8 months old

Molly is 8 months old today.  I just can't believe how time is flying by!  Here is what she has been up to the last month.

She doesn't crawl on her hands and knees still, but the girl really does get wherever she wants to go, and she gets there FAST!  So we find her in all kinds of places now. 

She loves to crawl to the back sliding glass door and look outside.

Generally, I turn around for a split second and she's already down the hall, usually in search of Sadie.

We have to make sure all things are picked up off the floor now. It is always surprising, and quite humorous really, how a baby can find the one tiny speck of anything laying on the floor (of course, who am I kidding, we have more than one tiny speck laying on our floors pretty much all the time, even when I vacuum multiple times per week!). The gate at the top of the stairs now remains closed when we are upstairs. Cords, oh my goodness, have to be out of reach of little baby hands, or mouths I should say...the girl LOVES to chew on some electrical cords! Yikes!

She pretty much gets to whatever she wants now.

No obstacle too large...

Now that the weather has been warmer and she sits really well, Molly got to have her first encounter with the grass last month.

There were a few moments that she wasn't so sure of it...

 

but overall, she was quite content and just happy to be outside...

I love this picture because it shows her little excited arms cranking...

She loves her big sister and will do pretty much anything Sadie makes her do.

This could prove to be a dangerous combination one day!

She has really loved playing with baby dolls lately.  I love it!  Sadie never was a baby doll kind of girl.  She really loves them now, but when she was a baby/toddler, she would have much rather had a truck or something with wheels to push around.  So what I love most about Molly loving dolls is seeing the similarities and differences between the two girls.  Glad they love each other so much, but glad to celebrate them as individuals too.

Of course we have to worry about cannibalism with this one, because this is pretty much what Molly likes to do with the baby dolls...

I can't blame her!  Sometimes I want to just eat her right up too...she's so cute!  :)

Playing with some of Sadie's other toys...

She has figured out how to eat finger foods now.  I think she would stuff a handful in her mouth if I gave her that many.  She's also tried a few other things....green beans, cheerios, and baked beans so far.

And her most exciting news is that she got a tooth two weeks ago!  The second tooth shouldn't be too far behind because it is really bulging.  The first tooth is still not prominent in her smile yet.  Which I'm happy with....I don't want these girls to grow up too fast.  :)

Since originally starting solids, Molly has really been a messy eater.  Over the last month, she has slowly gotten a little less messy, BUT watch out!  This is what happens when Daddy feeds her...

Hmmmm, that's why Mommy usually does the feeding!  Dads are better for playing!

We all love our baby Molly!  She really makes our family feel full!

Soccer Sadie

Sadie did Lil' Kickers this Spring.  She had fun, but we've decided not as much fun as dance.  Her class started out with 6 little kids, Sadie as the youngest, and ended with 2 kids.  One kid didn't show up on the first day?  One kid quit after the first day because he didn't want to participate (it's a hard age!).  One kid went for several weeks and always seemed to be enjoying it when out of the blue the mom got a refund because she said she had to drag him there every week because he never wanted to go.  The last kid always seemed like a fluke when he did or didn't show up, and at the end, he didn't show up.  So I can't help but think that had the class had more kids, Sadie might have enjoyed it more.  She did look forward to going every Friday morning and seemed to enjoy the full 50 minutes she was there, but just didn't obsess over it like dance.  Perhaps this is what being a little girl is? 

Cute, huh?!!

Taking a water break...

This is what Miss Molly got to do...

The final two standing, Brody and Sadie...



She was also the only girl, and seriously the youngest by almost a year.  She kept up with those big boys though!  That's our girl!  :)  Daniel bought her the soccer "uniform", and that's what she wore every week to soccer.  It's so much fun to watch little kids playing sports!  I can't wait until both girls can play t-ball....talk about fun!

Every heart beats true 'neath the RED, WHITE, and BLUE!

We had a great "America Day", as Sadie called it, and hope you did too!

God Bless America!

Lil Aggies

The Aggies made it to the College World Series for the first time since 1999!  Whoop!  Unfortunately it was a short run, and they lost their first 2 games, but it was exciting none the less!  A&M sports have just had a tremendous year, finishing 8th in the Director's Cup this year!  It has really helped with brainwashing our children up here in Big X country!  How can you not get excited about Aggie sports when they're on OUR t.v. all the time?!  Sadie honestly thinks ALL sports teams are Aggies (as in even the little league teams we see on Saturdays), and we honestly don't do much to correct her.  :)

Proof of the brainwashing...so excited to be in Aggie Maroon....

We'll see ya'll in the fall Aggies!

Looking forward to a great football season!



Dance camp

Well, we signed Sadie up for dance camp this summer.  I really didn't think we would do it.  I mean September through May is really enough dance isn't it?  But she just loves it so much and really seemed to be more and more interested in it at the end of the year, and she really works hard at it.  So we signed her up, and I'm so glad we did!  It was the best little camp for her.  She loved it!  They learned a different kind of dance each day....interpretive dance (not sure what that is?), ballet, jazz, and the highlight of the week...TAP!  Each day they also did a craft.  Then the girls performed a little recital on the last day with a dance from each day, including a corresponding prop made as their craft each day.  It was great!

Tuesday, ballet day:

Sadie has really had tap envy all year.  When she plays "dance class" at home, she tap dances instead of doing anything that she's learned in her own class.  There was a combination ballet/tap class for older girls that was right before her class each week during the year.  Her little friend Makaley was in it.  Sadie won't be old enough for tap until she is 4, but she's learned all kinds of moves by watching this other class each week.  So this camp gave her an opportunity to dabble a little, and I was so glad she got to have her little taste of tap.

On Thursday of camp, which was TAP day!  She was SO excited to put those tap shoes on!

Here are some pictures from the last day when the girls performed for their parents.

Molly excitedly waiting for her big sister's performance...

Interpretive dance...

Doing 1st position (ballet)...

Marching in jazz...

And the highlight of the week, TAP!

Gotta love that Koolaid mustache (and the fact that the dance studio gave them Koolaid! :))...