Happy 13 months Molly!

Dear Molly,

Today was your first day of daycare. You are in Ms. Jenny and Ms. Kristin's room. You took a great big two hour nap easily, but not much about the rest of the day went very well until the afternoon. You were not very happy and didn't cooperate too much about eating. However, we think once you get used to it you will like it.

You love baths, going for walks, books, your brother, giving hugs, and ravioli. You can sign: more, hungry, bread, and cheese. You can say "go", "uh-oh", "book/ball", "mama", "thank you," "So far you aren't loving sippy cups, but you do like milk and don't get formula any more. You are steadily walking more each day and I predict you'll be walking more than crawling very soon. You are sleeping than you were a week ago, but you still get up in the wee sma's to eat.

Walking with Papa

What else is in my Easter bag

Off to your first day of daycare

Your hair is still red and you still have dimples. And I really hope you keep them all!

We love you sweetest,

Mama, Papa, Leo

Easter

Had a great Easter in Wilmette--pics from the month are up on Flickr

There's Fairy Tale Ball in there too. The majority of the pics from today are from the Chicago Botanical Garden which was still beautiful even without much blooming. Will post another post with pics soon.

Why yes, we are busy, why do you ask?

I think this month will win for month with the fewest posts since we've been blogging--unless we start cranking out the posts pretty quick. I can't even say for certain what is taking up all of our time, except the usual things--school, work, play.

Leo's last swim class of the session was last night, and just as it ended a tornado warning was declared and everyone in the building was directed to the locker rooms--so Jeff and Leo went to the men's to change and Molly and I hung out in the girls. What a fun 20 minutes! Not. But, even though the storms were really bad and there were tornadoes in the vicinity, Leo and Molly both slept well. Well, Molly didn't sleep well, but it wasn't because of the storms--she just hasn't slept through the night for the last several months. Lately she's been wanting to eat. Or wakes up who-knows-why and doesn't go back to sleep until you bring her into our bed (I know--she's in charge--but you try being in charge at 3 in the morning).

Molly's one-year checkup was last week--she's doing great. She's still in the 7-10% range for weight and height, and 50% for head size. But she is proportionate and doesn't seem tiny. She's 18lbs and some ozs. and I don't remember how long...I'll have to look it up. She's babbling a lot but not saying too many words--"go" and the occasional "mama". She just started taking independent steps in the last day or so--5-6 at a time usually, although we've also seen as many as 10. She's still pretty unsteady on her feet though. She's got two bottom teeth and three on the top.

Leo is still doing great in kindergarten and his teachers have recommended that he go to 1st grade even though he only had the semester of kindergarten. We'll see what the Urbana Schools say when we go to register him later this month.

Molly will be starting in Infant room 3 at the end of the month. For various reasons we think it would be good if she can have at least some time in daycare and we want to secure her spot there in the event that Jeff lands a job soon or for the fall. Even if he doesn't, we'll keep Leo home for the summer and Molly can still go.

She loves to crawl into her carseat and hang out.

Sitting backwards on the scooter and reading a book upside down.

Classic

Comic relief 

It's still red.

Go Molly Go!

March pictures are on Flickr.

Here's a little video of Molly--she'll be walking before you know it.