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We spent a week in the Catskill Mountains with the babies and another family we know with twins. It was fun and exhausting both. Here is a link to the pictures from the week:
Last weekend we went to visit our friends Joe and Angie in Danbury, Conneticut. It was so refreshing to be out of the city and the babies got to play on a sandy beach for the first time. Lucas ate a lot of sand and Eliot was really into Joe’s dog.
Eliot is now walking. Last Wednesday, Thursday and Friday were full of ever increasing steps. From 6 to 15 to 30+. He still has to try pretty hard to keep balance, and falls often, but is a true walker @ ten and a half months. This video is long but at the very end, Eliot walks across the room towards the camera. In the beginning of the video, you will see him very entertained by throwing his large plastic toy on the wood floor and making a crashing noise. Before I turned the camera on, he had been throwing the toy and laughing really hard about it to himself.
That’s right, he walked across the living room today. I guess about 15-20 steps without falling. It was amazing, he had incredible balance and just walked at a normal pace, one foot right in front of the other. I was so proud! He squealed in delight and said “Da-da-da-da.” He then did it again and again several times. My mom, Souad and I were all here to see it. We couldn’t believe our eyes. He likes to have a goal for his walking, he’ll throw a toy in front of his path and then try to walk to pick it up. It is so cute.
It was a very strange day today. First, the babies’ first nap was bitterly shortened by a tree removal service for Sean Lennon sawing at their window. Then, my Mom and I took the subway to Grand Central, and the Metro-North line to the NY Botanical Gardens (about 1 hour) only to find it closed on Mondays. We then had to wait at the train station for another hour to just get back to Grand Central. While waiting we walked to a grocery store in a lower income neighborhood, and came to a sign that said “pay before you open” on the door to the water cooler inside. So, we went to pay before we opened and the cashier spoke no english. She was doubly confused that we were trying to pay for water that we didn’t have in our hands. The sign, it turns out, didn’t mean the cooler door, it meant the actual bottle; and half the store’s employees were laughing hysterically at our mistake. Back to Grand Central. From there we walked to Toys R Us in Times Square and splurged on toys for the babies only for the cashier to forget half of them at the register. We realized when we got home that we had paid for many toys that didn’t end up in the bag. We were so tired. Mom called toys r us and they wanted us to come back to the store right away. (HA!) After lots of persistence and a bit of anger, they are going to ship them to us overnight. HA!
Then… Eliot walked across the room. Just like that, across the whole room.
What a day. Too bad about the gardens, I was so excited. They have the biggest variety of roses in the world.
The boys got new cars, they are really into wheels now; new balls, also really into balls, and a fisher price kitchen/living room set. They were soooo happy, they played with the kitchen for the rest of the evening.
Then watched the Wiggles on Grandma’s computer…
