Happy 18 months Molly!

Wow. Just wow. I can't believe you are 18 months old already. This surprises some people who meet you because you are pretty tiny, but you make up for it in personality. You are a happy, curious little girl with a flair for drama when it suits you (i.e., tantrums). You are very much a daddy's girl, but will occasionally deign to love on your mama. You think your brother hangs the moon. Any time he isn't in eyesight you ask about him repeatedly--even if he's only in the next room. "Eo? Eo?," you say.

You are a pretty chatty little girl, with I don't know how many words, but possible a few dozen. You can point to all of your body parts (elbow and belly-button are favorites) and can even count to ten with a little help (but you always start at 2 for some reason). You have some two-word phrases ("go away," and "you're funny, ho ho ho," being common ones lately).

You can run with confidence and walk down and up a few stairs. You love to go on bike rides with Papa and outside is one of your favorite places. Coloring is a favorite activity (although we have to remind you that it's only ok to color on paper) and puzzles and blocks keep your attention too. Last night you made a tower of eight blocks all by yourself and probably could have done more except it was too tall for you at that point.

You eat about like your brother did at this age (subsisting on air some days, gobbling lots of food on others) and you love cheese, cereal, bread, fruit, and milk. The other night you had some chicken, tomato, and pasta soup with us and loved it.

You are very independent and want to do everything yourself. You can feed yourself with a fork and spoon pretty well most of the time. You have definite opinions about what you do (and do not) want to wear (already!) but look cute in everything.

You are a busy busy little girl who loves to play, read, laugh, and dance and we love you super much! Mama, Papa, and Leo.

Fun times

I see you

Smiley dinner shenanigans

Warning: May be dangerous to knees

The weather was really nice today, so both Leo and Mason tried riding their bikes without training wheels. Leo did pretty well, but has scrapes on both knees. I'm sure there will be many more before he has it mastered.

Trip to MI

Took a trip to Lansing last weekend for a family wedding (Glenn's oldest granddaughter Mary Linda).  Since Cynthia and Alex were there with 2 year old Sam, and Alison and Marco were there with Carina, this was a great time for the cousins to play. Molly loves her "Sham" (Sam) and Leo and Carina really hit it off.

We went to Impression 5 with the Houstens and Granddad on Saturday.

Playing with Ferrous Fluid at I5

Down the slide with help from Granddad

Water play!

 Leo was not thrilled with the idea of "dressing up" for the rehearsal dinner--he is not a fan of collars or buttons.

Which one is the monkey?

Balloons!

Watching birds with Memaw

 Leo was also displeased by having to dress up for the wedding itself. This was the best we could do with squirrelly toddlers and a cantankerous 1st grader.

That's the best we could do

I'm hoping Bebop and or Uncle Marco got pictures of the kids including Carina.