7 months old update

Where has the time gone!?!?! Those little babies are now little 7 month old bundles of energy! When it's not trouble x2 in opposite directions, it's trouble X2 attacking and destroying together. Their daddy (a Star Wars fan) calls it "Attack of the Clones" (this picture is Miram on left and Shira on right.... Shira was trying to pull Miriam off of the sofa)

By 6mo old, the babies were crawling. Real crawling, not that army scootch thing. Over a month ago, they also started pulling up onto things to see the new view. As of last week, they don't get stuck in a standing position and can get down to explore other areas. So these babies are fast and it's too early for me! Baby proofing is back! They also like to cruise along the furniture, and if you sit down, they're pulling up onto you. Miriam does a growling sound and when you hear that, watch out because she's honing in on your hair to try to pull it out!

They love bath time. I've started getting into the bath with the older two children and take the babies in one at a time to kick and splash while be shampooed and washed.

I'm still breastfeeding them exclusively. No solid foods at all and I probably won't for as long as I can. It's so much easier to completely skip that cereal and mashed foods stage. They would love to shove our dinners into their mouths, just as they already love to try to eat paper, toys, etc. they find on the floor. Miriam has had her first solids though.... I found blud playdoh in her diaper last week. Isaiah loves to make little tiny playdoh balls and line them up on the table to make snakes. I guess one rolled off the table! Isaiah also loves to torture the babies. At breakfast Isaiah was eating his yogurt. Miraim cruises over to his chair to say hello. Next thing I know, Isaiah is plastering her head with yogurt! That's life here!

Personality-wise, they are quite different. Shira offers up smiles and is quite sociable. While Miraim is sociable, she's also more reserved. She's the explorer though... very interested in what's under my bed at the moment! They do realize that each other exists, but they don't exactly care if the other is there. They'll smile at each other when they happen to make eye contact. Sleeping together isn't working so well because whoever is asleep is at the mercy of whoever is awake. They love to crawl on top of each other and pull hair! Last night was so funny. Miriam was trying to crawl away, but Shira kept grabbing the back of her shirt to play with it so Miriam was frustrated and fussy because she couldn't escape.

Here are some recent pictures:

Shira and Miriam are constantly trying to get into the bathroom when the older two are doing their baths. We've had to put up the baby gate. It wouldn't matter so much if we gave a full bath every day, but we don't because babies really don't get that dirty. BUT if one happens to get into the bathroom, Grace and Isaiah like to dump buckets of water over them! (Shira on left, Miram on right)

Shira was investigating the camera. She's got those lovely ears and check out the eyes which are NOT brown!

I bought a new laundry basket and the kids were playing with it. I went to put Shira down for a nap and when I came back out, Grace had put a blanket and pillow into the basket. Then she proceeded to hoist Miriam into the basket to be baby Moses! She was surprisingly tollerant of the whole thing!