Kit and Molly wanted me to post something about Molly having really stinky feet. I mean, really smelly feet. Molly looks cute, but her feet stink. You really have to smell these things.
I guess all I can do is post a picture of said stinky feet. This post was not my idea.
Molly has been using her words really well lately. Her vocabulary and speech make it possible to have something like a normal conversation with her most of the time. Still, sometimes the conversation is a little last than 100%, like this interaction between Kit and Molly today.
Kit: “We got a donation from Molly. She’s going to give away this toy cart.”
Molly: “Dalmation?”
Kit: “Donation.”
Molly: “Donation? What is a dalmation?”
Kit: “You said you would donate this cart.”
Molly: “Oh.”
Then Molly, dressed in a kitty ballerina outfit, shrugged and returned to playing with her other toys. Molly probably has no idea we are going to give her toy cart to someone else.
Molly may be at her most adorable age right now, four and a half years old. A year ago, she was a dopey toddler. In another year, she will be a hearty five year old kid. Right now she is in the middle, no longer a babyish mess but not yet a big kid. Here is a snapshot of what makes Molly adorable right now…
Molly sleeps in a ladybug tent at night. The tent is filled with stuffed animals and about 80 magazines.
Molly vaguely resembles Mike Wazowski. Luckily, though, Molly does have two eyes.
Molly calls peanuts “peanut butter nuts”.
Molly often wears her “M” cape with a princess costume and a tiara. She calls this “Super Molly”.
Molly sincerely believes that her “M” cape makes her go faster.
Molly will only wear dresses that twirl properly.
Molly plays along with Dora the Explorer when the show prompts you for an answer. We often hear her loudly yelling things like “Purple!” at the computer.
Molly judges things primarily by their color, with pink and purple being the best colors. Luckily, this approach does not apply to people.
Molly says “No fair!” a lot.
Molly clambers a lot. She clambers into her dining chair, onto her bed, etc. (Clamber: to climb, move, or get in or out of something in an awkward and laborious way, typically using both hands and feet.)
Molly believes that the Disney princesses are real. She was initially confused by the idea of Disney World and Disney Land. Which one do the real princesses live at? Then she figured it out: “Disney World has the real people, and Disney Land has puppets.”
You will commonly find Molly wandering the house wearing nothing but skivvies and sparkly shoes, and sometimes only the shoes.
Molly always says her sister’s name as two syllables, “Cla-aire”.
Molly loves her big sister. They spend a lot of time playing and hanging out on the weekends. Yesterday, Claire went off for a playdate for a couple of hours. Molly quickly got bored without Claire around and said, sadly, “What am I supposed to do now?” Molly later stated that she really likes being with Claire.
Molly always smells good, even when she is hot and sweaty. Well, not always; she is sometimes gassy — then look out!
Molly has been interested in death for a while, especially the exact time that certain people will die. A recurring question from Molly is, “When is (some person) going to die?” She finds the honest answer, “I don’t know,” unsatisfying. So she takes a guess at it herself. Sometimes the person is scheduled to die next Friday, or say, 20 days from now. But her favorite prediction is today at 6:00! (cue the scary music).
Molly did this to her mom a couple of weeks ago. She said, “Mommy is going to die today at 6:00.” She said it in a very calm way, like “It’s going to rain today.” Fortunately, Kit survived that day alive and intact. Molly did it to me this morning. “When are you going to die, Daddy?” I offered up, “I don’t really know, hopefully a long time from now.” Molly said she was pretty sure I would not live past “today at 6:00.” Eventually I talked her into “50 years from now”, and Molly concurred. “Ok, we can do that,” she said.
We have had several conversations about death with Molly, and she still seems to think it is little more than a brief inconvenience and of little concern. We have made it clear to her that when you die, you go away and never come back. Molly does not seem very concerned about this, the central tragedy of life, the unescapable fate of all people. It must be nice to be four years old, in this way at least.
On a slightly related note, about death, we had a laugh in the car the other day driving back from a weekend trip to Houston. Molly, wiped out from the trip, fell asleep in the car on the drive home. Kit asked Claire to keep an eye on Molly and make sure she was “okay”, meaning “still alive”. This fear probably goes back to the fear of SIDS, when a newborn baby quietly dies in her sleep. It is a terrifying fear that parents have for their little babies. But Molly is pretty sturdy now. Claire checked on Molly, asleep in her car seat. Claire laughed and said, not as a challenge but just as an observation, “What’s she going to do, Mom, just fall over dead all of the sudden?” The way Molly talks, maybe that was a possibility. I bet Molly was glad that we did check on her, at least before 6:00 today!
By the way, I am tagging this entry with both the keywords “funny” and “death”. I am pretty sure this is the first and last time for that combination.
Molly says she has “fifty eighty” hairs on her head.
This is funny because it almost exactly mirrors Ramona Quimby in Ramona the Pest (I think), who said “I weigh fifty eleven pounds.” when she was about Molly’s age. Keep in mind that Molly has not heard that Ramona book. This was original Molly.
When getting undressed in the bathroom for bedtime tonight, Molly flung her shoe in the air behind her. It was just a little moment of panache for Molly, who was in a frisky mood. The shoe flew in the air and landed right in the toilet. Molly briefly looked like she was afraid she was going to be in trouble, probably because of a previous incident where she had put a rock in the toilet on purpose. But we all started laughing and taking pictures, etc. Then we reminded Molly it’s not okay to put stuff in the toilet. But this was pretty funny.
Molly decide to start a naughty & nice Christmas list for Santa Claus. Claire got into the idea. She wrote down all the items on the list and added some of her own. Molly’s list is dominated by things or people from school (naughty) and princesses (nice). Claire’s list of full of My Little Pony characters (all nice).
Molly created a new sandwich today. It’s a PBJC. She loved it and finished the whole thing. She might be onto something, although nobody else cared to try it.
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