Milestones!

Well, this needs to be quick because my typing risks waking the babies, plus I need to study for my nutrition exam tomorrow. Yikes!

But I wanted to make sure that I wrote down our two big milestones this week...

On Sunday, Lillie started walking! She has been standing on her own for a couple of months now, we thought she'd walk really early, but she only just got the courage to start taking steps. She walked to Thomas on Saturday morning - so cute! - and I'm really glad it was for him, it gave him such a thrill. He was sitting on the floor in the entryway of our apartment and she started walking toward him and he was counting off steps and saying, "Mom, Mom, look at this, 6, 7...Mom, you should look, 8, 9...". At that point I looked over and sure enough, he was right, she was walking for the first time - 12 steps! Very exciting! Emmett wanted to take some video but our apartment is in such a mess these days that he decided not to film. I have no such qualms, so hopefully I'll get some video this week.

Liam it seems is often left in his sister's shadow. This would make me sad, except I'm sure in another year or so it will even itself out a bit more. They say that boys mature more slowly than girls, and that is certainly what we are generally seeing with these two. However, Liam apparently didn't want to be completely shown up, so this week he uttered his first true words. I should preface by saying that I'm a total skeptic when it comes to this stuff. In March my Mom was saying that she thought he was saying "Mama", but it all just sounds like baby talk to me. BUT - I actually do believe that he said something today. Cristine has been working with Noah since he was a baby with sign language stuff and one of the ones that I happened to remember well was when she made the sign at the end of the meal and said "all done". And Noah would do it really well from a pretty early age, wiggling his hand around to say "all done". I never took up signing as a cause, but the words stuck with me, so when the babies have eaten all of something I will hold up the empty bowl or jar and say "all done". When either of the babies looks like they are done eating I'll ask them, "all done?"

So today I picked up an empty bottle out of Liam's crib and I was looking at it and he said "all done". I looked up because it surprised me and he said it a couple of more times, EXACTLY the same way "all done", but sounds more like "ah dah". I could almost have blown it off and thought it was coincidence but then at dinner he did it again. This time I showed him the sign and when he was done eating he wiggled his hand (didn't get it exactly right, but the attempt was clear) and said "all done". Our verbal baby!

Okay, back to me homework.

Love,
Melissa