Eight Months and Crawling!

Well, it's still technically an army scoot, but as of today, my life has changed forever. Again. :-) Within minutes, our little guy can now scoot himself to pretty much any point in a room, and he's been having a blast checking out the tv, his closet, and underneath Grace's little table. Mama and Grace are still recuperating. (Just kidding. Kinda.) And Mama and Daddy have some serious childproofing to do tonight!

From the "I don't want to forget that" pile...

In the car today, Grace was telling me about the puppies she saw on a Daddy-date from several weeks ago:

Gracie: We saw a Bichon and a Peek-a-poo!

Mama to Daddy: Did she just say Bichon?

Painting Andrew's Room

I've been looking forwards to painting our kid(s)'s rooms for years, and we finally did it! Well, one wall at least. My sister came over tohelp us paint last week, and Grace had a blast working on her little section. :-)

Five Month Photos

(1/14/11 and 1/16/09 respectively)

Six months!

Andrew turned 6 month old last Sunday, and it's been an exciting week for our little guy! His first tooth finally poked through - the bottom middle, though we'd been thinking we felt one on the top for a couple months now. He's sitting up pretty well on his own now, and just tonight he's discovered he can "scoot" himself backwards on the wood floors. He looked so excited with himself!

I didn't know you knew that!

Conversation with Grace the other day:

• G: Daddy, what is in your ear?
• D: (after checking my ear and not finding anything) Uh, I don't know, sweetie, I think that's just my ear.
• G: What is it called?
• D: I'm sorry, Gracie, I don't know.
• G: You should look online.
• D: ... Did you say that I should look online to find out what it's called?
• G: Yeah!
• D: (double-checking) Where is "online"?
• G: It's... on the... on the laptop!

Whoa. :)

Eyes on You

So we have a Baby Einstein or something video of zoo animals that has a song with dancing numbers that goes something like "One, Two, I love you...". Yesterday, Jenny brought over some of her classroom posters, one of which is a series of numbers with little faces drawn on them, that looks rather like the dancing numbers from that song. As soon as Grace saw those numbers, she very excitedly proclaimed "One, two, eyes on you!"