basketball is in his blood!

Malachi's KK and G-Pa visited today!! He had a blast!

Someone LOVES their KK!!

Later in the day, it was time to get down to business...

basketball...it's in his blood.

he shoots, he scores! (look at that form!)

mommy with the assist (mommy not pictured) :)

watch out, yao ming...malachi can palm a ball just as easily as you can!

our precious, i mean TERRIFYING basketball player!

this one is worth FOUR points!

basketball hands taste better than non-basketball hands.

and basketballs taste quite good as well.

We leave for vacation on Friday!! We are going to visit Malachi's Great-Grandma and Great-Grandpa and the rest of the crew in Georgia. We will fly to Atlanta then drive to North Carolina...FIRST PLANE TRIP! We will have TONS of pics after the trip!!!! Check back soon!

Unworthy,

Steve and Molly

A NEW POST!!!

Many of you have been wondering what our little monkey has been up to.
To you we say WONDER NO MORE!!

Love was in the air as Malachi made his move on Hailey!

There they are...the linebacker and the cheerleader!

"Who moved my 'L'??"

Look at our photogenic little man!!

This is definitely our child...you can't help but notice the ever-developing personality!

Nothing is as funny as daddy!

Malachi's new pastime. Once he discovered his fists, dry clothes were history.

Just another silly face in his growing portfolio.

Monkey and mommy

Malachi LOVES spending the day with daddy!

Like we said, just another face in the portfolio...

Alright, dudes, I am tired so it's time to jet! I go to the doctor in the morning for my four month check-up and shots. Don't worry, though. I am one tough cookie. I think I would be the equivalent of a double-stuffed cookie made of pure beef. I will be fine. I will make sure mommy and daddy post my new stats! Goodnight!
-Malachi

Someone got a new toy and is VERY excited to tell you about it!

Look at me REEEEACH for my toy bar!

And WHY didn't you get me this sooner?!

Even though my feet don't quite touch the floor yet, I still LOVE my bouncy seat!


That's right...our little monkey is growing up! Yesterday marked his official growth into size 9 month clothes (keep in mind he's only three months old!). He is right at 18 pounds and we still can't believe how much he changes with each picture we take of him. He is so precious to both of us...far beyond anything we could have imagined! He is daddy's little nap buddy and mommy's sweet joker. He still LOVES his mobile on his pack 'n play and squeals with delight each time we put him in there to play with his "friends". He is SO excited that mommy only has twenty one days of work left and then it's summer time!!! Also, he can't wait for his first trip to the beach with mommy and daddy this summer. Please continue to pray for our family as we continue to attempt to raise our sweet Malachi to live up to the meaning of his name...messenger of God. Never before has God's grace and provision been so tangible.
We can literally hold our God's faithfulness in our arms.

Unworthy,
Steve and Molly

p.s.--this is mommy's FIRST mothers' day!!

On Saturday, Malachi was my hot date for Andrea's baby shower (the hot preggo in the picture). Little did we know what would ensue on the way home....

I thought God said He wouldn't flood the Earth again?!?!?!?!

Our view of the "road"...there is supposed to be a curb and street on the right

Someone thinks he is MONTHS older than he really is...trying to sit up in his Bumbo (with a little help from his Ghi)

Thanks to Bill Muench, Malachi was rockin' the old skool Charles Barkley Rockets' jersey for his daddy's team's practice!

What a happy boy!

What Malachi really does all day


Please pray for our little monkey. He was definitely NOT himself all day, is full of mucus, and is running a little bit of fever. We go see his pediatrician Dr. Gonzalez (LOVE HIM!) tomorrow to get to the bottom of this little blip. Mommy had to take another half day off work...darn! :)


Just so you know, the "friends" I refer to in this little video are the three characters on Malachi's mobile...thank you, Uncle Chad, for fixing the mobile!! Words can't describe how much he enjoys it!






Still so unworthy of such a blessing,
Steve and Molly

HAPPY EASTER!!

Here are the three little Easter eggs themselves...
Drew (11 weeks), Hailey (8 weeks), and Malachi the Giant (10 weeks)

Love was in the air!

The stuffed monkey was a teething toy, right mommy??

There. That's more like it.

Look at all my toys!


A new stroller to grow out of! Yay!

Happy Easter, Malachi!

I couldn't help but notice you noticing me...

Although Malachi looks confused, he sure loves his daddy!

Our Easter family picture (right before he spit up all over his shirt!)

During the egg hunt, he made out like a bandit!
Ok, ok...his daddy may have helped!

Our family usually looks for any occasion to get together, eat ourselves silly, and just enjoy being a family. So, Easter was definitely a day to do just that!

This year, we welcomed the Anderson family (Jamie, John, and Hailey) into our family's Easter traditions (and all the holidays yet to come this year). We figured if Hailey is going to eventually be wed into this family, she might as well get a head start on the festivities. :)

Before we forget or get too busy to post them, let's recap some "firsts" that our little monkey has been up to...
First set of shots (March 27th)...mommy was more upset than he was!

First hat...Thank you, Carter's!

First night in a "big boy" crib...in his own room!! (March 22nd--7 1/2 weeks old)

That is all for now, but just you wait...Malachi is becoming a little more independent every day so we may actually get to post more often! :) We hope you enjoyed the peek into our little monkey's first Easter!

Unworthy,

Steve and Molly

(and monkey, too)

Back to reality...

Today marked my return to work. Not to say it wasn't extremely hard to leave my baby, but God answered my desperate prayer for peace throughout the day! I think I had psyched myself out prior to this morning. It was almost impossible to sleep last night thinking about not being with my monkey, but God eventually lulled me into slumber...and Malachi even slept a little over six straight hours!! Yay!!

I didn't cry today but I did get teary-eyed while I was nursing him this morning...I knew as soon as I was done it was time to leave. I can't tell you how blessed Steve and I are to have my mom come to our house and take care of him during the day! God is good!!

In case you're wondering, my little monkey is becoming quite the primate...
at his two-month check-up he was just under 14 pounds and 24 inches long!! He is ten weeks old today and has graduated to bigger sized bottles!! Ahh!! He has also really taken a liking to "dancing"...(video to come)...

Unworthy,
Molly

we're alive!!

It is INSANELY busy being a mommy all day (and many times throughout the night), espeically when your little baby has his first encounter with his sinuses. I just wanted you all to know that we are still alive and thriving...just VERY VERY busy!! Please pray for me as I will be going back to work on Tuesday. It breaks my heart to think about leaving my little boy all day, but by the grace of God my mom is able to be a stay-at-home grandma!!!!! I don't know what I would do without her!

He will be ten weeks old the day I go back and I can't tell you where the time went. So many people told me that it would go by so fast and to them I say, "YOU WERE ABSOLUTELY RIGHT!" I don't want to take a single day for granted! We are praying that God would open up a way that I could stay home when next school year comes, but it is a long waiting process sometimes. :) God is faithful and I have nothing to be anxious about! We serve a God who is mighty to save and ready to help.

Unworthy,

Molly