Awesome X-mas

I'm going to try really hard to get this posted before the new year because so much has been going on and we're only getting started it seems. Christmas was a lot of fun as always, but I really enjoyed watching Molly get in on all of the festivities. Even though she's only 9 1/2 months, it's like she was in tune to something special happening. The fun started on the 23rd when Grayson and Ramsey came over for a little gift exchange. Grayson gave Molly this cool little snail toy that sings and lights up. He was however a little reluctant to let go of it.
"See here, this is how you do it."

"No no no! You're doing it wrong!"

"I know it says 6 months and up but you're obviously too young for this"

"I think I better save this for you until you're older"

On Christmas Eve she was a trooper and stayed up late to visit with her whole family at my parents house. Christmas eve is always one of my favorite times because in the past few years we've gotten both my family and Jonny's family together in one place for a nice evening. This year with Molly in the mix it was even better.
I know, but it was the best picture I had of her whole outfit.

Playing with her cousins Madeline and Jonathan.

The First gift of Christmas!



Molly woke up bright and early (as always) Christmas morning and we headed over to our remote location tree at Aunt Mere's house. We have no space for such frivolities, but Mere does, so as always, we invade and make use of her space. She loves it, I swear! Molly had a great time playing with her toys and tasting various types of wrapping. Santa brought her a little walker toy which she LOVES! Maybe a little too much. She immediately took to it and was off. We have to keep her on the rugs though because the wood gets her going faster than her legs can keep up. Now she wants everything to be a walker, hampers, stools, step ladders whatever. Of course not everything functions like a walker so life can be a little frustrating. My mom took some videos (on her fancy new Flip) of Molly cruising with her walker, but I'll have to wait and see if I can get them from her. Mere also took one on her camera so here's a good one of Molly walk, walk, walking!

Enjoying some music from her new favorite toy.

Watch Out!

After Christmas Morning and a nice nap, we headed over to Aunt Cassie and Uncle Ben's house for some more Christmas fun. Molly received some more great gifts and some new bigger sized clothes which she's going to need. I think I forgot to mention that at her 9 month appointment she was 28 1/4 inches and 19 pounds, 1 1/2 ounces...damn they're precise! I of course was camera less so I didn't get any shots of the excitement. Before we left Mere did take a good one of Molly and I with Molly in her Christmas dress (thanks Aunt Mere!)


To keep the fun going, on Sunday we went over to visit with Jonny's friend Nich and his family. Nich and his wife Brooke have a little boy just a month older than Molly so she had a good time hanging out with Weston. It was fun to see her interact with another baby around her age and I think Weston gave her a few new sounds to ponder...he had some good ones!
But Wait! There's more. Or there will be anyhow. Uncle Chris and Aunt Stephanie are in town this week and one of my old friends, also named Stephanie will be here as well, very exciting! I will hopefully take some pictures of all of the action and post them soon.

Who put the bop in the bop shoo bop shoo bop?

Well it took over 50 years but we finally know the answer to the question from that song...it was Molly. Molly's latest word of choice is "Bop" She loves it and makes liberal use of it. It's a noun, a verb, an adjective, kind of like the way Jonny and I use "fuck"...good thing I put my advisory back! Some of you may not believe it, but I am trying not to use fowl language as much since I would really prefer Molly didn't either. I wasn't this bad before I met Jonny and I'm sure I can go back to my clean language ways even if it has been 10 years. Jonny's a different story. Here's a video of Molly "bopping" it up. It also showcases her crawling ability. She's been doing that for awhile now(a month, month and a half?), but I'm pretty sure this is the first time I've posted a video of it.

I don't have nice pictures this time around, Mere is back with her nifty camera, but she's still working on getting her pictures from her vacation (I'm not sure she's calling it that) onto her computer. I did however take a few pictures on my cell phone the other day when we were helping grandma decorate at her house. They're not the best, but they're fun anyhow.
In my old rocking chair with a Christmas Bear

Hanging out on Mere and Chris' saddle

Grandma's day glow Christmas tree

In reality it doesn't look that electric it's just the crappy cellphone flash that gives it that effect.
I honestly can't remember when I took these pictures, it had to have been sometime in the last few weeks, sometime while Mere was gone anyhow. Here's Molly's tribute Mere, Chris and Stephanie's Delhi leg of their trip: Cheerio Bindi

She's been pulling up on things for awhile now, but here she is showing that off:

She's also been clapping for awhile but I thought this was a cute action shot:

I suppose my next post will likely be after Christmas, so I'd like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas from all of us at Molly Mac!

Christmas Pictures

I don't have much to write about but I wanted to post some pictures. The other day we had Bill Butler come over and take some pictures of Molly in the hopes of getting something nice for a Christmas Card. I haven't ever really sent out cards, but I figure since I have a kid now I should send some out. We (and by "we" I mean my mom, dad and our painter) worked all week to get the porch and our fireplace ready so that we could have some almost home pictures. Since only the sub-floor is down in the living room we threw down an old rug and pieced together some of our floor around the fireplace. Needless to say keeping an almost 9 month old in a designated area isn't always going to work so some of them show the ugly sub-floor. Regardless we have some cute ones.