Memorial Day

Well we made it through Molly Mac's biggest weekend to date. We started out on Saturday with a quick visit at Michaela's aunt Laura's house and then dinner at Ramsey and Blaine's with Michaela, Dustin and Landon. Then on Sunday we went back to Laura's for a BBQ. I'm a bad mother and didn't take any pictures of these events...so I will refer you to the Burgess baby blog and the Morris family blog for pictures. What I learned from these outings is that Molly is a homebody like her parents. I think the fussiness stemmed from her missing naps here and there. The high of the weekend was definitely introducing Molly to her extended family, the Burgess', it has me pumped for our upcoming McBurgorris family vacation. The low of the weekend was having my car broken in to and purse stolen. If any one see some punk kid wannabe gang banger walking around with a green patent leather Michael Kors purse, kick him in the nuts for me. This is what Molly has to say to the jackass. I swear she did this that night after it was stolen...she's pissed too.

On Monday we had a nice afternoon at Jonny's sister's house. She seemed to be in higher spirits so that was nice. Here are some pictures of her hanging out with her cousins Jonathan and Madeline and her aunt Cassie.

Here's one we call "Molly's in Space. Think "Bowie's in Space" like "Flight of the Conchords". When we got home on Monday I had Meredith take some pictures of us with her new fancy camera. Mere is going to Nepal in November so she bought a very nice camera so she could get some good shots of here trip. So far it has come in handy for getting some good shots of Molly...not that it's too hard, she's a pretty photogenic baby. For those of you reading my blog for the excitement, I apologize for it not being as "edgy" this time. I'll try harder next time!

A Few of Her Favorite Things

Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens? I know the whole song and could go on, but I will spare you. Since Molly recently experienced her least favorite thing (vaccinations) I thought I would focus on the positive and share Molly's favorite things. But first real quick...Molly weighed in at 13lbs 2 oz and 2ft, and apparently her head has been growing extremely well which shows she is one smart cookie! On to the favorite things.


Molly's first love has been her fist. My mom said that when she was being evaluated right after birth, she was already plotting how to get it into her mouth. In the last few weeks she's gotten very good at achieving this and has even discovered that her fingers are pretty sweet too. It goes back to the whole flesh eating baby thing...she is not interested in sucking on pacifiers, she wants her fist.















Well as everyone saw in the first post saying "oh" is definitely fun. She pretty much loves talking in general and has even extended her vocabulary to include "ahh" "boo" and "Ahh-Boo". This leads me to Molly's favorite place to talk...laying on her back. Tummy time is not her thing. We do it for brief moments to try to build up her strength, but she would rather be on her back checking out the world around her.




Another great thing to check out while laying down is her tiny love symphony in motion mobile. This thing should be illegal because it is totally a baby hallucinogenic drug. When she is watching this thing she is totally tripping balls...Blowing chunks to the milky way. That's an obscure reference, anyone get it? Here's a Molly's eye view.














Another way to blow her mind is to turn on the T.V. Yes, yes I've already started rotting her brain, but what I believe she love are the colors and light. She'll watch anything, but favorites are Baseball, Golf and Sesame Street...particularly Elmo. I hate Elmo so I'm going to say that she likes him because he's red. here she is distracted by our giant TV.










The Latest thing that Molly loves is for you to kick her in the face with her own foot. I'm not sure why she's masochistic like that, but to her it is freaking hilarious. As with most of the things that make her smile, Jonny discovered this. Jonny is an expert of the good times and I seem to be the expert of the bad. It's hard to take a picture of this...I did my best, as you can see she's enjoying it so don't call CPS just yet.












Which brings me to the obvious thing that Molly loves...ME! She's already starting to display the beginnings of preferring me. She's started to look for me when she hears me and when she's upset she would usually rather be with me...it's probably just the boobs...but I think its kind of cute. I realize though that this will probably become a burden if I'm the only one that can take care of her, as I mentioned before this is more difficult than I had previously thought. Here we our spending some quality time after a meal.




