Molly has taken an interest in baby dolls! It's the cutest thing. Lydia models the "Mommy" thing for her quite a bit, but it's so fun to see Molly play pretend already! This afternoon, I "caught" her holding a baby doll and trying to put a blanket on it, all the while saying "baby! baby!" (sort of... her version of "baby" is only recognizable to me. To others, it's more like "dah-duh!") Then, she proceeded to feed a bottle to the baby. Totally unassisted - I didn't influence this at all, and Lydia wasn't even around! She did this for about 15 minutes. Molly is a little Mommy already. Awwwww.......
Here she's trying to put the baby into the carrier.
And feeding the baby.
I really should draft a post with updates on Molly's development. She's amazing. She copies everything, and talks a lot. I've lost track of how many words she has. And her personality is SO precious. She can also be really sensitive and will cry at the drop of a hat about little things. She has 2 levels: super joyful and super heart-broken!
Lydia had her 4 year well-visit at the Pediatrician this week, and we're so proud of how well she handled it. The 4 year check-up is notorious for being a tough one, because it's time to check just about everything, it involves vaccines, and they're at an age where they inexplicably have intuition that doctors and dentists are bad. But having said all of that, Lydia really did well. She had a few moments of panic, but overall cooperated well for all of the tests, and we lived through the shots and the blood work. Phew! We deserve stickers that say "I survived the 4 year-old check-up!" Unfortunately her legs were really sore that evening, and into the next day (they administer the vaccines in the thighs) and she didn't feel well the next day. But we're almost past it. Here are a couple of pictures of her band-aids. This was around the time her legs became sore and she was feeling sort of puny.
The next day she wasn't feeling so hot, and just wanted to watch videos in our bed. She fell asleep pretty quickly.
Lydia's birthday party last weekend sure was fun! Here are a couple of other birthday-related pics. We made birthday chocolate chip cookies together! They were yummy.
And last Friday night she got to go on another overnight to Denison, TX with Omi and Opa! And that means...she got to go swimming with Opa at the hotel! He bought her some water wings to try, and she loved them. She could practically swim on her own.
I've been meaning to tell you all that 2 weeks ago Lydia tripped and fell at home, and basically face-planted onto our tile floor. It was scary. Her entire mouth was bloody and it wouldn't stop, so initially it was difficult to identify where she was injured. To make a long story short, she knocked one of her front teeth loose. It was very loose, and very tender for several days. It would bleed at the drop of a hat, and it wasn't too pretty to look at! She also had a fat lower lip. She would smile at us, and it looked like someone has just punched her in the mouth. Poor little thing. The day following the injury, we took her to the dentist, and the x-rays showed that the tooth is fractured above the gum line. There is a chance that the tooth will fuse back into place, because she's little and that's what teeth do. Or, if the blood line and nerves were severed, the tooth will have to be pulled. They can't determine that from an x-ray, so the dentist decided to give it a couple of weeks to see if it begins to heal. Oliver and I have been praying that it will heal back together and that she won't have to go through the trauma of a tooth pull at such a young age. Thank goodness it's a baby tooth, but we would rather she not lose it sooner than is normal. So, tomorrow we return to the dentist for the 2 week follow-up visit, and I'm looking forward to the report. It definitely seems a lot better/tighter, but the tooth is still sitting lower than the ones beside it. The bleeding stopped several days ago, so it seems like it's healing. We'll let you know! In this picture below you can see the tooth a bit. It's the front tooth on your left.
So I guess that's all for now!
No comments:
Post a Comment