Playdates and More

I've had this post just sitting in my drafts for a couple days now and I should really do something about it!
Molly actually has had a pretty big week. The biggest thing that she has achieved is crawling. While she isn't graceful or efficient, she is definitely getting from A to B, assuming you provide her some motivation. Along these same lines, she is now able to go from laying down to sitting up. That was kind of funny because she just started doing it without any fanfare or effort. One minute she couldn't, next minute she could. That of course meant that we had lower her crib down so she wouldn't attempt any triple gainers out of the crib.
Also new on the Molly front are some new interesting sounds. When she's in her high chair eating puffs, that's when she really goes to town babbling away. By far her favorite new noise now is growling. You can check out the video to get a sample.


She's pretty vicious! I like to think she's practicing for Halloween or something :-)

I don't really have much for the rest of the post but I do have some pictures that I've been meaning to get up on here.

Ramsey and I have been getting together on Wednesdays every once in awhile, we do it first thing in the morning since that seems to be the only time that Molly and Grayson are coordinated.


Riding Grayson's Tractor

Playing Nice!

Hanging out and looking cute.

Here's a picture from Blaine's birthday party a few weeks ago. I had thought that this was Molly's first trip to Lute's Casino, but we do end up there a lot...so I'm not so sure.

The next two are just some cute ones that Mere took the other day.

Sweet Thing!

Crack Baby

Now I know that a real "crack baby" probably wouldn't be this happy, but sometimes Molly gets so riled up, you'd think she was on something. This video is a good example of her going bat shit! Also notice that her waving skills are getting better.





I don't really have much for this post but I thought I would get one more in before Grandma and Grandpa come home from Missouri. They were gone a whole month this time, so we're very eager for them to get back to Yuma.


It took me awhile to get this picture off my phone, but I finally did it. This picture was from a few weeks ago when Jonny took Molly and I ditch fishing. Jonny's been on a fishing kick lately, but he likes to do it Somerton style...in a ditch.











This picture is for Grandpa, he's been wanting to put Molly in a bucket and cart her around since she was born. I don't think she's quite ready yet, but I thought we should get her used to the concept





Pig faced Molly in a bucket.

I'm still over the dogs, but Molly is just getting to know them, here she is scooching over to see what Riley feels like. It's funny, she always screams and laughs at them, me I just scream at them.





Lately Molly does these little Jane Fonda style leg lifts, it's pretty cute





Down....and Up!

Work it Molly work it! Feel the burn!

Molly the Sailor Girl

Evey time I look at this picture I just crack up. My sister in law Stephanie saw my previous blog and how I wished I had the computer savvy to edit the picture with a pipe and she totally nailed it and completed the Popeye look with a sailor hat. I love it! Thanks Steph!

Well Molly has been up to a lot of things in the past week or so. The most exciting thing for me has been the purchase of a high chair. I had been putting off buying one because we don't have a lot of space for extra furniture but I decided that feeding her without one is just too difficult. It's the best thing ever. It does make my kitchen a little more cramped than it already is, but it's worth it. She really likes it and will even sit in it and just hang out and bang things around while I'm doing the dishes and cleaning up, which is awesome.

Here's Molly in her high chair with her sippy cup. She is completely in love the sippy cup and loves to drink little sips of water throughout the day. I haven't given her anything else in it, she's in love with water, so I'm not too worried about trying juice or mojitos or anything else in it yet.

These picture below are what led me to buying the high chair. We had resorted to feeding her in her jump jump. The bumbo never really worked because she was always trying to escape and we moved the swing to make room for the jump jump. You can imagine how difficult it is to feed a baby in this contraption, especially when she figured out how to jump jump. At least it was comical.
"This sucks!"

We give up. Just give it to Riley.

Yesterday Jonny had to leave on a trip for work. Molly was pretty sad so she tried to hitch a ride with him. I should note that she got into this position by herself...kind of scary.

Daddy's little Stow away!


This is funny, we have a similar picture of Dink when she was a puppy.


As you can imagine this is an action shot that ended in tears. Her balance isn't 100% so right after this picture was taken she was on the ground. Boo Hoo!

This video shows what Molly has really been working on lately: Crawling. Thankfully she isn't proficient yet. But I need to seriously think about baby proofing for sure.



Molly Mac, Rocking, Rolling and whatnot!

Hi Hota!

Mere is pretty sure that "Hi Hota" will be Molly's first sentence, because she is pretty much in love with Mahota. She also likes Dude and even Dink and Riley, but Mahota is her favorite for sure. She's always screeching and thrashing her arms around while looking at her, its pretty funny. Here's a picture of her riding Hota like a pony


Get along little Hota!

Dude is alright, but he's no Hota.

