First Steps

Maia took her first steps today!!! She is 10 months 3 weeks old and beginning to walk already!! Yikes - what am I in for LOL
She is walking from room to room using the wall at the moment too. She will not sit!!
BUT she is still toothless - wonder when she will find time to sprout some teeth?

Xander is free-standing now but not for long and definitely not taking steps yet. I reckon next week at the very earliest.

Joshua is good. He is loving his big boys room downstairs - especially now he has a cork board for his pictures etc. He was in the car going to preschool with Grandad on Friday and they were listening to the radio. Joshua looked outside at the trees blowing in the wind and he said "Look at that Grandad, the trees are dancing to our music" Oh how nice it would be to see the world the way a child sees it!!



Joshua helps Mummy with her photography assignment


Maia and Xander playing in the boat

Mountain Goat!!!

Maia is a lil mountain goat!!! She can climb anything. In the past three days I have removed from the lounge... one mini tramp (Maia worked out she could stand on it and party), one cat chair (Maia worked out she could climb on it and then stand up and party) and one children's picnic table (yep... Maia worked out how to sit on top and PARTYYY!!)

Xander is more interested in the cat than in climbing at the moment. When I was changing Maia's nappy i looked up to see him on top of the cat trying out his new teeth..eeeeek. My children know NO fear!!

Maia is walking behind a push along toy very capably these days, she even steers it to get to her destination. Xander gets dragged along a bit but is still very able. He has 6 teeth and is working on more but Maia has none. BUT she eats like she has a full set - it is amazing. Xander will eat anything but Maia hates hates HATES puree. She will spit it on to her hand and feed it back to her self and then spread some round the walls etc. It is disgusting. She loves finger foods. I think they must be hungry or something cause they stole a slice of bread from the bench (didn't know they could reach that high) and shared it between themselves this afternoon. Of course I never feed them ;o)

Joshua is wonderful. he is enjoying preschool and is thriving on the religious education at the moment (last week he said he was going to be a priest when he grew up). Although some of his interpretations are a bit off. He prayed to Jimmy Neutron last night to get some more rail track and when that didn't work he realised that he got it wrong that he needed to pray to God. Ummmmm we had a chat about not praying for "things" you want and not praying to Jimmy Neutron!!

I almost forgot to update what they can say now...
Maia says: Hi-5, Grandad, Dada
Xander says: Mumma, Anma (Grandma), Allo
They both mimic each others names every now and then.

Joshua has also moved downstairs into his own room. He wanted to read books on his own before lights out so sharing with the babies made that too difficult. He loves it and is seeming very grown-up.