Monday, January 26, 2009

A few cute stories

Yesterday at church, a little girl fell down in the nursury. To disctract her so she wouldn't cry, the workers clapped and cheered. Molly watched this carefully. She then threw her self down to the floor, got back up, and clapped and cheered.

She has also decided that my undergarments make great accesories. I will often emerge from the shower to find her with 3 or 4 pairs of panties being worn as necklaces. As you can see, she thinks that bras make great backpacks...



Also, I think we're going to start potty training pretty soon. Molly's begun informing us when she needs to poop. ("Poopoo Poopoo" or "Toot!") The problem is, her potty is too big. We need one that is short baby accessable! She tries though...


In case you can't tell, that is her foot in the toilet.



Monday, January 19, 2009

Tantrum level - 20%

Molly has developed a new... skill. She's decided it's time to throw the occasional fit.

When she is told "no" or removed from the location where she desires to be, she will stiffen, carefully sit/lie down, and proceed to wail.

As this has only happened at home, I just walk away. When she realizes I'm not paying attention, she stops, follows me, and will usually ask for what she wants.

What a faker!

Saturday, January 17, 2009

Busy Girl

The following videos were taken over the course of about 5 minutes. This is pretty much what we do at night.

Molly loves phones. When she started crawling, the pinnacle of motivation was a cell phone in the middle of the floor. Yesterday, we were reading Big Dog Little Dog. When she saw the dogs calling each other on the phone, she grabbed the book, held it up to her ear and said "Hello". As you will see, she has decided that many things are phones...

Molly has enjoyed Peek-a-Boo for a long time, but she didn't start initiating it until she saw a baby at the Portland airport doing it. Sometimes, you don't even have to cover your eyes.

Molly loves to read. She will sit next to one of her bookshelves and pull out each and every book. This can take up to 20 minutes because she actually looks at them. Of course she prefers that mommy or daddy read. Lately though, she's started chiming in...




I love my busy baby. :-)

Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Christmas - Part 2

I want to blog about other things, so I'll compress the rest of the trip into one post :-p


On Monday the 22:
  • Walked to the store in many feet of snow to get clean clothes and other sundries that were not packed in our carryons. Molly of course had a weeks worth of clothes. She's such a good packer.

  • Were rescued by my Uncle Scott who braved great peril to drive up from Portland. 8 people, 10+bags, a medium sized SUV, 6 hours in the car on icy roads. Super Fun.

  • Arrived safely in Portland.

  • Had a snowball fight.

  • Welcomed Uncle Bob and fam into the fold. This meant 16 people in a house that was not meant to sleep 16.
Molly enjoyed spending time with Great Uncle Bob (pronounced Goob). However, he had a bad habit of calling everything in every book "Bob". (After a couple days, she did begin calling him "Uncle Bob", so I guess his strategy worked)


On Tuesday the 23:

  • Walked to the store in even more feet of snow to get groceries and more clothes. 16 people eat a lot.

  • Stored food in the snow.
  • Took cute pictures of Molly in the snow.

  • Shelled crab.

  • Planned to leave the next morning and drive to Boise.


Molly was not sure what to think of the snow. She said/signed "Cold" and I eventually explaned to her that it was snow. By the end of the trip, she was running around yelling and signing "Snow". :-)

On Wednesday the 24:

  • Did not drive to Boise. Highway 84 was just not safe.

  • Made homemade pizza for Chrismas Eve. Fancy!

  • Decided that Molly and I would fly to Bosie Christmas Day. This was decided after about half of the residents went to bed, so they were rather surprised when we weren't there the next morning.

On Christmas Day:

  • Flew to Boise. (Molly and I) Great Grandpa and Grandma felt it was a fabulous Christmas gift.

On Friday the 26:

  • Everyone else made it to Boise.


We celebrated Christmas late, but it was still wonderful. All agreed it was the best visit we'd had in years.








Wednesday, January 7, 2009

Christmas = Crazy Day 1

It was not at all what we planned, but our Christmas trip was wonderful. And by wonderful I mean exactly like a cheesy Holiday movie.
The three of us left for Dallas late Friday night so we could visit with Brian's mom before we went to Idaho. We had a short, but lovely visit and made it to the Airport precisely 2 1/2 hours before our flight Sunday.
Brian, Molly and I were all very very sick with sinus and ear infections. That made every thing that happened... extra fun.
As we unloaded, we realized that we'd forgotten our stoller. Although this means one less thing to wrestle on the plane, it also means much more wrestling of the baby.

The Alaska desk was (of course) closed. Apparently they don't open until noon. And since Brian and I decided to check a bag we had to wait for over an hour. (We could have easily just done carry-ons, but we didn't want to haul 2 carryons, two personal items, a stroller, and a 14 month old.) Next time, there will be no checked bag.

We finally made it to the gate and proceeded to wait for 5 hours. For those that don't remember, Washington and Oregon were hit by a bugger of a winter storm a couple days before Christmas. Where was our flight going? Seattle.

After a couple hours, my mom got a text that our connecting flight (Seattle->Boise) had been cancelled. Still we sat, hoping that we could get to Seattle and go standby. Finally, after nearly six hours we boarded the plane. Then they said there was a possible fuel leak. Luckily (loose use of that word) there was an off duty mechanic on board who got off and helped get the plane ready to go.

The only reason we even made it to Seattle that day was because the pilot and crew were based there and really wanted to make it home. They knew that if the flight was canceled they wouldn't be able to get home until after Christmas.

When we landed in Seattle, I understood why. I've traveled a lot, but that was by far the worst landing condition I've ever seen. It took us forever to taxi beucase the plane was having trouble getting over the ice and snow drifts. Picture that.
Once we were in the airport, we realized that all normal methods of leaving the airport (plane, car, bus, taxi) were not going to happen. The airport was closed, all rental cars were rented, buses were not running, taxi's were booked. My dad (I am not kidding) calls a limo.

We ride to a hotel about 30 minutes away (closest hotel that was not booked) in a stretch Hummer limo. We get to bed at about 2:00 AM.

I leave you with this...



and this.



More to come soon. I need to get pictures off Ryan and my mom's cameras.