Videos

I had thought that the video upload wasn't working because every time I uploaded the video in the last post, when I tried to watch it, it said that there was an error or some BS. Anyhow, I gave up and just posted it anyhow, and it turns out it's fine. Apparently I deleted and re-loaded dozens of time over the course of a few days for nothing...screw you blogger!

Here are a couple of other videos from the past couple days. The first one is at the paint store and there really isn't any point to it, but hey, Molly's in it, what more do you want from me?

This one is of Molly running around in my shoes. She's always doing this, but this time she was actually able to get her toes in the right place and walk. The child is obsessed with shoes. I think this could get expensive.

We have a big couple weeks coming up. Swim lessons start on Monday, my birthday is the following Monday (30 if anyone is keeping track) and sometime soon after that, Uncle Chris and Aunt Stephanie will be in town for a visit. Also we're going to be moving into the 2nd half of our house REALLY soon! All we have left now is the crazy room upstairs, very exciting. What I'm most excited for is to have my laundry in the same house as me. I'm useless at doing it if I have to remember to actually go to another building to complete the task...ask Jonny about it, he's done pretty much every load since we moved in here.

Criminal

I've been cleaning out Molly's drawers and filling up bags for storage. Molly has been working hard emptying those bags and strewing things about the house. She brought her daddy some tights, and Daddy decided they should rob a bank.

Our little criminal.

Jonny's melons are doing pretty good and Molly has been enjoying the literal fruits of his labor. She loves melons! Any kind, any time any place. Who doesn't like sugar water? Jonny grew a really good yellow variety that Molly is seen enjoying here.

Double fisting melons:

Last weekend we went to Cassie and Ben's house for a graduation party. Congratulations to Jonathan for graduating 8th grade. I started dating Jonny when Jonathan was two, and it blows my mind that he's going to be in high school next year. I can imagine that Cassie and Ben feel this even more intensely than me. Jonny has informed that it isn't surprising to him at all...it has been a little over a decade after all. I guess he's uneffected by time.

Molly and Aunt Cassie...oh THAT'S where the eyes came from!

Swim lessons start soon, gotta get ready!

While we were swimming Molly reminded me of what a little daredevil she can be. She was convinced that she could go it alone, and was struggling to break free from me. Have to watch that one!

Speaking of daredevil, Molly has mastered the step ladder. I don't usually leave it where she can get it, but I was reorganizing the other day since I now have most of my cabinet doors in (yeah!) and when I wasn't paying 100% attention to her she starting going up and down and up and down. In this video, she's doing it in order to get some of her stuff on the counter. Very exciting stuff. I know it kind of looks bad letting her do this...but she really is surprisingly agile.

She never once seemed precarious, although I don't think I would be too keen on her doing it without me near by. My mom has been surprised at Molly's ability to climb and doesn't think that any of us were this capable at her age. I did however go back through the Burgess Baby Blog and found that in May of 09, there was a post call "time to climb", so I don't think that Molly is alone in her abilities :-)

Ornery Ones?

Molly shows us everyday just how smart she is, most of the time that just means she finds new ways to get into trouble. Like this picture, it seems harmless, but what happens when she tries to put her shirt on by herself, is that she basically walks around blindfolded. eventually she runs into a wall, and it end in tears. Maybe her mother should help her out?

Here I go again taking pictures of her instead of helping her out. I didn't see the process that got her into this mess, only the results.


If the twos, threes and fours suck...then I'm totally screwed. Molly is an extremely strong willed child and I have to say that it's not always easy for me to match it. We of course have boundaries in place (mostly physical ones) but sometimes you just have to pick your battles. I know I'm a 1st timer so I have no point of reference, but even my mom says she thinks Molly is a handful. She's a grandma however so she uses words like "precocious" , "clever", and "busy" where as I use words like "pain in the ass" and "NOOOOOOO!!!!!! don't touch that!!!!!". I've joked that I should change her name from Molly Jo to Molly No since I say that more often.

