Falling Behind

I'm falling behind in posting while the girls are falling on their behinds as they try to stand and walk. That's right, you read correctly, I said WALK... Both girls took their first tentative steps yesterday afternoon!! I'm SO glad I was there to see it - and that they managed to do it within minutes of each other. :D It happened at Grandma Clopton's house when I went to pick them up. Amelia kept standing on her own for several seconds at a time so I told Penelope she better watch out or her sister would walk before her. Since Penelope was the first to roll, crawl, stand and cruise, I kept predicting she'd be the first to walk. Well my little Peanut must have heard me because less than 5 minutes later, she let go of the footstool she was hanging on to and took 2 steps towards me! And since Amelia kept standing on her own, we put her up to the same footstool and sure enough, she let go and took a couple steps towards her jumperoo. What big girls!!! Of course once we got home and had dinner, Paul turned on the video camera and we let the babies crawl all over the family room and living room, hoping they'd try again for Daddy to see. Amelia did it a couple times, letting go of a chair and then taking 2 steps to an end table but the best we could get Penelope to do was take a few steps while lightly hanging on to my finger. Still awfully impressive though.... They are only 10 months old (and growing up way too fast for Mommy)!

Speaking of 10 months - I completely missed posting on their 10 month birthday. They are now officially 10 months and 1 week. Last week was a slow week at work but a busy one at home so I guess that's how I missed 9/3/09. On Friday, Grandma and Grandpa Reinke came into town to watch the babies for a couple days while Paul and I headed up to Cleveland. Our 7th wedding anniversary was on Monday the 7th and we celebrated by going to the Cleveland Airshow on Saturday and spending the night in downtown Cleveland. We were pleasantly surprised at how nice our hotel was and the whole downtown area in general. After the airshow we went out for possibly our most expensive dinner ever at John Qs steakhouse and then just enjoyed a nice baby-free evening. It was our first night away from home without the girls and I was a little hesitant about leaving them but it had to happen sooner or later. We are after all planning a vacation without them for February 2010 so one night 2 hours away is a good start. :D On Sunday we slept in until 8am, had a yummy breakfast at the hotel's buffet and then just wandered around downtown looking at some of the old buildings, etc. We even stopped in Lodi on the way home for a little outlet shopping. All in all, a very nice way to spend our anniversary. And the girls survived without us - in fact, I'm not sure they even noticed we were gone. A good sign all be OK when we head to the beach in 149 days (not that we're counting down or anything!!).