Mollie 2 years old

Happiest birthday to this 2 year old!!!!  I seriously cannot even believe how big she's getting!  This little one is loud, hilarious, so so busy, opinionated, and the sweetest, happiest girl there ever was!  She has brought so much joy, love, and chaos to our family.  !! We wouldn't change a thing about her feisty little self! This girl loves to sing, she loves all animals, she loves to play outside, loves cheese and yogurt, she has to feed herself, she sings her abc's and counts to 10.  She also LOVES donuts!!!  Her fav sayings are "don't want to eww," "don't care," "yaaa," (when asked any question), "thisa one."  She yells at max and alexa a lot! She is a talker, she talks my ear off all day long.  She takes off her clothes and diaper several times a day!  She loves to hold your hand and walk wherever she goes.  She loves to play with baby dolls.  She loves Dave and Ava, and Mickey!  This girl is seriously the dang cutest two year old in the world!!! We love her to pieces and don't know what we'd do without her!!!! Poor little sis was sick on her birthday so we spent the day watching movies and getting extra snuggles from her.  She did love the fact that it was her birthday and she got so much attention!! She kept saying, "happy birthday Mollie Jo" all day long, and she's been singing the happy birthday song ever since.  Happiest birthday sweet girl!!! We sure love ya!!!!!

35Inches 78%

28 lb 13 oz %75

18 months

Where has the time gone!!!! You are SO MUCH FUN right now!!!!! You're walking and CLIMBING all over every thing!!!!! You are so so curious!!! You're a busy little thing!  You keep us all on our toes and keep us laughing all the time!!! 

Some of the things you love are :  Climbing on anything you can, books, barbies (which you call mermaids), horses, balloons, birds, yogurt, cheese, feeding yourself, sitting at the big table, baby Einstein, woody and jesse, toothbrushes, toilet paper, baths, playing in the hose outside, your siblings, your mama and you "daddin", face timing "daddin", playing with phones, Max, flowers, walks, slides, playing in the kitchen sink while I wash dishes, dancing, coloring. 

Some things you say are : mama, daddin, birdin (bird), bas (bath), no, bad bad boy (to max), hi, bye bye, BITES (whenever you want a bite of someones food you scream this as loud as you can), hello, mermaid, book, Max, gink (drink), ba (bottle), moo, quack, you snort like a pig, you growl (any animal), duck.

I know I already said this, but you are so so much fun!!!! Like so so much fun!!  We are all obsessed!  We all love playing with you and watching you learn and grow!  You bring so much joy into our home along with a little crazy hahaha!  You're just as sassy as can be, you know what you want and you're gonna get it!  I love how excited you get when you see a balloon, flower, bird, or ball right now. You can point them out wherever we go, and you get so darn excited, it's the cutest thing ever!  I love how when ever I open the fridge, you dart right over as fast as you can, no matter where in the house you are.  You grab a yogurt and then run away as quick as you can.  You also run away when you have something you shouldn't.  I just can't explain it Molls, I wish I could freeze time.  Your sweet curious innocence is just my favorite.  It's truly amazing to see things through the eyes of a child.  You find such simple joys in things and I love how excited you get when you see something you love.  I love your loves (right now you are really into giving kisses), the very best kisses in the whole world!!!! Mollie I hope you know how much you're loved!  I don't think there has been a baby more loved ever!!! You went to nursery for the first time last week and I almost cried.  I don't know how we hit that milestone so quickly but we sure did. It seems the more kids you have the faster time goes.   I need to stop and enjoy every second of you, because your growing so darn quick.  Slow down sweet Mollie girl!  

We love you so so much !  SO SO SO SO SO much!

Mollie Jo 22 months.

