Molly's new sassy look

Molly has jumped right back into the swing of a regular work schedule since the two week vacation ended. Everyone else appreciates her cleaning it appears :) She comes home glowing and doesn't obsessively (or rather too obsessively) attack our house. The eight 3/4 full paper towel rolls under the sink addiction is back in full swing after a couple month hiatus so we will address this. In general, life with an occupied, scheduled Molly makes life smoother for the rest of us too.

Her being back at work has given me the opportunity to connect with SSI (Social Security) as we are freshly navigating this system. Had our 1/2 year chat on the phone with a nice man and her benefits should continue. Had another great email that she should hear this week from the the Resource Exchange (TRE) and funding should be finalized for her to receive music therapy. This intervention combines music and ABA (Applied Behavior Analysis) therapy to work on specific goals that we have set for her. Initiating activities and communication are the two biggies still. Since she LOVES music, this should be an interesting therapy and one of the few that we have never tried. Hopefully she will begin this next week as well as Special Olympics basketball! Wish she could drive like her brother........

Then this happened:

We haven't been to hairdresser Amber in at least 4 months and it showed. Molly won't leave barrets, head bands, clips  or rubber bands in her hair. She won't tuck her hair behind her ears either. She is left looking like Cousin It and was hiding all her cuteness. So when I made an appointment to finally get a hair cut, I asked her, while miming with my hand, if she wanted to "Keep it long. Or cut it short?". She signed "short". So I went looking through her scrap book of photos through her life and various stages of hair cuts and showed her 5 different ones to choose from. She immediately went to this one and pointed adamantly:

Amber suggested that we not cut the bangs this time but always could in the future. We agreed and the results make us all smile. Molly looks so sassy and cute. It's so much easier to wash and it dries without a fuss either. Even bed head is cute!

Afterwards, Molly and I went to Spencer's for a fun movie date. His mom Cheryl made yummy homemade pizza, I brought a salad and we watched the movie "Mama Mia". ABBA is one of my favorite albums and I have lured Molly into loving the songs too. Watching that movie NEVER would have happened at our house filled with Brooke and Jack's testosterone so it was a perfect night for us. Molly rocked out dancing to many of the songs. Both Cheryl and I noted that she seemed to know the dance moves before the actors even did them so somewhere along the way Molly has seen the movie. Not sure where though? We made Spencer promise that he wouldn't stop the movie half way through and start another one. He is famous for that. Being the gentleman that he is, he watched clear through until the end with us! Not surprising that he did not get up and dance with Molly however :) Thanks for the fun night Cheryl and Spencer.

Next up: the new Star Wars movie for Spencer. He deserves an action movie now, right?