Moving all around

No pictures today. Sorry.

Natalie is ready to crawl! She has crawled a few feet so far, but then she flops back down on her belly. She pulls herself up to her knees, and has tried pulling up to her feet, but only tries on things like her saucer, so when she gets up off her knees the saucer spins and she goes with it. Rebecca is almost sitting up by herself from laying down. I guess we'll have to put the gate back up soon. John is starting to get a little annoyed that the girls can get to his toys now. He seems to spend most of the day patrolling the living room and snatching his toys back. I'm trying to stay on him to tell them, "Natalie, that is my toy. Here, you can have this one." but it doesn't always work. I've also been telling him that if he keeps his toys in his toy box they cacn't reach them, yet our living room still looks like a Toy R Us exploded in it. With Christmas and his birthday coming up soon, I am going to be doing a LOT of clearing out of old toys.

Everyone has been sleeping through the night and I am LOVING it! I am probably jinxing myself by posting that, but oh well. I get to sleep until 7:00am! 4 years ago I never thought I'd be so excited about getting up at 7am. How times change.

It seems Rebecca is becoming a bit of a bully. :) As soon as Natalie picks up a toy, Rebecca will put hers down, scoot her way over to Natalie (seriously that girl can move!) and take it away from her. Natalie will then throw herself on the floor and dissolve into tears. Poor baby.

Rebecca hurt herself today. I had just gotten her up from a nap and layed her in living room while I went to go get Natalie. I heard a boom and then a cry. When I got in there her poor little mouth was bleeding. I am assuming she somehow hit her mouth on the leg of the coffe table? I'm not sure how. She was fine after sucking on a cold wet washcloth, and I was fine after a reassuring call to my mom. :)

John is doing so well with his letters. He can recognize and name all the letters of the alphabet and give the sounds of almost all of them. Now our drives consist of "Look Mommy, A. Look Mommy, Q. Look Mommy, R." as we pass signs. He is trying to write them too, but we have a ways to go on that front.

If anyone is wondering about Christmas / John's Birthday presents I have a few ideas. John needs long sleeve shirts and khaki pants. He wears a 3T, and a 8 1/2 or 9 in shoes. The girls are wearing 6-9 months and size 2 shoes. They would love some winter dresses to wear with tights, or plain jeans. I'm hoping to get John a DVD player for the car for trips to the Lake next summer, so some kids DVDs would be nice. He has lots of tapes, but not many DVDs. Things like Toy Story or Cars or something like that. He is really into Little Einsteins, Mickey Mouse, trains (please no Thomas the Train toys though - too many recalls for lead in the paint), firetrucks, and dinosaurs. The girls aren't really into anything yet. :)