Friend

We're big fans of magazines around here and Molly has recently discovered that we get one for her too.  We started getting the Friend at the beginning of the year but recently Molly has become attached to her "zeens".  She's flipped through the 9 or so copies that she has and names them too.  Her favorites are "Happy Birthday" (Pres. Monson's Birthday pictures on the cover) and "upside down" (the cover with kids playing on the monkey bars.)  Pretty cute stuff!

Princesses...

We were at the fabric store on Wednesday when Molly pointed to some fabric and exclaimed with excitement "Mama, princess!!!"  Yes indeed, she'd spotted a bolt of princess fabric.  I love princesses, but other than our favorite disney movies, we don't have any princess things in the house.  We don't really talk about princesses and Molly hasn't spent a lot of time (if any) playing with princess toys at other peoples houses.  Knowing that, you can imagine my surprise when she pointed to the fabric with Cinderella, Belle, Snow White and Sleeping Beauty and knew that they were princesses.  It really must be genetic.  Last night she picked out a dvd and instead of asking to watch a "moo-fee" she held up The Little Mermaid and said "Princess".  Where she learns this stuff I'll probably never know, but I'm secretly hoping that she wants to start playing dress-up soon!

Birthday Fun

 Our sweet baby girl turned 2.  Here's the play by play with pictures of Molly's birthday last week:

Wake up.  Ohh and Ahh over the birthday decorations for a millisecond before making a mad dash over to birthday gift - a Molly sized kitchen.

Mmmm breakfast.  Molly's choice: waffles, whip cream, raspberries, whip cream, chocolate milk and whip cream.  There might have been some bacon and eggs in there somewhere, but breakfast really was all about the whip cream!

Open some presents...

Get dressed, go to the car wash (one of her favorite activities), pick up birthday balloons, make cupcakes, talk to grandparents and cousins on the phone, skip nap because we're having too much fun today, and play more kitchen while watching the BYU game.

Molly chose pizza for dinner and then it was finally time for cake and ice cream.  Earlier in the week I showed Molly one of my cookbooks that has a picture for each of the cake and cupcake recipes.  I asked her to pick out the one she wanted for her birthday and she immediately pointing to the picture of strawberry cupcakes. "Happy Birthday!  Happy Birthday!" she sang with glee.  Those were the ones I was hoping she'd pick!

Yum!  They really were good cupcakes.  

(I'll post the recipe on glutenfreebetty.com soon).

 more presents...

Happy Day.   Happy Family.

Molly Loves...

 BYU

Stickers

backpacks, bags and purses

Pink

Purple

Helping in the Kitchen

She pointed out the church as we drove past the other day.

She reminded us to kneel down for prayers this morning

She asked for a purple towel during her bath
-she's getting one for her birthday

while we were making lunch she found the cupcake papers...

She knew exactly what to do with them!