Daddy and Coleman were gone on Sunday and Molly was napping. So Shelby set us up a picnic spa area in the backyard and we had lunch and painted nails.
One day when the kids were out of school, Jeff and I were both off in the afternoon to hang with the kids. We had planned to go on a hike and started heading toward Eagle Mountain Lake, but decided at the last minute to stay super close to home, hang a right on Rufe Snow and head to explore Bear Creek park, which is less than 10 minutes from our house. It was a great find…a treasure so close to our home!
It was absolutely perfect weather. Daddy strapped on Molly (in his awesome sleeveless t-shirt) and we headed out to find a non-paved trail.
Coleman wasn’t in the greatest mood to start out. He has been through some allergy issues and in just a couple weeks of staying indoors, got really used to being sedentary and playing video games. We all do it, ya know…getting out of the habit of exercise/getting out, and think we’d rather just stay in. But that’s no good! This was our first time after his allergy episodes to venture back out with him.
…but once we found a good ol’ trail he perked right up.
I think it’s so cool that this “rustic” area is so close to our house.
We found a little twig we tried to Tarzan-swing on.
Coleman was the only one weighing light enough to actually carry it out.
A good ol’ fun family time was had by all! And they have a really cool playground too!
It is very rare that this baby falls asleep in someone's arms. With the time change she is a sleepy girl at 6:30! So I am enjoying it.
Everyone says that Molly looks like Coleman…and looking at his old pictures, she certainly does! But then I see an old picture of Shelby and I can certainly see Molly in her too. Our 3 little lovely look-alikes.
Shelby is playing Kickball this season and is enjoying it. We luckily got on a team with one of her church friends and the coach’s daughter goes to Shelby’s school. We also know the other coach because their son was on Jeff/Coleman’s baseball team last season. The world gets smaller and smaller the longer you live in one place, especially when you start having kids!
Anyway, Jeff has taken some great pics of our girl out on the field.
Molly keeps me busy on the sidelines. Having a baby learning to walk and not wanting to be held EVER is quite a challenge when we’re at ballgames and practices so much!
Runner on third…will she score??
(She was safe!)
Coleman has also been playing baseball, but I have yet to take a picture at a game. Jeff is an assistant coach and pitches during the game, so I don’t have any extra hands with Molly Monkey. He has one game left so I hope to get some taken!
I just looked on my phone and I do have a couple of pictures. He played catcher at the beginning of the season. He didn’t like it, so now he doesn’t wear his cup so he “can’t” play it...
We also took a team pic one night. Mine is the cutie on the right (top and bottom!)
This little punkin is getting so big!
This month Molly has changed and learned so much. She is getting some hair, especially in the back, but it is pretty light.
She now has 4 teeth. Don’t ask me when each of them came in. Sorry, 3rd baby. She started taking 2-3 steps sometime during October. Don’t ask me the day. Then one day she just exploded and was taking 6, 7, 8 steps on her own (especially walking toward her big sissy.) That date was October 16 and I know that because I posted it on facebook. 
Being tall, I find her with things she grabbed off of cabinets or countertops. Yesterday it was a pine cone from my entry table, and she was halfway up the stairs with it. (Can you tell she’s wearing me out?!)
She has a personality that is starting to come out. As far as I can tell, she is opinionated and probably stubborn. She is used to getting what she wants exactly when she wants it (thanks to having Mommy, Daddy, and an adoring big sis and big bro at her beck and call at all time. Oh and a caregiver who ONLY keeps Molly all day…no other kids or babies!) She likes to yell “Num Num” when she’s eating in her high chair. She knows what “Nummies” means (nursing) and gets very impatient and excited (like saying “Walk” to a dog) when I say it. She says Mama, Dada, Bubba, Dah (Dog), BuhBye, and NighNigh (night night) all with intention. She still loves her schedule and will only sleep in her crib. Oh, and she’d prefer to be in that crib by 7:30 every night, thank you very much. A little difficult with school and sport functions sometimes! She loves kisses and hugs but doesn’t like to be cuddled/hugged when she’s sleepy. She laughs often and smiles all the time. She’s a very happy baby who NEVER cries unless she hurts herself or is sleepy and is not in her bed. Pretty simple!
She can do patty cake (clapping and roll ‘em up) by herself. She loves when people sing to her. (fun songs, not lullabies) She was not a fan of the bike trailer so we got one where she can sit up in front of me and she loves it. She has fallen asleep in it twice on bike rides.
Shelby and her friends are good about playing with her.
Shelby is an especially good help in watching her, which I realized during the 2 days when Shelby had strep throat and I couldn’t ask her to go watch Molly for a minute!
Coleman loves to play with her too, but he enjoys wrestling her down to the ground, and gets easily distracted (then she ends up halfway up the stairs) But he just adores her.
Here is is with Poppy last week. Poppy is always the first to go get her when she wakes up
Here’s a little bowhead on the day her COUSIN Nora was born! She was very glad at the news of a best chica being born!
She is still nursing and eating everything that we eat. In just 2 short months she will turn 1 year old and we will get to celebrate her, meet Nora, and have Christmas. We have a wonderful couple of months coming up and I can’t wait to spend them with my family!! Sweet Molly…we can’t imagine life without her!
