Wednesday, January 28, 2009

First Cereal!

We tried giving Molly some cereal this week! She is not a fan!! Here is the video of her first bites!!







I will post more pictures later! She still doesn't like it and it is a very messy process!!

Thursday, January 22, 2009

5 Months!

Sorry to be so slow. Molly turned 5 months old on January 14th!! We had a doctors appointment today and her stats are as follows:

Height: 25 1/8" (30th percentile)

Weight: 13 lbs 8 oz (25th percentile)

So we have a tiny little girl! The doctor would like her to be gaining weight and growing a bit faster, but overall, she is a healthy girl. We are going to start baby cereal next week to see if that will give her weight a boost. 

A week ago we went to Olympia to visit with Matt's aunt & cousins and attend a 90th birthday party. We had a great time and loved seeing our family that came all the way from Minnesota, but a couple days later we BOTH came down with a stomach bug! It was terrible! With Matt & I both sick and a baby to take care of, it was not fun for a couple of days. To top it off, Molly started refusing to eat from anyone but mama, and I felt horrible! My aunt Kathleen tried to come help, but Molly would have none of it. It was a long night! Thank goodness we both survived, and Molly never got sick! 

Here are some 5 month photos, click on any of them to link to more on our photo page:

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Molly's first time in her high chair!!

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Smiles in the morning!

I recently got a new camera, a digital SLR! It is so much fun! Here are my first photos!! Again, click on any of the photos to link to more on our photo page.

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Puppy love!

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Beautiful Molly

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Smile Bug!

Thursday, January 1, 2009

Wednesday, December 31, 2008

Christmas Videos!

Here are some videos of Molly over Christmas. In the first, Grandpa Jim is making her laugh on Christmas Eve! She has been laughing a lot more lately.....you never know what she is going to think is funny!! She REALLY thought all of us running & jumping on the new Wii was funny! 







 

In the second, Daddy captured Molly rolling over for the first time!! She needs a little support on her foot (she pushes off our hand) but she basically is doing it on her own now!! Such a big girl!!







Next, we have Molly riding the pony that Auntie, Uncle Ralph, Uncle Tom & Aunt Cathy  got for her!







 

And last is a video of Molly waking up in the morning. It was a big hit with all of the grandparents to get to go get Molly up from her crib because she is so smiley! Grandpa Wayne took this video one morning as we ALL went in to get her!! So sweet!





Monday, December 29, 2008

Christmas 08!

Sorry I am so slow! It has been a busy Christmas for us! We had a great Holiday, celebrating with my family & Matt's family at our house in Tigard. It was a very white Christmas here, which was fun! We had over a foot of snow, which was the most Oregon has had in 40 years! There are several pictures on the photo page, but here are a few favorites!

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Our snowy house!!

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Molly bundled up for a walk in the snow!

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Christmas Morning!

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Auntie and Aunt Cathy gave Molly a pony!!

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3 Generations of Hugharts!

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Family Photo!

Thursday, December 25, 2008

Tuesday, December 16, 2008

4 Months, Christmas Trees and SNOW!!

Well, here in Oregon we are all snowed in!! On Sunday it snowed about 4 inches and then froze solid, so all the roads are a sheet of ice. Schools are closed and people are staying home. Another storm is supposed to come in tomorrow bringing more snow, then freezing rain, then 2-4 more inches of snow on top of that! So we might not be going anywhere for the next couple of days! It might warm up this weekend, just in time for Janet & Jim to arrive from Houston, but we are waiting to see!! So far we have kept Molly mostly inside because it is too cold (20 degrees) for her, but we did get out for a walk on Sunday morning with my parents and Emile. Emile is a high school student from Rwanda who is staying with my parents for the month of December. It is so much fun to show him all things "American"!! We are learning a lot from him about Rwanda as well! We took him on his first ever walk in the snow and got some Hot Chocolate! He loved it all!!

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Karen, Molly & Emile in the snow!!

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We kept Molly very warm!! Matt thought she looked like the little boy on A Christmas Story who couldn't move his arms!!

 

On Saturday, before all this snow and ice, we went out and got a Christmas tree! We went up a little hill (about 500 feet) and found ourselves in a snow shower! So Molly's first experience with snow was Saturday!! She was sticking out her tongue and licking the flakes!! 

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Molly's first Christmas Tree Experience!

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Mama & Molly in the snow!

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Molly licking the snowflakes!!

 

Today was Molly's 4 month visit and all is well! She got more shots today...yuck!! Here are her stats:

Weight: 12 lbs 13 oz

Length: 24 1/4 inches

Head: 16 1/8 inches

She is growing and changing everyday! We are still trying to get that reflux under control. We are trying a different medication for a couple weeks, and then if that doesn't work, I am going to try removing all milk and dairy from my diet. The doctor thinks that maybe her stomach is having a hard time digesting milk right now. Hopefully the medicine works, because I love my milk & cheese & ICE CREAM!!! 

Molly has recently started laughing! Mostly at Cassie and other random things! Matt and I sing and make funny faces and try so hard to get her to laugh and then that dog runs by and she cracks up!! You never know what she thinks is funny! I'm trying to get a good video of her laugh, but I've missed it so far. I'll post it when I get one! Here are some photos from the past month, more on the photo page!

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