Grumpy Snickles

A cute pic of me and Molly having fun on vacation!

Last night on Vancouver Island. We've had a lot of fun, and Molly has charmed her grandparents and was as cute as she could be.

Here is a picture of Molly sticking her toes in the ocean for the first time...fun times!

One of my favorite pictures of Austin and Molly from our picnic a few weeks ago! Molly loooooooves her pop pop. The way she gazes at him is just adorable, she thinks he is awesome. She especially loves to play with his goatee, with an occasional yank on his chest hair, glasses, or hair if she can get her grabby hands on them lol!

I attended an archivers class on how to work with canvas. The class taught us how to use embelishments and paper and create art using canvas blocks and some coordinated scrapbook paper. I love how this one turned out!

We've started trying to go into the mountains on sundays and doing a family picnic along some water. Or at least that is the plan. Technically we have only done it once, but I had a blast. It was so nice to be outside and enjoying the beautiful Colorado mountains and Molly seemed to enjoy it as well. The first time we headed up to Nederland and enjoyed sandwiches by a reservoir. Next time we'll do a bit of a hiike, but I didn't bring sunscreen or a hat for Molly so we had to cut things short a bit...

We tried to go 2 weeks ago, but there was flash flood warnings for small streams so it didn't seem like a good idea to go sit next to a stream in that case. And last weekend we were attending a kids get together so that was a no go too. Doubtful we will go this weekend as we will be packing since we leave monday. But we'll continue to try to go each weekend :)

And becuase I haven't posted a pic recently on my blog, here is one Austin took of me last week of Molly getting a bottle. She's so stinking cute!

I have plenty more pictures available on my flickr site if you haven't had enough pictures to suit your fancy...

Wow, a lot of time has passed since my last post. It's primarily due to a switch in hours at work. We now work four 10 hour days (from 7 am until 6 pm) and have every friday off. At first i thought the schedule would be awful, but I have to admit having friday off was pretty fun, especially since I keep Molly home from daycare. Granted, it's only been 1 week (this is our 2nd "focussed" work week schedule) and so I'm almost done with working my week and will be off again.

Last friday Molly and I met some mommys and their friends at the outdoor pool nearby and had a BLAST. It was so nice hanging out with moms who have babies Molly's age and we chatted and had a blast. The babies all got into the water (they have a nice shallow baby pool) and Molly enjoyed that too, splashing and kicking away. So fun to see. We all had so much fun we are going to do it again tomorrow!

We leave on monday for a 6 day trip to Vancouver Island to visit my parents. It will be Molly's first trip on an airplane, bus, and ferry. I am not too worried about the travel, she is a mellow baby and she enjoys watching new things so it should be ok. She'll get to visit grandma and grandpa beckman, who haven't seen her since she was 3 weeks old. she's so much more fun and interactive so that should be fun for them as well.

I'm at an offsite meeting today in the mountains, and should be done by 4 pm. So shortly i will be off work and on vacation until August 21st. Whoo hoo!

Life is good.

Molly turned 5 months old today!!! WOW! She's so stinking cute, i look in awe at her every single day and can't believe that we created this cute thing and secondly she is OURS!

Life is good. Being a mom is the best thing ever.

Molly is starting to laugh, especially when you tickle her or kiss her stomache.

Boy I sure don't like seeing this headline in the news :(

9NEWS.com Denver Colorado's Online News Leader Record heat possible Saturday

Mollys first Christmas ornament has been purchased!! I love hallmark keepsake ornaments and they just launched the new ones for this Christmas so I had to go out an buy it. Yes it's early but I didn't want them to run out lol




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This picture was taken by Molly's daycare provider. She's so happy!!!

CNN's Money Magazine lists Broomfield as the 19th best place to live in the USA.

http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/bplive/2010/snapshots/PL0809280.html

Molly turned FOUR months old on June 24th (I'm a bit behind in my blogging...work and home life has been busy as of late!)

Molly had her 4 month shots last week and is doing extremely well. Growing well!!! She was 14 pounds 4 ounces and 25 inches in length. That's 58th percentile for weight and 78!!!th percentile for height. Where she gets the height from, we have no idea!

She met all of her developmental milestones and her next appointment will be at 6 months, right after we come back from visiting Grandma and Grandpa Beckman in Canada.

She is VERY much into shoving everything into her mouth these days, including the sign that we made for her to announce that she was four months old!!!

I finally booked our airline tickets to Holland in October to celebrate my aunt's 70th birthday with her. Pretty excited about the trip, it's always fun to visit my family out there and now they can meet Molly. It will have been 2 years since our last trip to Holland, too long but we only have so much vacation time (and money!). We are flying Delta/KLM, which will be my first time flying Delta. I have flown NWA/KLM a lot on my previous trips to Holland, but with the merger earlier this year it will be interesting to see how the two compare. We reserved a bassinet for Molly so hopefully that will make travelling with her a bit easier. She's an easy going baby so I don't anticipate too many issues but she WILL be mobile by 8 months (crawling for sure) so the flights should be interesting.

SO excited. I put a ticker to the right of the screen counting down to our Holland trip as well.