photo shoot

Molly and her man Jonathan. Too bad you can't totally read the shirts. His says "#1 Hunk" and her says "Naturally Cute" It is really difficult to get 2 kids to sit still and smile long enough to get a picture taken. There was one taken of Molly running away from Jonathan. Unfortunately her head got cut off otherwise it was really cute.

Such the model. this is daddy's favorite picture. she looks so grown up!

She's driving now! She picked out this car from the storage room while Jonathan was having his pictures taken. She HAD to sit in it. I love this picture.

Loving her bunny that Mimi gave her when she was born. She sleeps with it every nap and night. We would be in trouble if we lost it!

vacuum broken and playdate with Maddy

We were talking to Mimi and Pawpaw on Skype when all of a sudden Molly said "vacuum broken" I asked her if she could fix it with her tools. She ran over and got them and started inspecting.

when in doubt of how to fix-get the hammer

Molly and her best friend Maddy at the indoor playground. Maddy is in her gymnastics class and we have a weekly playdate too.

It is fun to watch them interact more and play together.

Maddy rocking on her fish!

Portland

Last weekend, we headed down to Portland to visit friends and family. Friday, we stayed with a Matt and Shawna (Matt was in the Navy with Floyd). Their friend Jason was in town on business and we hadn't seen him since our wedding. Molly had her first lesson in Foosball. She loved it. The table hadn't been fully assembled yet so it was Molly's height on the ground.

Saturday night we stayed at a hotel so Molly and her cousin, Mr. Man, could play in the pool. Pool Pool Pool

just lounging with Mr. Man. He did a great job playing with Molly and watching out for her.

Mr. Man cleaned out his bedroom to make room for his lego empire expansion. He gave Molly all of his Brio trains. She LOVES them. Choo Choo.

Unsuspecting Mr. Man sitting on the floor. Molly will come up to you, turn around and back into your lap. Mr. Man can make that girl giggle nonstop. She adores her cousin.

My sister, her son, Molly, and myself. I think this is the first time a picture has been taken of just us sisters with our kids. I like it!

Finally Asleep on the car ride home. She was tired after a long weekend.

random days in the life of Molly

She has learned to unlock her crib wheels and likes to move her crib into the middle of the room. Today, she grabbed a washcloth and cleaned the floor under her crib.

Molly with all her favorite friends.

reading about the tree on our hike

"Are you coming?" parents are so slow!

molly will be playing dominoes in no time. we are using them to learn numbers and counting. plus colors. pretty useful plus they are fun to stack and knock over. Floyd built her a structure before he went to work for her to find when she got up. I should have had the camera ready. When she saw it, she looked at me, looked at it, smiled big and knocked it over.

Award Ceremony

Molly had her first awards ceremony. We missed last sessions ceremony. Of course, I forgot my camera but our friend Dena took a few pictures for us. Floyd even earned some brownie points and took off work to come see the new gym and what Molly has learned in the last 20 weeks. Molly goes to the Little Gym once a week to play. She has learned somersaults, walking on a balance beam, woop-de-dos, and backward rolls (or whatever they are called). Our gym moved locations part way thru this session to a smaller but much nicer facility. Molly graduated from the Birdies class and will be starting the Beasties class on Monday.

Molly was chosen to demonstrate doing a somersault on the balance beam. that's my girl! Look at her arms up in the air-nice form!

She is a great encourager. A cheerleader all the way. She wears her medal around the house all day long. It is so cute. She was sitting on her little potty chair, completely naked with her medal around her neck. I wish I had had a camera within reach.

Stole the show

Look it at how long her hair is getting! She isn't so sure about wearing things in her hair but she loves hats.

This picture doesn't even come close to showing how cute she was today. She was the star of coffee hour after church today. This dress has matching brown leggings with the same detail as arms. Everyone loved this outfit. A family at church passed this along with some other clothes. Unfortunately, they weren't at church to see her rock this outfit. She was struttin' her stuff thru church like she owned the place today. That's our little girl!
Needless to say, her dad did good dressing her today. When she came into our bedroom to show me, I said something about her being too cute. She smiled big and said "cute". another new word.

Family Day

Isn't she beautiful!

Today, we had family day. We all slept in this morning. I think Miss Molly had been up in the night playing her music. I know I heard it at 4:30 and maybe again at 6am. We ate like kings for breakfast. Then off to the Children's Museum. This was the first time we have gone there. And it was blast-see the following post.
Tonight before bed, we had game time. Well, Floyd and I played Wii bowling while Molly cheered us on. We haven't played bowling with her since she as maybe 6 months old. We would hold her while we bowled and she would just giggle. Tonight, we started off holding her while we bowled and she watched what we did. Once she got to heavy to hold for the whole game, she pulled up her chair and cheered us on. She knew when we got a strike or spare and would laugh and clap for us. It was so much fun. What a great end to a wonderful family day.