Oh my Mollie Jo where do I even begin!!! I can't even tell you how fun you are lately!!! This has to be one of my very favorite stages ever!!!!! I have so many favorite stages tho and each one goes way too fast!!!! You are seriously the funnest!!!! Like I just laugh and laugh a million times a day at you cute little personality !!!! You are the funniest, sassiest thing there ever was!! You're personality is SO SO BIG!  Such a big personality in such a tiny little girl!  You are starting to talk so much and it's so fun!!!! You copy a lot of what we say.  You are always asking where everything went, by saying, "a go??"  "shoe a go???"   "max a go??"  "Daddn a go??"  You say it so dramatic and so cute and I can't even handle the cuteness!!!  Another thing I love is how you put an N on the end of so many things!  "Daddn", Birdn" .  It's so hilarious!  You are obsessed with Dave and Ava on youtube and are always asking for, "ava ava" or "ava ava no pop pop" (it's a nursery rhyme that says "ava ava, no papa.), or you ask for "daddn daddn no pop pop"... You love watching Dave and Ava.  You are always always singing !!! Like always and it's the absolute cutest sound in the whole world!  You like to sing baby shark, abc's, ava ava no pa pa, twinkle twinke, itsy bitsy, patty cake, popcorn popping, and so many others.  Mollie I wish I could just freeze this time you are in, it is seriously so much fun!  I just can't even begin to tell you !  I love the way you tell Dad by everytime he goes to work.  You run to the front door and stick your head out the blinds and just yell, "bye Daddn!!!"  Then you come over to me and say, "daddn go???"  You have a love/hate relationship with Max.  He always takes what you have in your hand and you get so mad!  You always yell at him.  You also yell at me sometimes by saying, "bad boy!!"  :)  You are obsessed with yogurt and your bottle of milk.  You've even yelled "ba" (bottle) and yogurt out while you were sleeping.  Every time someone opens the fridge you run as fast as you can over to try and sneak a yogurt.  I also LOVE your little run right now!!! It's just this little skip sort of run and your little hair bobs along with you.  It's seriously the best thing!!! These are things I never want to forget, and sadly I might.  This mama doesn't have a very good memory!!  I hope you know how much I treasure these things about you.

About a month ago we moved your crib into Madden's room.  You were in my room and you were still waking up in the night for a bottle.  This mama was tired, so we decided to put you in Madden's room and just let you cry it out to learn how to sleep through the night (mean  I know lol).  Well the first night you woke up around 3, like you usually do asking for a bottle.  And I was surprised, you didn't really cry.  You just kinda rolled around your crib like what the heck is going on here.  It took you a couple of hours but you fell back asleep.  The next couple of nights you woke up around the same time but you fell back asleep pretty darn quickly.  And ever since then you've been sleeping like a champ!  We have moved Madden's matress into our room because you are such a light sleeper.  You wake up to any little sound.  We've been putting him in there with you on the weekends when he doesn't have school to let you get used to it.  When he's in there you usually fuss a little once or twice a night but go back to sleep pretty quickly.  But when he isn't in there and you are alone with the door closed, you don't make a peep.  It's a process and you'll get it.  Anyway, this weekend you've been sick.  Yesterday I gave you a bottle and snuggled you in my bed.  It made me miss snuggling you in the middle of the night with your bottle.  Even though it made me so tired the next day, it was just a special little bonding moment we had.  You always had to put your head right against mine and drink your bottle.   Yesterday you put your head against mine while you drank it too, and it just reminded me that I'd almost forgotten how you used to do that.  It just made me smile.

You are seriously the cutest, busiest, sassiest girl in the world but we all love you so so so so so much!!!! You have brought so much joy and laughter to our family!! We don't know what we'd do without you !!! Love you so much !

27 lbs %75
33inches 68%

Love mom

Mollie 15 month blurb

Oh my goodness I just can't even handle how sweet this Mollie girl is!!!!!!  We are all so smitten with her, there has never been a more loved 1 year old!!! She is absolutely HILARIOUS and keeps us all laughing all the time!!! She's just so dramatic and busy and loud LOL... She knows exactly what she wants and if she doesn't get it she will scream the loudest, most high pitched scream ever!!! And she will keep screaming and screaming until she gets what she wants...We have a spoiled girl on our hands...She is so busy and into everything all the time!!  When she has something she knows she's not supposed to have she will run away from you as fast as she can, it's the cutest thing ever.  And when you catch her she just laughs and laughs.   She eats pretty much anything you give her and loves it!  If she doesn't want it she just throws it on the floor, where Max is anxiously waiting, and he quickly eats it up.  She's starting to talk more and more.  She says hi, mama, E-I-E-I-O, eye, ho ho ho, yee-haw, and cracker.  She points to things she wants and can follow simple instructions sometimes (take that to dad, go get your blanket).  She is obsessed with her blankie!  Like she loves that thing (well I guess it's not one particular blanket, just any of the little fuzzy kids blankets).  She won't go to sleep without one.  She LOVES to climb!  She will try to climb on whatever she can.  She also LOVES to ride the rocking horse and jump on the trampoline.  She loves to be outside whenever she can.  She imitates certain things.  The other day while playing barbies with Emily we were playing that they were sleeping and I made a snoring noise and Mollie quickly made a snoring noise as well.  She shakes her head no when she knows she's not supposed to be into something.  She will walk up to Max's kennel, while shaking her head no, and open the door to get dog food.  She also nods her head yes, but I don't think she knows exactly what that means yet.  She loves it when everyone gives her attention!!!

