As of October 28th, Marin is 6 months old! I can't believe that our baby is half a year old already. The months fly by, even if the days drag on sometimes. :) Before Marin was born, I'd always told Matthew that a 6 month old baby was my favorite age and I still stand by my statement. We are really enjoying watching him grow up and he's a ton of fun right now. He loves to laugh and play and I swear I don't know how his little cheeks don't hurt he smiles so much. Everyone always asks us, "Is he always this happy?" And the truthful answer is YES. That little boy is always, always in a good mood unless something is "wrong". If he's hungry, tired, or just plain bored he'll let you know. But most of the time, he's such a good, happy baby and we love him to pieces.

Of course I'm biased, but I think he's the cutest baby I've ever seen and he gets cuter to me every day. I love watching him change every day. There is always something new going on with him, whether it being a new sound he can make or a new way to be mobile (read get into stuff. ha.ha.). The cooler fall weather has made me start thinking about spending the holidays with him. I think that Christmas especially will be a lot more fun this year, since we plan on actually having a tree. ha. ha. We had a tree when we first got married but quickly grew tired of messing with it when it was "just us". But I'm pretty sure it is a crime in all 50 states not to put up a Christmas tree if you have a child in your house. :)

The other fabuloso news of the day is that we got a brand new Wal-Mart less than 3 miles from our house. Whoo-Hoo! Man I love Wal-Mart! We went and checked it out today and it is really nice. It is a lot more spacious than most Wal-Marts I've been to. Granted it doesn't have valet parking like one of the ones in another part of Nashville, but maybe I can write corporate about that. ha.ha. Seriously, one of Nashville's Wal-Marts has valet parking. Lucky. :)

Marin's Exersaucer continues to be one of his favorite toys. He loves chewing on all the different animal toys attached to it. Speaking of toys, we've started rotating Marin's car seat toy on a daily basis. Car seat toy, you may ask? Well, Marin likes to have something to play with in his car seat on car rides. We used to put Cowboy (his most favorite) toy in there all the time. But we got to thinking that maybe it would be a better idea to rotate the toys in case something ever happened to BFF Cowboy. So today he took Mr. Frog (a stuffed frog given to him by Tara & Carrie at his baby shower before he was born). He has even taken to giving his stuffed animals kisses if you ask him to. The only animals I've gotten him to kiss so far are his elephant that Mimi got him and Mr. Frog. He has also started to kiss his Dada and I quite often. He's such an affectionate little thing. Speaking of Dada, he says that word about a million times a day now but he only uses it towards Matthew, so I think he's gotten the concept that Dada is Dada. He will call to Matthew if Matthew isn't in the room and when Matthew walks in his little face just lights up with the biggest smile ever! Who do you think is jealous? Yep, Mama! But we're working on that one. ha.ha.