Shoes and Shadow Play

Such pretty shoes...hard to believe in 2 short months we will be celebrating her B-day! :)
Now the shoes come off...she's over it...Gotta love this pic anyway though! :)

So I should have done this "shoe photo shoot" before Mallory could crawl and had her own ideas about what she wants to do...but when I tried them on her last time they were huge like clown shoes! I love them though and they will be such a keepsake! (Thanks Grandma and Grandpa!) I wonder how her next professional shots will go at the studio!!?!?! Life is getting trickier! :)

Mallory is all over the place now with her crawling! 2 days after I posted that she was starting to crawl...she has taken off!! When we are playing and I need to scoot to another room to grab something really quickly she is right there behind me! My little shadow! :)

Pocahontas Before Pocahontas

Mallory loves our new hiking backpack! (Thanks Jenkins Family!)

Are we being followed?!!?! (We are so goofy!)
The Mal Pal took a snoozer before we could get back to the car...too much excitement I guess!

We headed out to Pocahontas Park today for a hike before Mike heads back to Pocahontas Middle tomorrow for a new school year. It was a lot of fun to hike along paths that my family used to hike and bike ride on with friends. We even saw 3 deer along the way! It was nice to get out and think about the next school year. Mike is excited about his classes, but will miss us during the day and it's weird for me because I've always gone to school every Sept. since I went to Kindergarten...but I am very grateful to be staying home with my little girl. God is so good to provide for us and He has given us a wonderful family and our friends who are helping us make it on one salary! We are so blessed! :)

Crawling for Cats and Cell phones! :)

Trying to get to Maggie...we think this is going to be "her cat"...Maggie is so good to her and will let Mallory pet her...we are working on "gentle touch"...
Mallory's been trying to get my cell phone when I'm talking and she gets frustrated when she can't have it...so MiMi found one of her old ones...now Mallory is part of the "cell phone nation" and can chew til her hearts content on hers! :)

It's hard to believe that Mallory is 9 and a half months old! People couldn't believe she was crawling to get things at church and sipping from a sippy cup. She is very methodical (like her dad) and doesn't crawl all the way across the floor yet...but crawls, then sits, then crawls...to get to where she wants to go...) She loves real food now too and always wants what we are having...so we have been letting her...everything, but honey and peanuts are fair game (green light from the Dr.)...we hope she will learn to like many foods!

At her 9 month appointment she weighed in exactly 3 lbs heavier than at 6 months...17 lbs and 3 oz and was still in the 20%tile for weigh, but the Dr. was very happy with that. She jumped 25 points in height to be in the 75%tile now for height! We were so happy with her check up and can't wait to see how she's changed when we go back at a year!

"(Babe)toven".... hehehe :)

We have had a FABULOUS week of hanging around the house just the 3 of us and enjoying the last week of summer before Mike heads back to work...(SADness!) Mallory is all about her new toys! (Thanks Jenkins Fam!!!) She especially loves her new piano! It is hilarious to see her sit on the seat and really get down playing...she is serious about her music! I need to take a video of her in action! :)

Northern Exposures :)

RI and Maine 2007

Beavertail Lighthouse in RI...(we went there last year when Mallory was on the "inside") We are leaving tomorrow morning to see Mike's family in RI and in Maine. We are excited to show Mallory all of the places her Daddy enjoyed when he was a boy. We will be up North for 2 weeks and we hope to have lots of fun pictures when we return. It will be a good time of hanging out with all of her cousins and Mike's parents and siblings. We hope you all have a WONDERFUL 2 weeks!!! :)

Future American Idol?!!?!?

Mallory loves all of her new toys from our neighbors (Thanks Wimbish Family!)...she even has her very first karaoke machine! She has Dora, Elmo, and Big Bird to sing along with. It's fun to see her get all excited about her new toys. :)

Mallory can also wave now (for the past few weeks) and sometimes it's appropriate and sometimes it's not. Sometimes it looks like she is conducting an orchestra! We love it though! We call it her beauty pageant wave. :) So fun!