Finally, a blog for our Molly! We love her so! I can't wait to record how she grows and in what ways she blesses our family. There is such a special feeling in the room whenever she is around! I'm officially beginning this blog about her when she is almost six months old, on March 18th. I just realized she'll be six months tomorrow! I think I might cry! It's gone to quickly! Life with four little ones is busy, but I have been tucking many sweet things about Molly aside in my mind to share here and for her when she gets older. What comes to my mind now, as she is laying on the floor beside me as I type and grinning a wide grin, is that she has come to earth with a very calm and patient demeanor. When she was first born and for months afterwards, she would wake up in the night and calmly wait, smacking her lips, for hours it seemed because her swaddling blanket would be absolutely soaked!, until one of us heard her and got up to attend to her. She has been this way with her attentive siblings. She puts up with no end of "love," and love it is indeed, just a little rough sometimes, and always rewards the giver with many smiles. She has just started to eat solids and while other babies will scream for the next bite, she waits while I take a few bites of my own food, and then happily returns to eating when I'm ready. I can often explain what I'm doing to her if she begins to fuss and I can't get her yet, and I swear she understands because she'll stop fussing and wait! Sometimes I look into her eyes and know she and I are old friends, just becoming reacquianted. How grateful for her truly joyful spirit in our home. We all love her wildly! Even now, at six months, boo hoo!, there are many discussions a day regarding who gets to hold her first...when she wakes, after she eats, after her diaper change, in church, when we get home from school. It's a wonderful thing to have a baby sister to fight over.

Tonight I set Molly down on her belly while I changed the laundry. She pushed up high on her arms and tip, tip, tipped right over onto her back! I haven't been great about tummy time with her because, with her easy going nature, before she would just lay there, head down and the expression on her face as if to ask "Really, Mom, really?" But I guess she has been ready to move a little more! She's rolled several times since and the big kids all get a great kick out of her new trick.