9 months

Nine month pictures for Anneliese...not my favorite but they'll do.  She's crawling all over the place now, and pulling herself up. But the biggest accomplishment for her....with Daddy's help, is she's sleeping in the crib in the same room as Malachi. AND this week she's started sleeping till 5am without waking (huge difference from waking 4-5 times last weekend but I think it's cause your top teeth are coming in)...at which point I just nurse her back to sleep for a couple more hours of shut eye. Oh yeah and she eats everything...she eats the same amount of food that Malachi does!

As you can see in the picture, in the past month we've added two houseplants to our home...we love them! They look great, however, the one behind Anneliese is wilting a little bit...I'm trying to figure the right amount of watering still. But the other one is flourishing. I'll have to post a pic later since I don't have one on my phone and its too dark to take one now.  

And she's off!

Of course Malachi has to get in on the action, although what he really wanted was to draw on the chalkboard.

First time I noticed she pulled herself up to standing! Malachi's bed is the perfect height

Also, we've added a beta fish to our family...we were going through some old boxes and found my old fishbowl so we let Malachi pick one out. The kids like to watch him while we eat...the dining room table was the only place we could think of where the kids can see him but not be tempted to grab the bowl. Is that weird to have it on the dining room table? I'll keep you posted on a name....

I love this one of him...he was so excited to be watching Thomas!

She's adding a couple teeth to her repertoire, of course, like Malachi the fangs are the first to come in on the top...

In other news, Andrew attended a Mens retreat put on by St Bartholomew's Catholic Church...the church that we've decided to make our own. He really enjoyed himself and we both appreciated meeting some families from the church (there was a reception last night that the kids and I were able to attend). Thanks to those who wrote letters to Andrew, he really enjoyed them!

Alrighty, well most likely next post will be Easter (didn't I just post last years Easter like a month ago? Where did the year go?)...Although I'm super behind on our dumping debt series....MAAAYBE I'll get around to that this week. But no promises. 

Hope you all are enjoying some spring...we're still waiting for it to show up around here.