Do you remember...
Lately, whenever Molly wants to ask for something, it starts with "Do you remember..." She's trying to be coy about asking for whatever it is that she wants. "Daddy, do you remember those M&M's up in the cupboard?" "Momma, do you remember that popcorn popper that we have?" (Click
here for more.) And she puts her hand on your arm. Or your shoulder...whatever she can reach. It's very amusing...and effective most of the time.
Momma...I never really expected one of my kids to call me that. I always envisioned being "Mommy". But Molly has perfected calling me "Momma" in a way that melts my heart and sounds so sweet.
She can lay on the charm like nobody's business. And she knows it. It doesn't always work for her, but she certainly can be very persuasive. Every 2 minutes. Till she gets what she wants. Or a time out. I guess that's how "4" is...figuring out how far you can push before you hit the wall. She's certainly testing us out.
This little girl is
such a sweet heart, too. She gives hugs, and kisses, and more hugs. She's so petite that I can still (almost) easily pick her up, at the age of 4. She still easily fits on my lap, and crawls up in it on a regular basis. I'm glad - I'll be sad when she's too big for that.
As I often tell her, she's my baby girl, and always will be. No matter how big she gets.
Homemade Pizza
We had homemade pizza for dinner tonight. When I was growing up, this was a Friday night tradition in our house. As we got older, friends were always welcome to come over and it was always a fun way to end the week.
Scott and I made homemade pizza a lot when we were first married. After having kids, we didn't make it so often. Recently, I've started to make it again. Scott and I still prefer the "standard" recipe, with mushrooms and olives. The girls are a little more particular, and they prefer to have white sauce on theirs. Megan has olives only, and Molly tries a little of everything on theirs.
The girls have been requesting pizza for dinner fairly regularly - homemade, not "bought" pizza. I guess it's time to add this one back into our regular, weekly meal lineup. Even though it's kind of a lot of work, it makes me happy to make pizza from scratch for the family. It warms my heart that a tradition I treasured so much growing up will hopefully touch our girls lives, too.
Playing Catch Up
I've been a bit slow about updating the blog. Ok...really slow. One of my resolutions for this year is to get my blog up to date and try to blog more often. About the little things, not just the major life events. Also, I want to blog more about my hobbies, the other things in my life that make me happy. I still enjoy sewing, and have taken up knitting, too. And I'd like to have a place where I can keep track of that stuff and see the projects I've completed.
In the next few days, if you're interested, you might want to look back through the past few months (or if you read through a feed reader, they'll probably appear automatically). I'm going to be going through my photos to jog my memory, and add some entries about Molly's birthday, the holidays, snow fun and more.
Molly's Christmas Program
Molly's preschool class put on a Christmas program. The kids all lined up on a little stage and sang us some of the songs they've learned this year. We were all very proud of how well Molly did.
Waiting for the show to start...she looks nervous!
She was happy when the bells were passed out - not really singing anymore, but happy :)
Molly with the other girls from her class - Emma, Isabella, Molly, Haley and Kylee. She loves going to school and she loves her friends. I can't count the number of times she hugged them all before we left!
Snow Day!
For the first time in the past few years, we got a big snowfall yesterday. The girls were so excited that they didn't even wait for it to stop snowing to go out to play in it. When all was said and done, we had 7-8 inches, I think. Let's hope it sticks around till Christmas!
Attempting to make snowballs...it didn't pack together very well.
They were working together to do something...but who knows what! That's our neighbor Andy in the background. He's a little older than Megan and they really enjoy playing together.
O Christmas Tree!
When we started to talk about going to get a Christmas tree this year, Megan started to balk. She said she didn't want to go cut down a tree. She wanted to use a fake tree so that we wouldn't have to cut one down. So, even though I really wanted a real tree, we agreed to get a fake one. We had one we had used last Christmas, but I didn't like how small it was. A very generous co-worker offered to loan us a 9
8-foot tree she had that was too big for their apartment. We have 9
8-foot ceilings, so of course we said "Sure!" *Thanks for straightening me out on my facts, Scott!*
The girls were impressed to watch it get put together, with all the different color coded branches. And "fluffing" them was an event all on its own. Once it was up, we started in on the decorations since it is pre-lit :)
Here's Megan stretching to get a candy cane up high.
The girls and I made clothespin reindeer ornaments this year. They thought it was the coolest thing ever.
The finished tree. Yes, the star touches the ceiling. And please don't mind the bottom unlit section. We wiggled and jiggled the plug with no luck - that section would not light up! At least it's at the bottom and not in the middle!
Molly and Megan give a quick hug in front of the finished tree.
Gingerbread House
Megan's school put on a Christmas Event called Winterland of Gingerbread. Each child was invited to decorate and bring a gingerbread house to the event which had several holiday themed activities. So I bought a kit and a few days before the event, Megan, Molly and I built and decorated the house.
Both girls were very concerned about the construction. They were convinced that the icing would not hold the house up. For a while, I was concerned, too...but eventually, we got it built!
We decorated both sides of the roof with the same pattern of icing dots. Then each girl decorated one side.
Here is the finished house. We did add some little plastic trees the next day. We glued sparkly pom-poms on the top of them...they added a nice festive touch. We really had a lot of fun decorating the house and I would like to try to make this an annual tradition.
Lately, whenever Molly wants to ask for something, it starts with "Do you remember..." She's trying to be coy about asking for whatever it is that she wants. "Daddy, do you remember those M&M's up in the cupboard?" "Momma, do you remember that popcorn popper that we have?" (Click here for more.) And she puts her hand on your arm. Or your shoulder...whatever she can reach. It's very amusing...and effective most of the time.
such a sweet heart, too. She gives hugs, and kisses, and more hugs. She's so petite that I can still (almost) easily pick her up, at the age of 4. She still easily fits on my lap, and crawls up in it on a regular basis. I'm glad - I'll be sad when she's too big for that.
