Wednesday, May 30

Fun with Friends!

Molly and I went to her friend Kendan's house this morning to play with friends!  It was a beautiful morning and the kids LOVED playing with all of his water toys!



Ainslie, Lucy & Molly

Sweet Kendan keeping an eye on the girls!


We are ready for Summer - living in the moment, enjoying sunshine and friends!

Monday, May 28

Scenes from a Relaxing Weekend . . .

Our hydrangeas bloomed a month early this year just in time for the holiday weekend!  

Daddy made pancakes!


Dinner and walking around the Plaza . . . 


Staying up late to eat ice-cream on our front porch!

Mike built a stone border for our front flower bed . . . 




Eating lots of popsicles!

Playing at the park . . .


Feeling very thankful this Memorial Day Weekend for all the freedoms we enjoy because of those who have sacrificed their lives for our country!  God Bless America!

Friday, May 25

Happy Memorial Day Weekend!

We have been gearing up for Memorial Day Weekend all week!  Lots of playing outside, celebrating with friends and picnics!  We started the week at a picnic with our friends from church!  Here is Molly eating a really yummy ice-cream sandwich!


Molly and our neighbor, Madelyn swinging their babies on our front porch swing . . . 


Feeding the ducks . . .



We've been eating outside a lot . . .  The weather has been GORGEOUS!

Molly's 1st-ever corn-on-the-cob!  
Here's hoping everyone out there has a wonderful, relaxing Memorial Day weekend celebrating with friends and family and remembering all those who are no longer with us.

Wednesday, May 23

Welcome Everybody!

Molly has been pretending to sing on stage a lot lately - she will stand on a book, a stool - or in this case, her Dr's kit.  She lines up all her "babies" and the 1st thing she always says is, Welcome Everybody!  Then, she grabs her microphone and sings every song she knows!  


Tuesday, May 22

Molly's Art


Molly calls this one - Snake, Lizard, Elephant

I love it!  Can you tell which one is the lizard?

Monday, May 21

20 Week Bump Update!


My friend Maggie, Brooks' mom, took this photo of my BUMP last night at the park while our kids were playing!

Molly Lately . . . Recent Quotes!

The other day, while sitting on the potty she pointed to me and said, When your baby is born and my baby is born, maybe we could switch babies and you can hold my baby and I will hold your baby?

DVR on the TV was not working as I was trying to pull up one of Molly's favorite Doc McStuffin episodes.  Molly looked at me and said, Maybe it needs new batteries or sum-fing!  

We've been visiting a LOT of public restrooms lately - as you can imagine, with a newly potty-trained little girl.  The other day, the older lady in the stall next to us flushed their toilet and Molly exclaimed, Gooooood Job!  I'm going to do the POTTY DANCE for you!  


While eating breakfast together the other day I was writing out our grocery list at same time and not speaking for a couple minutes - she sat quietly and then out of the blue . . . Mom, do you know how much I love you?  

At mass a couple of Sundays ago . . .  Look! Fa-der is wearing a beauuuuutiful dress, mama!

I lost my voice due to allergies this past week and Molly was very concerned.  Daddy and I will find another voice for you . . . *thinking*  . . . Where did your voice go, mama?  *before I could answer* Oh - did the baby take it from you?  The baby in your tummy got your voice, mom?


When Molly brushes her teeth at night - Mike always tells her to turn off the water while she's brushing - to save the water for the fishies in the ocean.  Tonight while she was brushing she said to me as she was pointing to the drain in the sink, Is that the ocean?

The park was crowded last night - Molly was "playing drums" on the bridge and I sat down on the landing on one side of the bridge. Some older boys (age 5?)  jumped up on the landing to run across the bridge and Molly immediately yelled up at them - Watch out for my mom, guys!  {melted my heart!}

And the phrase she says *on average* 6 times a day is -- Watch this trick, guys!  Usually followed by her doing a very ordinary task.

Sunday, May 20

Picnic with Friends!

One of our original friends from Playgroup, Lincoln is moving away!  :(   He was born the same week as Molly and they have been friends since they were 6 months old!  We all decided to celebrate together one more time and met at the park Saturday afternoon . . . of course, we played until sunset!  It was a gorgeous early Summer night!  

Molly feeding Baby Blake - a real life doll!



Check out Baby Emilie crawling after the big kids - Brooks & Lucy playing sword


The kids had a blast!


We brought kites, bubbles and lots of toys!







Lincoln, Avery (his big sister), Molly & Ainslie

We are going to miss you guys!!!

Friday, May 18

Baby Andrew

Spent the day with one of my besties, Gretchen, today and her sweet 4- month old, Baby Andrew!  Molly truly LOVES him.  She even re-named a few of her "babies" Andrew when he was first born! Look at what a Cool Cat he is!  Seriously - can he be any cuter??  Those gorgeous blue eyes . . . This photo does not even begin to show what a HAPPY baby he is - he giggle and smiles all the time!    Here is a pix of Molly & Baby Andrew playing on Molly's "big girl bed" with all her "aminals."  

 

Thursday, May 17

Deanna Rose Petting Zoo!

The weather has been gorgeous here in Kansas City all week - so we met some of our friends at the Petting Zoo the other day to soak in the sunshine!  Here are Molly & Ainslie waiting for the rest of their friends to arrive - blowing bubbles . . .


{Brooks & Molly}

{Molly, Ainslie & Lincoln}

The perfect spot to dance!


{Ainslie, Ellie & Molly}

Feeding milk bottles to the goats - Molly's FAVORITE part!



If I had an endless supply of milk bottles for her . . .I seriously think Molly could do this for 4 hours and not get sick of it!