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The Boys are Growing Up

You will notice a theme in these photos -- Jack wants to do everything I do BY HIMSELF! Tonight he cut his own cheese and then shredded it too. And he has to help me make everything in the kitchen now. Saturday we're going to be doing our holiday baking, should be fun!!




It was a big week for Ethan too. We had PT today and our goal was to work on getting him to walk by helping him cruise along the furniture. By the end of the hour he was taking about 3 steps on his own. I was so excited. I think he just needs the motivation and I realy think it's going to be the Christmas tree when it gets put up. This should be a fun holiday!!


The other big news with Ethan is that he's starting to feed himself. He will now reach over to the plate, grab his fork and put it in his mouth! I'm so excited to see such big gains with him - especially with the next baby on the way.

Speaking of which, for those of you that might be interested, I had my first baby dream with this third baby. With Ethan I had no dreams about the sex of the baby. With Jack I just had one that told me it was a boy. Well, last week I had a dream that this baby is a girl. Take it for what it's worth...I really have no idea!

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