Molly loves to be flung and flipped around. I don't think she's ever gotten tired of it and wanted to stop. She always just keeps saying "Again!" If I never got tired I think she would keep doing this for days.
This video was taken back in January when the Batsons visited. Molly loves playing games, and peekaboo is an old favorite.
On Saturday, Jeremy made us all a fabulous breakfast, including beignets, sausage and eggs. The baby girls' Great Grandma Dot also came over to visit for the morning. I think Emmie enjoyed being with her, what do you think?
Molly had fun peeking around Mommy at Uncle J at the table.
Sunday brought the biggest snow fall to Birmingham that had seen in years (a mere 2 inches, ha!), but that didn't stop us from making it to Emmie's baby dedication. Jeremy did a great job driving such precious cargo to the church. Here's Michelle and her sweet baby girl on her big day.
We tried our best to get a picture of the sisters and their daughters. It's getting more and more difficult to get Molly to sit still, so here's our best effort.
And one more fun picture to share...Chad caught Emmie mid-sneeze!
Chad, Molly and I flew down to Birmingham this past Thursday to meet our new neice Emily. Molly did great on the flight, however she must have been so excited to meet her new cousin that she decided to skip her nap entirely, even staying awake on the car ride to Aunt 'Chelle's.
We decided to play a little Wii after dinner. Michelle decided to show off her incredible ability to multi-task.
G'mom and Grampa arrived on Friday afternoon and quickly learned that if you are eating a snack that means sharing with Molly! Molly has become quite the mooch if you are eating any kind of snack in front of her.
We tried to get Molly to give Emmie kisses multiple times over the weekend, but this is the best shot we could get. We realized that if anyone was holding Emmie, Molly didn't really want to come to you. Molly didn't act up, and she wasn't mean to Emmie, she just decided that a baby wasn't fun to play with so she tended to stay away.
Molly and I hosted a Mardi Gras playdate today. I was given a boxed king cake mix, and finally had a reason to make it. After the baking was complete, I resolved to leaving the bread making to my mom. Kneading dough is a mess! But, the king cake turned out well.
Molly wanted to wear all of the sparkly necklaces before her friends came over. She wore at least one bead all day, and cried when they had to come off for nap time and her bath. She made sure that Daddy and I were appropriately adorned too.
In addition to playing Mardi Gras music, and eating king cake, we had a mask-making craft for all the kids. I intended to take pictures during the craft, but I had to attend to my own crafter. I was lucky to get Molly to hold her mask like Daddy's glasses for a quick pic.
On a side note, as I was preparing pizza for dinner tonight, Chad asked Molly if she liked pizza, and she quickly responded, "I love pizza!" It was so funny to hear her say that. She is doing very well with her words and sentences.
Hope you had a great holiday season and 2009 is going well so far. Molly had a great Christmas. Her favorite new toys are her car, shopping cart, baby doll stroller, guitar, keyboard and tunnel. Our house is much louder now, and there's a lot less room to walk around! We're amazing my how many words Molly has, and she loves to sing Twinkle Twinkle, Ring-around-the-Rosie, and her ABCs. We even captured some of that on video. Lately, she's been perfecting some of her dance moves too.
Molly actually sings "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" very well all by herself. Unfortunately, she seems unwilling to do it when there is a camera around or other people are paying attention to her. So, for now, all I can get video footage of is her singing with others.
Molly loves dogs, but is also sometimes scared of them. This creates a hilarious reaction to them, as you can see.
Molly is hilarious when she plays with electronics. Yes, that's a calculator, not a phone. Note - when Molly disappears, she's actually looking at the camcorder's screen. Then I flipped the screen around so she could see herself.
