TIme Out Kid

Yeah....so I got a little story for ya ags. Once there was a girl named.....what rhymes with Molly......Polly, yeah, we will go with Polly. So, Polly is a cute little 19 month old girl who has a lot of personality. Well, one day she was building a block tower with her mommy and she hit her mommy in the face with the block. Her mommy grabed gently took her hand and told her that we don't hit. Explaining that hitting is not nice. So then Polly hit her again and again mommy took her hand and repeated that we don't hit, that it hurts people and if she does it again she will go into time out. Two seconds later, Molly, I mean Polly hit her mommy again and so it was time for time out. Her mommy took her to a wall, made her face it and put her hands on the wall. At first it was no big deal but then 15 seconds later when she wanted to go play with her toys and mommy wouldn't let her hands off the wall the melt down began. Finally after 30 seconds on the wall the mean mommy walked away and let Polly fall to the floor and cry in a dramatic fashion, she wouldn't do it any other way. This little girl is a bit dramatic if you know what I mean. After calming down a bit the mommy called her over and explained why we don't hit people and if we do we go into time out. Three seconds after that the world was right again and Polly happy as could be pushing baby around in her stroller. About 15 minutes later, after everything was forgotten, or so mommy thought, Polly decided to walk up to her mommy, hit her in the face, then walk over to the wall and put her hands on it, turn around, look at her mommy and say "time out", "time out". On the bright side she is learning cause and effect.......

Don't let this sweet face fool you.

I have a feeling this disciplining thing is gonna be a bit challenging for her momma.

Molly, Molly, You are Everywhere

Superstar Molly. You were famous in the womb and now you are famous at one. Crazy. It always starts out with someone coming to me in the office saying oh can we take some pics of Molly and we will just do this one thing and then before we know it you are everywhere! It has been fun though flipping through magazines and seeing your picture. You are the face of the Texas Children’s Pavilion for Women 1^st year anniversary campaign which ran from April-June (although you are still up in City Center :)). Here are the various places that we have found you. Oh and, sorry, some of the pics are not so great quality - they were taken with the phone.

•  Texas Children’s Hospital website homepage

• Texas Children’s Pavilion for Women website homepage

• Galleria signage (3 banners: one over the ice rink and 2 in the Nordstrom’s wing)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Bump.com email that was sent out. One of my prego best friends, Nanda, forwarded me her email and was like “guess who I found!”

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	A year of miracles delivered! Providing the best possible care for women and newborns all in one location, Texas Children’s Pavilion for Women has many reasons to celebrate. In our first year alone, •  We have made advances in fetal care •  Applied our expertise to high risk births •  Provided family-centered maternity care Visit our website here! Texas Children's Hospital Pavilion for Women  6651 Main Street, Houston, TX 77030 (832) 826-3000 women.texaschildrens.org Expanding upon our premier reputation in fetal and neonatal medicine, Texas Children’s Hospital will offer obstetrical and gynecological care, providing a full continuum of care to women, mothers and babies. The Pavilion for Women provides the most advanced treatments, before conception and continuing after delivery.

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• 1 year anniversary video about the Pavilion 
• Sunday Houston Chronicle ads – this ran 3/24/13 

• Magazines for the month of April, May and June: Texas Monthly, Houston Modern Luxury, Papercity, Houston Lifestyles & Homes, Buzz Magazine, Junior League Magazine, Houstonia and various playbills. 

• City Center kiosks

• Texas Children’s Pavilion for Women facebook homepage

• And most recently your little pic is on the Texas Children's Pavilion for Women Milk Bank site

Fashion Show Diva

So last year I wrote this post about Molly's cat walk skills. Well, since then she has only come to perfect them. This past Friday Molly had her annual school fashion show. All the kids (even the babies because, well, she was that baby last year) work all week long on creating their fashion forward skills. I took her to school just in time for the show. It was quite hilarious to 1 watch the babies look in horror at all the parents clapping and screaming at them, 2 the toddlers who walk down the isle so cautiously only to see their parents at the end and run into their arms, and 3 the older kids who owned that runway. Hilarious and fantastic all at the same time!

Coming down the catwalk

After she saw me and had to turn around to go back

That is more like it

Goose...representin!

19 Months

Um, how did this happen. I completely didn't even notice you turned 19 months on Tuesday. I was telling someone how I have an 18 month old and I had a freak out moment when I noticed you were in fact 19 months. I am gonna need time to slow down. Am I crazy that I am already thinking about your 2nd birthday???  I can't mentally begin to think of your 2nd bday because I am just not ready so if you could wait for me to catch up to you that would be great.

Clothes:

  *   18 and 18-24 month clothes

  *   diaper: size 4  

  *   shoe: 4.5 - 5 (You might think I am doing the whole foot binding thing again since she hasn't changed sizes in months but I swear I am not. It helps that she is wearing sandals and her toes are definitely not squished.)

Sleeping: Same ol, same ol here. Nap from 1-3pm. Go to bed between 7:30-7:45pm and wake up between 7-7:30am. You had your first sleep over this month. You stayed the weekend at Lolli and Pop's house while me and Daddy went to a wedding in San Antonio. You did wonderfully well. Slept through the night both nights.

Eating: The same as far as milk and meals. We are still working on veggies and meat. You seem to be making progress so that is good. You are not really a picky eater but I think it is a texture thing for you. You will put the meat and veggies in your mouth, chew it up and then about 40/60 you eat it or spit it back out.

New Tricks: Hmmm I don't really know because I feel like you do everything. You have learned this skipping thing so that is now what you do all the time to get around. Oh, you have gotten really good at doing puzzles and building things with your blocks. There is an app on the ipad that you are obsessed with where you have to fit the animals in their place and you went from having no clue on how to do it then the I showed you a couple times and you needed some help to now you can do it all by yourself in record time. And, you now put your shoes on pretty quickly and you put them on the right feet. That is nice that isn't a battle anymore.

