the wonder that is uncle scootie

our good friend Scott (a.k.a. Uncle Scootie) worked his amazing magic again and took these beautiful pictures of molly a few weeks ago (i had to wait to post them because we were using a few of them as a bday present for me mom). but i thought everyone would enjoy! the Easter dress was made for molly by her Grandma Nancy - she looked like a little Alice in Wonderland. so beautiful!


and here are some of the outtakes!

the faces of molly

we went to see Scott again, here is the latest round of unbelievably cute pictures of miss moo. Scott has a special gift because she sat for quite a while having her picture taken - maybe 30 minutes or so - which for a new walker is something close to a miracle. enjoy!

gifts

molly is very lucky in that she has wonderful, talented, adoring friends and family who make her beautiful gifts. i've been meaning for some time to do a post about these lovely gifties and when we had our friend Scott take some pictures of Molly with three of the beautiful quilts she's been made, i figured it's the perfect time! in the picture at the top of molly and i, molly is donning a beautiful knitted cap that her friend Emily-Jane made for her when she was first born. she also has a matching sweater and booties, alas only the hat fits her still, and just barely, but we love it.

my mom of course has been a Grandma sewing machine! she made molly her her first blanket (this wonderful soft green comfy-cozy blanket), the diaper holder in her room, burpy towels, curtains, bath towels, and so much more i could go on forever. most recently molly got a fuzzy, terry robe and new pjs which are featured in the slideshow below.


i mentioned at the start the quilts. molly has been given some of the most beautiful quilts you have ever seen! the slideshow below shows them a bit, the first two are of her with the quilt her Grandma Mike made for her (molly is in a blue shirt for those two), followed by a couple with the quilt that her friends David, Jerry and Jack gave to her right after she was born (one is of her feet), and finally a couple shots of the quilt her friend Arden made for her 1st birthday! in the first shot with Arden's quilt you'll see she looks a little sad, she had just bumped her head and went over to her quilt and got some comfort by laying right down on it, it was too cute!


because we started with Emily-Jane we are going to end with Emily-Jane, a beautiful woman with a huge heart and amazing talents. below you will see one of the most precious of molly's gifts, a hand-knitted christmas stocking. Emily-Jane has been working on it for a while now and presented it to me last week. i was almost brought to tears. it's the perfect stocking! it has her name on it and beautiful snowflakes, the colors are so rich, it's super soft to the touch, and roomy enough for lots of goodies! this is a gift that will last a lifetime. and as you can see, molly loves it too!to all of molly's friends, you are wonderful, amazing people and we love you all very much!

nicknames

a list of the top 10 nicknames we have bestowed upon miss molly in the past year:

1. molly-moo (i don't know where the moo-stuff came from, it was just a natural extension for molly i suppose)
2. the moo
3. the mooser
4. tiny hiney (that one is care of Grandma May)
5. milky bandit (this started one night when she was on her changing table and had a burpy cloth draped over her mouth and nose, much like a bandit)
6. diapy bandit
7. burpy bandit
8. shrimp scampy (it started as scamp, and morphed into shrimp scampy)
9. little pterodactyl (she makes a sound that is just like the movie version of the pterodactyl)
10. squisher-tush (again with the butt references, but it's oh, so cute!)

and now for some fun pix of the moo, tiny-hiney, bandit, scamp pterodactly...a couple of her in her new cart that grandma nancy got her for her bday. grandma got it of course, to help her with walking. she could put her toys in it and push it around. instead she loves to sit it in, or even more, to stand up and have us to push her around. though just the other night she put her baby doll in and pushed her baby doll around, yay! then a shot of her with her finger up her nose, a common pose around the May/Feeney front right now (she's gonna kill me for posting that picture someday). and a shot of her playing with a dog toy (seriously, it's a dog toy, we did not give molly a bottle of beer to play with) - but the shot is too cute. and then some pictures of her funny faces that our friend Scott took. hey, all you parents out there, Scott takes some awesome pictures, let me know if you want his digits!


oh, and for those who want an update on molly-walking-news...we are up to FOUR STEPS! oh yeah, baby! love to all!

playing catch up...

i see other moms (or should i say, i read other moms) who are able to post daily to their blogs, getting up fabulous pix of their wee ones, and telling fun and witty stories. why is it so hard for me? it's not like molly doesn't give me a constant stream of wonderful and funny and exciting things to share with everyone...she's so amazing! but at the end of the day, i just wanna hang out with her and play. and once she goes to sleep, well, i just want to snuggle with her. so the blog is getting the short end of the stick. but after the past few days i've had, i need to just dwell in the happy land of molly for a bit and share with you all (in case you are having similarly bad weeks, or even if you're not, it's impossible to get enough molly goodness!)

so to catch you all up...my wondrous mother came to stay with us for a week, to help out around the house, and most importantly, to spend some time with her granddaughter. seeing them together was just beautiful - they love each other very, very much.

while mom was here we were able to go through molly's room and put together three garbage bags full of clothes that molly had outgrown (we are extremely fortunate to have many generous friends who have passed along clothes to molly). here is a shot of molly going through one of the bags, i guess making sure she was okay with everything we had decided to give away to charity. :) we also spent some time baby-proofing, and now all the bookshelves and other big items are bolted to the wall, which is nice. and we have a good start on the kitchen cabinets and such. this is all good because molly is super fast and very curious!

as for fun, grandma got to join us at the pool and watch molly swim around, and she took some really good pictures with her fancy cell phone! here is one of molly playing with a ball in the water.

we also finished Summer Reading the weekend my mom was here, and for her final prize molly was able to put her name in a book (we chose "Frog goes to dinner" by Mercer Mayer) and she won a onesie that says "Read to Me" on it. molly is one of 57,000 kids who participated in Multnomah County Library's Summer Reading program this year - yeehaw!! below is a little slideshow of molly reading in her new "Read to Me" onesie (notice all the books strewn everywhere!). she really does love her books, and you'll note that when we started Summer Reading, it was pretty much all about eating the books. now she spends much more time reading - or in the case of the ones that come with things to touch, feeling - the books. it's very exciting to see her reading to herself, or reading along with us. yay, books and reading!


but eventually, grandma had to go back home to her puppies and her job and her life, and we were all very sad. but she'll come again soon. and we'll visit her and the rest of the May family down in California, and all will be well. the only bad thing about Portland is that all of our families are so far away.

but i don't want to end this post on a sad note, so i'll go ahead and mention one other thing...our good friend Scott took some amazing pictures of miss. moo and i wanted to share a few of them with you. but before that you need to know that in all her 10+ months i don't think Scott (also known as uncle Scott) had ever held molly. molly has always been fascinated (and perhaps a bit smitten) with her uncle Scott. she likes her men tall i think. but alas, it was a love from afar...and then just last week, he and Auntie Sarah stopped by and he actually asked to hold her. i was blown away and immediately went for the camera (if you knew Scott, you'd know this is a pretty big deal). so this is a picture of molly with her uncle Scott (i think he might be a bit smitten as well).

but back to the fantastic pictures Scott took of molly. here is a slideshow of just a few of them, and i think you'll agree they are pretty awesome!


our best to everyone. be safe. tell the people you love that you love them. and last but not least, take a page from molly's book and always take time to have some fun!