A Mollee Jolly Christmas

Merry Christmas, Everyone!

I hope you had as much fun for Christmas as I did. I am such a lucky girl... I got to have THREE Christmases! I got pretty good at opening presents... and since everyone knows who I love the most, it was kind of an Elmo Christmas.

My first Christmas was on Saturday at my Grampa Dave's. But we forgot our camera, so I don't have any pictures of that... Grampa took some, though. We had lots of fun and I ate lots of Jell-O. I got a cool Elmo school bus that I just love, and lots of other stuff. Thanks, Grampa Dave!

Here I am taking a bath with Hunter. Mom gave us both mohawks. We're pretty cool, don't you think?

My second Christmas was at Gramma Jackie's. I got a TMX Elmo and a big Elmo storybook pillow and all sorts of other things like a big musical table and books and movies. Hunter has had one more year at this Christmas thing than I have, so he played it cool...

And I hung out with Gramma in my new Elmo slippers.

Uncle Will couldn't keep his monkey fingers out of the monkey bread.

After all that present opening and big dinner, Hunter and I needed a break. We hung out on Gramma's bed and watched the Backyardigans (Hunter loves Pablo like I love Elmo!)


That night we drove to Manistee. Mom said it wasn't fun... I loved all the pretty snow. And I got to sleep a lot, so I didn't mind. Monday we had a big Christmas at Randy's new house with all my Pepera cousins. We had such a good time! I got my biggest Elmo yet! He's so much bigger than me! Unfortunately, many of the pictures we took turned out really fuzzy, but here's one of me with Elmo.

After that, we went back to Grandma and Bupa's (Bupa couldn't go to Randy's) and opened some gifts with them, but then we had to go home because Mommy had to work on Christmas Day so I got to hang out with Daddy.

So it was a great Christmas and I'm so glad I got to see so many people, although I wish I could have spent more time with everyone. I miss you all and hope you have a wonderful New Year.

See you in 2008 when I'll be a big sister!

Love, Mollee

Pre-Christmas Catch-Up

Hey, Everyone!

I'm so sorry it's been a while since I've posted. The holiday season has been hectic for our family. It's sure been making my hair stand on end!




Last week went to this great Christmas party at Daddy's work and they had a clown and hot dogs and pacorn and bawoons. And I got to see my friend Carolyn and make some new friends. Not shockingly, I wanted whatever she was playing with and somehow her bawoon animal was better than mine. But it was fun!

That week, our cat Dante got sick. We took him to the vet on Monday the 10th because he wasn't feeling well over the weekend. They said his bladder was blocked. So they kept him until Wednesday and got him peeing again but he wasn't eating. We brought him home and he stayed in Mommy and Daddy's room, but he didn't want to eat so Mommy had to feed him with a syringe. By Friday morning, he wasn't feeling any better and he hadn't peed at all again so we took him back to the vet. They said that his bladder had reobstructed and that he wasn't really a candidate for surgery because he hadn't ever recovered from the first catheterization, and that he was suffering a lot. Mommy cried alot, so I gave her lots of hugs and tried to make her laugh. So we brought him home for the afternoon and gave him lots of love and attention. He couldn't move very much but he did manage to crawl under the Christmas tree, which Mommy said was always his favorite place. After Daddy got home, we went back to the vet again and Mommy cried some more. We said bye-bye to Dante and he had to stay with the vet. Our other kitty, Faust, doesn't quite know what to do without his big brother. Plus, I've found new fun in terrorizing him, so I don't think that's helping. Anyway, we all miss Dante and I know it was a long story, but that's my farewell tribute to "That Orange Cat". Bye, Dante. Thanks for letting me pet you without running away!

Saturday was the annual Cookie Party at Uncle Dick and Aunt Marianna's. It was so much fun to see all my cousins! I learned to say lots of new names like Kay and Laure and Aubey (I couldn't quite get the "r" in Aubrey). I tried to say a few other names like Busia and Mady but they never quite came out right. But don't worry... if I haven't learned how to say your name yet, I will! Mommy says I'm really good with names. She's going to make me a photo album with everyone in my family in it so I can practice (it'll have to be a big book, huh?)

Here's a picture of me playing with a really neat LeapFrog alphabet toy Aunt Marianna had. I liked when it said "Ribbit!"

Here I am with some of my cousins. You can't see Drake - he was playing video games - but that's his Gatorade I stole and would drink on the sly behind the chair.


I got to rock in a rocking chair that was just my size! Like my no-min (snowman) sweater?

Then it was Daddy's birthday. Here I am helping him open his gifts. (By the way, my shirt says "My Dad is the Man!")

Let's see... other than that, I've been practicing feeding my baby so I can help Mommy with my baby brother...

And I've been learning how to use food products to style my hair...

And I've been working on potty-training... .

... what? Do you see a problem??

One of my early Christmas presents was a sled, so I got in my snowsuit and went outside where Daddy pulled me around and I sledded down the hill!

Did I mention that I thought it was fun to eat the snow??

I kept rolling off the sled. Getting around isn't easy in this big snowsuit!

After all that excitement in the snow, I got to have my first hot chocolate inside with Mom and Daddy. It tasted so good! I love ah-chokik!

Well, Mommy says that Tinta (that's Santa) is coming soon, but I'm most excited to see all my family this weekend. If I don't get to see you, I hope you have a very Merry Christmas and I'm sure I'll post pics of my second Christmas sometime next week!

Lots of love to you all,

Mollee

Eighteen Month Pics with Aunt Jen

Yesterday I went to Aunt Jen's new photo studio and she took some pictures of me. It was so much fun! The studio is sooo cool and I was the first person photographed there! Anyway, she posted some of my photos on her blog (see the link on the left) so you can see them if you want (look under "Look at this cutie!"). I'll put the link on here when Aunt Jen sends it to me so you can see them all and order some if you want.

Hope you are well!

Love, Mollee

Christmas in Royal Oak

This past weekend we went to Royal Oak to my GG and Uncle Keith's for Christmas. I had so much fun running around with my cousins, Hunter and Nicholas. They are so big! We ate dinner at a big fancy place and the waitresses were so nice to me! I blew them lots of kisses and said 'thank you' and 'bye bye' when we left. We don't have any pictures of dinner because Mommy forgot the camera at GG's, but I'm hoping Aunt Steph will send us the big family photo when she gets a chance! Anyway, here are a few photos from our afternoon at GG's!

Here I am with Uncle Don. He's trying to keep me from eating this Santa candle.

I'm helping Gramma Jack open presents. Gramma, do you want me to hold that way over here so you can read it?

Here's a picture of my big boy cousins, Nicholas and Hunter. Nicholas just turned three and Hunter is a little more than two. They are very nice boys!

And here's one of my beautiful GG in her pretty, sparkly sweater.

We had such a good time with everyone! Thanks again for dinner, GG and Uncle Keith! I really liked the mushroom soup and the breadsticks.

I hope to see everyone again soon!

Love, Mollee