Now that it is October 1st, that means Ben & Maddie are 9 months old. That also means that they have been alive longer than they were in the womb. What a milestone!
They are changing every day. Some days it seems like they are different when I get home from work than they were that morning.
Both are crawling in their own ways. Maddie squirms across the floor on her belly, one arm bent in a 90-degree angle that she uses to leverage herself forward, the other arm more in a reaching position. Sometimes she gets up on her knees and rocks back and forth, looking like she's ready to do a traditional crawl.
Ben on the other hand just got up on his hands and knees and within a day was crawling. He only goes a few paces at a time before falling down, but each day he goes a bit further and a bit faster.
Gates will have to be added to our household decor very soon!
Ben now has six teeth -- four across the top and two on the bottom. Maddie has two on the bottom and two on top, and is getting a third on top. (It seems to be causing her a bit of pain, unfortunately)
Both are now babbling like crazy. Baba, mama, dada are the most common sounds. Not sure if "mama" and "dada" actually refer to us or are just sounds they are making. Still it makes my heart melt when they say "Mama."
I'll end my birthday message for my babies with this fabulous quote from a fellow Minnesotan that I just found at the end of a magazine. It was displayed along with a picture of a mom and her baby.
"Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much a heart can hold." --Zelda Fitzgerald.
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