Some more January happenings -- oops. Never posted this!

Forgot to mention that Mercer had his first sleep over on New Year's.  We went to a friend's house who we met them through Mercer's t-ball team last fall & have been doing some things with their family for over a year now.  We have a lot in common with the parents (they also went to SCAD -- the mom even got a degree in Architecture too). 

We tried to get the boys to go to sleep around 10:00.  They were awake until almost midnight.  We went into their room just before 12 so they could ring in the new year, but they had actually fallen asleep.  We stayed up 'til 3, but then decided not to wake Isabella and Mercer in the middle of the night... we would just crash there and go home the next morning.  

Mercer had a GREAT time and he's looking forward to having his own sleep over at some time soon. 

Isabella has been taking more and more steps.  For a few days, she took 4-5 steps at a time.  Earlier this week, she took 18 or 19 steps in one shot!  But, as of now, she's still a crawler 95% of the time.  (This was written the second week of January)

She is becoming a voracious eater, though!  Isabella has crossed over the threshold of wanting to eat big-people food.  We still have a little stock of baby food, but she turns it away.  I remember keeping Mercer on baby food for a little longer than is probably normal.  (it's so easy and fairly nutritious)  Here are some photos of her devouring a piece of spinach pizza.  In general, her food is pretty much all over her face, the table, her shirt, and the floor.  But - we suppose this is progress??!! 


























Mercer is playing basketball in this last photo.  He's playing in the same league he played in last year at a local church. Todd and I were discussing after this scrimmage that he really does have a lot of natural ability.  He did take a small step backwards regarding dribbling.  (Pretty much all of the kids grab the ball and run.  Mercer does it too this year - although he used to dribble last year.)  But - he really knows how to defend the goal, block, and it seems that instinct just kicked in when he stole a ball from the opposite team and ran down the court.  (My cell phone camera is pretty bad - have to take my word that this is Mercer running by.)

There's another blog post coming soon.  Found that this one was not uploaded when working on the other one.  Stay tuned~