Growing Up

The kids are growing up (well, duh). This week Zachary has learned to sit up from laying down and is right on the verge of crawling. He'll get on all fours and rock back and forth. He has this look in his eyes of getting ready to set out on an adventure. But his body won't quite cooperate yet. And the other day Eldon said that he stood up in his crib. But right as I walked in the room, he fell down. Hard. With many wails and tears. I haven't seen him try it since, but I'm sure he will soon. Zach's third tooth just came in, too, first one on the top. He's so adorable; he has the cutest smile I've ever seen, complete with cute dimples. His hair is coming in blond, and I just love him to death!

Erica lost her 5th tooth this week. And 3 are wiggly. Poor girl's going to need dentures soon. Out of all 5 that she's lost, we've only found 2 of them (and one of those I pulled because I was afraid of her swallowing it, it was so loose.) She's written a lot of letters to the tooth fairy. She has one tooth coming in the bottom, which is about as big as the three she lost down there. I'm interested to see what the dentist has to say on Friday about all these lost teeth!