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Sunday was the big day, and I'll just head right into it.  It all started at around 10 when the guy from the jumpy place showed up. I'm not sure why,but Molly kept calling the guy "Allen" I'm pretty sure that wasn't his name and I'm pretty sure that he never even told us his name.  Anyhow, a big thanks to Allen at Little Mosterz Jumpers. Molly and Jonny were supposed to go out and pick up some helium balloons for the party, but once the Strawberry Shortcake jumpy was up, balloons were apparently unnecessary. 

Maggie enjoyed bouncing around too.

Catching some air.

She was so excited about the musical/talking cards that her grannies gave her that she had to bring them into the jumper to dance with them.  It was pretty funny

  Every little kid always goes straight for the frosting.

She kept talking about how she was so excited that all her friends were coming over. 

Kate and Maggie, too cute! 

Best bud Grayson!

 That's my girl!

I'm going to call it, no more than 3 weeks until this one in crawling.

My mom got Molly a really cool "princess tower" for the playroom.  Maggie was playing peekaboo with

me.

I might have to start a separate blog where I post pictures of the places Molly falls asleep.  Still haven't figured out the nap situation.  Today she napped for an hour (I had to wake her) and she didn't go to bed until 10.  In a perfect world she would take a nap and still go to bed from 8-9.  When has Molly's sleep ever been perfect though?

I went to put Maggie down for a nap and left her watching shows on the ipad (mother of the year over here).  Anyhow, this is where she was when I came back.

We have an infestation of mosquitoes and fairies.  The mosquito problem is mainly in Molly's room at night.  She's been waking up in the morning with really bad bites. One bite was right between her eyes and she swelled up so that she looked like one of those creatures from Avatar.  A week or so later she got another bite on her eye and her eye swelled up so that she looked like Chunk from Goonies. I thought maybe it was spiders (heebie jeebie) but after I got bit I decided it was probably a mosquito.  In the end I think the fairy infestation is going to be more difficult to deal with.

Maggie's getting good at using a cup.  I wish she would get better at sleeping.  I can't complain too much about naps.  They're not consistent yet, but she's been pretty good about taking 2 naps a day for at least an hour each.  The first 2 nights in the crib went poorly, but then she had 2 really great night where she only woke up once to eat.  Then that ended and she's back to what she was doing in the Amby which was waking up twice a night. It does suck having to walk across the house when she gets up, but it's also nice to have our room back.

Jonny has a new fishing buddy.  They've gone out three times now.  Maggie and I even went with them once.  So far, no fish...

but some awesome dance moves!

So, Molly's 3 and Maggie is 7 months in a week.  It's funny how you're simultaneously excited for them to grow up ("please start sleeping through the night!/learn how to share") and sad that they're getting so big!  I can't even remember how we got from "oh" to "Mommy you smell like yuck!"...well maybe if you two would let Mommy take a shower without screaming...

Day, play, we play all day!

All I did today was play. I was going to run some errands, but it was soooo windy, I just couldn't make myself do it. I suppose that's a perk of my current life, I do have the luxury of occasionally saying "screw it-I don't want to leave the house today". I appreciate that the wind is keeping us from tumbling endlessly into summer, but I hate it. So errands can be run by daddy this weekend (thanks Jonny...we need milk)Today we play!

Sorry.  My kid refuses to wear pants. 

Something that I love right now is how Molly narrates everything she does in song.  It's adorable and hilarious and sometimes a little obnoxious, mostly it's awesome though.  Here she is singing about Jasmine's head being the wrong way (as she turns it exorcist style)

and then being the right way.  Poor princess dolls.

I made a fort/tent/tunnel.  Also, she said it was a train.

This is a curtain tieback.  Sometimes she calls it "wrist rope" and just wiggles it around.  Sometimes it's much more.  The other day she was on the bed and she wanted me to "pretend Rapunzel and tell me to let down my hair"  I did and then she says "Oh-No!  My hair is too short!  Oh! I have a good idea! (throws wrist rope down like Rapunzel hair) You can use this!"  Wrist rope has many uses.

Maggie got in on the tent action too.

