Jamesy has three teeth now. two on bottom and one on the top. He stands unassisted, and walks holding with one hand. He has taken a step on random occasions when he doesn't really know what he's doing. He can say the same words he could last month, and loves to play any form of peekaboo. We've tried giving him cheerios on several occasions, but he spits it out and is not interested. However, whenever he sees anyone else eating, especially one of his sisters, he crawls as fast as he can to reach her and try to grab the food out of her hand. I'm not sure what he would do with it once he got it, but it's very funny to watch.
Sometimes we forget how difficult it is to take our whole family out and get crazy and go for ice cream. This is a little place called Floyd and Blackie's that serves ice cream and coffee. The girls love it. There's a big park we can walk to from there if the weather is nice.
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Getting ready for bed takes about an hour to bathe everyone, brush teeth, get all pieces of pajamas on, and then sing and pray. Meredith and James are playing in Caroline's room while the other girls are in the bath.
Baby James loves blocks. He also loves to carry around a toy in his left hand and play with his right. Usually, he ends up hitting something with the toy, and everything turns into a drum.
This chase game is so typical. Especially on wintery days/nights when it's difficult to get outside. Barak loves to come home from work and just get them going.
Laney had spirit week at school this past month. One day was "sports" day. Luckily, we have a cousin who goes to Virginia Tech. His mom sent all the kids some outfits from the school. We aren't really into sports. At all. It's kind of impossible with all these kids/babies.
Sometimes it's like Barak has a kid magnet. They just gravitate to him and climb all over him. We have all this room in the house, but they all want to be within a foot of everyone else.
