The Moll's at Sweet Sky Farm

Emme has really been showing her independence over the past few months. Control is a much bigger issue for her than it ever was for Addison. Whereas Addison would easily take a suggestion to clean the toy room or brush her teeth, Emme needs for those ideas to solely come from her (e.g. control the environment) or she becomes quite unhappy and refuses to comply with requests. From an educator/researcher perspective, it is quite fun to watch the differences between the two and try to figure out ways for both to be happy. From a parenting standpoint... it can be quite frustrating :-) Sleep is one thing that Emme truly loves to control. She likes to decide the when, the where, the why and the process that leads up to the sleeping. For the most part, sleep is something that we have put boundaries around (meaning there is a routine, but not a strict schedule), but we are pretty flexible as long as sleep actually happens. This is the result of that flexibility: That's right - Emme chose t...

Tell me this girl isn't adorable!

Superbowl was filled with lots of pictures, lots of friends, lots of heartbreak (poor Colts), and lots of fun! Huge hugs to Grandma and Grandpa for the shirts!!!

Now let's be clear... it has been a BATTLE to brush Emme's hair every morning for school. And the blow dryer - fuggedaboutit! She won't go near it. So finally, off to the hair stylist we went. It was an event! The little shop starts with a big girl shampoo (Emme was only a little hesitant at first and made me hold her hand), a super cute short cut in a pink jeep while watching Dora, and then it finishes with nail polish and a balloon. The end result was pretty cute as well!

Oh, what a fun weekend!!! Uncle Todd came to Austin for a visit with Nana, Papa, us and the girls. We mostly just stayed close to the house (except for one ruinous attempt at going out to dinner - bygones) and enjoyed being with family. I'm not sure why I didn't take more pictures, but I do know that Todd took some great ones of the girls dressing up in their new outfits from Auntie Vivian!