More new tricks

Colin has now gotten his first tooth as well (one day after Veronica’s appeared). In this, at least, they are acting like twins. He has a second that seems very close to erupting as well. I’m not so sure Veronica does as well. 

Ever since Colin discovered his feet (finally) several weeks ago, he has taken up a new hobby: sock eating.

Colin eating his sock and playing with his favorite activity center.

He loves pulling his sock off, and then it quite often goes into his mouth. He sometimes will be busy concentrating on something else, sock dangling from his mouth like a cigarette, while he works. It’s pretty funny. 

(He also likes to suck his thumb through his shirt, so I think there must be some sort of a texture thing going on with him.)

Veronica has picked up several new tricks in the last two or three days as well. She learned how to get into a sitting position on her own (which has destroyed several naps) last week. Not content to rest on her laurels, she figured out how to pull herself up to standing this week (in the crib). This has yet to ruin any naps, but I feel certain it will at some point. 

She also is figuring out how to crawl. She has crawled in therapy (with help) a couple of times and understands the concept. Over the weekend, she started to really put it together on her own. On Sunday, Ethan saw her crawl a “step” to pick up a toy, and today she was crawling backward all over the living room. (I suspect this too will continue to wreck naps an night sleeping.)

As you may have gathered from all of the parenthetic comments about sleep, Veronica isn’t. Well, to be fair, that isn’t exactly accurate. She is sleeping, just not as much or during the times that we would like.

This is what Veronica looks like after a day during with only a couple of half hour naps:

Too tired to sit up, too stubborn to sleep. So this is how we play.

Maybe tonight …