7 months

Molly,
Month six was a little rough with these never ending ear infections & antibiotics but I know that month 7 is going to be awesome! You're still a very good eater and have tried squash, parsnips, & pears. You eat about every 3-4 hours and have started taking "big girl bottles" (7 oz) for Miss P. You really like to play in/with your food more than you like to eat it but that's alright. You don't mind sitting in your high chair and like to play with your spoon & pink bib constantly. You've started making this crazy face when you eat where you put your tongue down between your gums and bottom lip and pushing out. It's hysterical. Teething is the name of the game! We go through about 5 bibs a day with all the drool, but still no teeth yet!

The sleeping situation this month has been a little rough. You go down after your bath around 8 and will sleep until 2 or 3. Once you eat you fall right back to sleep but since you've been having allergic reactions to all these medicines you've been sleeping with Mommy in the guest bed. You look so sweet & peaceful when you're sleeping but under those covers you're just a kickin' away.

You LOVE your picnic basket & anything you can chew on. Your Lenny lamb is still the only stuffed animal you'll pay attention to. Playing with your feet is most often your "toy" of choice and every time Mommy tries to read to you you take the book and put it in your mouth. You've started playing with "Nana Betty" while Mommy and Mimi are at dance class. You'll stay with her for about 45 minutes and then you want to come out and hear the music and dance with Mommy. You still love to see Miss Kat at church and have started playing more with your friend, Athena, at Miss Ps.

You pushed yourself up onto your knees for the first time this month. You'll get up there and just rock back and forth before pushing yourself backwards. This weekend you started (or maybe it's the first time I've noticed) scooting around on your booty. You LOVE LOVE LOVE to hear yourself. Miss P thinks you're going to be a singer because you have such a set of lungs. You'll just scream (loud & ear piercing) for no reason, stop and then smile & do it again. You also rode in the seat in the cart for the first time this month & really liked it for the first 20 minutes. People would stop and talk to you and you would just SMILE.

You're wearing 6 month clothes. You're very good at getting your arms into your sleeves with very little help anymore. You're in size 2 diapers but I think you're just about ready for size 3. When it comes to socks (which you love to pay with, not so much wear) you're wearing 9 month socks. Little Princess, Peepers, Peanut, Little Buddy, Peeps, whatever we call you Mommy & Daddy love you so much! You make our life so full. I love you.
Love,
Mommy

Start your engines

I know it's a little late but I wanted to document Molly's first time up on her knees looking like she's ready to crawl!

I took this last monday while she was stayin' with my Mom. I can't believe she's already here. Right now she mostly just rocks once she gets up on her knees but she's gettin' close!

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Celebrating Our First Year

To celebrate our anniversary my parents kept Molly so Rustin and I could drive out to Coopers in Llano. We had an awesome lunch, by far the best BBQ in Texas. While we were eating it started to snow, and not just little bitty ice balls that non-snow seeing people call snow, but REAL snow-huge flakes!

After lunch we braved the snow/slush to check out some of the little antique shops. There were only a few open but that was plenty, these store were PACKED with great stuff. On the way home we couldn't help but stop and look at the eagles again. All in all it was a perfect little "road-trip".

When we got home the lady who'd baked our wedding cake had delivered a complimentary 1st anniversary cake that was the same flavors as our wedding cake. It was so sweet of her! Especially since the one from the freezer tasted pretty gross.

Valentine's Day

We don't have a whole lot planned for Valentine's Day since we just celebrated our Anniversary, but since I love the holiday we went ahead and made some treats to celebrate.

Here are some of the sweet treats Molly & I made for our bible study friends. We just put the treats into cute Valentines Day ziplock bags from the Dollar Tree. Then put them into paper bags that I printed on.

We made Chocolate covered pretzels & Chocolate covered Oreos. we also made Valentines Day Puppy Chow (here's the pic from Pinterest. I forgot to take a picture of mine)


And for Miss P, who's vegan & running a marathon this weekend, we put together this cute little bag.


Here's the Valentine's Molly sent to her grandparents & great grandparents.


And last but not least here's the message we sent Daddy for Valentine's Day using the Red Stamp app. Which is the coolest thing ever (next to the new WW bar code scanner app)

Wednesday Weigh In

It's been a while but here are a few of the favorites for this week.

My mom has always insisted that Jazzercise is TONS of fun and you'll hardly notice you're working out. I hate to admit it but after doing Crossfit I thought this would be a walk in the park ie: a waste of time to work out. Boy was I WRONG! This class was a solid hour of constant dancing.


I've never been someone who could drink the diet coke/pepsi etc.I don't care for the taste. If I'm going to have a coke I'd rather have the real thing (coke zero is okay though) Anyway so I've always been a fan of the other kinds of diet sodas; 7up, sprite, orange soda, etc. Well this root beer is AWESOME! Tastes like the real thing.


If you havent had the full fit lunch meat from HEB go get some now! I love the maple turkey. So juicy, so low in points. Yummy!


Stats for this Week
lost this week: 2 lb
total loss in 5 weeks:10 lbs (yay for a new "5 lb prize")
Lbs left til Pre-Molly Weight: 10

Paper & Diamonds

At the beginning of the month (4th) we celebrated my grandparents 60th wedding anniversary. Can you believe it, 60 years!




And since our 1st anniversary was this weekend I put together Rustin's gift. The first anniversary is paper so I had a few ideas and finally decided on this. In each space in the picture frame there is a map of the place where something important happened. There's a heart to pinpoint the spots where we met, where we got engaged & where we got married.

Then since I thought it was a cute idea to have a scrapbook with just pictures of us on each anniversary I put together an album. The first page has a picture from the night we got engaged. Then our wedding invitation. Followed by a picture of us on our wedding day. There's a collage in the shape of a 1 with pictures from this first year together and a space for a picture we took on the 12th. I think it'll be neat to look back years from now and see our lives together.

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Happy Anniversary

It's been 1 year since I married the love of my life, and what an AMAZING year it has been!

Entreat me not to leave you, or to return from following after you: for where you go, I will go; and where you lodge, I will lodge: your people shall be my people, and your God my God

Ruth 1:16

Poor Baby

Molly's been sick for about 3 weeks now. First it was a "cold" then it was a double ear infection and we started our first round of antibiotics. After this week's visit with Dr. L I feel like a pharmacist.

She's on Zyrtec for possible air born allergies (thank you cedar) until April. They moved her from amoxicillin to augmentin, which brings lots of yucky tummy troubles so to combat that she's on a pro-biotic powder. To top it all off she's getting Motrin for the pain. The Boogie Wipes are awesome in case you're wondering.

My poor little peanut, month 6 isn't treatin' you so well. Hopefully we'll get it all taken care of and get my happy girl back! And just for good measure, in case all the medicine didn't work, there was a dose of Thin Mints given.

“For I will restore health to you and heal you of your wounds,” says the Lord. (Jeremiah 30:17)

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