Molly's First Birthday

 Ella and Molly dancing

 Here is Molly climbing the stairs.  She thinks she is hot stuff on the stairs.

 Happy Birthday Molly! 

 Happy Girl!

 Cake

 Blowing out the candle- the big girls helped blow it out.

 Reaching for the treat on top of the cake.  Slightly unsure of it.  Then once Ella blurted out, "that's the one I wanted" poor Molly got scared and started crying.

 Even after we calmed her down and sat her in my lap she wasn't having it.  She managed to stick her finger in a little frosting but then pretty much freaked out.  Not what I expected from Molly at all.  We may and slice her a piece of her own tomorrow night.

Learning to Walk

 July 1st is the day when Molly took her first few steps for me and Jake.  However, on July 7th while we were in Spokane Molly decided to start really walking.  She hasn't looked back since and loves her new talent.  She even thinks she is cool enough to care big bags around while trying to balance and walk.

 Bridgette LOVES Merida from Brave a Disney movie.  She got a gift card from Uncle Paul and Aunt Lindsey to Khols for her birthday and this is what she picked out.  She could hardly wait for bath time so she could put it on.

 And of course we couldn't go shopping and not get Ella something new as well.

 Molly exploring the bark.  Yes, that is bark on her face not chocolate.  Don't worry I caught her before she actually put the handful in her mouth.

 Here she is all cleaned up without the bark.  Silly girl!

Molly 11mo's Old

 Cute pictures taken while we were at Nana and Papa's. 

Cooking in Tutu's and Last Day of School

 The girls love to help me cook especially when they are hungry because they always know they will get beaters to lick or something tasty to try.  Usually they wear their aprons but this time I think we forgot.  Bridgette wanted to show off her new tutu that Grandma Menard got her for her birthday.

 Ella's last day of Preschool was in the middle of May.  She had a little graduation and then had their class party that me and my neighbor mom planned.

 Ella and her teacher Mrs. Gault.  We also celebrated summer birthday's that day.

 Ella and teacher Mrs. Fish.

For her birthday present the teachers give each child their very own bible.  Ella was thrilled!  Cheers to a good summer!

Molly is 10mos

 Molly Dolly is a hoot these day.  She has so much personality.  She smiles and waves at people in stores, she is really into pointing at things she wants or things she see.  Every morning when Ella and Bridgette get up she has to give them hugs.  It's so adorable!
 She can go from sitting to standing alone for a period of time without any trouble.  She will lunge forward to start walking but no official steps have been taken yet. She is also really into her babies.  She burps and pats their backs and she can comb their hair.

Ella's Spring Concert

 Ella had her Spring concert a couple of weeks ago.  She was so cute up there on stage with all the other preschool classes.  Ella did really well singing and doing the hand motions to the songs.  We even caught her on camera picking her nose and yawning a few time while singing.  She's got quite the talent.

And not to leave Bridgette out, she was thrilled to watch Ella and now talks about how NEXT hear she gets to be up on stage.

Bridgie is 3!

 Big kids all sitting on bar stools.

On the morning of Bridgette's birthday we had a huge bouncy house princess castle delivered for the day.  At Noon we had some family over for a BBQ.  Even Nana and Papa made a surprise trip over to celebrate Bridgies big day.  Then in the late afternoon, just about the entire neighborhood came over to jump and to sing Happy Birthday to Bridgie.  She had such a great day.  By the end she day she was so tired she was going to put her baby in the fridge to go to sleep.

 Jumping with Ella and Dad.

 I made a Puzzle cake.  B loves puzzles so I decided to make the cake into a puzzle piece.  I also made puzzle shaped jello gigglers with a cookie cutter and ice cream cupcake cones.  I served those to all the kids in the neighborhood.  They were a huge hit.

 Bridgie got this super fancy pink dress for her Aunt Donna that day.  She wanted to wear it right away.

Papa and Molly just hanging out.