Well that's it for now, we have a big weekend planned with Michaela, Dustin and Landon (of Burgess Baby Blog fame) I can't wait for Molly to meet them for the 1st time!
-Becca

Flesh eating baby

well since I have a parental advisory now, I can say what I want :-) Yesterday we went to a band concert for our nephew and since I'm a card carrying, bonafide "band fag" (you can say it if you are one and if you have a parental advisory) I actually wanted to listen to the bands. I decided this would be hard to do out in the hallway trying to calm an angry baby. Meredith generously offered (as she always does) to watch Molly while we enjoyed the cool musical stylings of the Desert Band Festival (I'm an alumnus by the way). Molly has rejected pacifiers from the beginning, but she has taken a bottle or two before, but since her mother is crazy and feels threatened by bottles (some how the word "medela" turns into "poison" when I look at it) I haven't really pushed the bottles too hard. Well apparently my opinion of bottles has rubbed off on Molly and she refused to take it while we were gone. I guess she threw a fit and although she was calm when I got home, her puffy wet eyes told me how disappointed in me she was. Anyhow she ate and then slept like shit all night as if to punish me. What I have learned from this is that only the taste of flesh can satiate my baby...sorry if that's too graphic, but hey, I have an advisory, you were warned. Well these photos have nothing to do with my story here, but as Michaela told me, it's part of my "raw truthful appeal"





On the left we have her happy after a nice bath. On the right we have her showing off her two newish skills, smiling and picking her butt up and kicking her legs

On the left here we have one I like to call "Honky Cat"


And on the right...I just thought it was cute with the little Buddha Belly hanging out.
Well, that's it for now!
-Becca

Baby Hammock

I forgot to put up pictures of Molly's new bed in yesterday's post. I've totally been conned and I have bought her this ridiculous bed/hammock thing...but it actually isn't that bad. She's slept in it two nights now and she's done a 5 hour and a 6 hour stretch which is nice. I also like that I don't have to swaddle her when she's in here because swaddling had become a fruitless effort since she would always escape. I was starting to search the Internet for "baby shrink wrap" since she was always waking her self up with punches to her face. The best part of this bed is that she can continue to sleep right next to me for the next 6-7 months. Since I've barely graduated to sleeping on my right side (not facing her) I'm thinking I need some more time before she graduates to her crib. Here are the pictures of her crazy jungle baby bed, I apologize that her pj's don't match her sleep sack...I'm not a very good girl mother, she's frequently wearing whatever I grab out of the drawer.

swimming

Dustin is right, my blog would need a parental advisory. That's going to be my problem with this whole blogging thing. While Dustin and Michaela's is always upbeat and positive, I could see how my blog could take a turn to the dark side. It's not that this whole experience isn't positive, its just that I can dwell on the negative, and use a colorful vocabulary to descibe it. I'll try not to do that though.
I thought I would post a few pictures from the past few weeks. Last week I took Molly to Jonny's office for a weigh in. She's definately gaining, but I don't know if she'll be able to keep up with her "cousin" Landon, but give her a few months and she's totally going to take out her "cousin" Grayson...and she might need to, that kid is grabby :-)

See what I'm talking about, that kid is grabby!

On Sunday we went to Ramsey and Blaine's house and went swimming. at first she was into it, but as soon as I decided to dunk her, she screamed, she felt pretty betrayed. Besides the screaming, we had a pretty good time.

Don't get excited, I'm not going to be like Dustin and Michaela and do this every week. Honestly I don't know how they do it, I wouldn't know what to say. I'm afraid mine would end up sounding like "Well, she shit 5 times today and once it was all over me and the entire room." No one wants to hear that. Plus I'm too busy trying to keep her alive and moderately happy to do this all the time, It turns out that it's trickier than I had previously thought. I just wanted to upload this video so my mom could see it since she's out of town. Mom was the one who started Molly on her path to saying "OH" so I wanted her to see all of the progress she's made. Enjoy!

Becca