Two days ago, the girls turned ten months. We’ve just posted pictures for the month. Just as a reminder, you can use the left and right arrow keys on the keyboard to go through the pictures or the pages of pictures, and you can use the ESC key to get out of the page you’re on.
Miranda and Eleanor have been crawling all over the place. They’re no longer content to stay in the living room where we normally have them. They follow us to the kitchen, and they follow us towards our bedroom or the bathroom. We’ve started closing doors and moving furniture around so that they can’t reach anything dangerous, but we need to think about baby proofing a little more seriously soon. Both of them are standing better this month, and they’ve started cruising–holding onto something while they shuffle their feet sideways. We try practicing walking with them by holding their hands, but they’re pretty awkward at it.
We’ve been getting better at cooking for the girls. They tried our split pea soup and our minestrone this month. Frozen vegetables don’t end up being soft enough unless we boil them for a really long time. Agnes has been doing a great job in keeping up our finger food supply. Miranda’s been eating everything, but Eleanor has been more picky. Eleanor holds the food in her mouth for a while and then occasionally gags on it when she realizes it’s still in there.
Just recently, Eleanor’s started to be interested in our sorting toy (a box of blocks with holes cut into different shapes) as more than just a box of blocks. She tries to put them in, but she doesn’t know how to turn the block to get it through the hole. She also doesn’t seem to quite get that the different holes are for the different shaped blocks. She’s occasionally successful in putting a block through the right hole and we cheer for her when she does, but it’s still pretty rare. Miranda just likes banging the blocks.
The girls still don’t have their “M” sound, so no “ma ma ma ma”. They’ve been adding a number of other sounds though. Miranda has dropped her click. Eleanor has added a sound like the “th” at the end of “clothes”. They occasionally revert to “da da da da”, but they insert a B or G sound every now and then.
As we reported recently, still no teeth.
We’re heading out on a cross-country flight next weekend, so we’ll have lots to talk about in a bit. The next set of pictures should still come in a month though.