Marcus' 2010

Next we'll cover Marcus' 2010 since his birthday comes next after Travis'. Marcus turned 1 year old this year. He's a happy little boy and VERY independent. He wants to feed HIMSELF and doesn't want his food cut up into little pieces. He's also the easiest kid ever to put down to sleep, we just wrap him up and place him in his crib and don't hear from him for a few hours. He does wake up 2-3 times per night and Dad helps him quickly get back to sleep. Here he is with Angela one day that we were out geocaching as a family.

Here's Marcus on the Utah Lake Festival Day when we rode out on a boat to the middle of the lake. The life jacket didn't exactly fit him did it?
We were in Portland, OR during July for Marcus' birthday. He had fun opening the presents.

Marcus initially liked the eating of the cake...

But then he realized that it made his hands messy and he was no longer happy about feeding himself cake with his bare hands.

We also visited the Portland Zoo during this visit. Here's Marcus with his Grandma Pippin seeing the elephants.

One day we went up to a park in Salt Lake City when we drove up to pick up Aunt Heather from the airport. We found an area of the park where there's water running down a series of mini canals. Our boys really enjoyed letting water push down some balls. Even Marcus enjoyed himself in the water.

This picture needs no explanation, just cute!

Now this photo is funny. These are bars of soap. Sometimes we have to take a shower with Marcus awake, so we bring him into the bathroom with some toys and shut the door. Usually he plays with the toys but he often gets bored and starts exploring the contents of the drawers. Well he found some bars of soap and unwrapped them. Then he did the logical experiment and bit into them to determine the taste. Apparently one bar of soap wasn't enough as evidenced by the teeth marks in both bars of soap below.

Angela took the boys to a local pumpkin patch during October. Here's Marcus with a gigantic pumpkin.

This photo was taken shortly before Christmas when we got 12 inches of snow overnight. Marcus is starting to have some fun for a while out in the snow until eventually he falls down and gets snow on his hands, then it's no longer fun anymore.

Marcus learned to walk at about 10-11 months of age. He's the first video we got of him doing alright with walking. He now is quite fast and nearly keeps up with his older brothers.

One other thing worth mentioning that we learned about Marcus in 2010 is that he's dairy intolerant and is severly allergic to peanut. We had him start drinking normal cow's milk at 1 year of age ad noticed that his diapers were bad and that he's get facial rashes. We had him alergy tested and found these things out. He now drinks almond milk regularly and can eat cheese when it's cooked. Hopefully he'll grow out of the milk intolerance soon (the doctors think it's fairly likely he will). We also have to now carry around an epipen to give him a shot if he even gets a peanut exposure that causes him to have shortness of breath. We actually recently dodged a bullet when he found a Reeses peanut butter candy at the candy station at the mall and we were able to fish it out of his mouth without incident. We now have a peanut ban in our house. We threw away our peanut butter and don't buy trail mix or snickers anymore.