Molly the nurturer...

Molly's really showing a nurturing side lately! She loves to take her dolls or animals and swaddle them in a blanket and then rock or pat them. She  loves to offer her babies, stuffed animals, lego figurines, etc. some of her milk or food. She also loves to be patted herself or to pat others or even to pat herself! We'll see her on the video monitor in the morning patting her bottom and saying "ahhh, ahhhh...." & apparently she does it at school too. Here's a little clip of Molly patting daddy yesterday morning... very cute!

Daddy's the fun one!

Daddy's definitely the fun parent in our household! I wonder if that's true in most households? But I'm okay with that, especially when I get to watch scenes like these which keep me smiling for days.

Uh-oh... spaghetti-O!

Just a short one today... Molly's been saying "uh-oh" for a few weeks now, which is always funny in my book! We started saying "uh-oh... spaghetti-o" back to her to see if she'd pick that up too, which of course she did. You'll hear her repeat it over and over, but of course, I'm never quick enough to get it on video. Here I managed to catch one clear clip of Molly saying it while getting her hands washed after dinner. Admittedly, it sounds more like "uh-ho... pa deh deh dO" but not bad!

Enjoy!

"Night, night"

One of Molly's favorite games right now is playing "night, night". They've been doing this at school now for a few weeks & Molly loves it. She'll either do "night, night" by laying herself down on a blanket, but more often she plays "night, night" with baby dolls and will rock them to sleep. Apparently, part of this game is to teach kids how to nurture and recognize others' emotions. Here's a little clip of Molly playing "night, night" with grandpa Joe when they were in town two weeks ago.

Grandview Ox Roast

Last weekend we went to the annual Ox Roast in Grandview Heights. It's a three-day community festival run entirely by volunteers to benefit Grandview schools. It's called the "ox roast" not because the park where it's held is on Oxley Road, but rather because they, indeed, roast an ox! On Friday night, after the Grandview High School football game, the team comes to light the bonfire that roasts the ox overnight. Then on Saturday, they serve up ox sandwiches!

We went on Saturday with our friends Ted and Sabrina and their 2 year old daughter, Ellie. We went in time for some live country music and a dinner feast of ox sandwiches! The girls had a great time dancing to the music. Here's a little clip of Molly doing the hokey pokey to some country tunes. Her downward dog pose is Molly actually doing "you put your head in, you put your head out...".

While Molly's dancing is pretty darn cute in my opinion, the cutest and funniest part of the evening was Molly serving as a good luck charm for Ellie and then later a few more kids! I think the video speaks for itself...

visit from grandma & grandpa!

Grandma & grandpa Pintor came for a visit over Labor Day weekend! Molly had a blast & I was very grateful to have them there with Jeremy out of town Fri-Sunday. Molly showed them the in's and out's of COSI on Saturday morning. Saturday afternoon grandma and grandpa took Molly for a short walk & discovered a great little hidden playground behind the houses across the street from us. We couldn't believe we never noticed it!

Here's Molly on the swings with grandma...

It was a rainy weekend so there was lots of time spent reading books...

And lots of time looking for grandpa's belly button and tickling him!

When Molly wasn't keeping grandpa busy inside, Molly was directing grandpa on how to properly hang the storm door on the side of the house. "Little Miss Bossy Pants" as grandma started to call her.

Overall, a very fun weekend for all! Thank you grandma & grandpa for coming to visit! Love & miss you...

Peet-a-ba....

Molly's been really trying hard lately to repeat words. Yesterday when we picked her up from school, her teacher Paula said that Molly really loves to name things and people. The words or names don't quite sound the way they should but often over time you figure it out if Molly doesn't simultaneously point to the thing she's trying to say. We, along with her teachers, have been working on two word phrases a bit as well. So instead of just "bye", we'll say "bye Paula". Not there yet, but the one phrase (if you count it as a "phrase") Molly has started saying is "peek-a-boo". However, in Molly-speak it's "peet-a-ba" or "peet-a-boo"! Here's a little clip....

Chase me!

In the past couple of weeks, Molly's been picking up the pace and starting to run from point A to point B. Often her running involves one of us chasing her and the other providing a base of safety, which she'll throw herself into. It also often involves Molly squealing in delight as she's running, which has not been appreciated by Neko who was finally starting to warm up to the idea of being in the same room as Molly. Oh well... Here are two clips of Jeremy chasing Molly with the broom (which she also thinks is great fun!) & Molly running into the safety of mommy's arms. And yes, in the second video she did take a bit more of an unplanned tumble at the end, but was just fine and got up for more chasing.