Happy Summer 😎

So technically our summer started at 12:45pm last Thursday, but there's just something about a Monday morning that you don't have an alarm set for...

If I had to guess who I thought was going to walk first, my guess would have been Delilah - she was the first to pull to stand and first to cruise.  She's also a lot more fearless than Madeline - she literally throws herself into things, headfirst down stairs, headfirst playing on the nugget, testing our mobility limits... But she has a weaker core, so while she's fast with crawling, she's quite tentative with cruising.  Madeline takes her time with her gross motor skills - fine motor skills came pretty easy to her.  It took her at least a month after her sister starting crawling for her to get the hang of it, same with pulling to stand and cruising.

WELL, Madeline said 'hold my sippy cup' and decided to use our little ride on cars this weekend to start doing supporting walking.  Super exciting, also a little nerve-wracking because the more mobile they get, the more I need to be on guard (we're REALLY into the dog lately, but don't understand how to pet nicely, and Pixel doesn't understand why he's the one that needs to leave the room and not the babies...)

Before I add some cute baby videos, here's a PSA for anyone with apps acting wacky lately or their google photos not syncing.. apparently some apps require you to change your wifi to 'unmetered' recently, and won't update or work properly until you do.  Luckily, our personal tech guru was on top of that for us.

She started out with the radio flyer car and then moved onto this guy

This was today, Madeline just ramming her car into her sister's back, as Delilah plays with the curtains.  I wanted to see if she would respond on just 'no's rather than me take the curtains away like I normally do.  I was proud that she stopped, although then she made a bee line for the glass growler that was on the floor behind the liquor cabinet...

I sort of caught the beginning of this - they were both kind of screaming at each other and clapping, and then as soon as they realized I was filming, Delilah stopped, Madeline started yelling for no reason (oh toddler things...) and then eventually stopped, but the twin babbling thing had been going on for awhile before this.

Delilah had been flipping this hanger for several minutes before I started filming

She was so good at flipping the hanger!  I also love Madeline crawling but her knees getting stuck in her dress lol

Delilah was pulling all of our friends out of their bin and Madeline was playing with them, especially that little red-haired girl

This was at bedtime and clearly we're feeling relaxed...

Madeline learned she has this talent, also useful with cheerios.

Well, my children will be crying at 7am tomorrow, so I need to end this here and get to bed.  Follow us for (hopefully) daily summer pics on Instagram!  I already forgot to include the videos of the girls' first ice cream here, so I guess check back in a week for that!  If I remember!