Gadget Wall

Molly loves playing with the locks on the dog kennels. She already knows how to lock and unlock them. So when I was looking around on Pinterest and found something called a gadget wall I knew Molly would love it. I added to and tweeked the one here.

Rustin did a great job mounting each clasp so that there are 4-5 little doors that open and I plan on putting a picture of a family member under each one. Her favorites are the door stopper and the gate lock.

Summer Day

Subway Lunch

Followed by swimming

and popcicles!

11 Months

Molly,
I honestly can't believe how much time has passed since you joined our family. You're wearing mostly 9 month clothes with a few 12 month outfits mixed in. Your diapers are a size 3 and shoes are a size 2.

You LOVE food. You eat a continer of oatmeal in the morning, yogurt during snack time, fruit for lunch, and a jar of beef/vegetable/pasta based food for dinner. (For some reason when you eat turkey or chicken based baby food you get sick, but are fine when you eat it off our plates). You'll eat anything off our plates & have tried juice this month too. You have 6 teeth!!! I'm amazed that the last 2 came in within two days of each other.

You're walking all over the place but get there much quicker when you crawl. You love to play with your stacking cups & other toys. You don't go into your excersaucer or walker anymore. You love to play with the dogs bowls, garbage can, and cords of any type. Peek a boo is a favorite game that you'll play all on your own. Pat-A-Cake is a hit with you too. You like your "Special to Me" song & you love to play with the Fisher Price & Peekaboo Barn Aps on my phone.

You're talkin' ALOT! So far your word list looks something like this:
Uh-Oh
No-no-no
Ow
Mama
Dada
Hi
Bye-Bye
Mimi
Ball
big (this is what you call Grace)
baby
more

You're still on the same sleep schedule for the most part. Bed around 8:00, up at 3 to snuggle/eat, wake up at 6:30 am. You get your baths in the regular bathtub now and really like to let the water out.

Peeps I can't believe I'm planning your first birthday it seems like only weeks ago that you were born. I'm so excited to see all the changes that are instore for us this next month. I love you so much!

Love,

Mommy

Happy fathers day

This year I was blessed to spend time with my father, my grandfather, and the father of my baby on Father's Day. We had a great time at church and then went to help Rustin pick out his new boots.

Then we went to my parents for lunch.

My Dad loved his gift. Each year in his card we'll add 4 new pictures for him to put in his frame.

Rainy day...brought to you by the letter P

Hangin' in my PJs


Sportin' my Pretty pink rain coat

Painting in the Bathtub

Playing Playdough

Picnic Snack

Walking

I took this video last week, June 13th, and forgot to post it.

Big Bounce

I bought a groupon for a nearby bounce house. We lucked out and it wasn't crazy busy and the "farm" was completely empty so in we went.

At the Park

This past Friday morning I took Molly to the park for a little while before it got too hot.

Freezer Cookin' 101

Last summer I was preparing for Molly when I filled my freezer and I enjoyed that feeling that knowing I could pull something out and have quick meals on hand so I decided to fill the freezer again this summer.

I started by pulling all the meals we enjoy & weeded through to figure out which ones I could freeze. This is what I came up with. From the list of recipes I jotted down the ingredients I'd need for each recipe & then totalled them up (how many lbs of chicken, how many cans of cream of mushroom soup, how many roasts etc.) to create my final shopping list. Don't forget a box of Heavy Duty Freezer bags.

I shopped. Molly napped through the trip to HEB so that helped me get in and out of the store in less than 45 minutes & I only spent $142.21 which made 24 meals, 1 side dish, and a batch of garlic cheese biscuits.

I had some help getting the ground beef into the pressure cooker & chicken breasts into some boiling water. She also helped me label each bag with the name of the meal and any cooking instructions.

After the meat that needed to be cooked was done I started getting the ingredients for each recipe into their own bag. I laid them out flat on a baking sheet in my freezer so they'd take up less space in the deep freeze.

Duck Duck Duck....

So I took Molly down to the pond by my dad's office so we could feed the ducks. Which was quite an adventure. I'm sure I'm probly the only mom in the history of the world who swears at ducks infront of her child but those ducks were CRAZY!! (Maybe the ducks remember me from high school when a bunch of friends and I chased them up the hill) Anyway to say the least I don't think Molly's into ducks that aren't made of yellow rubber.

Date with Daddy

Summer time is especially busy for Rustin. Yesterday he actually got home about 3 which is a nice change from 10:30. So we after a quick bite to eat at Longhorn Saloon we took Molly for her first icecream cone.

This was followed by a quick trip to "the toy box", a cute little you shop near the icecream place. Molly got a few new things. Her favorite seem to be her new stacking cups.

Summer Book List

One of my favorite things to do at the start of each summer is to get my book list together. Who knows if I'll actually have time to read this summer but just in case here's my list.