As of Saturday morning, Amelia can crawl. She's been really close for a few weeks now, scooting all over the living room and getting into the crawl position. And she can crawl backwards. Saturday she actually moved her arms and legs and managed to move forward. Yesterday she got better at it and today she's all over the place. She also pulls herself up on things to a kneeling position. Amelia already chases Ella and pulls on her clothes. Ella has taken refuge on the couch because Amelia hasn't figured out how to get to her there. Yet.
Our Christmas tree is blocked off in the corner of our den by the toy box. Ella kept pulling on ornaments and pulling the books off the bookshelf, plus we figured Amelia would be crawling by Christmas and didn't want her to be able to get to the tree. But we do have a small Christmas tree that Ella can get to. It's maybe 18 inches tall. Two years ago we put bulbs on it and last year we strung it with lights. This year we thought those might be dangerous, so it was bare for a few days. Sure enough, Ella pulled it down off the little table it's on. At this point I should explain that Ella loves to color. We have a huge stack of paper that she's colored on and discarded, because she can't color on it again. So I decided to cut several sheets of her scribbles and make a paper chain for "her" tree. It turned out well and looks more festive than it did bare. And she hasn't ripped the chain off yet.
Steve and I went shopping yesterday, for clothes, gifts, groceries, and miscellaneous other things. We also went out to dinner for our anniversary. We love our girls dearly, but it's so nice to get out alone once in a while. As an added bonus, we got almost all of our Christmas shopping done too! We also ran into different friends while at the mall - Nate, Jenny and Kelly, Matt. It was good to see each of them again and maybe with Steve's new schedule we can actually start having people over! Anyhow, I better go make lunch. And help Ella before she falls off my shoes...
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