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7 months old and feeding themselves already.  Next week we’re going to teach them how to bathe themselves and mow the lawn.

Elise loves banging on plastic noise making devices.

We are six months old now (big girls) and scooting.  This will lead, invariably, to army crawling, followed shortly thereafter by full-on crawling.  This will lead to tripodding and then walking, which will lead, invariably to running.  Finally, this will lead to full soccer scholarships to college.

The girls are 6 months old now and babbling, kicking, laughing hysterically at each other and themselves in the mirror (and is there a difference, since they’re identical?) and trying very hard to stand on my stomach unaided.  There’s a great deal of wobbling and drool.

Thus proving that this season’s American Idol is totally the pits, we learned last week that even Althea, normally ALL ABOUT singing competiton game shows could not stay awake through an episode.

We’ve been waiting for this for a long time.  After enduring momentary auditory glimpses of the girls laughing, today I found “The Button,” and when zrbrted (see video), it makes them laugh.  Out loud.  Again and again.  LOL

Elise and Althea playin’ footsie on the couch.  3 months.

Elise will be 12 weeks old on Monday.  She’s recently become aware of her hands, and that she can suck on them.  I think she’s aiming for her thumb, but more often than not, getting an as-yet-uncoordinated fistful of wayward fingers either in her eyes or up her nose.  It’s cute, and the loud, wet and sloppy sucking sounds make me laugh every time.

Notable accomplishements and notes –

• Burps are becoming truly impressive.
• Neck and head control are rockin’ and rollin.  Most of the time, they appear bored with resting their heads, and insist on swinging their mostly-well-supported heads in all directions.  Sometimes, right into my collarbone which elicits the slow crescendo “that hurts” cry.
• Learned about this “that hurts” cry when they got their first round of booster shots.  Don’t get me started about booster shots.
• Smiles are becoming more predictable and responsive (as opposed to merely reflexive).  Laughter is still limited to when they’re asleep.  I’m still trying to figure out what babies find funny.  I mean, they haven’t seen “Airplane!” yet.
• They smile at me when I get home from work.