What? Already?

Apparently there is a little boy at school that is in love with Molly. When Chris dropped the kids off on Thursday he overheard one of the moms tell Ms. Nancy that her son Gunnar talked about Molly constantly at home. I didn't think much of it until Sarah called me on the way home from picking the kids up and broke the news that he had given Molly a token of his affection: a stuffed bear covered in hearts that he had apparently won for her the night before out of a claw machine. From what I understand, Sarah had loaded the kids up in her car when Gunnar came running up and practically threw the bear at Molly. She seemed thoroughly confused, and after a few more seconds Gunnar got up some guts to come back and talk to Molly. He actually jumped into the van, mumbled something to her about a stick he had found, then ran away again. What a nightmare! Luckily Molly doesn't seem to care at all one way or the other about Gunnar, except he is her friend. She has been dragging the bear around with her everywhere this weekend, but I'm pretty sure it has more to do with its sweet hood that comes on and off than it does her feelings for Gunnar. Can't this wait another 20 years?

Back to the Museum

The kids and I have been spending a lot of time at the Children's Museum lately. It never seems to get old, especially since they change things around a lot. They just added a new room for building forts, tunnels, or whatever else you can think of. We probably spent an hour in there, and Molly took part in building some extravagant structures. One employee compared our fort to Fort Knox, which I thought was quite a compliment. Unfortunately no picture, I only got a picture of the tunnel we spent a lot of time working on. I think Molly only went through once or twice after all her hard work.

Public Safety Day

My dad helped put together a Public Safety Day for Fountain Hills, so we all came to support. It was really fun, and as long as there are free fire hats, the kids have a great time!

Princess and the Frog

A couple of weeks ago, the girls and I went out for our first movie. Molly has been to the movies before with Chris's mom, but the was the first time I had taken her. We went to the dollar theater by our house, got some popcorn and lemonade, and I thought things would be beautiful. Claire lasted in her seat until the popcorn was gone, or she was tired of it, I'm not sure which came first. Then she played musical chairs in our row (luckily the theater only had about 10 other people there) which doesn't sound so bad except she kept getting folded up in the seats since she's not heavy enough to weigh them down. Then she dragged her booster off the seat to try to use it as a stepstool to climb over to the next row. The intermission to use the potty only made it worse because she didn't want to go back in. We finally survived through the whole thing, and oddly enough Claire can't stop talking about The Princess and the Frog, which I doubt she saw more than 10 minutes of. Needless to say, she won't be going back to the movies for quite a while.



Afterward we played out by the amphitheater, which was definitely more fun than the movie.

Dressed Up

The kids were looking especially darling for church last week, although the pictures don't do them any justice.

Wacky Day

Molly's Preschool had Wacky Day in honor of the Dr. Suess book "Wacky Wednesday." The kids loved it! According to Uncle Ryan who picked them up from school that day, Molly was "by far" the best-dressed Wacky Kid. If you look close her clothes are on backwards too, which I have a feeling was pretty uncomfortable, at least the shorts. She asked to switch back as soon as she got home and said, "There, now my bum will fit!"