Friday, June 26, 2009

Grandparents and Sundoggie

We had a wonderful visit this past weekend from Molly's Grandparents T. (That's the parents on Mommy's side). They live far enough away that we let too much time go by between visits. Molly sure has changed a lot since Christmas! I, however, have not changed too much, in the sense that I forgot, as usual, to take any photos. I am awaiting photos that Grandpa took, so hopefully we'll post some of those soon. Molly impressed us all with her talkativeness and her amazing ability to put together real jigsaw puzzles - 24 piece interlocking jigsaw puzzles with pictures of Dora and Sesame Street characters on them. She's quite clever!

In order to get some photos on here, I thought I'd post a few funny ones from recent times. Molly used to be a great sleeper up until a week or two ago (nowadays she's sneaking out of bed all the time. Sigh). But a couple of weeks ago we decided to snap a photo of her splayed out in her bed fast asleep. This was at night (we used a flash, which didn't bother her a bit). She has quite an explosion of pink in her bed!


The other fairly recent occurrence is her beginning to name a few of her stuffed animals. So far she's really only named two. The Doberman dog toy she christened "Sundoggie" and the blue/yellow floppy doll she decided was to be named "Two" - after the number. She is getting pretty good at counting, I must say, though she often skips "ten" and goes right from "nine" to "eleben" as she says. Anyway, here's a shot of Molly cuddling with Sundoggie and Two, which were also both gifts from Grandma and Grandpa T.

1 comments:

Grant said...

It was really a fun visit for the two of us - we miss seeing Molly's day-to-day changes, so when we see her after a long period, it is always amazing. My Mother (Molly's great grandmother) always used to say that children got interesting when they began to talk (I think that in her case, she meant when they could intelligently discuss Proust with her!) -- but Molly certainly is interesting. It takes a bit of getting used to her language at first, but she is patient in helping new listeners. It is also nice to have Molly recognize us as people she knows - though perhaps at the next visit she will have to relearn that she knows us!
C and J are incredibly generous, loving hosts. We ate well, did interesting things together, and just enjoyed being around such splendid parents. Molly is in very good hands!
Grandpa T