Marley Stories: August

Here's another round of silly Marley stories from the past month...

At cousin Jackson's birthday party, Marley walked over to the table cloth that had birthday cakes on it, and tried to blow out the candles. 

After her cousins party, and seeing an episode of Word World where they made a birthday cake, Marley has become obsessed with birthdays. She likes to carry things over to me and say, "Happy Birthday Mommy!" and then blow out imaginary candles. 

And today I caught her singing Happy Birthday while sitting in the high chair during breakfast. When I asked her who's birthday it was she didn't answer, so I said "Is it Nathan's birthday?" (Because his birthday was just a few days earlier) and She said: "No. Maybe Papa's...?" 

Marley runs around our living room a lot. The other day I caught her running over to our little nook by the front door, where she then leaned against the wall, let out a big sigh, and said: "Whew! That was close!" (She then did the same thing again about 3 more times.)

**^Edit: Like a week later she also said this while I was reading her a book, and almost dropped it on the floor.**

We were reading her ABC book and when we got to the page where "H is for House" she pretended to knock on the door. I asked her who was at the door and she replied, "EVIE!" with a big grin. (Evie is her cousin, and she is ALWAYS the one who is at the door now, when Marley is pretending.)

Every week Marley and I watch "So You Think You Can Dance" or also known as "The Dancin' Show" to Marley. She dances all around the living room during while we watch. And has gotten really good at "Shaking her booty" as we call it. 

Marley knows she is not really supposed to play in Kenzie's saucer toy. She's not hurting anything, but it drives me crazy because she will climb in, but not be able to get out. So the other day when she climbed in the toy, I told her she had to get herself out. After ignoring her for awhile, she finally got out and ran around the room shouting, "I'm Free!!!" 

The other day I noticed Marley stretching to reach her water cup on the floor. She grabbed her cup and said, "Thank you hand!" Followed with, "You're welcome!" What?!? Silly kid.  

While Marley was eating breakfast we were talking about parts of her face. I taught her words like chin, cheeks, and forehead. Later that night she came up to me, pointed to her cheeks and called them "chickens."

A lot of days, I am the sole person Marley interacts with. As a result, she thinks "Thank You Mommy" is what you say to ANY person who helps you. We're working on that... 

We were playing with letters from an alphabet puzzle, and I got Marley to read the words "cat" and "box." I was feeling pretty excited, until I tried to get her to read the word "zip." She went, "Zuh...iiii...pppp..." and then exclaimed: "OSTRICH!" Oh well, we're still proud of our little reader.

During sacrament meeting a cute little baby in our ward was making noise. At one point he screamed really loud, and made the sound, "BAAAAA!" That caught Marley's attention, and she promptly yelled: "SHEEP!!!"  


Things Marley says wrong, but are oh so cute:

Helicopter = hot-a-top-ter

tuba = poopa
triangle = cry-angle
band-aids = bandages
butt paste = poop paste
swimming = sweeeeem-ing
so delicious = soda-licious 
ice cream = ice crean
ketchup = chep-up




We sure love this sweet, silly girl!