Unbelievable but today Siri walked five steps all by herself! She just let go of our ottoman in the living room, stood unaided completely on her own power for three seconds, and then took FIVE deliberate steps. After these five steps, she didn't fall down either - she just sat down on her butt - with a lot of muscle control, and then just looks at mommy like " yeah, no biggie really, mommy." Of course I was shocked:) Simply crazy that we run into all of these kids that are just shy of 12 months and just barely walking, not to mention many that are seven months not even crawling, and here Siri is constantly getting angry and bored with us if we don't let her walk all around the table, chairs, floor lamps using anything she can to balance herself as she goes! And don't get Daddy started on those four teeth that she got - two on top and two of the bottom. Soren still has the scar on his shoulder from where she bit him last week. And this is the second time she's done that to him - but I say she bites you once, shame on her. Siri bites you twice in the exact same spot, shame on Daddy - unfortunately:)
Siri is also fearless in swim class, which she has been to now with Daddy a total of three times. She is perfectly comfortable on her back in the water leaning against Daddy, or on her stomach spitting out water as he helps her to kick her legs.
Inari is also doing brilliantly in her swim class. She always raises her hand to be first in the water with her teacher, is great at floating on her back in the water and blowing bubbles - all of what is necessary for her to be able to enter the next swim class up from pike to eel.
While Inari is still great friends wit her buddy Allastar, intriguingly enough it would seem that Siri and Teagan, Allastar's baby brother are also on the way to being great friends. We have great pictures of all of this, but Soren will have to be the one to figure out how to get them from our Digital Camera onto the blog.
Big hugs and kisses from us all as we prepare for St. Patrick's Day! Mwah!
