Busy being a toddler...

Molly is 14 1/2 months now. She is growing so fast, and loving being more independent. I am totally convinced that she will be a track star or a swimmer. She has the strongest little legs, and she uses them constantly. I was bathing her last night, and she kicked her legs as fast as she could, making a huge splashing mess! She is discovering new things everyday. She is starting to dance a little bit to music, and she will spin around, and walk in circle trying to make herself dizzy. She has also had some mini tantrums. She is expressing her feelings much more now, and she lets you know in a heartbeat when she is unhappy.
I had her in splash pool the other week, and she just loved it!

Molly is 14 Months old today!!

Updates soon I promise! :)

Molly's fancy footwork part 2

Molly with her walker

Molly has dots...

Well, Molly hasn't felt well the last few days. She has had some side effects from her MMR immunization, and has had fever, along with what is a very weak, and mild case of non-infectious measles. She has little red dots,here, and there. It wasn't totally unexpected, as they told us that it could happen. She is over the fever now, and just has dots. She is feeling a bit better, though she is teething as well on top of things, so still not perfect. I have made a dr's appt. for her because she has had a cough, and some congestion for the past month. When I took her in two weeks ago, the dr. wanted me to bring her back in if she wasn't over it in 1-2 more weeks. I think Molly actually has some allergies. She seems to keep a runny nose most of the time, and recently she has been rubbing her nose, and she sometimes has red eyes. So it might be dust?? Anyhow, we will see what the dr. says.

Anyhow, she is still not walking completely, she doesn't seem to have the confidence in the house like she had in the park that day. It is just easier to crawl, but we encourage her everyday. She is growing like crazy, and her personality is the cutest. She is a headstrong little girl, and very tenacious. :)

Molly updates....

Well, Molly has now officially been a year old for one week. She hasn't done a whole lot of walking since the big day last week. She still does onesies, and twosies, but nothing big. she is getting more confident, so I suspect she will be running marathons soon. :)

Molly has had a few culinary experiences as of late, and it is amazing she is even my child as I was such a picky eater, and still am to a degree.

Greg has her eating raw onion, raw tomato, and even raw bell pepper. She likes pickled beets, and she has pretty much had a salad minus the lettuce, and dressing. :)

She had her first taste of some serious sugar with her birthday cake last week, and last night she had her first taste of ice cream. She really liked the ice cream. We met Greg's former boss/CEO and his wife for dinner last night. They are traveling around Canada, and were passing through our area. When Molly was 5 months old, Bill said he wanted to be the first one to give her ice cream. He had given all his grandkids their first, and it was such a delightful experience for him. So, it was perfect timing. I told him that we purposefully didn't have ice cream at her party so that he could be the first one to give her ice cream. He was delighted!

We forgot our camera, but they had theirs, and said they would send us the pictures.

Molly is really developing the cutest personality. She is so funny, and she has the cutest expressions. Since she was really small, we have been playing a game with her where we take our finger, and beep her nose. She loves this, and will be highly dissapointed to find out the nose doesn't really make a beeping sound. :)
What is so special about it now, is that she will actually lean into your finger to beep her nose. So if you are moving your finger as to beep her nose, she will push her nose closer to touch your finger. It is so darn CUTE!!

Anyhow that is the latest. :)

Molly Walks for the first time!!!!

We went to the park on Tuesday, and Molly decides she is going to show us all a new trick!! :) It was so exciting seeing her take those major steps for the first time. She had been taking onesies, and twosies for a few days....it will be a full scale run here before we know it!!!! :)

Dora & Diego!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Molly has begun to recognize things she has seen on TV in her everyday world. More so the last few days it has been Dora the Explorer ,and her cousin Diego. Every time she sees either one on TV, or elsewhere she squeals with happiness. It isn't like she sees them on TV that often, maybe for short periods once a day or every other day.

It started the other day when I turned on the TV, and Diego was on. She absolutely went bananas, and squealed with happiness. Then I was in Walmart with her on Friday, and we were in the toy section. We passed something that had Dora on the box. She squealed with happiness once again.

She got a Dora ball for her birthday, and a Dora book as well. Those were the only birthday gifts that she actually responded too...she just squealed with happiness.

I read to her last night from the Dora book, and had laid it on her rocking chair in her room. This morning when I went to get her up to change her, she saw the book, and immediately wanted it. She cried,and wouldn't let me change her until I gave her the book to look at. Oh, boy....Houston we could have a problem! :)

I guess we will have to hide the books, and things with Dora & Diego on them when there are diapers to be changed, baths to be had, or bed time.

I am so glad she hasn't be exposed to Barney, or Teletubbies!!!! :)

Things could be worse, at least she will learn bits of Spanish. :)

Happy 1st Birthday Molly!!!!!! :)

It is hard to believe at this moment 1 year ago, I was lying in a hospital bed with an epidural in my back
awaiting for this little bundle of sweetness to emerge! Officially as of 3:04pm on June 11th, Molly came into our world.
We had Molly's party today, and it was great time. She had a blast. I had only wished she was able to run, and play with other kids. She is getting there though.

First Steps!!!

Molly took her first steps today. It was pretty exciting. It is hard to believe that in one week she will be 1 year old. I started her on the transition to whole milk today. Our baby is soon going to be a toddler. Where did the time go?

Molly has a cold me thinks...

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? :)

Through the night...

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.

Nearly 12 hours straight!!!!

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.

MOLLY HAT!!!!!!!!!!!

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. :)

Molly on Mother's Day

Molly is 11 months old today!!!

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. :)

Molly is 10 months 2 weeks, and 6 days old!

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. :)

Yeah! Teeth!

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~!

DIAPER EXPLOSION!!!!!!!!!!! EWWWWW!!!!!!

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 & Pico

Molly loves Pico, and she will try everything she can to get to him. He really is motivation for her. :)