We all can't get enough of this girl!!! I love watching her siblings interact with her.  She just ties our family together so perfectly.  We love love love our sweet Mollie girl! Although it breaks this mama's heart to have her get so big so darn fast, I LOVE watching her develop her own little personality!  She's a feisty little thing!  And we sure love her to pieces!
Ht: 31.2 inches (%73) Wt: 23 lb (%67)

Mollie 16 months..

So a few posts ago I told you I would write about your stay in the NICU.  Your mom is way behind on these things, but I'm trying to catch up!  How I wish I had written everything down back then, because it's been a year and a half now.  I remember after they'd taken you to the NICU they told me I had to stay in bed until a certain time (I believe it was 2 hours).  And I had to be able to get up on my own and transfer to the wheel chair.  While I was lying in bed I was so so thirsty!  I just wanted more to drink!  They let me take sips and then brought me a jello cup.  Slowly the numbness began to wear off in my legs.  And then it was the two hour mark and I immediately asked to go see you.  I was able to get up into the wheel chair, and they let dad wheel me down.  When I saw you you were hooked to all kinds of wires.  You had a very big mask on your face, it almost covered the whole thing.  I remember the very first thing I noticed about you was your cutest little chin, because you had the smallest dimple in it!  That little dimple was from my side of the family and I was so excited!!!  I remember being so frustrated because I couldn't really see you at all through that mask.  But you were just so so tiny, and you had a lot of dark hair.  I just wanted to hold you !!!  They told me I couldn't quite yet.  I wasn't able to hold you until the next day (which is actually way sooner than some that have premature babies).  I felt bad for the NICU nurse because I got sick and threw up in the trash can in your room.  LOL.  But after that I felt great! And I just sat and talked to you and was just amazed by your strong little body!!! I was instantly in love with you!  The bond between a mom and her precious new baby is really indescribable, and the thing is, it gets even stronger as you grow!  It's truly amazing how much love a person can hold!  I remember when Braylee was a little girl and I was expecting Madden, I was so worried.  I just didn't understand how I could love anything else as much as I loved my sweet little girl.  But then Madden came along and not only did I still love Bray with my whole soul, but I now loved this little boy with my whole soul!  And then Emily, and now you!! Love is an amazing thing!! Like your dad said the other day, it's the only thing that grows bigger as you give it away.  I sat with you for a while and then decided to try and get a little rest.  I came back first thing in the morning.  This is the day I was able to hold you!!! My precious baby girl!! You were just perfect!! I spent almost every single second in the NICU until I was discharged.  I remember when they put you under the bili light, I wasn't able to hold you all the time and that was hard.  It was so dang hard when they discharged me and I had to leave.  That is truly one of the hardest things!  I just had to remind myself that you were where you needed to be in order to come home to me healthy and strong. 

