HAPPY BIRTHDAY MARCUS ~ 3 TODAY
This is an older photo, but I like it a lot. It was taken a little over 7 months ago and I never posted it.
My nephew, Marcus, celebrates his third birthday today, November 21.
He is a sweet little boy with really great manners. I think he also has a bit of obsessive compulsive disorder from *both* of his parents. ha ha ( I think it runs in our family )
The above photo was when he was still in his crib. It was when I put him down to sleep one evening I was watching him when his parents went out.
Marcus had a routine he used to go through in his bedroom...I am SO GLAD my brother filled me in on his night time routine or the poor little boy would have been lost with me having no clue what he went through before he goes to bed.
To activate "everything" you needed to flip the lightswitch on the all. The baby monitor would come on and so would the ceiling light. You would have to hold Marcus up to pull the ceiling chain to turn his own bedroom light off...he would then push the remote control button to turn on the CD to play nice soothing music and then he used to go in the crib with his favorite animal, the Dolphin...also named Dolphin. The baby monitor always played such nice music when he was sleeping...I guess it was this CD all along. Oh things have changed so much since I had little ones. We did not even have baby monitors back in the dinosaur ages !!
The red and black outfitted cow, Bogart, used to always be one of his favorite bed time friends. He had to get himself situated in his crib....with his Dolphin right next to his head and the cow's arm under his chin. I almost laughed watching him do this....but oh he was so very serious with this routine.
I guess he doesn't even do this with the cow anymore....with his new big boy twin bed. The Dolphin is still his favorite, but the cow has been replaced with two other animals as his nighttime friends. Bogart, the cow is still around just in case he needs the long arm under his chin again. ; ) I don't think anything will ever replace Dolphin.
This photo was taken a few minutes later... after I popped in to check on him and he was still the exact way he had fixed himself, only now....sound asleep. My once chuckle....turned into a big smile in gazing down upon this sweet little child.
Happy Birthday a little early, Marcus. Aunt Lisa will see you November 21...with some nice cupcakes and your present. : )
HAPPY BIRTHDAY MARCUS ~ 3 TODAY
This is an older photo, but I like it a lot. It was taken a little over 7 months ago and I never posted it.
My nephew, Marcus, celebrates his third birthday today, November 21.
He is a sweet little boy with really great manners. I think he also has a bit of obsessive compulsive disorder from *both* of his parents. ha ha ( I think it runs in our family )
The above photo was when he was still in his crib. It was when I put him down to sleep one evening I was watching him when his parents went out.
Marcus had a routine he used to go through in his bedroom...I am SO GLAD my brother filled me in on his night time routine or the poor little boy would have been lost with me having no clue what he went through before he goes to bed.
To activate "everything" you needed to flip the lightswitch on the all. The baby monitor would come on and so would the ceiling light. You would have to hold Marcus up to pull the ceiling chain to turn his own bedroom light off...he would then push the remote control button to turn on the CD to play nice soothing music and then he used to go in the crib with his favorite animal, the Dolphin...also named Dolphin. The baby monitor always played such nice music when he was sleeping...I guess it was this CD all along. Oh things have changed so much since I had little ones. We did not even have baby monitors back in the dinosaur ages !!
The red and black outfitted cow, Bogart, used to always be one of his favorite bed time friends. He had to get himself situated in his crib....with his Dolphin right next to his head and the cow's arm under his chin. I almost laughed watching him do this....but oh he was so very serious with this routine.
I guess he doesn't even do this with the cow anymore....with his new big boy twin bed. The Dolphin is still his favorite, but the cow has been replaced with two other animals as his nighttime friends. Bogart, the cow is still around just in case he needs the long arm under his chin again. ; ) I don't think anything will ever replace Dolphin.
This photo was taken a few minutes later... after I popped in to check on him and he was still the exact way he had fixed himself, only now....sound asleep. My once chuckle....turned into a big smile in gazing down upon this sweet little child.
Happy Birthday a little early, Marcus. Aunt Lisa will see you November 21...with some nice cupcakes and your present. : )