I swear, one day the babies were blobs and the next they were walking. How insanely crazy it is to see them walking around and entertaining themselves. How amazing and wonderful it is to see them walking around and did you hear me!?!?!? entertaining themselves. Along with the walking came much happier babies. Of course we still have our moments of meltdowns, fights, tantrums, and general crazy….but the independence of walking has improved the on the crazy.

For the past week or so they are interacting with one another more. Well, let me clarify….Shenzie is interacting with Heaten…he is letting her. She climbs on him, hugs him, mauls him, and he just laughs and laughs or screams for her to get off. He hasn’t yet figured out he can play with her too…but I’m sure he’ll figure it out soon.

Shenzie is also starting to say words. She knows bear, ball, bye bye, brrr, cold, dog, and a bunch of g and b words that mean something to her, I have yet to figure them out. She repeats a lot of words I say but I’m sure she doesn’t know what they mean yet. She is signing really good and asking for things on her own using sign. Heaten is still content to yell, babble, and scream. He loves to hear himself yell…it is quite hilarious and makes me laugh every time.

On the teeth front…Shenzie has 8 and Heaten has 2. I am praying that one day he’ll just wake up with teeth. I know this is not going to be the case considering how much drama it is for him to get a tooth. He has been trying to get his two top middle teeth for over 3 weeks now. There are lumps, swollen gums, and crazy baby…but no teeth. I’m going to have to start bribing the tooth fairy or maybe I’ll take Grandma Jan’s advice and slap some whiskey on his gums….if a little spills down his throat in the process, well then so be it. =) Shenzie is in the process of getting her first molars and boy, oh boy, it is NOT pretty. She was a maniac for an entire day having meltdown after meltdown. Silly me just thought she was tired until I felt the molar poking through while brushing her teeth that night. Oops. Poor little girl. I feel one that has poked through and two more lumps under the gums. Teething sucks!!!!

Shenzie is addicted to hats or anything else she can wear on her head. She LOVES to wear hats all day and will even sleep with them. If she’s not wearing a hat she is putting a blanket, piece of clothing, or whatever else she can find on her head.