7 Months and starting to get around

Watch out!! Both Bethany and Melody are starting to become mobile. Bethany crawls and Melody scoots on her bottom. They are still in the beginning stages of each. Bethany does make it across the room, but it takes a while with multiple colapses on her tummy. Melody just started to scoot a few days ago. She does not get very far. The other day she only made it 5 inches on the carpet, but in the tub where there is no traction, she went over a foot before I had to grab her to make sure she didn't fall and hit her head in the tub. We tried putting her on the hardwood floor to see how she would scoot on that. Well, she went over a foot, but in the wrong direction. She went backwards! She does know how to scoot in a circle to change directions, she has been doing that for a few weeks now. In a few weeks when both girls are better at their forms of transportation, we will have to set them up in a race. What is the fastest method of travel, by knees or bottom? Enough talk, here are some pictures.

Bubbles!

Everyone keeps telling us to try blowing bubbles at the girls to see what they do. Well, we should not have tried on a windy day. It took a while to get the hang of getting the bubbles to form right with the wind. When we finally got it down, the girls had the instinctive reaction, they closed their eyes whenever we would send bubbles their way. After a few tries, Bethany and Melody tried to catch them. Bethany with her little hands and Melody with a wide mouth. Neither girl was successful at getting any. It is always fun to watch them experience something new.

And of course I have a few more pages that I threw together in my spare time. I am getting less and less of that these days.