Molly says "I Love You" ?

Ok, so maybe she is still as little too young for her first words, let alone her first phrase. But she is definitely responding to us, and when we say, "tell daddy I love you", we get a very distinct gurgle/coo. It is very cute, and she's done it more than once. She is growing more each day and learning so much. As you can see she is starting to hold her head up, she actually does even better than that but not for the camera, of course. We took some video yesterday and I am going to try to get a litte more today and then will post it.

That's about it from here. We had a good weekend, went over to the Hannan's for dinner on Saturday. We all have our fingers crossed that Molly has a new friend to play with soon!

The Blog Slacker is Back

Have I really not posted since the 5th? My goodness. I guess time just flies when you are having so much fun! I really am having fun most days. Molly has been such a good baby, and even her fussiness hasn't been getting to me too much lately. I think I've just learned that it's ok to put her in her swing if that's what she needs to be happy. And I should say that it's not like she is fussy often, mostly just in the late afternoons. But I think I'm also learning when I can soothe her and when I need the swing or bouncer chairs help.

It has been a little difficult getting good pictures of her lately. She either is focusing so intently on the red light on the camera that she won't smile, or she has her fingers in her mouth. But John caught the smile in the second photo the other day.

She is growing so fast. She is smiling like crazy, starting to giggle a little bit and cooing more and more. She is very cute. Wherever I go in the room, her eyes follow and when she sees John her eyes just light up. The cutest thing she did just yesterday was this eyebrow thing that John always does. For those of you who know him, he does this thing where he raises his eyebrows up and down. Well Molly started doing it yesterday and she did it again today, just like him. It's so funny! Anyway...enough about that :).

What else is going on? Still going to Gymboree although we had to skip it today because our furnace needed to be serviced, it didn't want to turn on this morning for some reason. At least I noticed it when I did. It only got down to about 65 degrees in here, but for me that's freezing. I pulled out the space heater and had it blowing full speed in the living room with us. Molly slept snug as a bug wrapped up in a couple of blankets though. Last Friday I went to the Milford Mall for a New Haven Mom's meet up. It was pretty good, hopefully I'll be able to go to another one soon.

Well that's about it from here for now. We've all been feeling pretty good, knock on lots of wood. Molly is getting nice and fat, I should take a picture of her legs now and compare them to when she was first born. She's on to her third fat roll. So cute!

Happy New Year...a few days late!

I have taken a few more pictures but haven't had time to upload them so sorry, nothing new today but I figured I would update on how things are going and what we have been up to.

Molly celebrated her 2 month birthday on New Year's Eve at the Kelly's house with a bunch of other babies! What fun :). She was really good and it was so much fun to see everyone. And it made it so much more comfortable knowing there were other babies and kids there so if she cried, it was no big deal...they all were crying at some point! But she only fussed during her second bottle, which she just doesn't do well. One bottle a day is fine, but if you try to do a second she says, "What the heck is this?" So off to the tv room I went to breastfeed. If that Steve Kelly would have just stopped interrupting it would have been fine...just kidding. Thanks to him I now know all the words to Dick in a Box. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbZxlEZFZCQ if you haven't seen it yet. Absolutely hysterical. Some of Justin's finest work.

Now that the holidays are over we aren't quite as busy although there is still quite a bit of clean up to do. Rather than playing on the internet I should be sorting through gifts but oh well. We also started going to Gymboree, which should be fun. We went to one class already and Molly really enjoyed it. It was right when she should have been napping and was a little fussy when we got there but once she saw all the other babies and all the other things to look at she was so alert and delayed the fussing for about 20 minutes, which is pretty amazing. By then it was just about baby massage time and the lights turned down so she was able to take a nap and relax. Hopefully I'll also meet some new people.