Hello All – thought I would send you an update on Molly.
We have been debating if we should cut her hair. Molly was born with a full head of hair and we could have cut it on her second day on this planet but everyone said that it would all fall out. Nope. I think by the time she was five/six months we had to use a barrette on an everyday basis to keep the hair out of her eyes. I kind of don’t want to cut it just to see what happens and at the same time I don’t want my pretty little girl looking like the shaggy DA. So the debate goes on.
This is Molly’s hair when she was a couple weeks old.
We have been debating if we should cut her hair. Molly was born with a full head of hair and we could have cut it on her second day on this planet but everyone said that it would all fall out. Nope. I think by the time she was five/six months we had to use a barrette on an everyday basis to keep the hair out of her eyes. I kind of don’t want to cut it just to see what happens and at the same time I don’t want my pretty little girl looking like the shaggy DA. So the debate goes on.
This is Molly’s hair when she was a couple weeks old.
This is Molly’s hair today at 10+ months old.
It is hard not to worry about these things and I KNOW that babies do things in their own time but, my girl is not crawling. I seriously think she is just so smart and thinks to herself “…why crawl, when mommy and daddy will pick me up…” She does manage to get around by scooting on her butt and rolling. She recently started grabbing on to things a lifting herself to her knees. She also likes standing and playing with things that are in front of her but has no hurry to learn to crawl. I was worried about her teeth too. Not a tooth to be found until a couple of weeks ago, we were driving back from brunch and I thought she had something in her mouth and yep there was a little white speck of tooth poking out. It is also taking it time in coming out but this is what it looks like right now. Look real close at the bottom and to the left.
I am still working full time and trying my hardest to go back to part time. I am sure some of you will sympathize with me, but I am having a hard time. I have some really strong views when it comes to the work/mom/schedule thing and I will keep them to myself but I don’t understand why our work force can not bend a little. We have a new director and it appears that she is supporting a more flexible work schedule and I think in the next two weeks I will get to go back to part time. I am really not opposed to Molly being in child care, she goes three times a week and stays the other two days with Raymond but it is child care and Raymond that get all the time, I want to some too. I know others have gone through this struggle but at this particular moment, I feel like I am all alone. I do think there is a slight difference that I waited so long in life to have her and knowing this is going to be my only one, maybe if I was younger, knew there was more to come I might feel different? Who knows, I just want to spend more time with her while she is still a baby.
It also seems like she is sick every other week. Last time it was a stomach virus that Raymond and I also picked up. I can not even explain how miserable we all were. None of us could keep any food/liquids down and nothing seemed to make us any more comfortable. I have always been a supporter of living a comfortable distance away from family but when this hit us I would have moved any family member in with us to help.
So lots of changes, lots of adventures and loving every minute of it. I will close off with Molly’s Christmas pictures.
It also seems like she is sick every other week. Last time it was a stomach virus that Raymond and I also picked up. I can not even explain how miserable we all were. None of us could keep any food/liquids down and nothing seemed to make us any more comfortable. I have always been a supporter of living a comfortable distance away from family but when this hit us I would have moved any family member in with us to help.
So lots of changes, lots of adventures and loving every minute of it. I will close off with Molly’s Christmas pictures.
Don’t worry Aunt Nelly already brought up the fact that she needed shoes. Just kind of seems like a waste, who can justify spending $20 for a pair of little slippers, for a baby that is not walking, who takes her socks off just to put them in her mouth? I have a feeling I will do this to Molly throughout her life, “…Molly, can you justify why you need those $75 jeans when you have a perfectly good pair upstairs that I fixed by sewing a patch in the knees? When I was a little girl…..” You get the idea.