We read a little,

Molly told me stories.  Crocodiles are a common theme (I keep telling her they're not native to North America, but she's still concerned)

Maybe you didn't know, but Molly can fly!

Only when not wearing pants though.

She finished off with a good old fashioned mummy wrap...and then fell over.

It was fun, but now it's night and as the quote from the title continues, "Night, Fight, We fight all night!". (Facebook has informed me it's Dr. Seuss week.  But really it's always Dr. Seuss week at our house) Maggie is spending her first night ever in her crib. Tonight was the second time that she rolled completely over in the Amby, so I guess we're done with it. I'm not looking forward to dragging my ass across the house when she wakes up. I'm going to start out hopeful and believe (stupidly I'm sure) that she will now magically sleep all night in her crib. Wish me luck!

Baby Costume

Molly cracked me up the other day.  I had the boppy on my lap and she came up to me and laid down on it.  I said to her that when she was a baby I used to hold her on the boppy all the time.  Then she says to me "I used to be a baby until Maggie stole my baby costume."  I suppose that's one way to look at it!

Maggie, in her fabulous "baby costume"

Molly's been talking about fishing a lot lately.  Jonny has a fishing pole rigged up with a tennis ball so that she can fish for "Dinkfish", but she's been asking REALLY go fishing.  Jonny being the awesome dad that he is took her out and got her a pink fishing pole and took her out.  No fish were caught, maybe next time...they're probably going to have to find a new fishing hole.  Maybe her and Grayson can be fishing buddies.

Jonny said that she wore the had the whole car ride and then promptly took if off once they got there.

Little Joker

The other day, Molly reached another important milestone: She made an original joke. For a first joke, it was actually pretty funny.  We were finishing up dinner and I asked her if she was full or if she wanted more to eat.  She said that she was full and so I commented that I better not hear any demands for special treats since she was apparently "sooo full".  She then, with a huge grin on her face says "I want a special treat!" and then starts laughing hysterically.  Since we were laughing too, she wanted to capitalize on the moment and she kept shouting over and over "I want a special treat!"  Hilarious.

We went to gateway park the other day with my mom.  We had a good time except for all the creeps.  For some reason they're really attracted to that park.  The Wetlands park is also by the river and also in a questionable part of town, but for some reason it never seems to attract them like gateway.  The first time  it wasn't creeps as much as it was the obnoxious truants who didn't seem to care that they had parked themselves at the bottom of the only slide that Molly was capable of using at the time.  This last time it was some guy who came over to the Ramada right by the playground, took his shirt off and started doing an interesting array of calisthenics. We went back and forth on whether or not we were being too judgemental.  In the end the fact that he had been sitting perfectly happily (and still) over on the other side of the park before we arrived and his need to not wear a shirt (It's not even summer) were what made him particularly creepy to us.  We left shortly after.

  Molly with the coots (birds not creeps)

Going down the big slide!

Once again, Molly helped out with some painting.  This time it was the back of Mere's house.

Maggie hanging out in the K'tan

Here's Molly's Valentine's Day breakfast

Here's mine.

Anyone else watched Portlandia?  If not, this won't be as funny to you.

Look at this baby:  So boring.

Put a bird on it!

As a side note, I actually took these last two pictures on Manual.  Nothing too impressive, but they're not blurry...it's a start.

Pirate

This evening we went out to dinner and I almost had my first "embarrassed by what my kid is saying" moment. A man walked in, he had a shaved head a gold hoop earring and a shirt with a skull and crossbones and Molly says "Hey! It's a pirate!" Seriously though, how exciting for her. You're just sitting in La Casa and then what do you know? A pirate walks in! I don't think he heard and if he did he didn't throw us any dirty pirate looks or shake a hand hook at us (Thank God he didn't have a hand hook!). I'm sure there will be more of that in store for us in the future, she's full of observations.

Whenever we go to the paint store she likes to get all the sundries out.  I suppose it's payback since that's exactly what I used to do.

These next picture are why I had to post two days in a row.  She's just too cute to resist.

These first two look like she's dancing.

Dude is scary!

She can pretty much sit by herself now.  She looses her balance occasionally, but she's pretty good!

 

I HATE pictures of myself, but I'll allow this one since Maggie looks so cute peeking out.