Molly Pic

Molly's latest picture--3 1/2 months old.

Florida Visitors

Our good friends Cathy & Chad (Luke's roommate from graduate school), were in Missouri for a wedding a couple weeks ago and also visited us. We hadn't seen them since their wedding 3 years ago, as they moved to Florida about the same time that Luke & I moved up to our farm. We're so glad they took the extra time to come see us and meet Molly. Molly thought Chad was just hilarious and always had a big smile for him. It was so good to see them and catch up; it had been way too long!

Corn Fest

Since I've last posted, the county we live in has had it's annual Corn Festival. This is kind of the "big event" that the county puts on every year and since it was Molly's first chance to go, we had to take it all in. They had a great parade and Molly really enjoyed it. Usually she gets bored if she is in the stroller and you're not moving it, but she just sat there and watched everything go by and was really happy the whole time.
A friend of ours is running for County Commissioner, so we had to be sure to cheer them on as they passed through the parade:


After the parade we took a tour of the square, where they had lots of booths & food stands set up. We didn't spend too much time though, because we had to leave for a family reunion that afternoon. I didn't take any pictures at the family reunion, but it was nice to see everyone & all the new babies. Molly has a second cousin that is only 2 days older than her, so it's fun to see how they've grown.

Earlier that week, my computer crashed right in the middle of working on a cow sale catalog and it turns out the entire hard drive went bad, so I lost all the pictures I had on my computer. What a bummer. I also lost the catalog file I had worked on for hours and had to have done...I ended up having to tell them I couldn't finish it, which was really a bad deal but I guess there was nothing that could of prevented it. Technology can be so frustrating! But, now my computer is back up and running and hopefully I can try to do some more work from home in the future (and at least keep the blog updated a little better).

Tummy Time

Molly is getting very strong and starting to reach for toys while she "works out" on her tummy:

Happy Baby

After having a really bad week with Molly's colic, we're having a great day today. My Mom's hairdresser and a friend of mine from college both suggested that we try using gripe water for Molly's colic. The first day I didn't think it was helping, but last night Molly slept great, woke up happy and has cried very little today. It has definitely been the happiest day she has had since she has been born. So I'm giving the gripe water credit and hoping that she stays this way. Thank you so much to Diane & Alison for helping out!

Luke & his friend AJ have been hauling hay all day, so we now hopefully have all the hay our cows will need to get us through the winter. Molly and I went for a walk this morning, fixed lunch for the guys, baked cookies and now we're listening to Country Gold and getting ready to fix dinner.

Here's a picture I took of Molly a couple days ago when she was rockin' her headband:

Hope everyone has a great weekend!

Out

Sometimes it's really hard being a baby (can't you tell?).

On the Road

So I'm a little behind on the blogging again, surprise, surprise. A couple weeks ago Luke had to deliver some cattle mineral down to southwest Missouri and asked if Molly & I would like to go with him. Since we really didn't have any big plans for the next couple days, Molly & I took him up on the invitation. Plus he said that we could stop by the State Fair on the way home.

For the most part Molly did pretty good in the pickup. She got to stay in a hotel for the first time and did really well with that. We got a room with 2 beds in it and put her right in the middle of the second bed and she slept there just fine. She looked kind of cute all by herself in that big bed!

By the time we got to the State Fair it was so hot (heat index over 100) and we were so tired we almost just skipped it. But, we were able to get a hotel room and waited until the evening to head over to the fair. We walked around a little and then went to the rodeo. It was Molly's first rodeo. She enjoyed it at first:


But wasn't a trooper for long:


Well, we got out of the house for a couple days and got to spend some time with Luke, so it was a good trip!