Mobile Parker

Parker crawled just before he turned six months old. Then when we moved to our new house 6 weeks later, he modified his crawl to accommodate our tile floor. You see, the tile is a little hard on your knees so he just straightens his legs and does the bear crawl. Its pretty funny. He doesn't do it all the time but when his knees are sore or he wants to go really fast, he just busts out with the bear crawl. Well, the other weekend we went to the beach and he found this type of crawl very handy for the sand:



But Parker is not content just to crawl (whether its the bear or original), he's been working on his balance and can stand up and lower himself quite nicely without holding onto anything. He walks around the furniture very well and is getting steadier on his feet. Well last Sunday, he did it. He took his first step. He isn't walking but he's getting closer:

Crazy Kids

I'm not sure how Tory figured out that Penelope had this sound in her but its pretty funny when it comes out of her mouth:



I love this video because it looks like Parker has convulsions every so often, or he's just a really bad dancer. You decide:

A New Trick

Penelope mastered clapping first but Parker wasn't too far behind. They both now love to clap and do it often.

Play Time

Here are some fun videos of the kids playing together. They don't always play so nicely with each other but if I separate them, they crawl to find each other.

Swings

According to some twins blogs I follow, taking the following picture is required when you have twins:



They are pretty cute, aren't they?!?!?

They do love the swing, we often head up to the park to swing, its nice because I don't have to worry about Penelope eating the sand :)

Marker Marks

Somehow Parker figured out how to take the cap off a pink highlighter and he shared it with Penelope, what a kind brother!!

Thanks Grandpa and Grandma Randall

The kids got some wonderful Dr. Suess books from Tory's parents for Christmas and they love them. We are raising a couple of readers:





In fact, I have to make sure there are 2 books in the room because they will fight over the book if there is only one!!