Hannah's pulling up

After about 2 weeks of crawling, Hannah has started pulling up on everything. One week ago she would just look up at this ottoman longingly, but now she has accomplished this feat and is onto ANYTHING else she can pull up on. She has been pulling up for a few days now, but I finally got it on camera. And I have a feeling my Leah is not far behind! She tries really hard but cannot get her legs coordinated.

Here Hannah is being such a big girl!





She was after the remote... which she later got and pulled down on top of her head.

Into mischief

The other night after baths, Hannah crawled from the nursery to the den, and stopped midway to pull the magazines off the sofa table. It was very exciting. I thought it was funny how she just stared at those magazines for a while before attacking.


gotta love her expression...




She is going to do a little reading on Twins and about her health I guess...

After the magazines were arranged just how Hannah liked, she and Leah decided they had not been paying enough attention to poor Kody who happened to be lying in the middle of the den. Leah started off being relatively gentle, but then they gave up on that idea and went full force, climbing on him and pulling at him. He actually was fine with this whole ordeal. (Abby would have gone nuts if she were in his position). The girls have a fascination with the dogs. Leah will have entire conversations with them from across the room. They crack me up :)

The new backyard pool

Very quickly the girls outgrew the small little baby pool I bought them in April. We have now upgraded to a much bigger pool with a nice padded side that they LOVE to pull up on. In fact, thats the favorite pool game. Crawl over a sister and reach the edge and try to lean all the way out of the pool to grab the protective sheet underneath.

The girls have no fear of the water, which I am thankful for. Hannah likes to start from the sitting position and throw herself on her belly which causes a little sliding action. She also likes to drink the water, which is not something I would like her to do, but at least she is not breathing it in. Leah is very content in her pool and enjoys "swimming" on her belly too. She really tries to pull up on the sides, but ends up just kind of hanging out with her arms on the side and her legs danging behind her.

We go in and out of the pool all day, so I do not bother with bathing suits. It is so much easier to sport the swim diaper for our 30 minute swims. Who are we trying to impress?

It has provided some great fun! As much as we love the big neighborhood pool, this is a little more convenient on those lazier days.




this cracks me up


The mission...


mission achieved...

Hannah's crawling!

It's official. Hannah is crawling. She still has some fine tuning to do, but she is definitely crawling. So I am marking today as the day in my virtual baby book. I couldn't find the video camera today (I found it now) so hopefully video is to come. GO HANNAH!

Sadly, we got Hannah to crawl after some peach puffs. I would put some puffs by me and she would crawl for them. We kind of felt like we were giving a treat to a pet, but it worked. Now she will just crawl to us and we do not need the peach puffs. What can I say, they will do anything for food.

In this video, she gets distracted by Kody but she still makes progress! I also inadvertently got Leah stomping her legs on the floor, which she finds very funny...


Hannah Crawling, Leah Stomping! from matthewmccay on Vimeo.

Picture Crazy

Well Allyson and I finally got a Digital SLR, and boy do we have the bug. The first night we (Allyson mainly) went nuts with the camera. She took in the range of 200 images.

We got the Canon Rebel XTi, with a couple lenses -- a fixed 50mm and a 28-125mm IS. I already really want a flash..all the pictures having an yellow tint to them or being blown out by the very underpowered built in gets a little frustrating. First things first though, i just want to learn how to use what i have to its best ability. Learning all the manual settings to make the pictures great.

Either way we have the bug and I am sure you will see a lot more pictures of the girls.

Here are a few from our first night.

Hannahs New Thing

Hannah has discovered how to Razz - or make a little sound while blowing spit bubbles. I think its hilarious!


Hannah likes to Razz from matthewmccay on Vimeo.