3 1/2 Years Old.....

My little baby girl is 3 1/2 years old now! I can not believe how grown up she is, all of a sudden she has just turned into a little girl...

 Molly @ 3 1/2 Years Old..

*about 38 lbs. and 39 or so in.

*size 8-9 shoes

*size 4t and 5t clothes

*Loves to be outside

*Loves to help with Maggie

*Loves Movies: Favorites right now: Tangled, Toy Story 3, Monsters Inc. and Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs

*Could read books or be told stories all day long

*Best friends: Ayla,Sadie,Ally, and Milo

*Loves to eat: noodles, pizza, cucumbers, apples, toast with sugar, waffles, any kind of meat

*Knows all her upper and lower case letters

*Can count to 20

*Knows all her shapes including things like "crescent" and "octogon"

*Knows most colors in Spanish

*Knows her left and right

*Super smart and getting better at talking all the time-

*Loves her sister

I know there is tons I could say about what this little thing is doing, but those are just some that stick out!!!

 You are Beautiful just the way you are.....

Like I just did with Maggie there are some very sweet things that make Molly, well Molly! Sometimes I still rock her to sleep and she always comes to snuggle with me in the morning. She has the most tender little heart and doesn't like to get in trouble or even when we try to have a little chat about being gentle she starts to cry before we even start. She is the sweetest big sister in the world and is always asking me if she can "be my special helper" with Maggie or while doing things around the house. She loves going to her grandma's houses whatever chance she can get. While in town/park if she sees other little kids she thinks they are her best friends and gets upset when they leave, mind you we have never met these sweet kids she thinks genuinely are her friends. She has a crooked smile that she has had since she was tiny tiny and it is something I really love about her- it is a cross bite and will need to be fixed, but while she is little I just love it, in turn it makes her two front teeth slant upward a little and makes her grind them a bit- that crooked smile is gonna cost me some money to fix, but I sure do love it! To make her smile normal in pictures I tell her to smile like a ballerina. She loves to have picnics anywhere and anytime with all her toys invited and a box of crackers. She is really into drawing and is now making sure her people have panties on to cover their bums. She can write her name all by herself and sometimes adds an extra point on the "m".. 

Every single day she says something like this to me " Mommy, I sure love you" "Mommy your beautifus" "Mommy, your so prilly" "Mommy, your the bestest ever" and so on and so forth. She has a heart of gold and is very compassionate and doesn't like anyone to be sad-The best is when Clint and I will be teasing or something and she can sense it and says "Mommy, you be nice to my daddy" or "Daddy, you be nice to my mommy right now!" and whichever one she is talking to the other agrees with her to add to the tease!!!She asks me constantly what my favorite of something is like color, number ect. She also asks me to tell her a story about a witch and a hamburger on a daily basis- I told her one once about a year ago that I made up and since then she wants a different story consisting of those two things all the time.

She could make me laugh all day every day, she is so darn funny- she is very sassy and super smart. I love this little ball of energy so much and thing I am the luckiest Mom ever to be able to enjoy the days with her. I can't believe she will be dancing in her first recital this next month and then starting pre-school in the fall. I can't wait to see how she will learn and grow, I guess it is kinda bitter-sweet!

I love you Molly J.

Easter, Easter, Easter....

I love Easter, not only do we get to remember Christ, but there is also lots of fun things to do.. We have had a busy week and I can't complain it has been a blast. Molly has been so excited about the Easter Bunny, she doesn't really understand the "real" meaning of Easter, but we try to talk about it along with the fun stuff!

Cute little girlies dying eggs, I think Molly wanted to only help for about 2 eggs, then she decided they took to long to get to a good color, Maggie just liked playing with the cracked ones!  

We decided to go to the city Easter Egg Hunt on Saturday morning and it did not disappoint. Molly did MUCH better she was not way fast, but she managed to get a whole bucket full of eggs, Maggie loved getting a few eggs then sitting to see what was inside! It was a blast and we will continue to go as long as we live here.

