The babies are doing great. They are 9 and a half months old and they are both crawling. Olivia is very fast and can get anywhere. She has been crawling for a couple of weeks now (still the low army crawl) and Peyton finally started crawling yesterday. He is also doing the low crawl. For awhile Peyton was doing circles like he had a broken fin. He could get anywhere he needed to go but it took him a long time to get there.
Last month Peyton got his first official ear infection and he was having some minor wheezing so the doctor put him on a nebulizer and we also give him a oral steroid to help make his lungs stronger and to hopefully prevent ashma from developing. We give him treatments 2 times a day and he does fine with them. It is just a mask - We usually sing songs about ducks or tell stories about all the "pretend" animals that live in the basement. Peyton loves to listen to animated stories and animal noises. Olivia usually laughs with us during the treatments. Olivia has stayed well but she went through a phase of not sleeping through the night and that was hard. I dont know how parents do it when their little ones dont sleep all night! Tracy and I were running on empty during the 2 week phase of her getting up once or twice every night.
As far as talking goes... Both babies talk and laugh all the time! Sometimes Tracy and I think we hear a "ma ma" or "da da" but it is just a sound not intentionally calling one of us. We absolutely love to watch them play together but Olivia tends to be a little mean to Peyton and he is a cry baby whenever she touches him.
Here are some new pictures!
Olivia is hard to contain now - This is what happened one day while she was trying to pull up on the laundry basket.
Our first family outing to Mill Mountain Zoo
Olivia has discovered the Cat Door to the basement... She loves to hit the door to make it swing open and shut.
Peyton and Olivia playing together on the exersaucer... 2 minutes after this picture Olivia fell backward and hit her head on the floor...OOPS!I hope you enjoy the pics... the babies are waking up from their nap so I will post more pictures soon! I hope to put a video of them crawling soon!
