Comments on: Our Growing Girls – Molly (22 months)

By: 7 Quick Takes (take 8) at Andrews Family

7 Quick Takes (take 8) at Andrews Family — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 04:21:45 +0000

[...] Molly [...]

By: G'ma Hatt

G'ma Hatt — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 22:33:20 +0000

Loved your article about Molly–and Violet too. Your descriptions are very vivid so I can just see them doing the things you write about. I’m so glad you recognize what gifts God has given you.

By: Amy

Amy — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:30:32 +0000

She sure is a cute one! I’d kill for those curls on one of my girls. I was so excited yesterday that she knew my name. I didn’t comment on your post about Violet last week, but I’ll say a ditto on the cuteness. I’m excited to see Livy’s update soon, too.

By: Jenny

Jenny — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:04:53 +0000

Wow, I forget that Isiah is so close in age to Molly and now that they’re 2ish, it is starting to show! What a sweet & active boy you have.

I’m glad you asked about Molly’s reaction to being without her sisters. The truth is that it is rare for the girls not to be together, but last week Olivia went to Vacation Bible School each morning and Molly was just sick about it. We would walk her in and say goodbye and then Molly would refuse to walk back to the car, all the while looking at me painfully saying, “Where Wibe, Mama?” The first day after we got in the house, she stood at the door crying for her sister. Most mornings she ended up taking a nap while Liv was at VBS and would be so excited when she woke up because it was time to go get Livy!

Also, yesterday I took Olivia to get her haircut and I was all excited that a friend was keeping the other two so that we could do something special just the two of us. Livy, on the other hand, was upset that her sisters were playing with my friend’s little girls and wanted to be with them. After some coaxing in the van, she was happy enough while getting her haircut, but as soon as it was over she asked if we could go get the babies. I guess all those people who say that if you have “too many” children “too close together” they’ll never get to be alone with their parents never asked the kids if they wanted to be!

By: Jenny

Jenny — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:37:32 +0000

I forgot I wanted to note Molly’s pronunciation of her sisters’ names, too.

Biyet (Violet)

Wibe (Livy)

By: Grandma Kane

Grandma Kane — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:20:31 +0000

Hmmm…I recall a lot of the same behavior as Molly’s when you were small, so you can’t blame the mischief only on JR! You were also concerned when someone in our family was “missing” and couldn’t rest until they all came home again!

Thanks for the posts about Violet and Molly–it certainly helps us “know” them better! I’m anxious to see them in Sept.!

By: Aubrey

Aubrey — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 03:37:47 +0000

Wow, what a beautiful little girl! I love the marker everywhere. That’s what Isaiah looked like yesterday when I found him downstairs alone with a box of markers. It doesn’t look like she got as much on her face as he did! It looked like an ink bomb exploded in his mouth!

She sounds like she’s really ahead of the game developmentally! Your post reminded me of the differences between boys and girls, as Isaiah is two months past two and speaks but doesn’t articulate like Molly. He will crawl, climb, and stomp on anything and has good physical coordination. He has recently developed a love for driving little cars around. He’ll carry at least one in each hand wherever he goes.

How does Molly react if you go somewhere and drop Livy off or go somewhere without Livy or Violet? It seems that (in our family) the younger siblings feel a little lost without their older counterparts.

My girls are with my grandparents and Isaiah and I dropped Noah off at a campground with Jeremy’s dad yesterday. As we were driving away, Isaiah got very upset and said, “Noah! I want Noah! Where’s Noah!?” It was easy to distract him, though. I said, “Do you want to go get Daddy?” He replied, “Yep.” When he got up this morning, he wandered around the house saying the name of each of his siblings and then, “all gone.”

I’m rambling!