Crawling

Aurelia has pretty much mastered the art of crawling. It amazes me how quickly that happened - from stationary and wanting, to mobile and obtaining. Good for her! Here she is about a week ago.

Ready for her closeup:

This summer has been a lot of fun. Lately we have been spending more time with the Ingrams and these girls are having a ball together. They love each other already. Koruna calls Aurelia "Weh-wee", and she points to things that belong to Aurelia and says "Weh-wee". She gives her hugs and kisses and shares her toys with her younger cousin. What a sweet, precious, wonderful child that Koruna is. May they have a long and wonderful relationship, those two. Here is a video of them playing.

Reli got to spend some good time with her Honey last weekend. She also got to wear her very first pigtails. How cute is that?

Having fun with Aunt Berry:

Her fine motor skills are quite good. She is able to feed herself finger foods quite quickly. There is a homeopathic product for teething that makes Reli really happy - teething tablets - tiny white tablets that dissolve into mush almost instantly upon contact with saliva. For several weeks now she has been able to pick them up and feed them to herself.

Reli and one of her favorite toys, the Little Teethers bottle:

In the last week, Aurelia discovered how to wave her hand. She does it ever so delicately, watching the motion of her wrist travel to her knuckles and then out to her tiny fingers - literally like a wave. Sometimes she is mesmerized by it and has to turn her head sideways to stare at the magic her hands are performing. At times, she waves both hands. Here she is waving with Aunt Berry.

We have had a lot of fun learning the new levels of volume Aurelia can reach. She is going through what we hope is a loud phase. She does most of her "talking" at top volume, lest you miss the fact that she is saying something. Although her decibels are not necessarily directed at you, she wants to make sure you can hear her, regardless of where you happen to be in relation to her (say, right next to her face, across the room, or in another room entirely with the door closed and earplugs in during "work" hours). She is getting her points across and it is lovely music to my ears. She has added "ga-ga-ga" and "ba-ba-ba" to her repertoire, but still no "da-da-da". She is close, I can almost feel it. Maybe by the next blog post . . .