Catching up on Marty's Mischief

 Sorry- I'm a slacker, I know! But, to my credit, I have been very busy in my 8 days off. I threw a very noisy birthday party for Jessica, went to a work Christmas party, interviewed for a position at Utah Valley Regional Medical Center on the Mom/Baby unit, celebrated Jessica's actual b-day and to top it off- I got the job on the Mom/Baby unit!! We are all very excited about the new job change and I am looking forward to cutting 1 1/2 hours off of my work day because I will no longer be commuting to downtown SLC. However, amidst all of this craziness, Marty has still been up to mischief! I will put them in order from today on down.

Tonight Marty decided that he wanted to color. He colored a nice picture for Taylor and left the new coloring book and crayons for him as well. Funny thing is the coloring book is called "An Elf's Adventure"- wonder if Marty feels like he is on an adventure...

Last night Marty brought a new Christmas book back from the North Pole, "I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Bell". I guess he wanted to share with EVERYONE. Even the stuffed manger scene got involved in this one. It was so nice of Marty to read the story to the baby Jesus!

Marty loves birthdays!! Jessica is lucky enough to have a December birthday while Marty is here. He took streamers and locked her into her room. The funniest part of this is that Jessica didn't want to "break out". Instead, she army crawled underneath the streamers and kept them up for her entire birthday!! This alone made my day! She is such a cute girl and I love seeing what she comes up with.

Marty brought a bunch of snowballs from the North Pole and had a snowball fight with all of his friends. They must be magic snowballs because they are warm and they never melt!! Ryan and Taylor have been throwing them at each other all day.

 I forgot to take pictures (sorry) but one of the mornings, Marty had a gift for Jessica. He brought her tickets to Aurthur Christmas for the entire family. I have to admit this was a very cute movie. It's a different take on the whole Santa story and I suggest that any family take the kiddos to it. I am on for 3 shifts in a row- I will try to keep it updated but no promises!!

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Marty's mischief and Jessica's Penguin Cake

Jessica is having her 10th birthday party tonight. I am having a hard time believing that my second child is now into the double digits. I wish I could just freeze them but they keep getting bigger.

Marty is super excited about the party. He decorated the great room for us last night. Taylor thought it was just "amazing". When I asked him how Marty hung the balloons so high up, he told me, "Timmy is a reindeer and can fly!" Of course, what ever was I thinking??? 2 pics today- one of Marty and friends in their mess and the other of the great room all decorated. We're doing a penguin theme- hence the black, white and silver balloons.
I decided to attempt a fondant cake for Jess's b-day party. We will be watching "Mr. Popper's Penguins" for the party so I went with a penguin theme. I found a recipe for marshmallow fondant- not only does it taste better than normal fondant, but it is also a lot more forgiving. Here is my creation- I'm hoping that Jessica and her friends love it. And yes, it is supposed to be topsy turvy like that.

Candy Canes

Marty decided that our window needed some candy canes to help decorate it. He climbed up to the top and hung candy canes across the curtain rods. When Taylor saw this, he immediately climbed up and took them all down. Apparently, he felt candy canes are for eating- not decorating! He had eaten 2 before we realized that was what he was doing.... that's a healthy breakfast, right?!?

I'm not really sure what Marty's friends are doing- maybe just hanging out.

Marty as his friends decided to go for a spin, literally! Round and round they went on the ceiling fan. Must have been like an amusement park ride.

Another friend arrived tonight. His name is Paulie the Penguin and he is quite cute! Now there are three to get in trouble together.....

Oh Marty, Marty, Marty....

Two more nights worth of mischief! I have decided that I love listening to Taylor's exclamations of joy each morning when he discovers just what Marty has done the night before. This morning he informed me that he saw "Marty as his big self!" He claims he "snuck behind the TV and peeked on Marty"- thus seeing him in his bigger elf self. Makes perfect sense, right?!?

On to the pictures. Marty made our fridge into a pretty cute snowman. I wonder if he is missing Frosty?? I guess I never realized how boring our fridge was before it had a makeover. (Don't mind the mess on the top, I don't)The mess Marty and Timmy made- if he doesn't stay out of the wrapping paper, I might have to lock it up. Can an elf go through locked doors???


It must have been game night for Marty and friends. He even convinced Santa, Mickey and Minnie to play. They played with quite a few different games and mixed up all of the pieces. Taylor had to fix them all. Must have been a wild and crazy game night!!

New mischief

Sorry, I have been working 3 12 hr shifts- so here is a 3 day update. I'm going to do them from last night and back so they stay in order...

Last night Marty and Timmy climbed all the way up to the kitchen light and flew airplanes off of it!! There were paper airplanes everywhere!! In the tree, on the TV and all over the floor. Taylor's comment was, "Wow, Marty makes good airplanes!" Timmy injured his antler in the escapade and we had to perform surgery on it today- no worries though, it's all better and I am sure they will be up to their antics again tonight!!

We have a really cute advent calender that has toys in each opening. I have explained to Taylor numerous times that we have to open "only one" each night and once we get to #24 Santa comes. I guess that Marty and Timmy overheard our talk and decided to peek into #24- Santa still didn't come early!

Matry and Timmy decided to use my ironing board for a slide. I guess they decided it was too fast and put pillows at the bottom to catch them.(Yes, it's gross- I never iron and have owned this one for all of my married life! I refuse to buy a new one.)