melts my heart

Last night when I got home from a mom's night out, Molly was still awake in her room. I went in to say goodnight. As I was fixing her blankets for her she mentioned something was missing tonight. I asked her what was missing. She said "its not the same without you here". How sweet is she! She truly loves having all 3 of us together. She may or may not want to pay attention to us when we are home but she wants us all in the house together. She's so cute.

bushy beard

So every winter Floyd grows out his beard just for snowboarding. He says once the beard ices over, it insulates his face and keeps him warm. Needless to say, I can't wait for snowboarding season to be over so he will trim the beard.
This was today at Stevens Pass- best day of the season so far. It snowed 8 inches while they were there.

growth spurt

So we thought something might be up for the last few weeks. Molly's sleep and eating habits had changed once again. For 2 days, all I could do was feed her every half hour it seemed like. Well today as she played Tinkerbell, I noticed her legs are no longer the chubby toddler legs anymore. She has the knobby knees of a little girl. Tonight I was filling in the application for her passport and came to the question of height. We measured her 2 weeks ago and she was 35 inches give or take a 1/4" (Floyd and I can't agree on what her height was-haha, we should write these things down). Tonight she was a solid 36". Yup, Molly is 3 feet tall. She only has 23" to go to pass up her Momma.

the alphabet

Molly now can say the whole alphabet. Of course, whenever we try to record it she never will say the whole thing. She also spells her name. She usually will spell it and then shout Molly Nelson. Again except when we are recording it, then she just spells it. Why won't she let us capture the cuteness! I haven't gotten her to count yet on video, working on that. She can count into the teens but always skips the number 6. don't know why, she used to also skip 8 but she has now added that number in.

Molly's imagination

I heard a bunch of noise while Molly was playing in her room for quiet time so I thought I would check it out. This is what she was doing….she also rearranged some of the drawers in her room.

Week at a glance

This was all last week.  Sunday, Molly stuck a small blue candy up her nose at church.  I hope the lesson was learned about sticking things in the nose.  Thankfully, it was candy and started dissolving.  Blue was running out of her nose.  We were eventually lucky enough to blow her nose and it came out.  Just in time for the babysitter to get there and Floyd and I to go to my "thanks for being on consistory at church" brunch.  Which by the way, that morning at church, I had coffee duty, had to say a little something about being on consistory, then brunch.  I had no time for Molly and her blue candy that her daddy had given her.  I saw her rolling it on the floor and told her not to put it in her mouth, didn't think I needed to say "don't stick it up your nose"  I will have to add that to my list of warnings.

 
By Thursday, she must have been bored so she took a head dive off a chair at the grocery store.  She likes to eat lunch in the deli department and watch people when we go grocery shopping.  We got there around lunchtime so I said sure, hoping this would mean easier shopping trip and home for naptime.  wrong!  While I was paying for lunch, she climbed up in a chair 5 ft from me.  She decided it was dirty and went to get off the chair but she was on her knees and her foot got caught on her jeans.  so down she went, head first onto a cement floor.  WOW!  Once, she calmed down she asked for her macaroni and cheese and ate it all!  While she ate, I called Floyd and the dr.s.  We were able to get right in.  She was a trooper.  No tears at the dr.s just wanted to read a Snow White.  the Dr.  pushed on her bump trying to see if there were any broken bones and she just sat there.  he kept asking her "does this hurt" finally she said "yup" in her soft voice.  I was ready to cry/kill him for pushing on her bump that was huge and looked so painful!  No damage just an ugly bump that is totally covered by her bangs.  She needs a haircut but I may wait another week until it goes down a little more.  Dr. said it may take a few weeks.  These pictures were taken 3 or 4 days after the fall.

cute little piggies.  her first pedicure.

Life Events of Molly

Molly has had a few days hit or miss with wearing her big girl panties. (which she is really excited about).  Yesterday she wore them all day with no accidents.  She even went to play at Rich and Kate’s.  Before we left to go to their house, I asked her if she wanted to put on a pull up to go play.  She just looked at me and said “Mom, they have a toilet too”.  Duh!  We had another successful day today.  Yeah!!! 

Today proved to be another day of firsts.  She stuck a small blue candy up her nose at church.  She had found it on the floor-no idea what from.  I was working in the kitchen with coffee hour duty when I told her not to put it in her mouth.  Next thing I know, she has her finger in her nose telling me something is in there.  I asked her where the blue candy was-“in my nose”  GREAT!  Well, we decided to come home and see what we could do since our friend the nurse had already left.  Before we even left church, blue started running out of her nose.  Thankfully, the moisture in her nose was dissolving the candy.  When we got home, another nose blow and out it came.  After all said and done and she is fine.  It really is funny. 

Oh that girl keeps us on our toes.