Lydia Grace Barron and Molly Joy Barron

Hello Everyone! We haven't found a lot of time to post lately, but I did want to stop by this morning to announce that Lydia has a new tooth coming through on the top! Tooth #3! It's such a shame they have to go through all of this just so this set can FALL OUT in 7 or 8 years' time! She's still experimenting with crawling and yesterday, using the handle bar on her new "go and grow" cart, she took several steps. (Daddy was there to keep her hands on the handle bar and push her a little, but she stepped with her feet completely on her own. Video coming soon.) Tomorrow she visits her Pediatrician, so we'll have her latest stats to share with you. We were asked to complete the latest ASQ before her appointment (Ages and Stages Questionnaire). It asks a series of questions specific to her age, pertaining to her gross motor skills, fine motor skills, social development (etc.) and for each item we check a box indicating whether our child is doing that activity regularly, sometimes, or not yet. We completed one for her 6 month check up also. Some items are very easy to answer, but others pertain to things I haven't observed one way or the other! Such as, "Does your baby use both hands equally well?" Or, a better example, "Does your baby try to pick up a crumb or cheerio by using her thumbs and all her fingers in a raking motion, even if she isn't able to pick it up?" Huh? I tested her on the few things I wasn't sure about over the weekend. Otherwise the questions are pretty straightforward, like "Does your baby make sounds like "da", "ga", "ka", and "ba"?
Oh yes she does... In fact, this morning at 6 AM she was in bed doing just that - talking to herself. Pretty cute!