Big Girl Eating Arrangements

For about a month now, we have been feeding them in their high chairs. They love it. They are also getting better at holding their bottles and picking up cups and spoons.

7 Months

The girls are sooo big now! We weighed them around their 7 month birthday and Sylvia was 18lbs 4oz and Evelyn was 17lbs. It is amazing how much they've grown and changed in 7 short months (well, really in the last 2 months!).

Swings!

The girls LOVE their new swings. No more baby swings for these girls, they've moved onto real swings outdoors! They will have fun all winter long in our backyard.

Latest In Gross Motor Development

Evelyn is scooting, leaping and crawling everywhere. She is quite busy. She also hikes her butt up into a traingle. Here she is on Daddy. She will definitely be zooming around the room in a full crawl by Christmas. Evelyn is still far more interested in crawling than she is sitting.

Sylvia is yanking on the activity mat showing off her expert sitting abilities. She is doing a great job moving around in a circle while on her belly. She doesn't move forward or back, but uses her arms to move within 360 degrees. We think Sylvia will pull herself to standing before she'll crawl. She's very skilled at standing and now responds to "Sylvia Up?" by putting her hands in the air and pushing herself up to standing when I hold onto her hands. She holds herself up there for several minutes and then understands "Sylvia Sit", and bends her knees and plops back down. She could do this for hours.

So cute, very cute.

Cuddly Evelyn

Evelyn is getting more cuddly. Over the weekend, I caught her snuggled up to Daddy several times.

Thanksgiving

Grandpa Benson (Mommy's Dad from Indiana) and Uncle Aaron (Daddy's brother from VA Beach) came to spend Thanksgiving with us. The girls enjoyed a yummy dinner of turkey, sweet potatoes, green beans, pumpkin and oatmeal. They gobbled up their first bites of turkey, just like they do everything else. We saw lots of sites (Manassas Battlefield and Arlington Cemetary) and ate lots of food (Thanksgiving with all the fixings, turkey noodle soup, chili, etc). We also put up the Christmas tree and Sylvia was so curious she broke an ornament!

Sylvia's Laugh

Sylvia doesn't giggle. She's only giggled 3 times. But, now she cackles! It's so funny. I didn't edit the video so you can get an idea of how she gets going. She does this all the time and it's sooo adorable. What a big noise coming from a delicate little baby!

Cup

We have been practicing with a cup to be sure they are ready to fully transition from the bottle at 1 year. Sylvia is pretty good at it. Evelyn likes to chew it.