Drinking from a straw!

For the first time! We taught Luke how to drink from a straw at about
9 months, so I thought why not teach Cassie to do the same thing!
Sure enough she did it! Cassie will be 9 months on Wednesday.

Boing! Boing!

Luke did this too! And come to think of it, so did Ender!

Play time

So.... I encouraging our children to play by themselves or alone in
the other room. Don't get me wrong, I do play with them, but I think
they also need to know how to entertain themselves for the times I
can't be in the same room as them. Well, today I was in the living
room feeding Cassie and Luke was playing in the playroom and kitchen.
I noticed after I was done with Cassie that it wad strangely quiet....
I walk into the kitchen to find that Luke had disassembled the
dishwasher and was playing with the bottom rack! But he wad also
trying to be helpful by loading his own straw cups! He was having so
much fun!

Snow in TX!

It snowed all day today! Michael was able to make it home from
Chicago before they cancelled flights, so when the kids got up from
naps daddy was home! We went over to Michael's parents this afternoon
to play in all of their nice snow. Our backyard hadn't been cleaned
since we moved in so we didn't want to chance stepping in all of
Enders messes! We could tell that Luke was cold but didn't want to
come in! I've got pictures with the real camera I can post later. We
even bundled Cassie up, it was hilarious because she was so bundled up
that she couldn't sit and she just kept falling backward and rolling
over!

Look who's standing!

Cassie has learned how to pull herself up now, since Friday or
Saturday. She now also had two teeth and weighs 20 lbs. I can't
believe she's 8 months already!

Cassie gets her Wii Fit on!

But this makes it hard to do my Wii Fit!

She's so close!

One of these days I'll find her holding on to something and standing!