Grumpy Snickles

Six Months Old!

2010-09-05T10:34:00.001-06:00

Six Months Old!
Originally uploaded by GrumpySnickles

Molly turned 6 months old 1 1/2 weeks ago. I know, I'm only now getting around to posting the pics and blogging about it. Life has been very busy these last few weeks, with a lot of things going on at work that have required working extra hours.

Molly's 6 month doctors appointment went really well, and she did well with her shots. She is still doing very well and growing growing growing! She is 16 1/2 pounds (59% percentile) 26 1/2 inches in length (71%!!!) and her head circumference was normal 51%. How we have such a long baby neither one of us have any idea but ok! What the doctor found very interesting is that Molly has stayed at the same percentiles since she was about a month old, which is fairly unique. Most babies fluctuate. And she's doing SO well for a baby who was born in the 7th percentile for weight initially. Took her 7 days to get up to 30%.

Molly is so much fun these days. She laughs and smiles and is a bundle of energy. She enjoys being outside and going places and watching the world around her. She is having so much fun at daycare and watching the other kids. I picked her up early on thursday afternoon and she sat in my arms outside and spent a good hour just laughing at the other kids as they played. How fun!

She's babbling, and is starting to sit (but still needs support) and is started scooting on her back. Before we know it, she'lll become mobile and our lives will change quite drastically.

Life is good with Molly! Really really good!

Mama and Molly

2010-08-21T23:01:00.003-06:00

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

Last night

2010-08-21T22:58:00.002-06:00

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!

Dad and Molly

2010-08-12T10:58:00.001-06:00

Dad and Molly
Originally uploaded by GrumpySnickles

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!

Wall I made out of canvas and picture of Molly

2010-08-12T10:56:00.001-06:00

Wall I made out of canvas and picture of Molly
Originally uploaded by GrumpySnickles

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!

Family Pic

2010-08-12T10:55:00.001-06:00

Family Pic
Originally uploaded by GrumpySnickles

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 :)

Mama and Molly

2010-08-12T10:52:00.001-06:00

Mama and Molly
Originally uploaded by GrumpySnickles

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...

long time no post

2010-08-12T10:46:00.003-06:00

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.

5 months old

2010-07-24T19:43:00.001-06:00

DSC06759
Originally uploaded by BluePail

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.

Super laughing Molly

2010-07-18T21:27:00.001-06:00

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

Yuck

2010-07-16T11:19:00.000-06:00

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

2010-07-15T12:34:00.000-06:00

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

-- Post From My iPhone

Look how happy Molly is at daycare

2010-07-15T11:03:00.001-06:00

Look how happy Molly is at daycare
Originally uploaded by GrumpySnickles

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.

2010-07-12T20:14:00.002-06:00

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

19. Broomfield, CO

WINNER

Top 100 rank: 19
Population: 55,000

With a prime location only 20 minutes from both Denver and Boulder, Broomfield is a safe, active community with a very strong school district and much for residents to enjoy.

Spend the day walking along Broomfield's 66 miles of trails or start up a game on one of the sports fields in Broomfield's numerous green parks.

If it's raining, head to the Paul Derda Recreation Center, a facility with an indoor aquatic park, climbing wall, game room, and fitness classes. --B.D.

4 months old!

2010-07-10T15:58:00.005-06:00

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!!!

Booked our trip to Holland

2010-07-01T13:27:00.002-06:00

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.

Outside

2010-06-26T20:09:00.000-06:00

Molly and I gun outside on Friday night while Austin sprayed off the spider webs from the front of the house.

-- Post From My iPhone

Pants

2010-06-26T20:08:00.000-06:00

Why can I not find pants that fit. They are either too big and fall off or too small and too tight. Arrrrgh

-- Post From My iPhone

Molly and the Crinkle Cloth

2010-06-25T11:22:00.000-06:00

Molly has a lot of fun with the this toy Austin's Aunt made for her

Two cats one baby one lap

2010-06-24T20:16:00.001-06:00

All of this equals one happy momma.

-- Post From My iPhone

IPhone 4

2010-06-24T20:07:00.000-06:00

Austin stood in line for almost four hours today to pick up our pre-ordered iPhones. I had to wait all day to play with it but now I have it in my hands and it is fantastic. It's soooo fast

-- Post From My iPhone

Molly's first food!

2010-06-22T20:46:00.004-06:00

Molly had her first taste of food today. We tried rice cereal. She seemed to like it, still has to get the hang of closing her mouth after eating but she was pretty darn cute eating!

Here here to see all of the pictures.

We miss you Jones

2010-06-22T11:56:00.000-06:00

My lunch view

2010-06-21T14:17:00.001-06:00

I sat outside for lunch today and enjoyed the sun for a bit (and my view)!!!!!

-- Post From My iPhone

Molly in the bumbo

2010-06-20T20:40:00.000-06:00

Molly sat in the bumbo chair today while I made some cookie dough.

-- Post From My iPhone