Our New Blog

Since there will soon be four of us instead of only three, we are changing up the blog and going from the focus of ME to US.

Check us out at http://www.themarianofamily.blogspot.com

We may post a little bit more here before the baby comes, but once she is here we will probably just post on the family blog. This one will still be there for archives.

Putting Babies to Bed

Look what I did while Mommy was folding the laundry...

...my favorite thing to do these days is put all my babies & animals to bed. Good think I am very good about cleaning up when Mommy tells me to, otherwise there would be blankets & pillows everywhere!

Humming While I Work

I am almost always singing (or humming) these days & sometimes I even make up my own songs. Here I am humming as I fix dinner for my babies in my play kitchen.

Sunny Sunday

We spent all morning outside soaking up the sun. Making silly faces

Catching Up

Mommy is very sorry to have neglected the blog this long.
Here is a quick update on some things we have been up to & we will be much better at posting regular updates again!

On Valentine's Day, Daddy took his two girls to the park & to lunch. It was a sunny day in between rain storms so we definitely needed the fresh air and fun. Katie & I are pretty much best friends. She stayed with us for a long weekend while my Nana & Papa took a little vacation and she got to sleep on my bed. I hug her and give her kisses and am pretty nice to her most of the time. Katie is a very good sport about all the love I give her.

Just being cute...

We've been getting things ready for the arrival of my new baby sister. Daddy painted her room this past weekend and I got to help a little. I was very excited about it as you can see.

Daddy even got brave & let me use the roller a little.

Wish List for Baby Sister

Click here to see our wish list for the New Baby!

Fun with the Twins

My cousins Emma & Ava turn one year old this week. So I got to go to their birthday party this weekend. (Click on their names if you want to see more pictures of their birthday party!)

Here we are in our matching outfits from Grandma Coyle.
Me & Mommy

Being silly!

Testing out one of the baby's presents... a pony!

Wish List for Baby Sister

We don't need too much for the new baby, but since we have been asked many times what we do need, we created a list. Most items below can be clicked on for links.



Crib Bedding
We chose a cute birdie theme for the new babies room :)
This pattern isn't avaliable in stores, but I think JCPenney.com also has it.


Towels & Washcloths




Nursing Cover

Infant Travel Bed
(We know someone who has one of these and thinks it is worth it's weight in gold)

Fisher Price Soothe and Glow Seahorse
(another recommendation from a friend)


Rattles & Hook on toys





Swaddle Me
(loved these for Natalie & only had one)


Clothes Hamper - Pink




Receiving Blankets (big 30x40)



Infant Spoons



Bowls



Baby Clothes Hangers


Pampers Swaddlers Newborn & Size 1

Christmas Part 2

Since we have a big family, we get to spend a couple of days celebrating Christmas. Here we are at Great Grandma & Grandpa's on the day after Christmas for our second major celebration.

Here is me in my Christmas outfit which was very cute but didn't last very long. Here's the whole gang (except my Daddy because he was taking the picture).

Helping Emma & Ava open their presents since they are still new at this :)
"I make the rules..." so appropriate since Mommy wanted me to stay in my Christmas outfit, but I decided to wear this...

Opening my presents.

Taking a break after all that present opening.

Even though I was really tired because I only got a short nap today, I still had enough energy to "play my game." This is the Fisher Price Computer Cool School and let me tell you, it is COOL. Mommy did a lot of research on learning games and this one was supposed to be good. It is because I love it!

You can see this is going to keep me busy for a long time

Christmas Day

I woke up to find a few big presents from Santa waiting for me under the tree. I got a new baby cradle and carrier for my babies... ...and an art easel. You will probably see lots of pictures of me doing this in the near future because I love it so much and they can barely pry me away from it.

I had to put on my princess dress and take a picture with my babies in front of the tree.

Good thing, because when it was time for the group picture in front of the tree, I wasn't in the mood anymore.

But, I was a good sport at dinner that night...

...and this one is especially for Nana & Papa G... Our group picture with our hats. They even got me to wear mine!

Merry Christmas!

Decorating Cookies

Today we decorated cookies for Santa. I really liked adding the sprinkles.
But I think sampling the frosting was my favorite part.

Delloso Farms

We went to see the mile of Christmas lights at Dell Oso farms. They were pretty good. Afterwords we walked around to see what else they had to do there. We found the bouncy pillows and I LOVED it. I laughed so much! Mommy was a good sport and climbed on the pillows and bounced with me. It was a really fun time!

Tubes from Wrapping Paper

...are so much fun!

Before Christmas

Here are several different things we did before Christmas...

I got to play cars with Jonathan at Auntie Corinne's party.
Mommy & I made beaded necklaces with Christmas trees and snowmen.

I was a little sassy when handing out presents.