It's been an exciting 24 hours here at our house! James figured out how to crawl last night. It was honest to goodness knees/hands crawling. And he can get to sitting up from laying on his belly and tonight he was in the early beginning stages of pulling up on me. He crawled over to my feet as I sat in a chair and started grabbing up on my pants legs. This is all happening so fast! If I remember correctly, Annika started crawling when she was a little over six months old. James will be six months a week from Sunday. And Annika took her first steps a week or two before she turned nine months old. I wonder if James will beat her to that too!

And James has teeth now! Not just a tooth, but he has teeth! His bottom two teeth both poked through today. I thought they were getting close so I've been sticking my finger in his mouth daily for a month now. And today I felt two little pokey things on his lower gums. Turns out both is bottom center teeth are coming through! Kris has remarked that James has been crabby during the day the past few days but otherwise his eating and sleeping have been fairly normal. And he's been a happy baby for me in the evenings. I guess this teething thing hasn't been too terribly bad for him. Let's hope that continues as they fully break through!

And Cinderella, I mean Annika (girl LOVES the Disney princesses, especially Cinderella - maybe we should do a princess theme for her birthday this year), is doing just fine too. She got chased around the driveway tonight by her favorite neighbor, Andrew. And then she pretended she was a dog when the neighbor dogs (Gustie to our west and Hypno to our east) were outside visiting with us. Right now she's downstairs watching a cartoon while I put James to bed. In ten minutes or so it will be her bed time too.

I must say the kids and I have really had a good week this week. Sometimes is stressful at night trying to get them both to bed and entertaining them both and keeping anyone from crying or having tantrums. This week though things have gone so smoothly. I have no idea how, but I hope I can get this to continue!