The girls are going to be 8 months old this week and they are doing so much now. Real food, real crawling, and they're both walking well holding onto your hands. These last two weeks I've finally taken the pictures of Catherine's silly smile that I was trying to get last time.
Samantha is doing quite well holding up all that mass (4 lbs between them now!) on her hands and knees and she's starting to get the hang of forward motion. She also really likes the fish on the play mat, so much so that she pulls it off the ring to suck on it. Catherine, by the way, has been pulling off her bib, which is not helpful, because she sucks on it and so not only needs a new bib, but a new top.
Fall in NC is not usually pretty, and it never is as good as it was back home in the Hudson Valley. However, this year it tried really hard and I got something that proved to be quite wonderful. Dave and I took the girls to Duke Gardens again and took more pictures, which was much easier and had more options now that the girls can sit on their own. This was also our first day wearing shoes, which was much cause for exploration because they were quite different than socks and also were shiny silver, but at least their curiosity seemed satisfied by the time we left church and got to the gardens. There was one tree that had shed almost all of its beautiful yellow leaves in one spread around its trunk and once we started taking pictures everyone else seemed to think it was the place to be. I still can't wait to go in the spring when the girls turn 1. Here are our best shots.
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| Catherine was very interested in the yellow leaves and Samantha kept picking up the pine straw. |
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| Eventually we got everyone looking in the right direction, but it was tricky. Too many things to look at and explore. |
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