I can sum this entire month up in 5 words: Holy Crap are we tired.
But blah blah blah I guess ‘people’ want real ‘news’, and ‘photos’, etc. So here is the month in pictures.
G. discovered that when you can sit up and crawl, you can get to any spot you want to be, and see inside things. So she now crawls over to the toy bins to choose what she wants to play with. What she almost always chooses? Books. She will crawl past toys to get to a book. And eat it.
M. discovered Barney, and K and B discovered a need to start drinking before noon. So, its a win-win situation.
M. is very mobile now – backwards. She doesn’t crawl forward, but she can creep backwards like a champ, and like her sister before her, is a big fan of getting herself wedged under furniture.
Like all families, we struggle to reconcile our parenting strategies. Here is K., demonstrating how she likes to nibble on babies until they giggle like fools….
… while Brian prefers the “Make that Baby Cry” method, which he employs to great success, following the excellent example of his mother in law 
He won’t play accordion for these kids, either!
In the morning, everyone lines up, Mafia-Don style, and asks for favours. Obviously, we fulfill requests from ‘winkers’ first, judging by Jack’s face. She knows where the cookies come from!
The good news: two babies who can sit up means two babies who can play together. The bad news? They like to play “World Wrestling Federation”. Look at the expression on G’s face – its classic, “What? I did not do THAT! I DO NOT KNOW WHY THAT BABY IS CRYING!”
It isn’t all drama and crying around here. Sometimes, it smiling and giggling and dancing. But mostly, its drama.
Now you can play along at home – see if you can guess which child is dramatic? Did you guess? Was it ‘Stonyface McNoExpression’, or the one who flung herself backwards, arms outstretched, without even looking behind her to see what she was going to slam into? if you guessed ‘both’, you would be correct!
I guess there should be actual ‘update’ in this update. You know … content. So, April was very, very busy – G. learned how to crawl forward, M learned how to sit up all on her own, and how to crawl backward, and our Condo Board forgot how to write a cheque to the gas company, prompting us, yet again, to decamp to a hotel in the suburbs, because our own home was without heat and hot water, and the weather was not conducive to camping out in our house. The less said the better, but if you know someone who would like to buy a classic 3 flat in on the north side, please let me know.
The best part about the hotel was that our suite was advertised as having a jacuzzi, which sounds like a heavenly way to relax after your heat is turned off because your condo board forgot to pay the bill. But in fact, when you realize that the jacuzzi tub is in a foyer of your room, and not an actual ‘bathroom’, it gets less appealing. I wonder if I should install one of these in my own foyer, and get rid of that console table that holds the mail and our keys? It’s a bold design choice.
Check out that great sitting – no props! M also sits up in her crib now in the morning, just like her sister. Its adorable. As always, the kids were troopers about hotel life. Here, M. is getting a shave from the hotel barber.
…. and then she slept in one of two pack and plays the hotel provided. It is hard work, being a trooper.
Soon enough, we were home again, happily eating books, drooling a quart of liquid an hour onto our PJs, and generally getting into trouble. M. has 3 teeth coming in, and she is very drooly.
G. was pretty excited when M started sitting up more confidently- its much easier to take M’s toys from her when she is sitting so close!
We only had one doctor’s appointment this month for the sparrows, and one set of labs, but as always, there was drama. G had to do her labs at the hospital, and she wasn’t so thrilled. But we apparently LOVE to take pictures of our babies coming home from hospitals, so here is G, deeply unimpressed with phlebotomy.
As always, food is a challenge, but by the end of the month, we branched out a bit. They both love to feed themselves, and here, M demonstrates the fine art of cut up macaroni with a sharp Wisconsin cheddar.
We take at least a hundred photos a week. 99 of Gs will look like this – she is so fast, and just as you lift the camera up to catch an unbearably cute moment, off she goes.
Grandparents came for to visit this month, and were very nice, even though we made fun of them on our blog. Hey, if they don’t like it, they can get their own damned blog. Jack was exhausted, but she was a trooper, spending much of each day on the couch, overseeing the shenanigans and clutching her present from Grandma.
I could write something snarky here, but I don’t want to blow my status as the child my parents love best.
Grandma got to witness a big, big milestone, one that is now being repeated every day – G. can pull herself up to her feet now, and does so often. And each time, she is a little surprised at what just happened.
All this new physical activity has EVERYONE pretty exhausted. Its been a long and busy month!
But you do not give up, and keep backing up and crouching, and you know its going somewhere when you do this, but you are not sure where, exactly….
