going to play a song called Twinkle Twinkle Little Star How I Wonder What You are up above the World so High Like a Diamond in the Sky. (Starts playing guitar and singing the song. Pretty long title for such a short song.)
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Wednesday, June 6, 2012
Wednesday, May 30, 2012
Quote of the Day
Marlo was playing her guitar.
Mommy- What's the name of your band?
Marlo- The Show.
Mommy- Marlo and The Show?
Marlo- Marlo and The Big Show!
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Over a month ago we went to my cousin Josh's wedding. During the festivities Josh serenaded his lovely wife Julie with a live performance. Ever since then Marlo has been obsessively watching videos of Josh's performance of Elton John's "Your Song" and "La bamba". She often says "I like Josh" or "I miss Josh"- he really made an impression on her. Recently, she picked up her guitar (which we had to get a new strap for so that it was a real strap like Josh's guitar strap) and said "I'm working on a song for Josh." She also makes Sean and I reenact the serenade. Someone has to play guitar and someone has to slow dance with her or a stuffed animal (Josh and Julie danced after the serenade). She didn't miss a single detail- she even lines our dining room chairs up in a row just like they had the chairs on the stage at the party. I am really trying to get her rendition of "Your Song" on video. She calls it "The Oh My Song" but already has the first phrase of lyrics down. It's pretty cute.
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Mommy- What's the name of your band?
Marlo- The Show.
Mommy- Marlo and The Show?
Marlo- Marlo and The Big Show!
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Over a month ago we went to my cousin Josh's wedding. During the festivities Josh serenaded his lovely wife Julie with a live performance. Ever since then Marlo has been obsessively watching videos of Josh's performance of Elton John's "Your Song" and "La bamba". She often says "I like Josh" or "I miss Josh"- he really made an impression on her. Recently, she picked up her guitar (which we had to get a new strap for so that it was a real strap like Josh's guitar strap) and said "I'm working on a song for Josh." She also makes Sean and I reenact the serenade. Someone has to play guitar and someone has to slow dance with her or a stuffed animal (Josh and Julie danced after the serenade). She didn't miss a single detail- she even lines our dining room chairs up in a row just like they had the chairs on the stage at the party. I am really trying to get her rendition of "Your Song" on video. She calls it "The Oh My Song" but already has the first phrase of lyrics down. It's pretty cute.
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Tuesday, May 29, 2012
Murphy's Law Weekend
While many of you celebrated Memorial Day weekend, the Guess family celebrated Murphy's Law weekend.
Murphy's Law reads:
1. If the cousins that your 2 year old has been begging to see decide to stop by for a visit the 2 year old will be attacked by a nasty stomach virus and proceed to vomit all over her mom. Thus cutting the visit very short. She will then continue to vomit, or "spit up" as she calls it, at least more times.
2. If the 5 month old finally decides to start sleeping through the night, Mommy will get hit with the previous mentioned stomach virus and be up ALL night "spitting up." No sleep for Mommy. Ever.
3. If your car is in the shop, and has been for 2 weeks, the technician who is assigned to work on it will have a loss in his family and delay your repairs even further. I know it's minor compared to a loss in the family, but we just want our car back and have been going around circles about it for too long.
4. If Daddy is excited to do a little cooking (which he hasn't had time to do lately) and finds a special recipe to use, you will not have the ingredients. Despite 3 trips to the grocery store in 3 days.
This was the basic trend of the weekend, although I have to admit that we also had some fun too. Saturday we played at the park (before the virus hit Marlo). Sunday we met the Galindo family at Cherrywood coffee house for a Groundworks Music Orchestra show that was great. It's the last one of the season. In the afternoon we met up with the Tierney family and Marlo got to run around with Knox. Knox has moved up to the next classroom at school and both Marlo and Knox are taking it pretty hard. They miss each other so much. They ran around, rode in the wagon, played in the splash pad, blew bubbles, ate Popsicles, played soccer and had a blast. I've never seen Marlo play so well with another little kid. Knox's parents said the same thing. We'll be seeing them more!
Murphy's Law reads:
1. If the cousins that your 2 year old has been begging to see decide to stop by for a visit the 2 year old will be attacked by a nasty stomach virus and proceed to vomit all over her mom. Thus cutting the visit very short. She will then continue to vomit, or "spit up" as she calls it, at least more times.
2. If the 5 month old finally decides to start sleeping through the night, Mommy will get hit with the previous mentioned stomach virus and be up ALL night "spitting up." No sleep for Mommy. Ever.
3. If your car is in the shop, and has been for 2 weeks, the technician who is assigned to work on it will have a loss in his family and delay your repairs even further. I know it's minor compared to a loss in the family, but we just want our car back and have been going around circles about it for too long.
4. If Daddy is excited to do a little cooking (which he hasn't had time to do lately) and finds a special recipe to use, you will not have the ingredients. Despite 3 trips to the grocery store in 3 days.
This was the basic trend of the weekend, although I have to admit that we also had some fun too. Saturday we played at the park (before the virus hit Marlo). Sunday we met the Galindo family at Cherrywood coffee house for a Groundworks Music Orchestra show that was great. It's the last one of the season. In the afternoon we met up with the Tierney family and Marlo got to run around with Knox. Knox has moved up to the next classroom at school and both Marlo and Knox are taking it pretty hard. They miss each other so much. They ran around, rode in the wagon, played in the splash pad, blew bubbles, ate Popsicles, played soccer and had a blast. I've never seen Marlo play so well with another little kid. Knox's parents said the same thing. We'll be seeing them more!
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| I did manage to get a craft project in. I made the kids new sunhats. |
Sunday, May 20, 2012
Weekend Fun
We had a fun weekend! Marlo and I had a girls morning out on Saturday. We visited the museum, had an ice cream sandwich at Royal Blue Grocery, and watch welders work on a construction project downtown.
On Sunday we went back downtown to check out Viva Street Festival (http://www.vivastreetsaustin.org/). Marlo did kids yoga under a big oak tree. We enjoyed the happenings but definitely decided it will be more fun next year when we can ride bikes. The festival covered a 2 miles stretch of 6th street and by the end of it we were pretty exhausted from walking in the sun. I managed to get sunscreen on the kids but not myself :(
On Sunday we went back downtown to check out Viva Street Festival (http://www.vivastreetsaustin.org/). Marlo did kids yoga under a big oak tree. We enjoyed the happenings but definitely decided it will be more fun next year when we can ride bikes. The festival covered a 2 miles stretch of 6th street and by the end of it we were pretty exhausted from walking in the sun. I managed to get sunscreen on the kids but not myself :(
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| Marlo on the Red Swing Project swing that's currently at the Museum. Check out their website- Its a very cool project. http://www.redswingproject.org/ |
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| Tiny Tails Petting Zoo was the main attraction at the Museum. |
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| Bunnies, Bunnies, Bunnies. She also held a baby chicken and... |
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| A big lizard. I was proud of her, I certainly didn't want to touch it. |
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| This is her snake pose- it's a nice snake. |
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| Hiding Turtle |
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| Tree Pose (Assisted) |
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| Shavasana. |
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