I was so grateful your dad was able to take some time off work and that Grandma and Grandpa P were here to help.  I would get the kids up each morning and send them to school.  Play with Ems for a little bit and then head up to see you.  In the afternoon your dad would come be with you, and then after dinner I'd go back until late at night.  I will NEVER EVER forget those moments holding you in the NICU.  In a way it was a very spiritual experience.  As much as I hated for you to be there, I also LOVED going there to see you.  I was able to just sit and hold you.  Just hold you in the peace and quiet, just you and I.  And that was it!!  I would hold you for hours and it truly was just such a special experience.  I could have held you forever every single day!  If you had been home I would not have gotten as much time to just sit and hold you because I would be doing lots of other things as well.  So that to me was a very amazing thing.  Leaving you was so hard but I would not have given up those moments for the world!!  I remember each time I went in I would just snuggle you, but pretty soon they wanted you to try and nurse.  (probably after about a week or maybe two of you being there).  So then every time I came in I'd talk to you and then I'd change your diaper.  That woke you up every time!! While you were wide awake we'd try to get you to nurse.  Once you caught on, you just took off!!! The lactation specialist was a little Hispanic lady and she was just an angel.  She was so kind!  After you nursed you'd fall asleep and then I'd just sit and rock you and snuggle you.  I remember the alarms used to go off a lot because it just wasn't hooked well or you'd move and it wouldn't be reading well.  It was so nice when you came home and I got to snuggle you with no monitors.  You and I made a lot of friends at the NICU.  The nurses just loved you! They were all wonderful!! I knew you were in very good hands! 

The week before you came home Grandma Beck came to help.  She would come up with me during the day and we'd take turns snuggling you.  The doctor set a certain weight goal for you and said if you met that goal he'd discharge you in the morning.  Well you met that goal !!! And we asked him if there was any way you could come home that night because your Grandma and Aunt would be leaving the next morning and they were just dying to have you home!  He decided that would be ok, and we FINALLY got to take you home!!!! After 23 days!  The nurse who discharged us was Kris and she was very sweet.  When we got home you were immediately bombarded by three little kiddos who had been dying to meet you !!!!! And they haven't left you alone since!!!  You truly kinda just glued our family all together !! We are all just so in love with you !!! Every single one of us!!!! We love you so so much !!!!

So now, fast forward to the day I'm typing this... You are 16 months, !!!!! I can't even believe it Molls!!!! Like I seriously held back tears writing this!! I can't believe how fast it goes!!! I just can't!!  You are SO MUCH FUN right now!!!!! Like you keep us all laughing ALL THE TIME!!!!!!  You are the cutest, sassiest, busiest, most curious girl ever!!!!You area all over the place, like ALL OVER!!! You just never stop.  You just wander around pulling things out of cupboards, off shelves, out of baskets, etc.  You LOVE to read!! You are constantly bringing me books and just plopping on my lap, you'd sit for hours and read.  You are really starting to understand things, you can follow simple instructions.  You and Max have a love hate relationship.  You are just Max's size so he can easily grab food from you and you get so mad.  But you also get into stuff all the time and bring it to Max, then Max usually chews it up lol.  The other night I was just trying to wrap Madden's birthday presents and you pulled all the sandwich bags out and Max scattered them all around the house.  You two did the same with the straws and tupperwear and everything under the kitchen sink LOL!!! You're just so darn busy, but your so adorable!!!! I can't even get mad!!!  The back of your hair is really pretty curly, especially when it's humid.  And I love your little pony tail you have on the top of your head!  You LOVE bath time!!! All I have to do is say the word bath and you run as fast as you can to the bathroom and stand right next to the tub.  I never want to forget your little run, especially when you are only in your little diaper!! It's by far the cutest thing in the world!!!  Just today you learned to climb up on the kitchen chair!!  You are a climber!!! Braylee was a climber and oh man!!! She was crazy and I think you aren't far behind her !!! You can say so many words!!! You say hi, by by, ba ba (bottle), bird, shoe, ho ho ho, E I E I O, shake your head no, and nod yes.  You are FINALLY starting to sleep a little better.  It is about 50/50 right now whether you wake up or not.  And if you wake up it's usually only once.  You love to be outside!!! You get so mad when the kids get to go in and out but mom isn't able to take you out.  You LOVE the trampoline!!! 

I could go on and on about you my sweet girl!!!! I keep saying how each stage you enter is my favorite, but the truth is I can't pick a favorite stage!!!! Every single stage has something so fun and so amazing about it!!!! I just wish you would slow down!!! You're growing so fast!!!! How privileged I am to be the one to witness it!!! I don't know what I did to deserve this honor, but I want you to know I truly cherish it!!!  You are the most amazing little girl and I just love you so so much !!!!