Hanging out with Aunt Katie

Little Stinker! from Katie Atkinson on Vimeo.

11 months

Eleven months has flown by. As Molly's first Christmas approaches, our family has a lot to be thankful for this year. We have a healthy, happy baby girl who gives us all so much happiness and love through her smiles, hugs and kisses. She makes us laugh every day and in return gives us huge toothy smiles that make your day.






We took Molly to see the REAL Santa Claus at Merrifield Garden Center this past Thursday. This was the same Santa that Katie and I went to for many years. My mom printed out pictures of us with Santa in 1984. Molly didn't necessarily love Santa but Marty was somewhat happy that she didn't just give a strange man in a red suit and white beard a big hug. It was super cold that night but it was fun to go back to a place I hadn't been to in over 20 years and realize how much smaller it was but just as magical. I'm very glad we got to take Molly there during her first Christmas season. Here are some pics from last week and one from many years ago.

Almost 11 months

Molly will be 11 months old this Saturday. I cannot believe that almost a whole year has gone by with Molly in our lives. It feels like yesterday that she was born and it also feels like she has been part of our family forever. I cannot imagine life without our little happy girl. She is crawling super fast now and pulling up and cruising around the furiture/kitchen table/cabinets in the kitchen so easily now. She is gabbing away although it is unintelligible still. She says da-da, ba-ba, I thought I heard ma ma ma yesterday. Those who know me know that I am attached at the hip to my water bottle. Well Molly has learned to drink from my water bottle now too. This morning she was lying in bed with me and reached over, grabbed my water bottle off the bedside table and started drinking. She is most definitely my daughter. I ordered M her own sippy cup with straw this morning.

Molly has 8 (yes 8) teeth now and has for about a month. The top ones are starting to show alot more when she smiles and laughs. After I change her diaper she always reaches out towards the bookshelf in her room (not pointing, but reaching with her inner wrist pointing to the shelf) and when we walk over to the upper shelves she just smiles and admires her books and stuffed animals. She started to give her stuffed animals and dolls hugs and when I ask her to give them kisses, she usually licks them or bites their noses. She is SO curious and is into anything that is electronic, especially cell phones and remote controls. She'll turn them over and over in her hand and try to change the channel and call random numbers such as 56829394069.

Molly LOVES Rosie. Rosie just turned 2 and is the calmest lab I have ever seen. She just lies there while Molly crawls all over her. Molly now gives Rosie hugs too. When Molly is in her high chair, Rosie sits patiently for droppings and when M gets tired of cheerios or whatever is on her tray (she loves Cheerios, grated cheese, bananas, pieces of meat, anything she can feed herself) Molly will reach over and non-chalantly let Rosie eat out of her hand.

She is mostly sleeping through the night but will wake up and want her nuk back in her mouth or just want to know you're in the next room. She sleeps from about 8 or 830 til sometime between 5 and 6. I wish she would learn that Sundays are for sleeping in but that might take some more training. She is not a good napper but when her Daddy is around she will lie with him in bed or on the couch and sleep all curled up for HOURS with him. She loves hair, and in Marty's case, eyebrows.

I love you SO much Molly Moo. You continue to make us laugh, smile, and CHASE you around the house every day.

The Hat

The Hat from Cindy Robinson on Vimeo.

Molly and Rosie

Rosie turned 2 yesterday and she is the calmest lab in the world. Here is proof...

Best dog ever! from Cindy Robinson on Vimeo.

Molly at Grammy and Grandpa's today

10 month video

Molly - 10 months old from Cindy Robinson on Vimeo.

10 months

Our Molly is 10 months old. She is so much fun. Right now I am watching her eat grated cheese and peas in her highchair. She has EIGHT teeth now (six you can easily see and two have recently cut through the surface on the bottom). She is cruising all around while holding onto things and crawling faster every day. She is clapping and starting to make noise when she claps. When I pretend to not be able to see her and call out, "Molly, Molly?!" then look at her and say, "Oh there you are!" she giggles with delight. She loves to be carried around in the ergo baby carrier either on my front or back. She'll sit there forever just perfectly content kicking her legs back and forth.

At swimming class today she was used as a model by the teacher since she was kicking her legs out in a good breaststroke kick. She keeps us up some nights but it is well worth it because you still always get a big smiling face in the morning.

