Children's Musuem

Going into the treehouse

Future banker

Construction Zone

Not sure if it is a liquid or a solid? Do know that it is icky!

Playing with clean mud and dinosaurs

Molly loves trains and that is no exaggeration. She wanted to climb up on the tracks.

The best part of the whole museum-the rooftop playground. This tower had an amazing view of the mountains and of the Sound.

This play structure had at least 5 slides. This will be a great place to play when it hasn't been raining. The rooftop playground also had chimes, drums, etc to play. Plus......

Look what she found!

Puzzles

So I just downloaded the pictures from todays outing and found these. Molly loves to sit at the coffeetable and play with her puzzles. And I can't turn off the underline. help!

Fearless

Miss Molly did her first unassisted somersault on Sunday. Out of the blue! We were just hanging out and out of nowhere over she went. She tried to do it again but hasn't been able to. She has also jumped getting her feet off the ground -once. I think it freaked her out. She had this look on her face that said it all. She keeps trying to do it again. She has blossomed at gymnastics class. She has no fear of the balance beam. Still doesn't like the bars too much but she did go over to hang off of them all on her own on Monday. She normally doesn't do that.

Well, I think that is all from our end of the world. I'll try and take/post more pictures soon.

Exciting news!

ok so maybe not exciting news for you but it is for us. Molly is just shy of the 25th percentile in weight. When she was born she was 75th percentile and stayed about 50th until she started crawling and walking. Then it was all we could do to keep her in the 10th percentile for the last 6-8 months. And she eats constantly! but she nevers stops moving. She went in for her 18 month vaccinations and a weight check on Friday. She is a whopping 22 lbs 4 oz. and 31.5 inches tall (50th percentile for height). that's our little girl!

She has started trying to say "I love you". Those are some sweet words coming from her. I didn't realize how much I was waiting to hear her say it.

New Words

Molly's vocabulary is expanding greatly these days. This last week she has said quite a few new words. Here are a few: turtle, park, Richard, Shelly, Shawna, blue, yellow, one, two (in order), stairs, down. I can't remember anymore but I know there were more. She is mastering please and thank you. We are still working on when to use them correctly. She has figured out that if she uses please when she really wants something but she knows she shouldn't have it or do it, etc-that we might break down and let her have it, do it, etc. (within reason) How can we resist a "pease"?

When walking into the YMCA, Floyd asked her if she wanted to walk or for him to carry her. She said "carry". I asked her tonight when we were snuggling before bed if she wanted to go to the pool again, she said "yes" . It is great she is really starting to verbally communicate with us.

I almost forgot my favorite: love you! She has only said that once and I had just said to Floyd that I can't wait til she can say "I love you".

Our little girl is so smart! I can't wait to see what this new year will bring.

Oh, I forgot POOL of course.

Pool, Pool, Pool, Pool, Pool, Pool, Pool, Pool, Pool

Molly sporting her new bathing suit. While we were getting her dressed to go to the YMCA, we talked to her about swimming and if she remembered swimming while we were on vacation, etc. Hoping to get her excited about the pool. During the car ride there, she was chatting away-I still wish I could understand what she was saying! I asked her where we were going, she replied "pool" over and over and over again until we got there.

getting ready for the pool!

Last days of 2009

Happy New Year!

New Year's Eve with the Riddles (that is Shelly, Roger and Jonathan).

Molly loves her cereal bowl with the straw. We usually have oatmeal or eggs/french toast for breakfast but today I didn't feel like making anything more than a bowl of cereal. She LOVED drinking her milk from her cereal. She even drank my milk!

One minute Molly was playing and then it was quiet........She had climbed up on the couch to take a break and watch a little Sid the science kid on PBS.

Star Thief!