 

Later Sat. night we had a BBQ @ my moms house with the fam and it was awesome. We had another egg hunt and all the kids were so wound up on sugar it was good though because they ran and played hard all afternoon and crashed equally as hard for bed!!! 

(1: KK, and Mol-2: All the kiddos-3:Magster-4:Molly)

 

(1:Mol and Bria-2: Peri and Maggie-3:Peri girl-4: Maggie doo)

 

These are 2 of my most favorite people in the wold with my sweet girls-"Grandma Grape" and "Grandpa Kent"-(it is near impossible to get them looking at the camera with lots going on)

This little Itty Bitty LOVES her some sugar, she can find it anywhere-she could sit and eat jelly beans and M&M's all day long if I'd let her!!!

 

The Easter Bunny did come to our house and did not disappoint!!! Molly has been wanting a "unicorn, purple pillow pet, and the Tangled Repungle (repunzle) doll with long long hair" and Maggie is obsessed with animals so she got the cute "fridge farm"... they each got some fun little things! Molly was very concerned because the Bunny spilled M&M's on the floor again and we needed to pick them up real quick so he didn't get in trouble!

 

This picture was a little bright, but I just loved it especially with the girlies in their Easter dresses...

 

Grandma Kara with the grand-babies: Maggie, Peri and Molly

 

Our little family on Easter on our way to church

 

My beautiful little girls- I love them so much and they looked so cute today!

Livin it up....

This is just some more random things we have done this past week...

Molly and her besty Ally, I am so sad that we only watch Ally for about 4 more weeks because she will be off to first grade next year so we wont need to watch her :( I keep asking Ally if we can have her re-do Kindergarten... Molly is going to be heartbroken when she realizes these Ally days are numbered...

 My mom took us to the "Kayenta Sidewalk Art Walk" last week and we bought Molly some chalk and a square to decorate, it was there for about 2 weeks..Molly is way into drawing right now so this was perfect!

 We also went with Matt and Abbey to the "Fiesta Festival" at Tuachaun this past weekend it was pretty sweet, Molly and Mya totally love each other and LOVE to hold hands!

 Maggie and Uncle Matt

 Molly is getting ready for her first big ballet recital in a few weeks. To help prep the littles they have us come in and watch so they can get used to an audience-Cant wait to see what she does on stage....

 Best Easter Egg Hung EVER!!!!!! Sadie and Molly totally rear-in to go once they said go they both ran in about 2 feet then just started to walk aimlessly around stepping over/on all the eggs and neither of them picked up ONE egg, they just passed them all by swinging their buckets. We were all laughing so hard... Lucky Maggie got more than both of them together (4) so we threw them each one so they weren't sad-then we sent them in again with the 5 yr. olds hoping they would come out better... Molly got 1 and Sadie still just walked around. It was AWESOME!!!!!!!!!

 Sweet little Maggie was so excited for the eggs- she plopped down and gathered the eggs around her..

 

I found these goofy headbands in the dress-up and remembered last years pictures so thought it would be fun to see the difference in my itty bitty....She LOVES to dress up so putting these on was so awesome to her! I love that scrunch nose in the bunny ears one- so Maggie!!! What a difference a year makes!

A little bit of fun...

I saw this idea on some blog where you put shaving cream in a zip-lock bag and then add a few drops of food coloring for fun. You zip it up and then can draw and write letters in the shaving cream without one bit of a mess... They lasted all day and Molly loved them!

 I had stashed this costume away since Halloween when I got it for like 2 bucks on clearance- I was saving it for sometime special, well Molly had been so happy and helpful one day and I just felt like that day was the day. Clearly she was thrilled.... She helped so much that day and did everything I asked of her...

 Molly LOVES picnics so this is her make shift picnic with all her "friends" Maggie and I joined after I snapped this picture...Molly set this all up by herself including getting the crackers off the top shelf of the pantry for the event and bringing me a can of Diet Coke out of the fridge all on her own...