Hey it's not all bad time though, there are good things happening too. Like our new chair. Molly and I have a new chair, and I love it. My old one served us, but I'm glad we've upgraded. Now when we're rocking I don't have to feel as though it's going to burst into flames at any minute. The noises from that thing were terrifying and even though we made efforts to save it: stealing bearings from the ottoman or even trying to get the company to let us order new ones, it was no use. A few weeks ago I ordered this beauty from Barenholtz furniture, and I couldn't be happier. The best part (aside from not busting into flames) was that I was able to pick out my own fancy fabric from their vast selection.
Good looking kid, Good looking chair:

My secret for getting her to stay in the chair and keep the bow on her head? Bribing her with my cellphone. I usually don't let her touch it because she's capable of some pretty complicated procedures (switching the network from which the phone is operating from...true story) or simply just calling someone but I REALLY wanted her to stay :-)

"hello"

It didn't last

"Where did I put that thing?"

"Oh yea, the floor"

"Good luck with your photography mom, I'm done here."

Melon Bop

Jonny wanted to get some pictures of Molly enjoying some honeydew for work. The evil empire might even use one in an advertisement, although I'm not sure how I feel about that :-)

What was really funny about all of this was that she calls anything that's round a ball, which she pronounces "bop". So the whole time she's running around, throwing the honeydews, she's saying "bop, bop, bop..." pretty cute!

Enjoying some honeydew. She was pretty into it.

"bop, bop, bop!"

No melon here, but ugh!!! that face!!!! So sweet!!!

She really is a beautiful child...now if only that face would learn how to sleep through the night consistently and obey me...then she'd be perfect!

McBurgorris fun day

Yesterday the McBurgorris' were together again! The Burgess' were in town for a wedding and thankfully they had a spare afternoon/evening to spend with us. This time I remembered my camera, and with 3 kiddos running around there was no stopping the snapping. How could I help myself? We have cute kids!

It was fun to watch them this time around since at their ages, they're starting to interact with one another a little more. Grayson and Landon especially had a grand time goofing around, but even Molly got in on some frolicking.

Well without a whole lot to say, I'll just get into the pictures

Molly thought this was hilarious: Landon knew all of the cool tricks!

Landon thought this was hilarious: We'd get under the kiddie pool and I would snap a picture, we'd get out and he would exclaim "Again! Again!" It was pretty funny.

I thought this was hilarious: Landon is really into "ring around the rosey" and he was excited to share his song and dance with Grayson. Grayson thought that was great. I guess it's the little things that make life fun.

Grayson's not willing to give up what's rightfully his. The pool and his girly sippy...wait and second! Look at that sweet little mug though! With a face like that, why wouldn't you think everything was yours? He has me convinced.

Landon thought it was great that I kept taking pictures of him in his chair. most of them he's giving me this face as if to say "yeah bitch...this is how I sit, whatcha gonna do about it?!?!" but he couldn't keep it up and he finally gave me a grin.

We really tried to get a picture of them all in the pool and I suppose that's what I have here. This was the best I could do, maybe Michaela and Dustin have a better one.

Molly has become obsessed with getting into and out of chairs and the chairs that were out on the lawn last night seemed to be easier for her than the ones we have at home. Every time she would succeed, she would sit back and grin, basking in the glory of her own accomplishment. Check out those teeth, she now has 5 broken through and 1 that is so so so close.

I just thought this was a funny picture, Landon is giving his "stink face". Don't be fooled by it, it was all for show

As always we had a great time and I'm looking forward to the next time!

Beauty School Drop Out

Today we went to the good ol' YSB to take some pictures for the facebook page we're trying to get back into order. Of course when Molly's adorable ass is running around it's hard to resist taking pictures of her too.

We of course also had to go and see what was happening at Plaza Paint. She'll probably take after me and spend the majority of her childhood at our family business'. If she goes the way of her Aunt Meredith she'll be putting in heavy hours of hard work by the age of 10.

