Uh Oh!

Yesterday during church Molly dropped her toy then looked at me and said,"uh oh!"  As soon as I picked it up she did it again.  She's continued our new little game today with her raisins, muffin, and binky.  I should probably use this game to dropped the pacifier into the garbage and say,"uh oh" and "bye bye".  I just can't help but wonder if I'm ready to take on a teething baby at 3am without any ammo!

Precious Girl

Our sweet little Molly has given up crawling this week.  She loves being on her own two feet and is finding all sorts of new toys at eye level.

I'm finding it harder to get Molly to pose (the camera is far too enticing) so I've got to take advantage of every shot she gives me!

Even though the cougars are struggling on the football field, we do our part to support and cheer them on.  Luckily we've got another favorite team that's showing us some love.  Go NAVY! (We have shirts for them too!)

Sept 12th Sunday Shot

Molly is growing up so fast, and she is walking full speed ahead through out our house.  After church we set her down in the gym and she really found her wind.  Having such a big room to roam in, she loved marching around.  We also apologize to our fellow ward members for the high pitched squeal in sacrament meeting today...we are still working on our "quiet voice".

Sunday Shot - 1 year

It's hard to believe we've been doing "Sunday Shots" for a year!  Molly now walks as much as she crawls, loves scrambled eggs, drinks whole milk from a sippy cup and says,"ooo! ooo!" when she sees a dog.  Today when she woke from her nap she called out,"Mama!"  And when she peed on the bathroom floor as I was about to put her in the tub I couldn't help laughing and thinking how blessed I am not only be a mom, but to be sweet little Molly's Mama!  I look forward to a lot more firsts in this next year of Molly's life!

Birthday Fun!

Molly had such a fun birthday!  We started off the day opening some presents, which took quite awhile since she wanted to play with what she opened instead of opening more presents.  After Molly's nap we went to the zoo and then we got together with some friends for a birthday celebration.  It was the perfect day!

I had so much fun planning and decorating Molly's cakes for her party!

Molly tried to grab the flame on the candle 

while we were singing to her.

mmmm...cake! YUM!

playing with her new toys

Daddy and his birthday girl!

Taking a break from opening presents to read a story!

Happy Birthday little one!  We love you!

Happy 1st Birthday Molly!

We love you! 

xoxoxo

This is Our Normal...

Our Family Room Before We Go To Bed:

Our Family Room When Molly Wakes Up:

I Love Normal! 

Hope You're all having a Normal day!

52 Weeks Old!

It's hard to believe that almost a year has passed since our sweet little Molly arrive.  Last year at this time we were in Missouri waiting for the birth of our precious girl (who was due on the 31st but delayed her appearance 3 extra days!)  She's such an amazing little girl, so full of life!  You'll have to excuse the extra sap and emotion...I've spent the last few days looking back at this year with Molly and feel so blessed to have her in our lives.

Molly's getting pretty confident on her feet.  She spends a lot of time standing and will usually take a few steps, squat down, stand back up and start the process again.  When she needs to get somewhere fast she still crawls.

Who knew that a pair of flip flops could be so fascinating?  Molly continues to be curious about everything and loves to figure out how things work.  We have a little sound spa tucked into a stuffed animal that we have velcroed to her crib (sleep sheep).  Toward the end of Molly's nap on Friday I heard a big thump from her room so I ran upstairs to make sure she was okay.  She was standing in her crib with a big grin on her face.  I looked around to see what had caused the noise and saw the sound spa on the floor.  The sheep was still velcroed to the crib, but she'd figured out how to get the sound machine out.  Now when she wakes up from her nap she takes the sound spa out of the stuffed animal and has figured out how to press the buttons to change the ocean sound to the rain or whale sound.  A few times I've walked by her room and discovered she was awake only because I could hear the sound spa making a different sound from what I'd set it to.  Clever girl!

Standing on My Own Two Feet...

One of Molly's favorite new tricks: playing with her toys while standing - all by herself- and even taking a few steps.  Our little baby is growing up!

3 Weeks 'til my Birthday!

Just when we started to settle in after our vacation, Molly and I caught a virus and spent the bulk of the week in bed.  So much for my fun filled birthday weekend.  Last night we were both feeling much better and even got a few laughs from our little princess!

Put on a happy face!

It's no fun to get your picture taken when you're not feeling well, but I didn't want my birthday to go by without getting at least one picture.  We bought gluten free cupcakes from Whole Foods and put our smiles on.  (Molly loved the candle!)  Shane was a real trooper taking care of two whiny girls all weekend.  He deserves a medal!