happy birthday molly

one year ago today at 7:51am molly came bursting into this world and has filled our hearts and home with so much joy! molly is up early this morning and mommy definately has some fun planned.

i can't believe how fast this year has gone.  molly has brought so much life to our family and we couldn't imagine anything without her!  she is walking and talking and her bestfriend is her brother.  her words are "da-da" and "hi" and she will have an entire conversation with one of those words.  she is such a good eater so far and loves trying new things.  she is also very independent, she likes to do things on her own especially climbing!  she gets on and off of the couch and the kid chairs.  she loves to be outside.  we go to the park in the evenings and she love the swings and riding the quad around.

i'm so excited to see what the next year will be us with her!

we love her very much and are so blessed to have her as our own.

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happy birthday baby girl!

the birds and the bees

for mother's day this year connor and james made me a new garden

so i planted watermelon and pumpkins

4 very small little plants that have grown into this...

i have two bowling ball size pumpkins and a pretty good size watermelon

it is so exciting and we can't believe how big the pumpkin plants have gotten!

we all go out every morning to see how much everything has grown

we have so many little pumpkins that haven't made it :(

so i asked my dad what was happening...

well that is when he gave me "the talk"

about male and female plants

and fertilization

i was astonished

and apparently everyone knows this but me...

and james

apparently you can hand fertilize plants but it hasn't worked for me

i will post more pictures of the pumpkins

molly on the go

connor got this quad last year for his birthday and it hasn't gotten that much use

i had put it inside so it wouldn't get ruined in the rain and molly noticed it

she worked very hard to climb on it and liked to just sit on it

until daddy taught her how to push the button to make it go

and ever since then, she's been on the move

she rides it all over the house and we've even taken it to the park

it is so funny to watch her because she's so little but she is tough

this is just one of the video clips we have of her riding the quad