Edie's Spring Sing (3 day 3's)

The Spring Sing at Edie's school was this past week. The theme was "Animals, Animals Everywhere". Edie's class was Bears. I wish I had a video of the opening song. Many of her classmates stood there with stage shock, and Edie belted out her song with gusto, even being completely off cue from the other classes who were also singing along. It was so funny!

It's hard to believe this school year is almost over!

 

3rd from the end, singing about the Bears sleeping

 

Edie with Ms. Shannon and Ms. Mary

Its hard to tell from this picture how excited Edie was to see her dad.  He had been out of town for work all week and managed to switch his flight at the last minute to get back in time for the show.  He surprised us both by showing up at the Spring Sing!

Spring Break!

Spring Break! - Lots of great pics this trip so I'll keep the commentary short. The front floors of our house were being redone in the renovation process so Edie, Molly, Sadie and I drove down to Florida to stay with Oma and Opa for Spring Break. John flew down to meet us for a long weekend and the drive back. We had a great trip and they both traveled surprisingly well!

Even some of the Barbies made the trip

Loving the tire swing!

Cooking with Oma

Molly loves accessories. Shoes, sunglasses, necklaces, etc

 

 

Flying Dumbo at the St. Mary's spring fling! Edie also went on her first Ferris Wheel ride!

More cooking with Oma

Gulf Breeze Zoo

 

Molly standing on her own (she's even taking a few steps on her own now!)

Edie's favorite Florida activity

Working on Oma's square foot garden

 

Sadie swims at least twice a day to cool off.

 

Opa and Molly blowing rasberries 

We rented a pontoon boat and took a cruise around the bayou and a picnic lunch at a park on the water.  We dropped Oma and Opa and the girls off for naptime and Sadie, John and I took the boat out to Crab Island and Destin.  It's so beautiful!

Oma and Edie checking the crab traps - 2 nice size blue crabs!

 

 

Ringing the dinner bell

Taking a few steps! (13 months)

 

 

Enjoying some ice cream!

 

Molly was not going to be left out on the ice cream treat!

 

Easter 2012

We finally had an Easter weekend that wasn't drenched in rain! Poppy and Tu took us to the boat club for the Easter Egg hunt and lunch on Saturday. Edie loved the Easter Egg hunt, and it was so fun to have it outside this year instead of inside like previous years due to rain!

 

This was as close to the Easter Bunny as Edie would get. She still would not sit with him!

 
Easter Sunday Tu hosted the Todd Family for a gathering.  Breia & Todd, Aunt Eleanor & Big John; Tommy, Jennifer, and Nancy; Carolyn; Susan, Chris, Kathryn, and Dylan all came.  In hind sight, I really wish we had made an effort to get a family photo even though a few members of the family were missing.  It was a beautiful day and Edie and Kathryn enjoyed an Easter Egg hunt and lots of playing outside.

 

 

 

 

Molly loves to swing!

 

Molly's First Birthday!

Molly had her first birthday on March 10! It's hard to believe its been a year already!! We had a small party with just Poppy & Tu, uncle Todd & aunt Breia, and the Sutherland's. Oma and Opa were sick and ended up not being able to travel.

Molly loved her cake and enjoyed the attention. She LOVED her balloons! Her favorite gift was a little Princess car from Edie.

Molly had her check up and is still a wee little thing. 20% for weight and 50% on height. She loves to eat and will eat almost anything. And after spitting up for an entire year, that seems to have finally subsided for the most part. She's still very vocal(loud), does mamama's and dadadada's but mostly just baby babble. She's been crawling since 6 months and pulling up since about 9 months. She can walk across the room holding her little walker wagon but cannot walk on her own yet. On her birthday, she started standing unassisted for a few seconds!

Other Molly tidbits at age one:
- she LOVES her blanket! She piles it up and sleeps on it like a pillow.
- still a thumb sucker
- loves to wear necklaces and plastic beads, and to put on hats
- wiggliest baby ever. Every diaper change/outfit change is a challenge! Staying still is not her strongsuit
- loves to go for stroller/wagon rides
- loves Sadie!!!
- for the most part sleeps all night. However, she's a super dramatic teether so when that's going on there's very little sleep
- speaking of teeth. she has 5 of them
- loves to wave hello and goodbye. Just started doing "so big" and gets so excited about that. Also loves to play peekaboo!
- giggles and laughs a lot!! Everyone comments on how she is such a Happy baby. She definitely has a sense of humor. The flip side is she also makes it very known when she is bored or not happy
- for the most part, she and Edie play really well together. She especially loves to take baths with Edie. Molly makes it seem like we are in a splash park with all the giggles and splashing!
- loves to throw food down for Sadie...we are working to correct that!

Edie had a little bit of a hard time with Molly getting her own baby doll!

Molly and her buddy Lilly (they are 3 months apart), and Molly's new baby doll