5 Months!

Molly is officially 5 months old today! She is growing like a weed. Every day I look at her and wonder where my little bitty baby has gone!













This past months she has learned how to spit and she spits A LOT!!! She is also rolling over from her back to belly and belly to back. Now it is impossible to keep her on her tummy. These past 2 weeks have been some big changes for Molly. I have gone back to work full time so she is at Myrna's house with Cason. So far so good! I'm not enjoying it but she seems to be doing okay. I also had to start giving her a bottle of formula at night b/c she is hungry ALL the time and my milk supply in not increasing with her appetite :(. We are actually going to give her cereal for the first time tonight!
Molly has also started playing in our exersaucer! She seems to like it for short periods of time. I hope she starts to like it for longer periods because she has no interest in her swing, which she used to love.

Summer 2011

The summer is coming to an end. We didn't go on any big vacations this year. We went to Lubbock for the 4th but that's it. We were going to put our house on the market but decided to wait. But we did a ton of fun things.
Cason went to "big boy school"! It was really a summer camp at our church. He only went 4 times during the summer but he LOVED it. I was way more nervous than he was. He got to take his lunch in a lunch box and sleep on a nap mat. Now every time we go to church on Sun. he wants to take his lunch box and nap mat!

























We played in the sprinkler and swam in the blow up pool.








































Cason also built a house out of boxes. Complete with a grill and everything!














Cason and Toby did yard work and work around the house. We took a TON of trips to Home Depot. Cason likes to call it it Heem Boto. So that is our nickname for the store now. HE begs me to take him so sometimes I take Cason to Home Depot just to get out of the house.
We also went to a play group with other moms and children that are in our Sunday School class. It was good to be around other moms even though it was hard to visit at times.

Cason and Molly and I also spent a ton of time with my parents now that they live in Allen. I am not sure I would have survived the summer without them! It has been a challenging summer with 2 kiddo's but one that I would not trade. I have learned so much about both Cason and Molly. During the school year I always feel like I am missing out on so much in their lives. But I am thankful I have a few months out of the year every year to be a stay at home mom.

4 Month Old Molly

Molly turned 4 months old on July 28th.

Her Stats:
12 lbs. 6 oz.
26 in. long.
Cute as a button!

Her Firsts:
She rolled over, found her toes which she loves to suck on, met her Great Geema, wore her first swim suit, and started laughing. She laughs at Toby more than me. She is a Daddy's Girl!














Great Geema













Molly loves her toes!

Molly Rolled Over

Last week ( July 19, 2011) I took Molly to school with me while I did some work on my classroom. I laid her down on a cushion and it took her less than 5 min. to roll over onto her tummy! Our custodian, Asunta, witnessed it with me!

She did it some more later that day but hasn't done it since. I think it is because she is too interested in sucking on her toes!

She's thinking about it...

Almost there, she just needs to get that arm out from under her!













She did it!!!

My little smarty pants!

Little Chef

Staying at home with Cason and Molly this summer has been challenging. I have stretched my brain trying to find ways to entertain Cason. One of our daily activities is helping me cook. He loves to help me fix breakfast, lunch, and dinner. We just pull up a stool to the counter and he has a front row view for the culinary creations that I create. (ha ha).

We have made cookies, muffins, pigs in a blanket, quesadillas, tacos, spaghetti, pita chips, soup and many many more things. This was Cason's favorite lunch by far. I saw the idea on one of my friends facebook page. It's octopus and seaweed. I have seen people make octopus out of hot dogs but I have never thought about making seaweed with ramen noodles. He LOVES it!

Cason also helps his BeBe and Geema cook at my parents house. Just last night he made himself a salad with lettuce, cheese, carrots, vinegar and apple juice (weird). My parents bought this cool stool made to put in the kitchen so the grandkids can watch what's going on without getting hurt.

Yard Boy

This summer we have discovered that Cason LOVES yard tools. Lawn mowers, blowers,weed eaters and edgers. He has an obsession with them. When we are driving down the road and he sees someone doing yard works he starts yelling about lawn mowers and such!

He got a new toy lawn mower this summer which he adores.

Here is Cason helping his daddy with the yard work.

Here is Cason at Sears (this is like Disneyland for him!). We take him to Sears to look at all the yard tools and shop vacs. I forgot to mention that he loves shop vacs too! He has moved on from regular lawn mowers to riding lawn mowers. I don't know many times a day I hear, "Mama, I want a blue riding lawn mower." I tell him he can get one when he is older.

July 4, 2011

As we do almost every 4th of July we made our way to Lubbock to visit Toby's family. The kids did great traveling even though our 6 hour trip took 8 hours both ways. We did our usual Lubbock activities like eat at Taco Villa, hang out with family, eat at Taco Villa, shop, eat at Taco Villa and go to the parade. Ok, only 1 of us ate at Taco Villa 3 different times and it wasn't me, Cason or Molly.

Here are some pictures on the 4th

I thought that Cason would love going to the Lubbock parade. I was right! It was full of everything he loved! Tractors, horses, dogs, lawn mowers, fire trucks, and police cars.