 Ally had this dress-up dress at her house and I asked Mindi if we could barrow it for the weekend since Molly LOVED it so much because it was her "Repunzel" dress... Well, Mindi being so so sweet just told me Molly could just have it. She wears it non-stop-I couldn't get her to smile, but she really does love it

 Maggie loves to help me do the laundry I usually pack her in the laundry basket back and forth this time I decided to put her in the washer with the clothes. She thought she was pretty cool!

 Couldn't leave Molly out of the fun!

 Maggie loves books, she brings me a new book all day long and I sit to read it to her she plops onto my lap to listen-animal books are her favorite she kisses all the animals.

 Molly came out of my closet in this today and said " I am a daddy, everyone out of my room right now"

 The other night at bath time.... pictures do the talking, I smile every time I look at this series of pictures!

 

We have Sadie come play Friday afternoons so we decided to have an Easter Egg Hunt today. They were so excited and had to find the eggs with letters in their name to make it fair. They thought it was so cool and loved the treats they got inside.

Maggie is 14 Months Old...

 Maggie @ 14 Months....

* I think she still weighs just barely over 20 lbs

*She is starting to actually fit in her 12-18 mo. clothes, but 12 mo. fit best 

*Wears size 4 shoe, still a little big though

*Is a climber like you wouldn't believe

*Starting to get her feelings hurt more, getting that o so tender heart her sister has

*LOVES candy, sugar, chocolate- if its around she will find it!

*Still nursing...don't know when this will come to an end????

*Loves to be outside and climb in and out of the flintstone car

*Loves Molly more and more every day

*Hates bananas, wont really eat sandwiches, doesn't like most berries- I think these are all texture issues

*Has a new love of strawberries

*Some days I think she is getting better about not being with me and then it seems to get worse the next day

*Still only says "Mama" "Dadda" and signs "more" Nods "yes/no" 

*Favorite animal is the horse- she makes the best horse sound

*Loves animals in general- goes crazy for them especially in real life like dogs

*Starting to like Mickey Mouse, only thing she will really watch

 I have been really thinking about who my sweet babies really are and what they are.... When I am nursing Maggie or rocking her to sleep it seems I can really look deep into her eyes and see how much she loves me and she in turn can see how much I truly love her. From the top of her bald little head to her tiny itty bitty toes I love every speck of her. She is so spunky and sassy, and has this funny quirkiness about her on one hand and on the other hand she is so tender and loving and sweet. She is so lovey, loves to just come sit on my lap while I do whatever it is and she will just contently sit and just "be" with me. She walks around the house and will reach up when she wants to be held and just be pleased as punch to be close to me.  

Some extra special things about Maggie that I just love and never want to forget are...

*Her little ears stick out. *she wrinkles her nose all the time..* her toe nails are so small.. *she has lots of little freckles on her little body.. *she gets really splotchy eyes when she cries.. *She loves to be turned upside down while you tickle her neck- *she laughs the hardest while doing this stunt.. *She walks around with her head looking up and arms outstretched in the air and basically going fast and in circles- I think she may be reaching at the Angels (she seriously does this ALL the time) it makes ya wonder???? *She is very smart and figures some pretty tricky things out. *She wakes up in the night just enough to make me come in her room and her to see that I am there and goes peacefully back to sleep. *She hates blankets on her feet.*She still gives open mouth kisses and will come out of no where to give a kiss.. She especially does this while snuggling in the morning just leans over and lays one on my cheek-wont ever get tired of this that's for sure *LOVES shoes and clothes. *She loves to play chase and giggles the whole time.. *When she plays peek-a-boo she covers her ears not her eyes................

I just wanted to take a minute to jot that stuff down because I really always want to remember those silly little things about her and just make her well Miss Maggie... I am so grateful to be her mommy and get to see her sweet face all day every day and love getting to watch her learn and grow.. I am so grateful to my Heavenly Father for trusting me with her sweet spirit to raise and guide..... Love you Miss Maggie K.... Our family wouldn't be without you!!!

 Comparison time again:   They look so so different too me, the biggest shock to me is how much hair Molly has and how little Maggie has...Totally bugs, I like me some little piggy tails on the little stinkers, looking back at pictures Molly's started to come in really good about now so lets pray for little baldy.....