It's great to be 8 (months old)

Does anyone else think that Feb flew by way to fast?

I'm sooo looking forward to Summer and getting out of the house with Mollie more.  Unfortunately we have to go through spring first and that means WIND. Ugh.

Anyway ta da....8 months old!

We had an interesting 8 month "photo shoot" this morning.  About 80% of the pictures her eyes were closed and the other 20% were funny faces.  This girl has quite the personality and the picture above captured it perfect.

Mollie is amazing.  Everyday I love her more and more.  Motherhood is such an amazing thing, challenging and hard, but amazing.  I took her to the Dr a couple weeks ago, he wants monthly weigh ins, and she gained almost a pound (13.5 to 14.4) between 6 and 7 months which is good.  I have to go again next week for another weigh in.

She is still eating well and doing better with the Gerber Puffs.  She loves taking baths and playing with her bath toys.  She loves to have books read to her.  Still no crawling - she is army crawling all over the place - but I know it will be any day.  She has a little attitude going on right now, it's hilarious, for now.  It probably won't be funny in a couple yrs.  No teeth yet, I'm just waiting for the day.  I've heard it can be miserable for some babies and not bad for others.  Hopefully Mollie will do well with it.  I guess we will see what happens.

Lately the weather has been beautiful so we have taken advantage of it and have been exploring the backyard.  Her favorite thing to do right now is play with rocks (and eat them too).  She isnt to sure about the grass yet.  We also go on lots of walks with Rocky.  She loves to be out and about exploring everything around her.

So here is to another month:

Hello 7 months

Before I know it, I'm back doing yet another monthly post for Mollie.  Next thing I know it will be her 1st Birthday....

People told me the time would go by so fast but I didn't think it would - when your up all hrs of the night/morning with a new baby, when she makes a noise or a little cough and you jump to make sure she is ok, when you literally put your ear by her mouth to make sure she is breathing because she sleeps so still and quiet, when you freak out because she spits up a little, - you feel like those days will never end, and it doesn't go fast at all.  The whole new-ness of being a parent.

Then BAM your baby is 7 months old.  Ok enough of my ramblings.

There really hasn't been much change in Mollie from 6 to 7 months, she has gotten bigger of course, and stronger, she is sitting on her own for longer periods and when she starts to fall over she will catch herself with her arms (most of the time), and she gets on her knees and will rock back and forth working on getting the whole crawling stance down.

One hard lesson we learned is that she is NOT ready for the Gerber Graduate Puffs.....  lets just say choking and puke were involved.  And one freaked out/scared to death mother.

We will not be having those again for a while. a. long. while..

Her taste buds are changing and where she used to eat vegetables good, or at least the Sweet Potatoes, she nows holds her mouth shut and will not let me feed her.  What happens is she gets tired of holding her mouth shut, I wait patiently, and the second she opens her mouth to let out a cry of protest I shove a spoonful in.  This at least gets some veggies down her.  But like most babies she eats the fruit awesome, Bananas and Prunes are her favorite right now.

She is such an awesome baby, and what a personality she has.  I love being home with her and watching her learn new things everyday.  And I still can't believe she is already 7 months old!

Just some pictures

Lately I've captured some great pictures of Mollie and I just wanted to share:

Finally getting enough hair for some Bed Head

 Rocking one of our new headbands from 

Little Hip Squeaks

     Wearing her new beanie from her cousin Cheyenne

Taking her first big girl bath and playing with her ducks

And finally........her first time swinging at the park.
She wasn't to sure about it at first but as I kept pushing her she loved it!

I LOVE this girl so much.

6 Months

Another day, another dollar..
....and Mollie is another month older.

Someone please tell me how to stop this?

This post is a little late because I had to wait for Mollie's 6 month check up to get her stats.  She currently weighs 13.5 lbs and is 26 inches.  Her weight is a little concerning, she is in the 5th percentile, so now the Dr wants me to bring her in once a month to monitor her weight.  Apparently she is growing up instead of out.  Other then that she really is healthy and right where she should be.