Hanging out at the shampoo bowls.

"Can I get a shampoo please"

Visiting with Aunt Meredith at the front desk.

Getting some color samples at the paint store.

Blue and Purple, I approve!

It's been interesting to watch in the past two months what a huge difference walking has made in her development. It's like overnight she's a walking talking toddler who can go anywhere and do anything, or at least attempt it. Of course when things don't go her way, she is also capable of throwing a tantrum or temper tampers as my brother THINKS they're called. I need you guys to let me know if any of you have ever heard of that term before. It's temper TANTRUMS not temper tampers...he's crazy. I will admit though that Temper Tamper is a much cuter word, so I think we'll go with it. He's always been good at inventing words.

I'm starting to realize that about 75% (made that up) of Molly's pictures are of her eating in her high chair. I guess it's because she is always doing something I think is clever in there. It's probably also because her chair keeps her in a stationary place for more than a second, so it's easier to take pictures of her there. Otherwise I'm chasing her, trying to snap my fingers, whistle...whatever I can think of to do to get her attention. I'll finish with a series of Molly in her chair.

I'm not quite sure why, but almost every meal ends with at least one foot on the tray. She's also taken to trying to eat with her feet as well. I may have had something to do with this. One day I stuck a chunk of banana on her toe while she was eating...whoops.

One of the benefits of having a husband in the farming industry is the fresh produce. Jonny brought home some amazing corn the other day, and it was a big hit with Molly too. It's amazing how much better things are when they come straight from the field or better yet our garden. Actually it isn't that amazing at all, it makes perfect sense.

We don't do baby food much anymore, but if I'm slacking on cooking dinner, or if she just isn't into what we're having, we still give her a jar here and there. Well today she was trying to drink from the jar, so Jonny had the genius idea of giving her a straw and letting her drink her peas that way. She didn't drink too much, but it was pretty funny that she went for it at all.

Slurp!

Yogi

Ugh I've been such a slacker! Must...keep...blogging...Usually when I don't post it's because I've also been slacking in the photography department, but this time I've just been lazy. Of course now I have a ton of pictures that I want to get on here.

Lately Molly's been all about new perspectives. She enjoys looking under things, just to see what's going on, and if nothings available to look under, she just looks under herself. It cracks me up because she loves it if you get down and look at her and of course she loves to wave at you from between her legs. Super Freaking Cute! She's going to be a little Yogi just like her aunt Cassie

Downward Dog

She's also still really into cups and now that she's figured out where water comes from, she's all about trying to fill her cup up.

Two weeks ago, (That's how bad of a blogger I've been) we went to Granny Kathy's house for a bbq. The highlight for me were Kevin's awesome ribs, the highlight for Molly were the turtles. I don't think it really sunk in that these were real live turtles (well I suppose they're actually Tortoises but do we really need to explain that to a one year old?) to her "tut tles" are little bright green plastic things that she plays with in the bathtub, but I'm sure she'll figure it out eventually.

Standoff with the turtle.

Getting some love from aunt Cassie.

Hanging out with Granny.

Molly's hair has been getting longer and thicker and the other day when I was trying to clean crap (not literally...although I wouldn't rule that completely out as a possibility) from lunch out of her hair, I gave her a little spike. She was trying to squeeze as much water as possible out of a wet paper towel, which is why she has that little puckered up face.

If you click on this to see the big version, you can check out all of Molly's teeth. She's still working hard on the laterals (proper name courtesy of Ramsey) but they haven't popped through yet.

Last Wednesday, Ramsey and Grayson came over to visit. Grayson and Molly are the cutest when they're together. Grayson is 6 months older so he's at that "mine" stage and Molly is completely oblivious to his distress which makes it pretty funny to watch.

Playing in the baby cage.

I've gotten pretty good at capturing Grayson crying, but this one is probably my best.

"I like you better when you're in and I'm out."

I'll end the post with a bonus picture of Molly looking peaceful. Trust me, it didn't last for long.