Blessing Day

We blessed Ruby today. She was very cooperative. She screamed for the entire first part of the meeting. As soon as Marc took her up to bless her, she stopped. I guess she knew what was supposed to happen. She was good for the entire blessing, fell asleep for a few minutes, then continued squawking until the end of the meeting. I think she could tell that I was a little frantic about the whole situation and got a little nervous herself. Thank you to everyone who helped make this day a good one for us to remember. She looked so beautiful in her little blessing dress. Here are some pictures we took to document the occasion. (Click on any of the pictures for a closer look.)

I know you can't really see; but yep, that's us.

Black Eye

Molly has her first black eye. Hopefully this will be her only black eye, ever. Anyway, she was running around at Grandma's house and fell and hit her face on a chair. We thought she broke her nose because it was kind of pushed to the side. But now that the swelling has gone down, her nose has straightened out. So we don't think her nose is broken, but the poor kid has quite the shiner.

This is what it looked like the night it happened.

The next day

And today

Animal Sounds

This actually happened a while ago, but I was thinking about it today and remembered how funny it was. One day Marc was reviewing animal sounds with Molly. They went over the usual cow, dog, pig; you know, whatever. Then Marc asked her what a donkey says. Molly said that the donkey says, "Pick me! Pick me! Ohh, Pick me!" Yes, my daughter is a couch potato and one of her favorite movies is Shrek. On the DVD menu Donkey is jumping up and down saying, "Pick me!" over and over. Not such a wrong answer after all, huh?

Molly Look-alike Meter

I stole this thing from Laura. I would have thought Molly looked more like Marc. I'll bet if he didn't have glasses on in his picture it would have been the other way around.

Ruby Look-alike Meter

And I would have thought the other way around. Hmm.