If you can't beat em...

Set your alarm for 5 a.m. and adopt your toddler's schedule. That what we've been doing for the past week or two and it's working out pretty well. Jim runs in the morning now and Molly and I don't worry about being quiet (not that we did a good job of it before). We all eat breakfast together and by 8 a.m. I'm ready for bed. :) The past few days were rough because Molly was waking up around 4:30 and crying, so our day started pretty early. This morning, though, she slept until 5:50!!! It was SO nice to sleep in.

Not much else is happening around here. Molly is learning to use a fork. It's weird because she can't really use a spoon, but the fork is actually easier because stabbing food takes less wrist control than scooping. She's also getting a little closer to talking. She says "Ma Ma" a lot more now and the sound she makes when she points to things sounds a lot like "that." She's imitating sounds sometimes when you say a word, like tonight Jim was saying "block" and she said something back that started with a "b" sound and ended with "k."

She thinks it's pretty funny when somebody hops. She can't do it herself, but she tries really hard. She looks like a little bird trying to fly. She likes to dance, too, (she knows how to turn on the little radio in the basement) and sometimes she spins in circles.

Here are some photos from the past week or so, and a video of her playing with the camera (kind of playing peekaboo with me around it).