Jason had some girlfriends over on Friday night and Marcella wanted to put on my shoes so one of the girls is helping her do this. I actually took more pictures of her walking in them - which was rather funny and she did a pretty good job of walking in them but my batteries I guess were dead and this is the only picture that worked. By the time I got more batteries she wasn't interested in the shoes anymore. I've started taking the batteries out of my camera when not in use but they still don't last very long. One or two times of using my camera is all the use I get out of the batteries - it's pretty frustrating. The other picture is of my new dishes and silverware! I have a 12 piece setting of dishes that match. Can you believe it! It was a great suprise although I was told that it is for My anniversary, Mothers day, my birthday and Christmas. That is okay they are really nice and appreciated. I wont publically say who gave them to me because they don't want it broadcast all over but you know who you are and I thank you.

Just another quick note- see her hair in those pictures. It stays that way for 10 minutes at the most. She won't leave anything in her hair. She thinks it's a game to take it out of her hair and see my response. It's pretty funny.

Jason came upstairs on Monday night with this water bottle and she carried it around the rest of the night and wanted to take it to bed with her and since then she has been taking it with her. I think I have filled it up 4 times from Monday night to Wed. afternoon.




When you ask Marcella what the kitty says she meows and then slides her hand down the side of her cheek like this picture with her holding the I spy book. It's rather cute. My girls in Young Women's really get a kick out of her and all the animal sounds she can make but they like the kitty one the best - it's so soft and quiet.

She loves cell phones and play phones and house phones as long as no one is on the other end. As soon as I try to get her to talk on the phone to someone she shakes her head no and usually runs away. Every once in awhile she will say hi or an animal sound. When I tell her to say bye she waves.

Here she is coloring on the Valentine's card. She likes to color but it doesn't hold her attention for long. I didn't get any pictures of what we did most of the day though. She loves to read books and will get a book and sit on my lap so we can read them together. When we are done with one she gets another one and then usually goes back to the one that we had read earlier. If she doesn't like a book she let's me know. She closes the book and tries to take it from me and give me one that she does like.

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!!!! I have been having fun with Marcella. She came over to my house on Monday night and stayed until Wed. around 3:00. Kanien is off playing with Jon's Sister Caroline and will be gone for 10 days. For Valentine's day since she can't have chocolate I gave her a card with 3 dum dum suckers. She immediately wanted the wrapper off of the sucker and sucked on the sucker for about 3 min. maximum. She then put it down on the floor and looked at the card. She seemed to enjoy the card more than the candy which is good.




In the picture where she is holding the sucker out, she is trying to give Carson a taste of the sucker but he didn't want anything to do with it.