First Mother's Day!

Gracie, Mommy, and Francie at LeeLynn's for an early Mother's Day

Wow! Although I definitely felt like I was a HUGE motha' last year (hehehe), yesterday was my first "official" Mother's Day. We actually celebrated last weekend. It's hard getting out of the house with the babies - especially to go out to eat - so we figured it would be easier to go on the less busy weekend. So Richard, Frances, Grace and I trekked to our favorite Columbia eatery, LeeLynn's. It was great. The girls did pretty well. We were able to eat outside with the girls in their strollers. They lasted for about 1/2 hour and then had enough. So we headed to the park.

This weekend we made baby food on Saturday - we're introducing red meat! Much to their chagrin. Hopefully they'll adapt to the taste. And since last week we've been chomping on Cheerios. I took some with us when we went to the pond on Saturday morning while daddy was playing basketball. The girls ate their share then I decided to feed the fish and the geese. Oh Grace was laughing hysterically. Later in the afternoon, we went to back to the pond with Richard for a picnic. Richard promptly stepped in goose crap - in his socks no less. And tracked it on to the blanket. hahaha. And we thought the girls would be the ones to get in the goose poop.

On Sunday we went to the lake for a mini-picnic. The girls LOVE being outside. They had fun watching the little boys next to us rough house. Yay for entertainment!

Some new developments. Grace is climbing up on everything. She can go from sitting to crawling with no problem. She hasn't really mastered going from crawling to sitting though, but she can sit on her knees. And can pull herself to standing now. This is just since the end of last week. And the standing thing just started yesterday! Frances is so close to the full-on crawl. She'll get a few paces and then forget about coordination. But she'll be there soon. I can't believe how fast they learn stuff. Also, Grace is talking. The night after her 9 month check up she just decided to start saying "Babababa." Really loud! I thought it was Frances. But when I looked Frances was just staring open-mouthed at Grace -- she was as surprised as me! hahaha. Frances now says, "bababa," "dadada," and "papapa." They are so cute!

I can't believe they are going to be 10 months old next week. Crazy! Only two more months until one year old. Wow.