Making Progress

Yesterday, Cameron did the following:
- stood on her own (for about 6 seconds)
- crawled up the stairs TWICE
- fed herself with a spoon (a messy venture but a goal none the less)

All this on a day that day care said she was SICK :-)

New Words, New Teeth

So we are up to 6 tooth sprouts and at least four words
- Elmo
- Dora
- Aligator (al-ate-or)
- Baby

Yes folks - no mama, no dada - URG

Leave that for Daddy

I have been traveling quite a bit and the girls haven't been sleeping well. One night Bill got up with them a few times and ended the night on the hard wood floor of their room with a pillow and blanket. When I saw the remnents in the morning I asked what happened and he felt - at the time - it was the path of least resistence.

The next night, I put the girls to bed. When I went to pick up the pillow and blanket on the floor Mackenzie said "No Mommy, leave that for Daddy". I quickly let her know that Daddy wasn't sleeping on the floor again that night.

Thank goodness she didn't wake up that night.

Happy Birthday Song

Jake's birthday was Sunday and all the kids were on their best behavior. But Mackenzie, especially was excited and eager to help Jake celebrate. She was the first guest to arrive with her mommy and when they walked in, she sang "Happy birthday" in it's entirety. She used a sweet, soft voice, sang solo, was in perfect pitch and didn't muffle a word. It was pretty impressive.

Then during presents, she helped open the gifts telling me, "I'll do this, he's too little."

There were lots of kids around her age at the party and she is worlds apart from most of them developmentally. Her command of language is astounding.

Kissing cousins

This week, they put the kids in the one year old room. It would have been traumatic for Jake's mommies if Cameron had not gone in there with him. There are all these new rules about sleeping and eating and wearing shoes... At home, Jake is a little bit of a mess. Twice, he's going to bed before 7pm which makes me very sad b/c it means I am seeing him less than an hour at night and about 1.5 hours in the morning (which is not my best time of the day.)

Yesterday, I brought Jake to day care and he saw Cam for the first time in 2 days (His grannies have been in town watching him at home since his birthday.) Well, Cammie saw me and started crawling at break-neck pace. And Jake started crawling towards her as well. I was nervous that when they met each other he might swat at her or something because he's been a little rambunctious lately. But, when they met up, they both sat up, faced each other and clapped. Then they put their foreheads together and each put their hands on the cheeks of the other. I had to turn away to keep from weeping. It might have been the sweetest thing I have ever seen.

Then, quite unable to drive away at that moment, I stalled by going into the 2 year old room to see Mac. She dropped her spoon and RAN to give me the biggest hug. And the hundreds of hours of driving I've done to put this kid in day care with his cousins is instantly some of the best time I've spent.