Here she is practicing her James Brown dance moves
"Good Golly Miss Molly!"

These next three crack me up. They were taken in succession.

"She's strong to the finish 'cause she eats her spinach...."

I really really wish that I could use some sort of photo editing to put a corn cob pipe in her mouth, but I'm just not that savvy :-(

This one is just cute, all ready for bed. Well maybe not completely ready seeing as I'm going to have to rock her for who knows how long. But in her PJ's anyhow.

I'll finish with a video of one of her new skills, waving. Maybe I should have rethought finishing with a video of her waving "hello" but I'm not going to bother moving it.

Hi Grandma and Grandpa! I miss you!

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Not much news on the Molly front. Her diet is expanding and her sleep is decreasing. I will be grateful for the 8-10 hours that she gives me at night, since I know that not everyone gets that. My mother has informed me many times that she never got that until much much later. I think that her memory must be clouded because I'm pretty sure I was perfect. To complain just a little though, she makes me work hard for her sleep. She isn't one of those sweet babies who nurses to sleep. On the worst days/nights there is hitting pinching and scratching involved. I know to look at her you wouldn't think she could deliver much pain, but she must work out or something because she can totally kicks my ass if she wants to.
She had her 6 month check-up a few weeks ago and he pretty much just told us that she's awesome. Honestly, I don't need a professional to tell me that :-)
Molly is now 6 months and so I went and had some pictures taken. These are the highlights, and some low lights too.


JazzHands!

This one is just too funny not to include.

For some reason the whole time she kept giving the camera this strange little crooked smile, not sure why, but regardless I think we have some winners!

The Princess and her Peas

We have now expanded Molly's diet to include peas. They actually went over pretty well at first. I think she enjoys new experiences and then quickly wants to move on because now she seems to be over peas. One thing that seems to help is having Jonny feed her instead of me. He seems to have far more success than I ever do.
Molly enjoying some delicious pea mush.

Just to continue the whole feeding time theme, Molly has become pretty interested in drinking (just water...not the hard stuff yet). I have given her a sippy cup a few times with a tiny bit of water but what she's really interested in are real cups. She's even starting to operate them better than I thought she would be able to. The other day I had a glass of what had been orange juice, when she grabbed it I wasn't too concerned since it was empty, but then I noticed that she had managed to tilt her head back and get those last few drops out of the bottom.
Molly enjoying some fresh O.J.
This isn't a new obsession and I believe that there are plenty of other babies that have this same interest but I thought it was worth mentioning because it cracks me up. Molly has an uncanny ability to find and grab any tag on anything. They have a whole line of baby toys that have "taggies" all over them. We have a taggy toy, but even on the taggy toy, she always goes straight for the real tag. It's pretty funny.

Finding the tag on the tag toy. Awesome!

Finding the tag underneath her blanket.


This is a good one...she maneuvered her way to the base of her mobile in order to get to the tag on it.

Even when I'm rocking her to sleep, she manages to find a tag. She pulled this one out of the seat of the rocker.

In other Molly news, I bought her a new contraption to play with. It's the same one that her buddy Kate Monster has. I had visions of myself doing the dishes and cleaning the kitchen while Molly happily played in it. There are two things that are true about that sentence 1) My life has become pretty dull if this is what excites me and 2) I have become delusional. While Molly does enjoy her toy to some extent, she doesn't enjoy it enough to let me actually get anything done. Oh-well, they're only little once right? time to enjoy it.

Enjoying some Toucan beak. Are Toucans endangered? Should I be encouraging this?

Weigh in

Molly's been up to more of the same: growing and learning. I took her for a weigh in at Jonny's office the other day. We tried laying her on the scale, but it was too awkward and her legs were just dangling off the end so we sat her up instead. That seemed to work, but she's not 100% at sitting so I was poised ready to catch her or throw myself down to break her fall or something dramatic like that. In the end it wasn't necessary. She's about 16 lbs 10 oz (the scale shows tenths of pounds, not ounces).

Sitting up and looking big

Chunking up!

While we were there Molly and I went and checked out the fire pole they have in their office. She was pretty into it. At one point she tasted it, so far there haven't been any ill effects from that...fingers crossed.

Also new and exciting is the neat new toy that Grayson let her borrow. She's really into it and loves to sit, check her look, and go crazy hitting it and rocking out to some her favorite tunes. She's a big fan of "If you're happy and you know it" and "Head, Shoulders, Knees and toes".
As you can see, she takes it pretty seriously!

I've mentioned before that I'm sort of over my dogs...that still stands.

As if I don't have enough laundry. What you don't see in this picture is me flipping Riley off. I know we live in close quarters and I know that there are a limited number of places to lie down, but I have given them about an eighth of the space in my bedroom for their huge beds. Apparently that isn't good enough.