All sorts of fun new and exciting things going on at our house. Molly is not a docile little infant anymore. She is on the go and into EVERYTHING. The big kids still think it's cute, but I don't give it long before she ruins something of theirs and they change their minds. She started crawling a bit about 3 weeks ago but in the past 2 weeks has been crawling well. She has started to pull herself up and do a bit of "cruising". Today she has been pulling herself to standing using a vertical wall with nothing to hold onto but the wall. She let go of the wall and stood for a second or two on her own before crashing to the ground with a thud. Luckily no tears.

Last week she decided to crawl to the porch down the step and got herself into the most contorted position getting down, but again no tears... It is fun to watch her go. It is not so fun to clean up some of the messes she has gotten into including playing in trash she has dumped out of the can and getting her hands into the toilet water.

Yesterday Kolbe lost his first tooth. He noticed it was loose several weeks back, but when he came home from school yesterday it was noticeably looser and he wiggled and wiggled it all afternoon. It took Grandma and a napkin to pull it out after dinner. Grandma was the big hero of the night because she also had to dig through the trash to find it when it was accidentally thrown away.

Today Libby got her first set of Valentine's from friends at school. It was so cute watching her open each one and her telling me who they came from. Tuesday a little girl in her class brought her a "I'm glad we're friends" card that she had made Libby. It was precious, but I don't have enough room around here for my own kids' artwork, let alone other children's.