NINE MONTHS OLD!!

So cliche, but where has the time gone? I cannot even remember what I had for breakfast this morning....

First of all, I have spent several hours trying to update the look of our blog without success. Sasha, I guess I need you to walk me through scrapblog via phone. I am sooo close and it will look so much cooler!

The twins celebrated their nine month birthday last week. It continues to amaze me how quickly the babies develop, each forming and exploring their own personalities.

Abigail has shown physical changes most dynamically as she is now crawling, pulling up to standing, and cruising. Still shaky on her feet, it does not stop her from exploring EVERYTHING! The funniest is that she cannot figure out how to get down out of standing. When she falls, she is as straight as a plank and hits the ground HARD! We worked this weekend on teaching her to fall to her bottom or knees. She has been eating small bits of table food like pizza crusts and green beans. Tonight she ate sweet peas from my dinner plate. She currently has four teeth (two top, two bottom) with two more on the way. She still does not sit still and yesterday, crawled all the way from our living room into the nursery down the hall following my voice while I was changing G's diaper. She loves kisses from her mommy and playing "off-road Abs" with her daddy.


George has learned to express his desires very strongly. He will swat at the spoon if he doesn't want to eat, will growl at you if he wants your attention, and laughs hysterically with his entire body! He sits up very tall and rotates his trunk well on right and left sides. He loves to stand (with resting breaks) at his LeapFrog music table. He holds his head up steadily and we notice his head tilt less and less. He still goes to PT weekly and is making leaps and bounds of progress. Today, he started rolling around after toys and pulling his knees up into crawling position....uh oh. He maneuvered himself over his daddy's legs on the floor for the first time. Poor baby has terrible ears and we have an appt to see the ENT in early July after his current (5th) ear infection. He LOVES music, jumping in the exersaucer, and sticking his tongue out of the side of his mouth. He weighed in at 19 1/2 lbs last week...still loves to eat!

Life in the Jank household has definitely been kicked up a notch. Between battling ear infections and terrible allergies, we have been:
growing a garden...riding our bikes to church and pulling the babies in the trailer...adoring our babysitter Jennifer who keeps the babies so we can continue to pay our mortgage...taking more car trips (except this weekend to celebrate our sweet godtwins Carlisle and Jackson Camper's first birthdays--we had to cancel as Matt is sick--Happy Birthday almost!)...sleeping more (usually 11 hours at night for the twins)....sleeping less (ear infections, teething, wanting to be awake with Mama and Daddy) and trying to maintain sanity amidst daily changes!