10 months old!

The babies turned 10 months old on Sunday! They have been soooo much fun lately (medical emergencies aside).

Bethany...

* is one seriously cool chick. If we weren't related, I'd still want to be friends.

* smiles easily, but if you want to make her laugh, she's going to make you work.

* will almost always laugh if you hang her upside down and tickle or kiss her neck.

* has had a bunch of very minor medical things ever since she was born: slightly high blood sugar those first couple days, a little bit of jaundice, a mild case of thrush, plugged tear ducts, an umbilical hernia, a urinary tract infection at 6 months, and then a couple of eye infections. Her eye is the only thing we've needed to be truly concerned about.

* has almost no hair, just like her mama at this age.

* has never been much of a cuddler. She's an independent woman.

* can clap, point, wave, click her tongue, and stand and walk when supported.

* will clap and grin ear-to-ear anytime you say "yaaay!" It's pretty much the best thing ever.

* loves her walker and will do laps in the hallway for as long as you let her.

* gets mad when it's Isaac's turn to push the walker.

* has 3 teeth (2 on bottom, 1 on top) and at least 4 more (3 on top, 1 on bottom) coming in now.

* is definitely Daddy's little girl. That man is whooped over his little sweetie.

* steals from her brother, and doesn't even feel bad about it.

Isaac...

* loves to squeal and shriek and scream happily. He can be LOUD, and I love it.

* laughs so easily it's not even funny. (Except it really, really is.)

* gets attached to the most random things: at first it was the turtle on his crib mobile, then the bath toy turtle, then the nasal suction (never used, for that purpose anyway), etc... and now it's the baby hairbrush.

* has a respectable amount of hair on his head now. Jared thinks that's why he suddenly loves the baby hairbrush. Naturally.

* has been the picture of health from the beginning.

* has a knack for finding danger-- he goes straight to the electrical outlets, bites on cords, tugs on the floor lamp.

* can point, wave, and stand and walk when supported. He's almost got clapping down, but he usually just slaps the back of his other hand like he's punishing himself.

* tries to eat dirt and rocks the second we go outside and Mom turns her back. Basically, he tries to eat everything. (When do they outgrow this stage? It's exhausting! But my finger sweep is getting good...)

* has 6 teeth (4 on top, 2 on bottom), and 1 more coming in on the bottom.

* has already chipped his front tooth (probably while trying to eat rocks).

* loves roughhousing with Daddy. He loves to get tickled and tossed around.

* steals from his sister, and doesn't even feel bad about it.