10 Months 2 Weeks

I'm a bit late celebrating the girls tenth month by posting these short video clips showing them in action as I intended on doing two weeks ago but here they are now! As far as their current personalities and favorite activites go, Jocy is walking along furniture and can let go and stand for a few seconds. She is a VERY happy girl and is laughing and smiling 95% of the time. She "kisses" her toy animals by holding their faces up to her open mouth, loves playing in the houseplant dirt, can't sit still with any toy for more than one minute, and is still obsessed with pumpkins (all the way back from the "Five Little Pumpkins" Halloween book that I used to read them). She also gets a kick out of touching eyes, whether it be her toys or mom's, and you'll get an extra giggle in there if you blink while she's touching your eyelashes. She can spot very tiny things that I wouldn't expect any baby to pick up on, such as the quail running in the desert behind us and the dandelion seeds floating by the window. While we were outside one day she was chasing a ladybug around the cement with her finger trying to pin it down. She's still only got two teeth (a relief for Mom since she's still nursing), and her favorite foods are crackers, apples and yogurt.

Ivy is crawling as well and "stands" on her knees to get up to things. She loves to shriek and yell when she's excited and scares herself sometimes doing it. She is super-smart when it comes to figuring out toys; she knows just how to put the plastic coins in the piggy bank and then pull the tail to see them come rolling out. One of her favorite toys is a Christmas ornament that has little jingle bells all over it and she will hold it up by its cord with one hand, and spin it with her other hand until its twisted tight and then watch it unwind and jingle away. She is developing quite a temper (gets that from Dad I'm sure ;) and will throw herself backward when she's not getting quiiiiite what she wants. Her beautiful-blues melt my heart everyday and change hue with the light just like her Dad's. Ivy's got eight teeth now and her favorite foods are bananas, green beans, and tofu cubes.

Both are sleeping VERY well now that they are in separate rooms and I've been able to let them cry it out (didn't work when they were in the same room because they just kept each other going). They travel around the house together and are beginning to understand the meaning of TEAMWORK (uh-oh). Yesterday after silence alerted me to suspicious activity, I found both girls in the bathroom, Jocelyn standing up to the toilet with her arms in the water and Ivy sitting next to her handing her toys. Ohhh girls....

Here they are, about 40 seconds each but very telling.
(They're in their dipes cause that's our tradition: taking pics with Mr. Pink Bunny each month on their birth anniversary to document their growth over their first year)