10 months

New tricks learned:  Emmy waves hello and high fives.  Max claps and plays pat-a-cake.  They both are speaking a lot of gibberish.  A lot of gibberish to each other (twin lingo?).  Each pull themselves up to everything they possibly can.  They are not standing alone yet though.  They are usually found together in small nooks and crannies I didn't even know existed in the house.  They continue to eat foods 2-3 times a day.  They are getting really independent and play together most of the day.  This is the time when it is wonderful to have 2.... they entertain each other.  The other day they were literally playing hide- and seek- with each other.  I think Addy had played it with them before.  Emmy would come in the kitchen and hide behind the bar and Max would go after her and then when he saw her they would laugh. She would then crawl somewhere else and do the same thing. I was dying.  I love to hear them laugh at loud together. 

playing hide and seek

Emmy sprouted her first two teeth.  I was feeding her food and kept thinking the spoon was hitting something.  I looked and yep.... she had two teeth.  I knew she was teething because she was chewing on everything but so was Max and he had no teeth.  I have never had a child actually get a tooth before they were one even though they all started teething about four months. Emmy has developed her "angry eyes" this month. She furrows her brows and gives you the evil eye.... for nothing at all.  Today I was feeding her apple-strawberry-banana- and I guess she didn't like it cause everytime I gave her a bite I got an evil look.  I pulled out Addy's old 18 month summer clothes.... and they fit!  She was wearing 6 month pj's so I went out ASAP and got her bigger jammies. I felt so bad.  Her baby socks no longer fit and she is officially in size one shoes.  She wears her hair in ponytail often now and her hair is growing rapidly.  She is just such a pretty girl. 

Max has gotten to be a really happy, smily boy.  He is such a stud.  He usually is the leader as far as where he and Emmy go, but when she wants a toy he usually lets her have it.  Sometimes if he really wants the toy he will hit her in the face or grab the toy.  He claps a lot and "sings" himself to sleeps. He is doing much better at sleeping now... wakes up once a night usually, and then we get him a bottle and he goes back to bed.  He is no longer taking medicine for his reflux because he is not throwing up anymore thank heavens. He is eating more and it seems like he is catching up to Emmy.  He wears 9-12 month clothes now. But some of his onsies that are 6 months still fit him.   Max was playing "catch " with Boston yesterday and was rolling the baseball back to Boston. He likes to be read to and loves to play with Boston.