Back to St. Joe's we go!

So as many of you know, St. Joseph's Parish is the source of many a blog entry from Mad Molly and this week is of no exception! At our church on Sunday they were doing a special mass to bless all the children who had been baptized in the parish during the past year, and our very own Roaming Gnome would be one of those special children! Now due to his napping schedule wild man Will (a.ka. Roaming Gnome) usually does not attend service on Sundays so we thought this was as good a time as any for him to make his debute for the first time in many moons. Sunday rolls around and off the we go to good old St. Joe's. Mad Molly was super excited that the entire family was in church and that it was filled with many other children, so needless to say she was indeed very fidgety! Her view of the alter, which usually keeps her pretty entertained and mildly interested was obstructed which left her to entertain herself.  During the sermon, she kept climbing on my lap asking me all sorts of questions...the conversation went like this:
Mad Molly: "Momma, what are you doing?"
Mad Mommy: "Listening to Father Al" (calmly)
Mad Molly: "oh"..."Momma, what are you doing?"
Mad Mommy: "LIstening to Father Al!" (in a firm whisper I could muster)
Mad Molly: "oh"..pause, pause...."Momma, what are you doing?"
Mad Mommy: "LISTENing to Father Al!!!" (in the strongest whisper I could muster)
Mad Molly: "oh"....pause, pause, pause, fidget, fidget..."Momma, what are you doing?"
Mad Mommy: "LISTENING to Father AL!!!!!!, now sit still" (threw gritted teeth in a strong whisper)
Mad Molly: "Oh" looking around the pew, poking the roaming gnome, starting to reach over the pew behind her
Mad Mommy: "MOLLY, WHAT ARE YOU DOING?" (in the firm, yet quiet strong mom voice)
Mad Molly: "listening to GOD!" (calm as can be)

God help me now!

Happy New Year!

As you may know, it's been a while since I've had a chance to post, not for lack of blog worthy content I assure you but for sheer lack of a free moment. The past few months have been a blur of bizarre sicknesses, birthdays, holidays, anniversary and of course the joyful mayhem that was Christmas! Now that the new year has begun I am recommitting myself to keeping you all informed of our latest antics of Mad Molly and her trusty sidekick! And now that Wild Man Will has joined the ranks of those of us that walk he has come to be known as the Roaming Gnome...see picture below for pictorial explanation! He's still as wild as ever but he has taken to Roaming around the house in circles, going no where in particular, just roaming because, well because he just plain can! Over the next few days I will search back through the past few months and catch you up. I hope you all have a Happy and Entertaining New Year!

Halloween, Oh Halloween

So recently the topic of Halloween came up with Mad Molly, who completely remembers dressing up as a bee for Halloween last year. (her recall skills are outstanding, much to my dismay). Anyway, Mad Molly briefly decides she wants to be Ming Ming Duck (her favorite character from her new top show Wonder Pets) Ming Ming for you who don't know is a 3 year old duck who wears a flying bomber hat and goggles), thankfully this request was short lived and she moved on to and has pretty much stuck with wanting to be a Butterfly! Until now.... the other day I started making a Halloween costume for my goddaughters Grace and Emma who are going to be adorable Candy Corn Witches. Mad Molly asks me what I'm doing and I tell her I'm making a Halloween costume for Grace, to which she says, I want one ... puzzled I ask her you want to be a witch like Grace? and our conversation went like this

Mad Mommy: You want to be a Witch like Grace

Mad Molly : Yup, you make me one like Grace

Mad Mommy: Ok, I'll make you a witch costume for Halloween

Mad Molly: Nope a butterfly

Mad Mommy: You want me to make you a butterfly costume

Mad Molly: Yup, just like Grace you make me one

Mad Mommy: Oh, you want mommy to make you a butterfly Costume

Mad Molly: No, you make me just like Grace

Mad Mommy: So you want to be a witch

Mad Molly: No a butterfly

Mad Mommy: you want to be a butterfly

Mad Molly: No like Grace

Mad Mommy: ?????????

if anyone can figure out a way out of this loop, please let me know because our Halloween debate (which by the way she thinks "Halloween" is a person) continues and I have no idea what she will actually be for Halloween!

Why do I ask why???

This evening before getting ready for bed Mad Molly was strangely quiet and absent from the living room where she had previously been playing with Wild Man Will. Mad Mommy went looking for her and found her in the kitchen sitting on the floor, with her sock off, pulling her toes apart scratching in between her toes. The conversation went like this:

Mad Mommy: What are you doing sweetpea?

Mad Molly: I'm getting it out ...(what that "it" is, your guess is as good as mine but I continue anyway)

Mad Mommy: Why are you doing that?

Mad Molly: So I get the dirt and keep them

Mad Mommy: You are getting the dirt out of your toes and going to keep it????

Mad Molly: Yyyyeeessss I am!

Mad Mommy: Okay then!

(on a side note: she got out of the bath about a half hour before this so what dirt she is collecting from her toes is beyond me, but now that I think about it since there was no dirt this activity of looking for dirt could have occupied her for hours...darn it all I blew that one!!)

FYI

At dinner tonight, Mad Molly (dressed in an adorable red dress) proudly announces "I'm no wearing pants, pullups, panties, or nothing!" Mad Mommy "you're not wearing any panties" Mad Molly "Nope, nothing!" Mad Mommy "Thanks for sharing" and we all eat dinner!

Uh-Oh...What happened???

Last week, while playing in the backyard on an absolutely perfect afternoon Mad Molly starts jumping around saying "Uh-Oh, Uh-Oh, what happened???" "Momma, what happened?" to which I say, "I don't know Molly, what happened?" to which she replies "I don't know Momma, where did all the clouds go?" puzzled by her question, I looked up to notice a beautiful clear blue sky and realized this is probably the first time Mad Molly (who happens to LOVE clouds) has noticed that some days there are no clouds. She was much confused by this, and continues "Does Nana and Grandpa have our clouds?" To which I say "why yes, yes that is exactly where the clouds are" "Momma, can we call Grandpa and tell him to send us the clouds?" Sure Mad Molly, why not. So we do, we get Nana on the phone who promises to have Grandpa send back the clouds! What a great Nana!!! A few hours later we are out running errands and Mad Molly shouts "They're here! They're here!" "Grandpa send the clouds!" And all was right in Mad Molly's world...or so I thought ..... until she adds! "But they're not at our house yet" Ohhh Mad Molly!!!!!

Playground talk

The other day I took Mad Molly and her bestest friend Gleeful Grace to the playground. The two made friends with another little girl and spent most of their in a little playhouse. Mad Molly and Gleeful Grace had taken off their sandals and were asked to put them back, in the process of doing so they both put them on the wrong feet (which in our world is a daily occurance). The third little girl says to her two new friends ...

Litte Girl: "my brother puts his shoes on his feet backwards all the time, he's 3 and my dad yells at him"

Mad Molly: "oh, my mommy gets angry and yells"

Gleeful Grace: "my mommy says I love you"