On Sunday we made chocolate pudding for a treat.  Jack and Annie had a messy taste.  Jack loved it! He kept raising his arms and throwing his head back.  He was so excited he just didn’t know how to act! Until it was gone….then he was sad.

On Sunday after church I sat Jack down to play while I got ready for a meeting.  I left the diaper bag on the ground too.  Not a good combination.  Jack soon found the cookies left in there and ate as many as he could as fast as he could. He has a real sweet tooth so we know he is truly our child.

He has one in his mouth and one in each hand!

Well, at least at our house.  And only in the world of blogging.  Unfortunately everything else is still speeding by. The blogging world is frozen because our computer broke. (I didn’t do it) And Mike put all the blogging shortcut that I know how to use on the computer and not the laptop.  So because fixing the computer is on  the list of broken stuff a little too far down, I am going to give a quick up date and have Mike add the pictures later!

Mallory finished up her soccer season.  She still asks everyday if she has soccer practice.  I think she really liked it.

The girls started  swimming lessons.  Hailey is a little nervous about it but she has hung in there.

The girls had their dance recital.  Hailey did a great job.  Mallory did a great job too!! This was a shock and a huge improvement from the Christmas recital when she jumped off the stage to me.

Jack and Annie had their 9 month check up.  Jack is a nice                    18 1/2 pounds and Annie is just over 17 pounds.  They are both doing great.   I think Annie is a little taller than Jack but is is hard to tell because getting them to stand still is impossible.  They are crawling everywhere….fast and pulling themselves up to everything.  They are even trying to stand alone and walk behind things. I was hoping this would come a lot later but it might be nice to have them walk instead of carrying them all the time. But the time has come at our house to once again baby proof.  The gate is up, the plugs are in, doors are shut, the blinds are raised,  and the third shelf is still not high enough. We find them everywhere.  In the house they are good to stick together and follow each other but outside they go separate ways!

Places we have found Jack…..(Annie started crawling later so we had rearranged the house by then and she seems to have a little more reserve to situations!)

I did find Annie under my bed.  She likes to take the thighmaster under there to play.

Hailey got the Soaring Eagle award at school.  She had a list of things she had to pass off and present and she did a great job.  She memorize some pretty funny poems!  So now it is on to second grade.  She gets to go to the new school they built.  Falcon Ridge Elementary is about a 10 minute walk from our house.  If the neighbors house in front of us was not there, we would be able to see it from our front porch.  We are too spoiled!

Jessie and fam came for a visit at the end of May.  We had lots of fun.  We look forward to their next visit.  Hailey already has a few plans up her sleeve! 

 Hailey has been growing her hair out.  She wanted to cut it short and give it to Locks of Love.  She had to wait and wait because it needed to be long for her dance recital.  But the morning after the recital Shelley cut Hailey’s long hair.  11 inches later Hailey has a super cute cut.  She looks so grown up! It has been great. 

 At our house the girls fight every morning about who has to get their hair done first so it is nice to have the time cut in half.  In fact the morning after the cut I called the girls to the bathroom to get their hair done and the fight started.  I told them to both come because Hailey’s wouldn’t take very long.  So Mallory announced that she too would like her hair cut short!

 This post is dedicated to Christopher………

A few months ago I posted about finding the perfect strawberry.  Well I have had nothing but teasing from Christopher about it. I think he is just jealous because he didn’t find it or get to eat it!  So the joke is on him!

I found a batch of strawberries at Costco and I could not believe how big they were! So here is an update…..The Perfect Strawberry!  And no, I didn’t save any for Christopher. Maybe if he is nice I will give him some of the jam I made with them. But it is hard to tell how perfect they looked when they are mushed up in jam!