Lungevity Walk for Lung Cancer

We drove down to DC this morning to walk with our friend Monica in the Lungevity Breathe Deep DC walk for lung cancer. Monica was diagnosed with lung cancer last year even though she never smoked in her life and is very healthy. She had 25 people on her team and raised $8,000 for lung cancer research! It was really cold but a really nice turnout and good walk around the mall downtown.

Molly was very happy in her shades and ugg boots. :)

9 month stats

Molly had her 9 month checkup yesterday. Here are her stats:

Weight: 20 lbs 7 oz (79th percentile)
Height: 28 3/4 inches (87th percentile)
Head circumference: 44.8cm (75th percentile)

She's a growing girl! She's into 12 month clothes now and some 18 month!

She had to get her finger pricked to draw blood to test for anemia (standard test). The baby did not even wince. Then she got a shot in each leg and a little peep and then NO crying. WHAT?! She was SO good and the doctor said she is doing great. She has four teeth now and I think maybe a 5th coming in up top.

"I don't want a frisky baby"

Watch the hair pull. Nice Molly.

Nana turns 96! from Cindy Robinson on Vimeo.

Molly the crawler

Molly is getting fast from Cindy Robinson on Vimeo.

October so far

We've had a good month so far. We had an Oktoberfest party in the yard, complete with Molly trying to drink beer, Nana's 96th birthday, day in Annapolis walking around and the MD renaissance festival, and the Halloween Parade/Party in our neighborhood yesterday. Yes, Molly is appropriately a Peep. Marty and I share a love of peeps and I found it very appropriate seeing as Mr. Peeps previously traveled the world with me back in 2006...

9 months

Molly turns 9 months old today. It is really amazing how fast the weeks/months have flown by. I cannot believe my baby is 9 months old today. This month has been a great one, lots of first. Her top two teeth started to pop through just after her 8 month birthday and within 24 hours of noticing the teeth she started crawling. She had been up on all fours rocking back and forth, pushing herself backwards. But she just started crawling one day and has never looked back. Shortly after she started pulling up on the coffee table, on chairs, on bar stools, on the gate at the top of the stairs. We have been babyproofing our house as we go along. Rosie is taking it all very well: the baby crawling all over her (literally, climbing over), trying to bite Rosie's tail, ears, etc. Rosie just takes it all and we couldn't ask for a better dog.

The other day we celebrated Nana's 96th birthday. It was great to see Molly at 9 months and Nana holding her at 96. When blowing out her candles, Nana said she hoped we were around to take care of Molly and make sure she stays in good order. She adores Molly and it's so cute to watch them together. Except when Molly tries to pull off Nana's glasses or bite her fingers!

I think we have ourselves a prodigy

2010-10-01 Molly at the Piano from Barry Atkinson on Vimeo.

Eight months old

Disclaimer: Eight month photo taken in diapers. We almost didn't get to the pictures yesterday because we had been at Tysons shopping for a long time and when we got home she was fast asleep in her car sear. So right before bedtime we figured, let's do this one in her diapers before she goes to bed.

Molly's first swim class

Molly's first swim class from Cindy Robinson on Vimeo.

Almost 8 months

I know you're probably thinking what happened to me and the blogging? Things have been really busy around the Robinson house and every day I mean to put vacation pictures up and never get to them. I will have Molly's 8 month pics to post come Saturday but wanted to at least put something on here to tide you over.

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We went to NJ for a week at the end of August. Marty's big birthday was celebrated in style in the Edwards' backyard (awesome party!) and Molly got to go to NYC for the first time (a rainy, chilly Wednesday, August 25). Marty and I went to see Matt in Promises, Promises on Broadway (SO proud of Molly's godfather!) and met Sean Hayes (Jack from Will and Grace, love him!) backstage. The show was awesome and it was so cool to have Molly "dance" on the Broadway Theater stage afterwards. :)

We went to Marty's friend's house on Long Beach Island and had a great (again, rainy) day at the Jersey Shore. Marty's friend Andy took some wonderful pics of Molly and Brian's family. I'll share the link with you. He also took some beautiful pics of Molly and most of her aunties and Nan. It was so fun to spend a whole week with family and nice to get away.

My work is really crazy lately. We moved to Crystal City two weeks ago and I'm trying to adjust to train/bus schedules now that I'm not driving. And I started back with grad school two weeks ago so any free time not spent with Molly is now spent studying (which isn't much). Luckily, I also have my commuting time to read now.

Molly is great and is ALMOST crawling. I would say she is crawling but doesn't really go more than two paces. She is pulling herself up on the coffee table (as of last night) and has said "dadadadada", much to her "Da-Da's" delight.