Yet another month has flown by and boy are they growing fast. Here are some highlights of the past month:
- They confidently sit up on their own and are pretty good with transitioning to crawling from the seated position, all on their own.
- They love crawling over EVERYTHING and EVERYONE! If you are on the floor with them, they will crawl over to you and crawl on you until you have no choice but to pick them up or help them stand. Ellis also enjoys crawling over Logan and recently Logan paid him back with crawling on top of him. Ellis really likes to crawl through his fort on a daily basis too (aka kitchen table and chairs). Although they are still army crawling, they frequently get up on all fours and rock back and forth a lot. It's just a matter of time now.
- Logan is a pretty good show-off when it comes to drinking his bottle. He can now do it one handed!
- For our Secret Santa name exchange gathering a few weeks ago, it was so much fun to not only get together as a whole family, but to see the all the cousins interacting. Morgan was such a good big cousin and Parker did a lot of checking them out -- probably wondering "who are these babies and why are they playing with my toys?" Speaking of toys, they absolutely adored all the toys that Morgan and Parker had. They were content the entire time, playing with (and sucking on) all their toys! Just another reminder to myself that they would like some new toys =).
- Logan is getting a bit gutsy with moving onto different "levels". Mark and Nicole have a little step between their family room and dining room and he spent a considerable amount of time going up and down that pretty well. In our basement, he crawled over to the treadmill and tried to climb up it. Obviously that is a little harder and falling off that wouldn't be okay, so we had to barricade it with big pillows from our couch (which he was not happy about).
- While they enjoy climbing all over us lately, they have also progressed to climbing up us, to the point of standing. And they LOVE to stand. Then if/when we put them down to sit or crawl, they will come back and demand you do it again. They haven't yet completely pulled themselves up on their own yet, but with your little bit of help, they can stand up and as long as they have something to hold on to, they can stay up for quite a bit.
- On the eating side of things, they just love eating. They have been introduced to avocado (NOT fans of it -- they just let it sit in their mouth with a nasty look on their face), broccoli, peaches, green beans, and mango (all of which they liked!). Gerber puffs are practically like crack cocaine to them. When we show them the container their legs go a mile a minute in their high chair. They are really good with the pincer grasp and can pick up and eat the puffs rather easily. Hopefully once they get another tooth or two we can introduce more finger foods to them. A random side note - they use their left hand mostly to eat their puffs. I wonder if this means anything?!?
- The boys are both becoming a bit more verbal. Logan makes the most high-pitched, squeaking noise I've ever heard. My mom said that yesterday, he was trying to squeal so high that no sound came out. The look on his face, the scrunched up forehead, when he squeals is hilarious. Ellis is babbling a bit more. Whenever we hear him, we repeat it back to him and sometimes he'll even laugh at us as if we just said something funny. Boy I can't wait to see how they interact with each other and us, in the coming months.
- Quite often I have found myself just laughing at them this past month. Not laughing in a mean way, but just a very funny way. They just do things that crack me up. Then I start laughing and they laugh back, which just starts a vicious cycle of laughing. Ellis is very observant and watches when Logan squeals and if we squeal back at him, we can see Ellis out of the corner of our eye and he is smiling at us and thinks it is so funny too.
- They are definitely outgrowing their little bath tub that we use on the counter. Now that they are good at sitting up, we might try to give them their first joint bath in the bath tub. Perhaps this weekend?!?
- Their personalities have been changing a little bit this month. Logan used to be the laid-back one that would have no problem playing by himself, with Ellis needing more attention, but now that seems to have switched a bit. Logan is a little more clingy lately and Ellis is content all on his own for much longer periods of time, although Ellis has been waking up more in the middle of the night and he is NOT happy whatsoever. I don't know if it is the little cold that he has that is stuffing him up or if it is a teething pain. I can't say I mind the clinginess though -- I love cuddling my little boys. Having Ellis fall asleep in my arms one night last week was perfectly fine with me. I honestly can't remember how long it has been since that has happened. They don't do well when they are being held with their head by our shoulder because they are usually too antsy and squirming around too much to look at everything going on around them. But what a priceless moment when I went to soothe Ellis when he was fussing one night last week and I went to rock him and he just finally gave in and rested his head on my shoulder and fell asleep! Those are the moments!
Happy December everyone and happy 8 months to the best boys a mom could ask for. Love you both xoxoxoxo!
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