Timothy is pulling himself up on anything and everything that will hold his weight. He has become very adverterous and daring...and has the bumps, bruises and scratches to prove it.
I had to push the walker up against something that won't move...he isn't quite ready to go cruising across the room yet...
Exersaucers and snack! The kids don't show much interest in the Christmas tree except in the evening when we plug in the lights. So when that happens we have to get creative in keeping the them away from pulling on the light stands. I find that snacks always keep the kids occupied and the exersaucers keep them stationary...perfect combo. (It's also a good time to call Granny and Grandpa for a web cam chat!) They have sorta lost interest in their exersaucers since they became mobile. In fact, it's a daily battle to get Timothy in his car seat, stroller, a diaper change...anything that holds him down. Now days he would rather stand on the outside and play with it's gadgets. But they just can't pass up the delicious snack of teething biscuits or zwieback toast!
Woo Hoo! We've made it to 10 months and having a blast so far! Now the only thing in my mind is they will be 1yr old in two months!!!!! (Knowing what a planner I am, I'm already behind schedule!)
a few outtakes...
Our first outing to for the kids to meet Santa went pretty much like we expected. I haven't seen too many babies that take warmly to a very large strange man with a long white beard, dressed in red and wearing a funny hat!!
I just had to post one more picture of Cameron being stuck...she is rolling over in her crib now and since she only moves backwards...she gets her legs stuck between the bars outside the crib. I came in and found her this way yesterday.
Just another sign of our little babies growing up...they can hold their own bottles almost the whole feeding now.
For some reason I'm obsessed with taking pictures of Timothy sleeping with his monkey. We put the kids down to sleep nap or night, he climbs all around the crib, I usually have to go back in at least one to retrieve his pacifier from the floor...all the while, monkey is sitting in the corner of the crib untouched. Then I go back in after the kids are sleeping to cover them up. Somehow Timo has found his monkey and can't go to sleep without it. I think it's so funny that he falls asleep on top of the monkey. I know I'm probably the only one that thinks this is cute, so bare with me.
Little Cameron just can't get the forward motion going. She is a master at moving backward and scooting on her bottom but often gets herself stuck in the strangest place...unknowingly backing up into them. She has this little whimper cry she does when she gets stuck and I grab the camera and run to her rescue. I've been collecting photos of her in the "help, I'm stuck" position.
she keeps knocking her head trying to get out from under the cribs...and I found her with a leg caught under the bookshelf...poor baby!
I wasn't going to write a post about having to lower the kids' crib mattresses but it was just so funny the way it happened...I had to take pictures. Timothy started standing in his crib yesterday afternoon and I told Young this morning that we needed to move his mattress down. We were going do it tonight...well, Timo fell out of his crib this afternoon. That's not the funny part...he is OK, but gave me/us a big scare. He was lucky he landed on his back. I can't believe he went from standing to climbing out in 24hr!!
Now they are both safe and sound about 2feet lower than before!
We had our 7th Annual Ornament Party this past weekend. Young started the tradition before we got married as a way to get his tree decorated...and we still continue it to spend time with our friends and get some really great ornaments!! This year was a little trying because of having two babies nipping at our heels the whole time. But we pulled everything together, were a little behind in getting the food out, and got some really special ornaments. Even though this years theme was "O Holy Night", it seemed homemade ornaments took the majority. It was tough picking the winner but it had to go to the "Twin's First Christmas" ornament from Liz and Salvador Rossa.
The runner up...Alex playing to my soft side of UNC and Marge trying to use the cuteness of our kids...it almost worked!
Jeff, Sarah, Vivi feeding Jessica. And Doug, Joaquin and Wilnye hangin' in the kitchen.
The kids with their new shoes from Liz...and Keis was visiting from Japan, hanging with Cameron.
We headed out Saturday to get our Christmas tree. We went to our local nursery and picked out a spectacular tree that was tall, nicely shaped and enough gaps to fit some of our big ornaments. Little did we know, once we got it home, the trunk of the tree was extremely crooked. We got it home and placed it in the stand only to find out it leaned about 20degress to side. How did we miss this at the tree lot?? So there was alot of trimming, alot of sawing and about two feet cut off the bottom to try and get it straight in the stand. Ugh! But an hour and half later we had it! (Don't touch the tree too hard, it might fall back over.)
Young picking out the perfect one and me holding the tree...not noticing the trunk we crooked!
Another 12inces off the tree but we got it! Time to put the lights on...
Little trees just the perfect size for the kids!!
As Timothy started to crawl more and more I wanted to get him a toy on wheels that he could play with that would move with him. I picked this dump truck up at a yard sale for a $1 and Timo absolutely loves it. He is always playing with his dump truck. I'm constantly hearing the wheels roll across the floor and Timo trying to ram it into the walls. He gets really upset when it gets turned over and doesn't roll...he hasn't figured out how to turn in back on it's wheels yet.
(please excuse Timo's drool...he has another tooth coming in...)
