This was the effect of today’s shower on our youngest. As you can see, they weren’t too happy with her hygienic decision.

My ulterior motive to this post is to try out Flickr’s slick new flash slideshow thingy. Hint: click on the little “X” icon thingy in the bottom right to make it full screen.

Enjoy.

She finally decided that holding onto stuff was just holding her back so she decided to let go and venture out into the wonderful world of walking. That was a week ago. Now she’s a walking pro. She stands herself up without aid and walks all over the house. She’s pretty much given up crawling entirely. Where did our baby go?

Well, we’ve still got Jack I suppose. He currently shows no interest in walking. In true male fashion, if he can’t be carried to where he wants to go, it’s really not worth the effort to get there. Lazy butt.

UPDATE: Wow… I totally failed to notice that this was post number 100 for us. Hooray for Annie and hooray for our ability to prattle on about random nonsense on at least 100 individual occasions. Hopefully it won’t take another year to get to number 200.

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!