Booty Scoot

Despite my best attempts to delay the inevitable, Molly is officially on the move. Over the last few days she had started getting up on her hands and knees, so I knew it was coming. First it was just lifting, then the rocking back and forth, and today she figured out she could scoot herself backwards. Check out this little video...




All I can think about is all the toys Patrick has that have a million little pieces and how to keep her away. Sigh...

Baptism

It was a big day for Molly, today was her baptism and she barely made a peep during the service, she just served up lots of smiles and coos.





With the proud godparents, cousins Danny and Anna



And with all grandparents, and godparents



There's a bunch more picture in flickr, click on over to check them all out.

It was a lovely day, thanks to everyone who helped us to celebrate, especially all of the grandparents and godparents! :)

My Thanksgiving

Happy belated Thanksgiving to everyone! We did the usual two house Thanksgiving day tour, Tom was a little ill at the end of it all. Every years he says he needs to pace himself better and every year he overeats. Oops! :)

Tom's parents live on a street lined in beautiful ginkgo trees. At Thanksgiving they are always shedding their bright yellow leaves and it makes a perfect fall scene (well, as perfect as fall in California can get). I wanted to take some pictures of Patrick int he leaves but there weren't many on the ground. Somehow I convinced Tom to climb up into the tree to shake some leaves down (amazingly, he remembered exactly how to get up into the tree, he climbed it a lot as a kid). That didn't work so well but I did get some cute pictures of him holding the kids in the trees.

Here Comes Santa Claus

Here I Am

Yoo hoo (waving my hand), I'm still here! Life has been busy this week. On Tuesday I had oral surgery under full-on anesthesia (a wonderful thing), we finally got around to having the backyard landscaped, we're getting ready for Thanksgiving and Molly's baptism next weekend, and I've been doing some Christmas shopping. The Christmas tree in Union Square was lit this weekend which struck me as a little early, but I've been hearing friends talk about already getting their trees up this week! Halloween was only 2.5 weeks ago! I need to get through November before I even begin to think about setting up decorations. And here I thought I was pretty slick for having half my shopping done.

Total Recall

I'm pissed. Sorry there isn't a more polite word to describe it. I've ranted before about Patrick's Chinese-made toys that were recalled. It's hard to explain to a 3 year old why Thomas could make him sick and that he needs to be sent back. Or Diego, or Sarge...

More than anything, Patrick has been asking for Aquadots for Christmas. Thanks to a few commercials on Nick Jr. he became quite obsessed, and has asked for them nearly daily for the last 6 months. Well wouldn't you know it that Aquadots it the latest toy recall. And it's not a lead paint concern that only applies it your child eats the paint off of toys. Apparently the manufacturer didn't make the dots to the correct specifications, and if swallowed the dots metabolize into GHB, the date rape drug. It can send your kid into a coma. What the heck is wrong with these manufacturers?

Patrick saw something on the news about the recall, and I had to explain that they weren't being sold anymore because they made some kids really, really sick. And that Santa probably wouldn't be able to bring him any for Christmas because there weren't any to buy. Patrick was crushed, almost in tears, and said "But Mom, I promise I won't eat any. I promise. I promise."

Being the good mom that I am I had already bought an Aquadots set for Patrick for Christmas at Costco. Costco was kind enough to call me and let me know I need to bring them back in for a full refund. My heart is breaking a little that the one thing my child wanted more than anything will not be under the tree on Christmas morning.

Picture Perfect

Molly's first tooth came in just 10 days ago, and yesterday her second tooth appeared! Before she lost those adorable gummy grins I wanted to take some pictures. I used my 50mm prime lense, which I have very little experience with, and most everything turned out underexposed and a little blurry. But thanks to the wonders of PaintShopPro and Photoshop (because I only know how to do certain things in each) I think these will print out nicely. Since I can't freeze time, this will have to do :)

What Are You Looking At?

We don't get the paper so my mom will sometimes save a few ads for me (especially my favorite, Target). Last week she saved the Target ad for me along with the Toys R Us Big Book that comes out every year before Christmas. As a kid I loved reading through it over and over again, fantasizing about what toys Santa will bring (Easy Bake Oven? Barbie Dream House? Snoopy Snow Cone Machine?). When Patrick saw it he immediately wanted to look at it and he's been "reading" it all week. He'll sit on my lap and we'll go through it together, or he'll sit quietly on the couch and look through it and the Target ad. This afternoon he was reading the Target ad and staring intently at one page...



I asked him to flip the ad around so I could take another picture. Guess what it was he had been staring at?



Oh dear.