Baby's got a new pair of shoes

The shoe obsession continues and has now escalated. Apparently flip flops are just a "gateway" shoe and now Molly has moved on to the hard stuff. What girl could resist a 4" pair of turquoise heels?

Lookin' good little buddy, lookin' good!

Since I was never a doll girl (when I was a toddler I would express how ungrateful I was to receive them) it never occurred to me to get Molly a doll. Thankfully Gran has more insight than me and did get Molly a doll, because she freaking LOVES her "behbee". If we ever have a shot at creating an attachment item, this is it. I have started trying to get her to sleep with it and so far she's into it. When it isn't there she asks for it, which seems to be a good sign. The only problem is that it can get in the way of being comfortable, so that can complicate things. Of course it hasn't magically cured our sleep ills. Although she had a few really awesome nights in the past 2 weeks, the past few nights have been really SUPER bad. I've even tried to bring her to bed with us which she did not like at all. The last couple nights it seems Jonny is the best one to close the sleep deal not because he's the most soothing of the two of us, but because he seems to be the right combo of exhausting screams and rocking motion. I still find myself unwilling to go the cry it out alone route, so for now I'm just going to have to practice my deep breathing and hope that you truly can sleep when you're dead.

Her doll even has it's own backpack/baby carrier, pretty fancy.

Taking her baby for a walk.

Gearing up with Aunt Mere for the long haul with a little hair twirling.

Grandpa finally got to give Molly that bucket ride. She seemed to like it. She also seemed to like that I gave her my ipod to play with.

The frame that these pictures are in doesn't allow for removal, so I wasn't able to properly scan them. They're of Jonny when he was close to Molly's age and I think I see some similarities. What do you think? (Click on them to see them larger)