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She has had a cough for the last few days, now she has a runny nose. She doesn't seem any worse for wear though. If it weren't for those two things you wouldn't even know she was sick at all. I hope we don't get it this time...fat chance, eh? :)
Molly has slept through the night all this week, with the exception of one night I accidentally woke her up. She is sleeping from around 8 pm until 6-7 a.m. or later. I can't believe it!
Molly finally graduated to a bigger car seat today, and is forward facing now. She looks so grown in her new car seat. She was happy, and excited! In less than two weeks our baby will 1 year old! It is so hard to believe that the year has gone by so quickly.
We are planning a birthday party for her at one of the Provincial Parks here in Quesnel. It should be really nice. We are going to make her a cupcake cake. I am not sure what the design will be, but I am sure it will be great.
Well, Molly decided she wasn't going to wake up all night last night...at 7:40a.m. this morning I decided she needed to get up. It had been over 12 hours since she had anything to eat, and nearly 12 hours since she had her diaper changed. I had been keeping an eye on her through our video monitor, and knew she was ok. She had made her rounds around the crib.
She was so cute when we went in there laying on her side with her hands together under her face. Yesterday after getting her morning bottle at 7a.m. she fell back to sleep, as did Mommy, and Daddy...2 1/2 hours later Mommy wakes up, and Molly is still asleep. I had to go wake her then too.
I guess she is going through a growth spurt. She usually wakes up at least once during the night mostly, and then mostly she has woken up by 5 or 6 a.m. for a feeding. Sometimes she bypasses the middle of the night waking, and gets up around 5 or 6 six for a bottle, then goes back to sleep. Well, today was a whole lot different. I wished I knew what triggers her patterns.
Her sitter took her out yesterday for 3 hours while I cleaned house. I guess the walk yesterday really wore her out.
Well, that beats all...after I wrote this entry Molly fell asleep in her crib after having her bottle...I decided I was still tired too, so I laid back down as well, and fell asleep.
Molly woke up at 10 a.m.! Of course I did too, and that is after she woke me up....lazy girls! :)
Molly has passed the second test of being a Southern girl.... Molly had biscuits for the first time over the long weekend. She likes them. I gave her little bits of the soft inside, and little bits of ham. She really liked that. I told her that her Grandma, and Grandpa Jerry will be proud. :)
Well, Spring has definitely arrived...we have all be sneezing around here. I am afraid that Molly has inherited her Mommy and Daddy's allergies to the Spring.
The pollen has been coating everything for about a week now...very late coming here. It is probably all about gone back in 'Bama now.
Greg, and Molly love to play this game where he puts Molly on his head, and wears her as a hat. I then say "MOLLY HAT!!!" She loves it. Her daddy can really make her belly giggle. :)
It is hard to believe in one month our baby girl will be one year old! It is crazy. :)
She is growing so fast. She still isn't walking yet, but she is progressing. She just doesn't have the confidence yet to let go of things. She is eating finger foods better, and eating stuff like cheerios, and goldfish really well. She is a speed demon at crawling. She is so cute, I haven't taken any new pictures of her sleeping, and I did have one of her sleeping with her butt in the air, but I deleted it by mistake. That is her favorite way to sleep. Her little knees will be so red the next day from being on them all night. It is so cute. :)
I can't believe that in about 5 weeks my baby will be 1 year old! Where has the year gone? She is changing so much, and she amazes us with something new everyday. She has such personality, and you can see how smart she is. We are very proud of our little one. She isn't walking yet, but she soon will be, she's working on it. :)
Molly finally cut those top two teeth!! We have been waiting, and waiting, and waiting it seems like. So now, even though they aren't all the way in, she now has 4 teeth! Now, I have to look up which ones come next. Molly didn't like her dinner tonight. I had made her sweet potatoes,and I mashed up some black eyed peas, and mixed it in her sweet potatoes. She was not a happy camper at all. I don't think it helped that she was a bit tired. So, I won't be doing that again. :)
Here is a picture of Molly from today. She is getting so big~!
