our little big girl

i came to the realization this afternoon, amid great afternoon light streaming though the windows in our living room, that it had been over a week since i looked through my lens at molly! shocked, i ran downstairs and grabbed a camera- still packed from hawaii, brought it upstairs, and started shooting. there are some times these days when kristin and i look at each other and wonder when she got "so big." it seems that in the past few weeks, she has really hit a number of milestones- from all but forgetting about the notion of crawling and walking all over the house to using silverware and expanding her vocabulary- both spoken and sign language. she is an amazing little bug, and is growing up before our eyes- and yours! when i first brought the camera upstairs this afternoon, she looked at me as if to say, "not again, dad" (or "taa-taa" as she prefers to call me)- but then got giggly and started playing with telluride, her favorite of all of our animals. she calls the cats "moooows" (can't quite get out a "meow, but she really drags out the mooooooow into about 3 or 4 syllables), and after he literally came up and laid in her lap, she chased him around the couch and returned the favor. all of this is done on her own volition- and really isnt rare- these two are good buddies.