Update

I feel like I should update today, 2 weeks before the babies turn ONE YEAR OLD!!!  So much is going on with us and I want to get it all down!  We are DONE with formula!  I've been waiting for this for almost a year but I'm kind of sad. I will never buy formula again.  That's exciting, but I know these babies are growing up and I don't get any more babies. They are also drinking out of sippy cups!  They still get one bottle before bed, but other than that it's sippy cups only!  At nap time I say, "Let's go to bed," and they crawl behind me into their room.  Ok, they at least crawl into the hallway.  Occasionally one baby sees that the door is open to mine and Mark's room and crawls that way.  We are working on it!  Naps are going great and they are feeding themselves!  We don't do purees anymore.  I give them food to pick up and eat. It's a struggle since a lot of the food ends up on the floor, but we're working on that, too!

Emily is walking. She still wobbles and looks like a tiny drunk person but she can walk all the way across the living room!  It's so weird to see her walking since she's so little!  Emily has been very close to me all day long for about a week. She wants to play with me, not her siblings, and she needs me to be looking at he the whole time or she gets right in my face and just stares, waiting for my attention!   She also blows kisses :)  If you tell her something is "SOOOOO pretty," she will wear it.  She wore her pajama pants on her head for about 10 minutes and smiled because she was so pretty!  This is my favorite picture of Emily!

Ella isn't a loner anymore. She now follows Tripp around.  They chase each other, giggle, and have conversations.  It's so adorable!  Her hair is so long that I have to put it up so it isn't in her eyes. It's very cute!

Tripp is a climber now!  He is fearless and determined to get into the fireplace to play with the soot.  He climbs onto the fireplace and just stares into it.  I know it's only a matter of time!  Until then, he climbs on the sofa and the kitchen chairs that he pushes into the living room.  I'm pretty sure he's trying to give me a heart attack.  This morning I was cleaning dishes after giving them lunch, looked into the living room and saw this...

That's all!  Other than that we are preparing for their birthday party which is less than 2 weeks away!