When Somebody With No Teeth Smile At You

Lost all of this week's pictures. Seems that our 512MB memory card might be a little wonky (I'm hoping that's what it is, and not the camera!). Too bad, because the card had video of Matt holding David's hand while we took some tentative, wobbly steps. And of course, David hasn't done it again lately.

David is rocking on all fours, and Carmen is doing something like "Upward-Facing Dog." No crawling, but it's obvious they are enjoying the fact that they can push themselves up. Locomoting is still very puzzling, however.

A second tooth appeared in Carmen's mouth yesterday. David is still yummy in that toothless baby way. At Whole Foods on Friday, a woman teased David to make him smile. At first he hid behind the wrap, but when he did smile, he gave her a nice, big one. She laughed and told me, "That's the only time when somebody with no teeth smile at you and you think it's cute!"

Went swimming today. Met our usual friends then entered the therapy pool for some hard-core splashing. Both C&D tried to drink the water. "Who needs cups?" they said. Carmen splashed hard enough to get water all over Matt's glasses and began her characteristic (these days) screeching when she noticed the pools were too quiet with everybody minding their own business. Both still kick, and both tried paddling a bit with their arms.

Later this week we should get the 60+ bibs we ordered on eBay this weekend. We have several bibs, but only a few of them fit Carmen's neck without looking uncomfortably tight. So we found a lot of 60+ bibs of various sizes and conditions, and we're going to go treasure-hunting when the box arrives Wednesday or Thursday.

Next is socks. We don't have any that fit (C&D are wearing 12-24 mos.). With all their tummy time, some socks are in order to protect their soft little toenails. We're going to get the brightest, stripeyist, craziest socks we can find. This next developmental stage is going to be much about their feet, we should celebrate it! So we're looking for colorful sock lots. Oh, that just reminded me. I need to go check on my bid!