Mad Molly does a Jig

As of late, Mad Molly has found an over abundance of joy in everyday tasks that others might find mundane. Yesterday we were having lunch with her bestest friend Grace and her family before taking the girls to get haircuts. At the end of the lunch I said to Molly, "Are you ready to get a haircut?" to which she starts to do a dance in her high chair and say "Yeah, Haircut Yippee!!!!" I almost spit out my water laughing so hard. This child was genuinely excited to get a haircut. I sooo wished I had my camera, good thing her excitment about life continued today, for when I asked her if she wanted to brush her teeth..this is what I got.........


the child carried on for so long I was able to stop, get my camera and record before she was done dancing and shouting "yippee"! (incase you are not fluent in Mollyease the translation is "yeahhhhhhh, brush your teeth yipee")

Mad Molly says her prayers

Okay I know I've been slacking on the recent posts, but hey it's ain't easy with Mad Molly and Willey Will. Even though she is insane she has some sweetness to her too. We have been learning to say our prayers, and she is so proud of herself for doing the sign of the cross, I couldn't help but capture it on film...now she has become obsessed with doing it. One evening I started off the meal by saying prayers with Her Madness and then when we were finished must have said..okay now we can eat...so last night after every bite she would do the sign of the cross and say.."now I can eat" and then take a bite and do it all over again.....who is this child I ask you?!?!?!

Mad Molly's back in action at St. Joe's

My apologies for not posting this sooner but last Sunday Mad Molly and Mad Mommy made a triumphant return to St. Joe's 10 am mass. I thought to myself that I was going to be proactive this week and switch my normal pew from the back left side of church to upper right. Our church has four sections of pews, two main open ended sections with an isle up the center and one additional section on either side that is open at one end, so Mad Molly goes into the pew first and Mad Mommy can sandwich her in with the wall.. Ha Ha no escaping :) These are highly popular sections of the church for families with young children as you can imagine. My thought process was that maybe if I got her closer to the front of the church she could see what was happening better and this may keep her engaged longer, as well as the exit to the hallway/bathrooms is on the right side and if I needed an escape route it would be a quicker one. So we head into the church, past the christmas giving tree (much mad molly excitement over the tree) and sneak into a pew about three rows back, behind three elderly woman and one elderly man with special needs, who became excited over the engergy that Mad Molly brings into any situation. We snuck into chruch just as Father Al was heading up the isle to the front of church to the advent wreath...luckily on our side of the church (score one for Mad Molly for switching this week) Mad Molly was intently watching Father Al as he said a few prayers, blessed the candles and proceeded to light the first candle. And this is where it all went wrong.....Upon immediately lighting the candle, he reached through the wreath, passing his hand near the candle to rearrange one of the evergreen branches near the candle to which Mad Molly screams out "NO, DON'T TOUCH, NO TOUCHING LIGHT" Much to Father Al's surprise to which he almost knocks the candle over! Not only does she scold him loud enough for the whole church to hear, all her excitement bothers the poor kind gentleman with special needs sitting in front of us who proceeds to get all excited himself. What a stir in the upper right side of church! So glad I chose this week to change my seat !!!!!!