This girl....is.a.crack.up!!  She has the most amazing personality, I know, I probably say that a lot, but it's true.  She still wears 0-3 month clothes but is slowly making the transition into 3-6 month.  It's hard to shop because I don't know what size she will be wearing when....so we just wait.  I have a ton of 3-6 month clothes I'm dying to put her in.  Once she out grows those I get to do some shopping because I only have a few items of clothing that are 6-9 month and no pajamas....shopping here we come.

No teeth yet.  She has all the symptoms, has for months now, but still nothing.

She is sleeping all night, in her crib now and is no longer swaddled at night.  This whole process was a major stress for us.  We used to swaddle her at night, and wedge her on her side in the bassinet.  We knew the day would come when she would need to go into her own room and crib to sleep, we were just worried that she would stop sleeping at night (yes we are selfish and like our sleep).  So we just took it one step at a time, first we moved her into the crib waited a couple of weeks, then stopped swaddling her, then stopped wedging her on side and now we put her on her tummy.  So far so good.  An awesome product to mention is her zipadeezip that she now sleeps in and has helped with the transition of swaddling.

Aside from her weight she is eating solids now, has been for a month, and eats them good.  She does really good at breakfast, she loves her rice cereal and fruit.  She was doing good at dinner too until she got sick new yrs eve and threw up her carrots, she won't eat carrots anymore.  She loves Sweet Potatoes and pretty much just eats them for dinner, with more fruit as her dessert.  She actually liked Pea's the first time I gave them to her and didn't even turn her nose up at them.  I haven't tried again since she got sick although I will soon.

She is rolling around all over the place and scooting here and there but no crawling yet.  She does get up on her hands and knees but doesn't stay there long.  She sits on her own but is still a little unstable.  It's crazy that she is doing all this stuff, it seems too soon, didn't we just bring her home from the hospital?

Last but not least she LOVES the mirror, and that "baby" in it.  She talks to her, spits at her, then leans in and licks her, "her" being her reflection.  Its's hilarious....

Seriously, that last picture is to die for.  Those eyes are too much.

And so 6 months it is......

Stuffed Animals

The other day while playing with Mollie we put her in her crib with all of her stuffed animals and let her have a hey day!  She does the funniest thing where she will grab a stuffed animal as hard as her little hands will allow, force it to her face, lick it for a while then toss it around.  It's hard to explain without seeing but it's hilarious.  Now imagine that happening with a lot of stuffed animals.

This is the result of such actions....

11 Years

On the 4th we celebrated our 11yr Anniversary.  Sadly to say I was sick, we actually had all been sick starting with Mollie on New Yrs Eve, then Lorin, then me on our anniversary of course.  So we didn't do anything exciting to ring in the New Yr or for our anniversary but I'm still so blessed to have an amazing husband whom I love with all my heart...and now an equally amazing daughter who I love just as much.  So excited for the New Yr and the new adventures it will bring.

Christmas

I couldn't wait for Mollie's first Christmas.  Even though she is still small and doesn't understand it all yet it was still exciting shopping for her then wrapping all the presents.  We didn't buy her a ton of things, just some books and toys, but it was fun unwrapping all of the presents with her on Christmas morning.

Before Mollie opened her presents my parents came over and had breakfast with us.  I made some scrambled eggs with sausage and some AMAZING Christmas waffles, red and green of course, which are officially a new tradition for the Larson's.

YUMMY!

We then proceeded to let a tired, grumpy, Mollie open her presents.  It only lasted a few minuted before she had enough and preferred a nap over her presents but we still enjoyed every moment of it.

Rocky even got it on the fun.  Or I guess I should say we included him in the festiveness of the day.

After cleaning up, and resting for a while we got ourselves ready and headed to my parents for dinner.  My brother came from Snowflake with his family, we had a nice dinner and enjoyed spending time together.......

.......and of course enjoyed spending our 1st Christmas with Mollie.