Annette turned 8 months old yesterday!! Happy birthday to our little princess :-)

On Tuesday we went to the Noah's Ark splash park with the mom's group from our church. The water was pretty cold, but Annette liked splashing her hands around in the mushroom waterfall :-)

She graduated from her swimming class at the Y on Wednesday by getting completely submerged in the water a few times. She looked surprised when she came up, but didn't even cry!

Today we went to the Empty Bowls fundraiser for the Houston Food Bank, which was held at the Center for Contemporary Craft. With our donation to the Food Bank, we got to pick out one of the many bowls donated by local artists, and have a cup of soup for lunch :-)

On Friday Annette went for a lakeside stroll with her friend Trey, and checked out the ducks.

Trey's mom Tanya did a photo shoot with us this weekend, to get some practice with her new camera. She's a very talented photographer already!

Annette was able to stand up and hold onto the bars on the fence all by herself!

Here she's getting some help standing from Mommy and Daddy :-)

She loves flying!

"Babies" - Annette stayed with Nani and Frank on Sunday afternoon so Kendall and I could go see the new babies movie. Babies all over the world are practicing their pouts just like she is :-)

We stopped to take a picture by the first flower on our magnolia tree on our way to swim class on Monday.

"When you're going to San Francisco..." The princess finally has enough hair to wear bows and barrettes like this crocheted flower one :-)

Playing with Daddy this morning in her toy basket

Annette's become quite the roly poly lately - she's started sleeping on her tummy, and is really thinking about crawling!!

Happy Mother's Day! We've had a busy weekend of celebrating...

Yesterday we went to visit our newest neighbor down the street, who's only 3 weeks old. We told Annette that she was that small not too long ago, but she didn't believe us :-)

This morning Annette gave me my first Mother's Day card, with a bit of slobber on it.

Then she posed for the new camera Kendall got me, in her going-out-to-brunch outfit!

We went out to brunch with Nani and Frank. Annette decided to be very well-behaved at the restaurant, which was a great Mother's Day present :-)

Annette has had a busy few days! On Friday we went to our friend Caroline's house for a playdate with her boy Asher, and another friend's son Finley. The babies had lots of fun playing together, and Annette got to be the center of attention since she was the only girl :-)

Uncle Nils, Aunt Allison and cousin Sophia were in town this weekend searching for a house, since they'll be moving here from Chicago in July! On Saturday we all went to the Urban Harvest Farmer's Market.

Sophia showed Annette how to play with her toys in ways other than chewing on them :-)

Everyone came over to our house for dinner, which featured fresh shrimp, cheese and produce from the farmer's market!

Annette was so inspired by her Daddy's good cooking that she helped him make breakfast this morning!