We Have been invaded by the Army Crawl

We are no longer free to put Cruz on the floor and expect him to stay in one place. He has become very mobile!!!!! Not only is he mobile but he has really found his voice and the volume control has been stuck on loud for the past few weeks. I am sure that he is only going to get louder. I have found it really interesting to see how much he changes from day to day, it seems that he learns or does somthing new everyday, for the past few weeks his favorite thing to do is to stick out his toungue at everything and everyone. Well enough about Cruz




Tatem and I have had some fun adventures these past few weekends. Last Saturday we went and watched a pro-wake boarding competition. It was great, we met our friend Scott at the lake and enjoyed the really warm weather. We watched the competition on a really long dock and every time the boat would pass, the wake would come up and cool our feet off. Our summers here in the great NW are so mild that when ever it gets above 85 degrees we seem to melt away.

Our latest adventure happened this weekend. Our original plan was to go and see deception pass but none of our friends were able to go, and since we want to experience this with others we decided to explore Bainbridge Island. We needed to go to Issaquah and check our mail box and thought we would make a day out of the drive up to Seattle. Bainbridge is a short 30 min ferry ride away from down town Seattle. You can enjoy long walks around the town square, shopping, tons of food choices and a relaxing stroll down the waterfront trail. (wow I should write brochures) It is a fun little town, we had pizza at a little shop and spent the afternoon walking around the city. It is very touristy with little shops and lots of small cafe style restraunts. The water front is really cool, the small harbor was full of boats, and made for really great pictures.

We drove back to Olympia along the Olympic Pensulia and were able to see some more of our new Inspection Territory. This territory is huge I am constantly overwhelmed, somtimes to the point that I am not as effective as I could be. Otherwise life in the insepction world is good. We have had a very productive month and hopefully it continues.

Another week has come and and another post is gone........

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(Cruz and his Poop face)

So nothing very new and exciting has been going on at the Marchant home over the past few weeks. We were officially inducted to our ward today. We got to speak, yaaa!! It went well, but it is always a better feeling after it is over with. Brendan drives me crazy though, he maybe spent two hours on his talk and he did amazing. Me, I have been working on mine the past week every time Cruz has been asleep and I still didn't feel like I did the greatest job. Oh well, at least I know that all people will remember from our talk is that we spoke a few Sundays ago.

Brendan and I have discovered the drive-in theater. Last night we went and saw Wall-E and The Dark Knight (both great movies by-the-way). It worked out perfect with Cruz. We just packed him up in his car seat and he slept the whole time. We haven't been to a movie since Cruz was born, because we were so afraid of being those parents that bring a crying baby to the movies. $6 a person wasn't a bad price either for two movies too.


Cruz is growing like a weed and everyday it is so fun to see what a personality he is getting.
-He is now an ambidextrous roller.
-He is slowly getting better at getting to the things he wants. He talks more and more and loves saying, "bah, bah, bah," and 'da, da, da". I sometimes wonder if he is talking to someone with how much he talks.
-He now thinks peek-a-boo is funny.
-Is getting more ticklish everyday.
-He has a very high thresh hold for pain. I was changing his diaper the other day and his bum was a little raw. I started wiping his bum off and I thought he was having an allergic reaction and couldn't breath. Being the mean mom that I am I continued to wipe his bum and he breathed in again like his throat was almost swollen shut. "I don't want to cry mom, but HOLY COW that hurts!!!!!!!"
-Cruz has decided that he doesn't need to sleep as much as he used to. Up until about two weeks ago I could count on Cruz taking two naps a day that lasted over two hours. Now he is down to two naps that are about a hour-and-a-half. I know I shouldn't be complaining that he is only sleeping an hour and a half, but I have really enjoyed those hours to myself. At least I'm not so house bound now. He is staying up longer between his naps and I can run a few more errands without running into his nap time. I definitely don't get as much done around the house now though.

I am a little hesitant to put his out in the open with the fear of me not sticking to it (which happens a lot). But, I have been inspired to run a 10K (6.2 miles for those of you not from Canada). For some 6.2 miles probably is nothing, but I have never been a strong runner. I needed some motivation to get back into shape and I have been wanting to run a race, so I decided this would be the perfect opportunity. The race is October 19th in Portland and I have enlisted my brother and my sister-in-law to run it with me. I think more to have someone there to call 911 when I collapse. This definitely will not be a competitive race for me. I just want to say that I did it.