10 1/2 months of luck just ended!!!! We have been really fortunate not to have any explosive diapers with Molly. Our luck has ended, and the days of complete grossness are about to begin! :P
The real fun is about to start!! :)
Molly loves Pico, and she will try everything she can to get to him. He really is motivation for her. :)
Now that is a name, I don't think I have thought about in 30 years. I was talking to Greg about getting Molly a toy with zippers, buttons, and snaps on it. She loves zippers, and I thought something like that would be ideal for her to play with. Then in the archives of my mind...the name Dressy Bessie popped into my head. I had forgotten I had a doll as a little girl that had a zipper, snaps, buttons, ribbons, and buckles on it, so that I could practice to do those things. Her name was Dressy Bessie. Now, searching the internet, I have found very little about this doll, except that it was made by Playskool around 1976. I have found a couple of pictures, but it appears that she had different styles. It even looks like they have an updated model...though I don't think it is made anymore. I have to go take a look on Playskool's website to see.
Here is a link to an ebay auction picture
Dressy Bessie
I took Molly to a drop in playgroup today, and while we were there she stood alone for like 5 seconds....now she had on her sneakers, but still she did it. I was so excited.
I stood her up, and let her go, and she just stayed there. YEAH!!!! :)
Our baby will be walking soon. It is such a great feeling. :)
I decided to try dry toast with Molly today. Well, as I suspected it got crumbled up, and ended up everywhere but in her mouth. She will put things in her mouth on her own, but if you give her something to put her in her mouth she will just play with it. Go figure? :) Silly baby!
Well, Greg and I purchased our first baby gate yesterday. Molly is getting pretty efficient at her little inch worm crawl. She crawled from her bedroom to the hall yesterday. I was right with her, but we decided that it was for sure time. The other day she surprised us by crawling a good 6 feet from where I had her playing in the living room. I was cooking dinner, and watching her...well, to my surprise I turned my head to see that she was still playing where I left her, and she wasn't there. She had crawled out of view! We were so surprised. She is growing so fast!
Except we still don't have any upper TEETH!!!!
Poor Molly is having a hard time with these next teeth. She is suffering for it pretty badly this go around...drool diarrhea, diaper rash, fever, and waking up at night, and of course the usual buckets of drool. I hope she cuts those teeth soon, her little bottom is in overtime. :( She cut her first tooth at 6 months...now it is 3 months later. It is about time. She will probably be one of these kids that cuts a few, and then goes awhile. Lovely! :)
Well, there is no doubt about it...Molly is stubborn, and she gets it from me. She is very persistent, determined and curious as well. I hope that she keeps up the persistence, and determination for some aspects of her life. :) Her newest thing is that she does not want in her exersaucer much...She will even draw her legs up to avoid being put in it. She is a tricksy little one. :)
The day after Molly turned 9 months, we had a small incident. She decided to take a tumble off our bed, and hit her face. She scuffed up her nose, but she is no worse for wear. I had put her on our bed, and surrounded her with pillows thinking that this would corral her long enough for me to run down the stair for her pacifier. I was sadly mistaken. I heard the thud as I was bounding back up the stairs. It was that quick. I felt horrible, and I know she did. I guess I have learned my lesson on that, and she won't be left unattended where she could hurt herself. Since I started this draft on the 14th...her nose is completely healed. The scab fell of two or three days ago.
She is really talkative these days. She really gives Greg, and I a talking too sometimes. I wonder what she is getting on to us about?
She is so expressive these days too. We are easily amused with her cute expressions, and antics. :)
She is definitely teething again, and is trying hard to push some more teeth through. We haven't had any new teeth in a couple of months or more. She was very fussy, and whiny today. the whining really bugs me. It drains my energy, and patience faster than anything. I just wished I knew what I could do to ease her discomfort. I gave her some Tylenol, and I cuddled with her on our bed, and she fell asleep in my arms.
She weighs close to 20lbs now, and growing everyday. She is in a size 12 months in most things already! :) She has been pretty much on the mark for her clothing sizes up until she became 6 months old.
Molly is clapping, and waving now. She is so cute when we go out, she will wave, and smile at people as we go by. She is such a social baby. :)
I am going to try to find her a new physician next week, so we can get her a check up. She hasn't had one since she was 6 months. We have had a very healthy baby. She has only had two colds thus far.
She is still trying to crawl, but is inch worming it for now. :)
That is about it for now.
She has been on this planet about 2 weeks longer than she was in the womb! :)
Molly shuns her Southern Heritage!!! To say the least grits are not a hit at this time. They were just plain old instant cheese this time,with no butter or salt for obvious reasons.
I guess we will try again when she can have them the right way :) The video is priceless! :)
YUM!
