Not much has changed over the last few weeks. As always, the girls are learning lots of new things, but no big milestones recently. They are great at sitting and will sit for about 10-15 minutes before they get too distracted and tip over. They love to sit together and play with their toys.

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They are also getting very good at jumping in their jumper. They loved the one that we had so much that I had to go out and buy a second because they would sob if you took one out to let the other have a turn. It buys us a lot of time to eat dinner, do things around the house or just sit and take a break. Our living room has become a play room for the girls and is over run with baby toys. Someday we hope to have another couch and chair in there, but for right now it's a play area. We could put their toys upstairs, but it's easier to have them playing on the main floor where we usually are.

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Last weekend our friends Bev and Mark Krans and their daughter Lydia (~9 months old - 2.5 months older than Abby and Emily) spent a day with us while they were visiting from PA. You may remember a picture from Thanksgiving where the girls were on the floor with Lydia. We re-created this picture to see how things have changed:

Then (Abby and Emily were 3 weeks old, lydia was about 3 months):


Now: (Abby and Emily 6.5 months, Lydia 9 months)

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You would think that Abby would be used to having someone touch her as Emily is constantly around, but she was a little moody when Lydia starting tugging at her arm:

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Then Lydia gave her a noogie and she was FURIOUS. Meanwhile Emily was in her own little world off to the side.

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Lydia was frightened by Abby's temper.

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During their visit we went for a little hike. This was Abby and Emily's first hike. They seemed to enjoy sucking on their baby bjorns and checking out the woods.

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We're excited to see Bev, Mark and Lydia again later this summer!

*if you would like to see larger versions of the pictures, just click on them.*

The past week has been a little rough for us. The girls are still learning new things all the time, but they have been fussy and sick and now Byron and I are also sick. I'm all congested and I'm sure nobody at work wants me here, but given that I was out of work from September to January I'm trying to just get through this cold without missing any more work. Poor Abby has been up in the middle of the night a few times lately because she's so congested. Once she wakes herself up coughing she realizes that she can probably get a bottle and then starts crying. Because they are normally such good sleepers I feel badly trying to make her cry it out. I figure that if she's awake she's probably uncomfortable (and I'm a sucker). So I get up and give her a bottle. Byron has also gotten up a couple times lately. I'm definitely spoiled with sleep now - it used to be so easy to get up in the night, but now that I'm not used to it it's REALLY hard.

Emily has two teeth now. They are both on the bottom, the two front bottom teeth. It's so funny to see them coming in. I'm pretty sure Abby should have some popping out any time now.

This week I realized that I don't have much to talk about that doesn't involve babies anymore. Maybe someday I'll have something to talk about other than how much Emily poops in a day, which brand of diapers are the best or how I found an awesome deal on baby clothes :) Until then, here are some pictures.

The girls love swimming lessons:

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Abby warming up after swimming

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Emily loves her feet:

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Abby's first time playing in the grass

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She was so relaxed

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Abby likes staring contests:

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Staring contest with dad:

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Emily wasn't so sure about puffs:

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She found the camera

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Emily sits like a big girl now:

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Over the past week the girls have learned so many new things. The biggest thing is that they can both sit up all alone now and play with toys while they're sitting. Also, tonight we noticed that Emily had her first tooth poke through! You can't really see it yet but you can feel it - it's REALLY sharp.

Here's a video of the girls going crazy. They think it's so funny to flop around. (I know the quality stinks, I'm trying to fix it)



Crazy girls