Linus in the making

Bethany certainly isn't attached to a blanket yet, but she has been showing more interest in some things lately.. like blankets. Addie has "her" pink blanket and although it doesn't go everywhere with her, it's with her enough that I'm sure Bethy has picked up on its significance. So I'm assuming that Beth is just mocking her older sister.. go figure!

Today we were able to get a few videos of Bethany not only showing off her super walking skills, but also showing her Linus side.. dragging a blanket everywhere she goes.

Outdoors Time

Today Erik and I spent a while working on our dreaded yard. It's really the first time we've gotten out there to do anything other than mow this year. (It's hard to care much about your yard when they have a 30 foot hole in part of it.) We've been edging the sidewalk and were able to really increase the width of the walking space on the section we got done. I can't wait to get some more cleared away tomorrow. Addie was quite the helper, or so she thought. Nothing like slowing down the whole process just to let her help "shubble and sweep". Listening to her try to talk with a banged up lip was also pretty interesting today.

Bethany is finally enjoying the grass and likes to crawl/walk/tarzan across the yard now. You can see in this video how well she's getting at standing up completely unassisted. She was having a bit of trouble in the grass though, I think it will take some time to get used to walking in it.

Houston, We Have Lift-off.

It's official. Bethany is now part of the bipedal population. She took her first real steps last night. Well, they weren't really her first, but they were the first ones I've caught on film!!

I've uploaded 7 short videos of her walking onto photobucket, and I'd upload one onto blogger itself, but it takes forever. So I'll just plop one of the photobucket links up for now. You can see the other videos here.