The Birthday Celebration

On her birthday Molly had blueberry pancakes for breakfast for the first time and really liked them.

Poor girl fell right before breakfast and got that bruise on her forehead.

Ashlee got bubbles from playgroup, but decided she wanted to give them to Molly.  Molly loved her blowing bubbles for her to try to pop.

Ready to open presents after she woke up from her afternoon nap.

The girls helped her open her presents.  She really had no idea what was going on.

Ashlee gave her bath books and animal crackers and she LOVED them.  The animal crackers were open and leaning against her chair, so she would just reach her hand right down into the bag to get another one. It was very cute and humorous.

Caitlin gave her some cars, which she also loved.

She got a shaker from Annie, which she loved to eat, and shake.

She also got some books (which she just wanted to eat), some stuffed animals, some kids songs (which she loves to listen to in the car), a dress and sweater, and Chris and I gave her the giraffe rocking horse.  She didn't like any of the stuffed animals or the rocking horse and didn't really want anything to do with those items.  Mostly, she just wanted to eat everything!

After dinner we put on birthday hats and sang happy birthday and had cake.  By this time she was very tired and feeling pretty overwhelmed by everything that was going on. But she was a trooper and seemed to enjoy her cake.

Side not about her cake: Ashlee took a bite out of the top of her 1 candle; eating, and SWALLOWING the wax and the wick! She was in big trouble and will probably never do that again.  Luckily we had another candle we could light.

She got the entire top layer of her up-up-up cake.

She ate a little of it, squished a lot of it, and then was ready for a bath and bed.

We were glad Grandma and Grandpa Will could drive up to spend Molly's birthday with us!


About Molly:

She loves table food, and macaroni and cheese, but her favorite thing is cottage cheese!

She stands and dances when the girls turn on Just Dance on the Wii.

She is very inquisitive and into everything.  She gets gets her fingers shut in cupboards and drawers after looking whats inside.

She loves taking baths.

She puts EVERYTHING in her mouth.  We have to fish things out of her mouth all the time, but luckily we have not had to perform the heimlich.

She likes to stand at the storm door and look outside on warm days.

She likes to reach up and play the piano.

She can say "ma ma ma" "da di" and "yay" and shakes her head no.