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As previously mentioned, yesterday was HOT in Seattle. And by HOT, I mean a whopping 97 degrees. Whenever the mercury goes above 90 this city goes into shock. There was even a call in radio program on NPR dedicated to ways to beat the heat (best tip: take a shower in your clothes. But if you do, be sure to change them every 24 hours at least, to avoid becoming ripe of course). Being from Montana I realize this silliness of this. However, in the end it's pretty pleasant to live in a place where one day of really hot weather is newsworthy. Anywho, no one really wanted to get into a bathtub on such a sticky day, so Molly had a bath in her wading pool. She loved being sprayed off by the hose and didn't even mind when we washed her hair. 
Today was hot. Somewhere in the high 90's which is downright obscene for the Pacific Northwest. To celebrate, we headed to West Seattle the morning to our friends' Ginny & Ava's house for a party.
Most the other kids were big two year olds, and Molly had a fantastic time trying to keep up with them. Here she is having her first popsicle (note the glitter on her hands and face from the advanced arts and crafts).
We recently got a potty seat for Molly. No we are not one of those overacheiving families who is aiming for independent toileting at 15 months, we just got it so she could practice sitting on it.
I love this picture of the first time she sat on it. She is such a big girl, sitting there on the potty, so proud. It makes me thrilled and a little wistful.
After seeing The Green Sheep (see previous post), we had a little picnic and some splashing about in the Seattle Center fountain. For anyone not familiar with this fountain, The water will spray intermittently in fits and spurts, and and a once dry spot can suddenly be rained upon with water.
Molly, fearless as ever, charged into the middle of the fountain and suddenly found herself directly in the middle of a spray of water. She was shocked and dismayed and looked to me for help. Of course, the second we made it to safety she immediately ran back into the middle.
Molly and I went with our friends Sarah and Frances to the Theater the other day to see The Green Sheep, a play for toddlers put on by the Seattle Children's Theater. It was fantastic. Here she is saying hi to one of the sheep.
Molly is officially a biped! I suppose she was always a biped, just a very quadrapedal one. When we were in Salt Lake over Memorial Day weekend she took her first steps. Due to the aforementioned passing from cousin to cousin to auntie that took place over the next 2 weeks, it wasn't until last week that she really got her legs under her for real.
But now she is really walking! She went from mostly crawling to totally walking within a day. My head is spinning with the cuteness and busy-ness of it all.
It's been a while since my last post, and a busy few weeks. At the beginning of June my mother, Grandma Rowe, passed away. It was, and is, sad; but she was suffering and had been waiting a long time to meet up again with my father, the love of her life, and we all hope they're having a party up there.
So, Molly and I and daddy have been to Salt Lake and back again twice, and to Montana for the funeral. Here is a photo of Molly with most of her Rowe cousins. They loved her, and she loved them right back. I spent much of the week jabbering away with long lost friends while Molly happily went from cousin to cousin. At one point I looked up only to hear her belly laugh as her cousin Robert slid her down a shuffleboard table
Here is a photo of Molly tipping back her first glass of wine with her great Aunt Delia. My mother was always telling stories about people giving beer to their babies to help them sleep (in the most it was the fifties, they didn't know better sort of way), so I'm certain she would be proud. I swear we had nothing to do with this, please don't call CPS on us.
