I uploaded another 190 pictures yesterday and am now caught up to 1/24/08! Have fun looking through them. There are some really cute ones.

Speaking of cute - my children are doing the cutest things lately! Indulge me as I share them with you (um, isn't that what this website is - an indulgence into the cuteness of my children!).

Anyway - James now has eight teeth. His eighth tooth (lower right - he's now symmetrical again with 4 on top and 4 on bottom) popped through a week or two ago. And right when it did, his night time wakings almost completely stopped. He had been getting up and staying up for 1-2 hours every night. It was killing Kris and I. Now, he's sleeping completely through! Of course Annika isn't but we're hoping (praying, wishing, dreaming) that after her tonsillectomy her night time waking will get much better too.

Yesterday James turned turned into a little boy - he made car sounds as he was pushing a little toy car around! The past week or so he's taken an interest in the wheeled toys we have around the house. It's been awfully cute to watch him push them around or roll them back and forth. Then yesterday morning as he was pushing one he actually made a humming car sound while doing it! Not even one year old and already making car noises. What a little boy!

James has also been into "flipping" this week. I put him on my lap facing me then lean him back and flip him over onto the his feet on the floor. He laughs and laughs and wants to do it over and over again. I have to be careful though because when I pick him up now he'll fling himself backwards. I have to have a good grip or he'll go tumbling!

And James isn't the only one doing cute things lately. Annika has been into hide and seek lately. I'm always counting to 20 and then "finding" her. Most times I'll just ask James where Nika is and he rats her out by walking over to where she is and standing there. I, of course, have to play along and look in other places before finding her. She thinks it's so fun though and giggles and shrieks when I find her.

Saturday I called Dale and Shelly and they were gracious enough to babysit for us that night. Annika was super excited to go to their house. She just loves both of them so much. When we got there she was a little shy at first but when their cat came out she was off like a rocket to pet it. And then she didn't notice we had left for another hour. When we got back to pick them up, it wasn't very late (9:30ish) so Annika was still up but James was sleeping on the couch. When we got there Annika was "checking" on her brother. She wanted to make sure he was okay there on the couch and when she did so she leaned over and said "Oh, he's such a cute baby." Now if that doesn't melt your cold, cold heart - nothing will!

Last night Annika wanted to "chase" which means run around the house after each other. I was tired and didn't really want to chase so I told her to chase her brother. For the first time, Annika and James chased each other around the house. James is pretty stable on his feet and is actually starting to run a little bit. They went around and around laughing and giggling and chasing. They must have done it for a good 20 minutes before James was tuckered out. I think there will be lots of sibling chases around our house now.