Words: You can pretty much say everything now so let me just tell you the funny words that you say. You still say calabooboo for catapillar, o-peta-pus for octopus, hold you for hold me (because that is what you hear us say "I will hold you"), yep and nope (don't know where you got this from but you don't say yes or no it is definitely yep or nope), help you for help me and am-i-nals for animals but I do think you are starting to say this correctly. Oh and one of my favorite things you say is your name. It comes out Maudy Dace. I just love it when you say it and of course I love it when you say I love you.

Teeth: You basically have a whole mouth full with 12 teeth. So....yeah.....last month I said you were starting to be a biter well......I am not seeing the light at the end of the tunnel. You are biting kids at school. Now, when I talk to the teacher she says it is always you defending yourself (which doesn't make it right) but at least you are not seeking kids out to bite. I don't know what to do because you don't do it when you are with me. You used to but then I bit you back, it scared you, you cried but then you haven't bitten me since. I have to admit it stresses me out a lot because I don't want you to hurt the other kids and I know some kids just do this but still MG. We need to get past this phase.

Likes: You are still utterly and completely obsessed with popsicles. You say it at least 5,436 times a day. Some days when I get you up in the morning the first word out of your mouth is popsicle. You could live off them - seriously. You LOVE your stroller. We bought you a little one from of course Target and you wheel that thing around all day long. You put your baby in it, your teddy bear, your milk, straws, shoes, you even wheel that thing around completely empty. Obsessed. You definitely like to help out in the kitchen now. When I am cooking you want to cook as well so you help me stir and put ingredients in. And...I hate to say it but the ipad. You love it and I was one of those people (prebaby) that was NOT going to have their child playing with phones or ipads by golley! You were just going to have books and while you do love your books you do love electronics. I mean you figure some things out on the ipad before I can. Oh and you are pretty particular when looking at things, maybe a little bit of OCD lies in you. When you are looking at things they need to be right side up....very interesting.

Dislikes: You obviously don't like it when people take your toys because you either bit or throw a fit.

Molly Grace, you are an independent, smart, precocious, sweet spirited little girl. You love to give kisses and hugs and tell people you love them. I mean sometimes you are a little loose with the lips so we need to put a lid on that! Ha. Daddy and I just sit back and watch the wheels turn in that head of yours. It is so fun to see you figure things out and learn about things. While some days you wear me plum out, others I just want to wake you up to play some more. You put a smile on my face all the time one because I love you more than life and two because you are seriously hilarious! The things you say, things you do, you are just a funny little lady. You are smart as all get out which keeps me on my toes always thinking of fun new things for you to explore. I love you little Molly Grace.

Photo Dump

It has been quite sometime since I have posted life pics so here are some.

Playin outside 

Mom....I wanna take a nap! 

Morning walk with the babies

What?!? I am showing Callum the doggies.

Well, mom, I think this is an ok outfit to wear to Target.

Baby looks so pretty with stickers.

But I prefer to wear them.

POPSICLE!

Happy Birthday Lolli!

I'm on a boat! Holla 

Pink eye is not fun.

I LOVE cereal and my favorite part is the drink the milk from the bowl.

I am sharing with Sarge.

Potty, Potty, Potty, Poootttaaayyy

So, a couple weeks ago I took Molly in for her 18 month appt and the doc said she was doing great and that she might even be ready for potty training since she understands and communicates so much. Well, let me be honest I was not jumping on the band wagon. I mean, it is great that she could be ready and she has shown quite a bit of interest but.....I don't think I am ready to have to constantly ask if she has to go potty and make potty stops every five minutes while we are out. Maybe a little selfish on my part but it is nice to go somewhere and not have to add something else to my list to think about. Yes, diapers are cumbersome and expensive and I could start carrying a purse again instead of a diaper bag but still I just don't know. BUT, this afternoon we took a trip to Target. I know I should never do this but we didn't have any other plans because she has a nasty cold so off we went to the place where you can't spend less than $100. I can give myself kudos though, I left there spending $94 this time, that counts right?!? Progress people.

I digress, Target, potty. So we walked down the potty isle and I saw this cute princess one and well, I bought it and I bought pull ups but forgot big girl panties. I mean I have never done this before I don't know what you need. Apparently I also forgot flushable wipes. Are the ones that I already use NOT flushable? Come on people! I understand you have to make a profit but goodness you are gonna make a girl go broke because I might have also walked down the toy isle and for girls it is just a magic place. It brings back all kinds of memories of dolls and Barbies and all things pink. I can't wait to play babies with Molly and kitchen which that is something that is totally on my toy list for her but I gotta space these things out so I don't get a look from Danny that says "Lauren, she doesn't need anything else." And, while I know that, I just can't help myself. Having a little girl kinda makes you want to play Barbies all over again.

Anyway, back to the whole point of this post - the potty. I buy the necessary items minus a couple, come home, open the box and immediately M says "take diaper off" then sits down. I don't even tell her this is your potty, etc. She knew, which is weird. Then for 15 minutes she sits down, stands up, sits down, stands up over and over again then finally pees in the potty. She claps for herself, the potty plays the royal music saying she did a good job then she stands up and 10 seconds later pees all over the floor.

All that to say, are we there? I don't know. We will see. I am not ready to hardcore potty train but if she wants to use it it is there.

Oh and on a side note from the appt she weighs 27 lbs and is 32 inches tall. And, I know there are no pics of M in this post so most of you aren't interested but I couldn't post the cute pics I got of her on the potty on the internet! I will do a photo dump soon.