Tolly's Travels Through Time: September 2011

Well Nathan finally started school. He was super excited and wanted to leave the house an hour earlier than it started. He was sad the first day because no one played with him. However, he did not ask anyone so we worked on him asking his friends if they wanted to play. It is probably hard going into a new situation without having your sisters to be your automatic playmates. So the next day he asked some friends to play and is learning some of his friends names. Our nanny also does a lot of "learning books" with him and he loves them. He seems to really like to learn so hopefully that desire will stick with him when he gets into elementary school.

Hurry up mom.

Julianne also turned 10 which still just blows me away that she is that old. It is crazy. The time has flown by and I know soon she will be a teenager. She is into her clothes now, her earrings, still loves sports, and she got an ipod for her birthday so she is now into her music and acting cool with her ipod. We had a sleepover for her friends and this year we had more drama than last year. One of her friends was a hand full because she was very demanding, wanted to be first all the time, wanted to sit next to Julianne all the time, was crazy at night and would not listen to us when it was time to go to bed and to top it off stole some of her birthday present. So next time we have a sleepover we will be more aware of who she invites over. She had a great time and I think the other girls enjoyed themselves. I took them to get hair feathers in their hair, which they loved, and D took them to putt putt. So they had a great night. The next weekend we had our family party. It was great to see everyone and Julianne was excited to have everyone over. She has grown into such a great girl. She is a great friend, tries hard in school, loves to hang out with us, a great sibling, and is independent.

Lindsay is almost 7 months. I have yet to write in her baby book. So I am going to jot down a few milestones before I forget them. Sucked her thumb 2 months, slept through the (10 to 12 hours) night 3 months, sat up on her own-6 months, first tooth (left bottom)- 6.5 months, started to crawl-almost 7 months).

She is now crawling. Within the past few days she has perfected her crawl. She is still a little clumsy but can get almost across the room with her newly acquired crawling skills. This past week she was a grump. I think it was mostly due to her new tooth. The past few days she has been better and may be due to her crawling. She now eats food when I give it to her. She has eaten oatmeal, rice, sweet potato, potato, avocado, carrots, sweet potato, banana and apple sauce. So I would love to broaden that selection and I will as time passes. She really likes to eat and has not really turned away food. She has not been thrilled with the potato but it likes it when it is with the apple sauce. I think that is all for now about her.

Since I have an old fashion camcorder here are some still shots of her crawling.