Eleven Months!

This is what happens when we try to get the monthly photos now!

Ten Months!

Piper and Knox turned 10 months old on Saturday! It's hard to believe that in just two months, we will start measuring their age in years :) We are working on lots of new things in preparation for their first birthday. In addition to standing and cruising around the furniture, we're working on a few basic signs for milk, eat and more and we're working to learn to drink from a cup and use a spoon. Hopefully we'll be able to master the cup and spoon by July so we can get rid of the bottles once and for all and start eating "big people" food for every meal.

Look at us!

Ok, posts are getting few and far between because mommy and daddy are swamped, but here are some recent pictures. Piper and Knox and getting big and with the way they're pulling up to stand in their gated area, walking can't be far away!

Nine months!

It's hard to believe it, but Piper and Knox turned 9 months old last week! It's getting MUCH harder to capture them on film together, especially with the blocks :) Someone is always hightailing it toward the camera or grabbing at the blocks or putting a hand in their mouth. Or all three. And the weather hasn't cooperated in getting another wildflower photo for the last two weekends, so we have to make due with the Easter picture!

We have lots of updates along with our 9 month old picture! Piper and Knox are getting much better with their finger foods. They can actually get the Cheerios into their mouths most of the time now, along with tiny cheese cubes, bits of banana and mango and little bites of toast.

We had to move both crib mattresses down because the babies had figured out how to pull up in their cribs - kneeling or standing in them and threatening to topple out! The babies have also mastered sitting up in the grocery cart (and mommy is quickly learning which stores have double carts!) And last night I ordered new car seats - Knox is about 1/2" from officially outgrowing his infant car seat! So we'll make the switch next weekend which means saying so long to the bucket seats and the snap and go stroller. From here on out, babies will be going from the car directly to the stroller, instead of staying snapped into their carseat "buckets." And when we take them to a restaurant, they'll sit in an actual highchair!

Time is sure going quickly! I'll get some videos posted when I can so you can hear them chattering, too.

Piper Crawls!

I know you've all been worried about Piper's crawling ability :) She's stubborn and still seems to sometimes revert back to her "commando crawl" with her belly on the ground. But here's proof that she can actually crawl when she wants to!

Her brother is a speedy crawler now - check it out (if you look closely, you'll see him whiz through the corner of Piper's video as well!)

Piper's Easter dress

Piper was a little more cooperative later on at home. Here she is jumping in her Easter dress that Grandma Pam-Pam sent!

Happy Easter!

We tried to take our first bluebonnet photos yesterday. Thanks to Lady Bird Johnson, every resident of Texas must take photos of their children in the bluebonnets each spring. Piper and especially Knox clearly didn't get the message yesterday! I think they were just mad when they learned that they are too little to eat chocolate!