Molly playing with her bugs on her playmat. 

Molly doing her "tummy time". 

Kisses from Grandma. 

Molly playing with her Grandpa when he came to visit. 

Molly playing with her ducky. 

Molly having fun sitting up on the couch. She quickly lost her balance and fell over!! 

Molly - eleven weeks old. 

Molly having fun with her favorite flower. Ten weeks old. 

Checking in with an update on Molly...

Well, Molly has cruised past the two-month mark and is continuing to amaze me with new things. She has recently discovered her voice and chatters away to her toys. It is quite funny to listen to her scream at the bugs on her mobile. By the sounds of things, she will like talking as much as her Mommy does!!

Another one of Molly's new things is enjoying being by herself. It was hard to figure out what she wanted at first because she was glued to me for eight weeks straight!! She would start to fuss and I would go through my checklist - diaper clean: check, belly full: check, not too warm: check, not too cold: check. Well, what could it be? So I laid her down and voila...happy as a clam.

Molly also got her two month vaccinations on August 12th. She got two needles...one in each leg. I think it was harder on me than it was on her. She cried for about three minutes and I swear that she had a mad look on her face when she looked at me. Of course I made sure to tell her that it was the bad doctor's fault and not Mommy's. I was a little concerned that the needles would throw off her sleeping and I guess I was right, but not in the way I thought it might...that night she slept from 8:30 pm till 7:30 am the next morning. Holy carumba. I think I checked to see if she was breathing about a gazillion times. Unfortunately this sleeping jag was short lived and she is now back on her regular routine...which I shouldn't complain cause she only gets up once a night for about 15 minutes.

We also found out at her check-up that Molly now weighs 12 lbs. and is 23.5 inches long (she was 8 lbs. 12 ozs. and 20.5 inches at birth). Go Molly, go Molly...yeah Molly!!!

Well I guess that is all for now. Thanks for reading. I hope you enjoy the pictures.
Alayne and Molly

Sometimes Daddy takes swaddling a little too seriously. Ummm...can someone unwrap me please? 

Stretch one, two, three...Molly exercising her neck muscles.

Molly finally falls asleep in her swing. I was beginning to think she was the only baby that stayed awake in a swing. 

Molly chilling out on the couch in her summer duds. 

Miss bright eyes. 

Molly on August 9th - two months old!!!

Molly gazing at her new flowers that her friend Mina from Ottawa sent her. She loves these flowers and smiles as soon as she sees them...she then proceeds to have big conversations with them. 

Molly's new tub - the kitchen sink. It works much better than her fancy baby tub, which kills Mommy's back. 

Molly - eight weeks old. 

Molly hanging out on her playmat, which she loves these days. 

Molly chatting away to Mommy. 

Molly snuggling with Daddy. 

Molly going for her first ride on the four-wheeler with Daddy. This has become an almost daily occurence since then. 

Molly chilling out with her big teddybear. 

Finally an update on Miss Molly

Well, Molly is almost eight weeks old and I am finally getting around to writing an update instead of just posting pictures. It certainly has been an exciting and overwhelming eight weeks. Molly is the center of my universe and I can’t believe how much I love her. She is doing well and growing very quickly. To my amazement I have already packed away some sleepers that were kinda big when she first came home. She is very bright and quite nosey…sometimes it takes quite a bit of effort to get her to eat and sleep because she is afraid she may miss something!!! The biggest milestone has been her first real smile (see pictures below). Maybe it’s not so much of a milestone but it certainly melted my heart. It’s good I have my post-pregnancy hormones in check or that may have caused quite a crying jag!!!

Molly is starting to take an interest in some of her toys and likes to lie on her play mat. She also likes to lie in her crib and watch the bugs on her mobile. This new phase is a welcome one because it gives me some time to do the luxuries (like using the washroom) without flying around at warp speed.

She has slept through the night a total of five times so far. One time was just a fluke and then the other four happened right in a row. Each night I expected her to wake, so I didn’t sleep soundly and then on the fifth night I settled down to a deep slumber and voila, she woke up. She then looked at me with one of her big new smiles and life at 2 am miraculously got better! So now I am convinced that a baby seriously knows when its parents are figuring them out and changes things up. I haven’t heard her make a devilish chuckle yet, but I am sure that is coming.

Molly made her first trip to Cape Breton (usually a 6.5 hour drive but it took 9) and got to meet her four Cape Breton cousins (Danielle, Meghan, Janelle and Chelsey). She also spent a lot of quality time with her Grandma. My uncle Blaire was home from BC and he baptized her on July 24th (see pictures below). She looked like a little angel and was as good as gold.

Well that’s about it for now. I will check back with another update soon.
Chow for now,
Alayne and Molly

Molly's first smile on camera. 

A close-up of Molly in her baptism dress. 

Molly all decked out in her baptism gown that Grandma bought her.