Ladies and Gents, WE HAVE A CRAWLER!!!

as recently explained, we have been insanely busy!! we are soooo sorry it's taken us THIS long to post some decent pictures of what's been going on! ahhh!

new milestones...september has been a VERY busy month for malachi. he has learned to whistle (inhaling), sit himself up, eat meat, eat puffs and melt-aways, and as of thursday night, HE CRAWLS (video to come)!!!

that was the most recent milestone, but now we need to back-track a bit. like we said, we've been slackin' on the posting so take this post as our peace offering!!

here's our curious little monster "in position" about two weeks before he actually crawled.

i don't care what kind of mood you're in...this little guy will make you SMILE!!!!!

malachi started Mother's Day Out this month. mommy works in the 2 year old class so she's close to him during the day. he LOVES his baby friends and is surrounded by the pure love of Christ throughout the day! we LOVE his teachers ms. annie and ms. charlotte!!!! this is malachi's snazzy outfit for "meet the teacher".

mommy and malachi before meet the teacher.

PUCKER UP!!!!

this is monkey on his first day of what we call "baby school" (mdo)

going to school is HILARIOUS!!

a true photographer's child...trying to take the camera and do it himself!

favorite pasttime: eating daddy's finger.

being silly with mommy.

LOOK AT THE FLANNEL PANTS!!! (thanks, ghi!)

the poor, neglected dogs never get their picture on here so today is their day.

kai is posing for a shoot. he is the new spokes-baby for "snugghi's"...the BEST baby blankets handmade by his grandma! (check out the blog at snugghi.blogspot.com!)

monkey having fun in mommy's classroom at mdo (waiting for her to finish cleaning up)

TRUE STORY...steve got REALLY busy with work and didn't really get to see much of malachi for 4 or 5 days. monkey REALLY missed his daddy and was throwing a little hissy fit to "climb" on the couch (he's pulling up on EVERYTHING now!). i helped his chunky legs climb up there and sat him up. he ended up dozing off five minutes later in the same exact seat that his daddy always sits in!! SOOOOOOO cute!! he wanted his daddy!

that's all for now, friends! keep checking back!! we are trying to be better about updating!!!!

unworthy,

steve, molly, and malachi
(oh yeah, and bo and bailey too)