I’ve thought so many times over the last six months of fun things to blog about or funny stories to share and have found it so difficult to get anything written that won’t aid me in filling in the baby books that are sitting neglected to the side of the computer. My sister and sweet little niece are coming to visit in a month or so (oh happy days ahead) and Rachel promises to provide me a few hours to dust off the old baby books and get started. God bless her!

So here are a few things to note in Molly’s baby book. She got her first two teeth (on the bottom) at the end of May (I actually noticed the first one for the first time on the 22nd). They are really standing out now and look super cute, but make her habit of gnawing on my skin a bit less pleasant. I neglected to say in her crawling post that she could also pull herself up to standing. Well now she is extremely skilled at getting up & down around furniture and is even starting to walk along it (technically called “cruising” I believe). Tonight she walked behind a little chair (pushing it across the room) for a good 6 feet. JR has started holding her hands and encouraging her to take steps and she seems up for it – wow! Livy wasn’t walking until after her 1st birthday, but I guess Molly is anxious to keep up with her big sister. She really is much more active than Livy ever was and is such a climber and curious little cat. All this activity (and a bit less formula) has caused her to trim down quickly and her hair is just long enough to curl at the ends (especially since we’re sweaty most of the time with all this 100+ degree weather lately) so she is starting to look much less babyish all of a sudden. Unfortunatley, she is still not sleeping through the night, but the little munchkin is just so adorable and almost always pleasant and easy-going so it’s hard to hold it against her.  

Livy is really in to signs (as in ASL) lately (more on that in a future post – hopefully with a video dictionary because it is SO cute!) and would desperatley love Molly to start signing so we have been working on some starters like “more” and “all done.” I think she recognizes them but hasn’t really done it yet. She does clap on cue and wave bye-bye, though. Much to our delight she is starting to understand the word “no” – yep, to show you she hears you she shakes her head no and laughs. She’ll also shake for yes and it’s adorable to hear Livy saying, “Molly’s saying yes.” She also looks very grown up as she happily eats her table food wanting everything that Livy has – especially popcicles. In fact, I don’t think we’ll be buying anymore baby food because she simply will not eat it if there is any other food in sight. Another good sign: her favorite toy lately is a baby doll. She will crawl over to them and pick them up and sit and play for a good 10 minutes (remember, that’s a long time for a baby!). Looks like we’re in good shape for adding her new baby sister in about 10 weeks!!