Happy November!

It's hard to believe it is already November. This is the last full month of the babies being true "babies"! With their birthday quickly approaching, I'm trying to really enjoy these weeks before toddlerhood. The kids had a good Halloween, playing with some of their friends during a playdate. Seeing all the twin babies in costume was fun.

Over the weekend, they want to a birthday party of a friend of ours, and they explored all the floor area they could while banging away at spoons. Hank spent the entire party pulling up on all possible pieces of furniture, ranging from ottomans to breakfast nooks. If it could be pulled up on, Hank was all over it.

Clara, too, is working on pulling up on things. She successfully pulled up on the lounge chair in her nursery this morning. We also got to see a glimpse of Clara crawling with her stomach off the ground this weekend. Her preferred technique is still inchworm style, but she is exploring her options. She crawled in a traditional hands/knees style on Friday night on her path to the bath. It is great watching her try new things out and see what works best.

If I had to predict, my guess is that Hank will be walking before too long here, maybe in time for his birthday. Clara will follow suit not long after, perhaps by 13-14 months. While I am excited for them to learn new skills, I do enjoy the limits on their mobility from a parenting standpoint. I suspect life will change radically once their can walk and run.

This is a wonderful age. Having Clara and Hank check out every corner of the house, climb over us, reach for things, and just generally learn and observe is fun. Yes, it requires a lot of oversight from the parents, but I love trying to see how the world must look to them.