Since Thanksgiving, this month has flown by! The boys are 10 months old and into EVERYTHING! They keep me so busy now.  They have been so much fun lately.  They helped us decorate for Christmas earlier this month.  They loved playing with our beaded garland and some of the non-breakable ornaments.  They also enjoyed helping me unpack the storage tubs with Christmas decorations.  Here are a few pictures of the boys “helping” decorate for Christmas.

Jack & Eli playing with decorations

Eli & Jack helping unpack the decorations

Since we put up the Christmas tree, we also had to put up a barricade to keep them away from it.  The first day it was up I was here all day by myself I thought I was going to throw the tree out in the yard.  They would not stay away from it…the lights, the garland, ornaments, the needles that had fallen on the floor…who knows how many of those they ate!

This month they have learned lots of new skills. They both are officially crawling on their hands & knees as opposed to the arm crawl they had previously been doing. They are pulling up, cruising around the furniture, standing by themselves and the newest is CLIMBING STAIRS! So we had to put a gate up at the bottom of the stairs because they can be at the top in no time! You really cannot turn your back on them for a second.

One of our favorite things they do right now is carry things in their mouths like a puppy dog and crawl around the house. It is so cute! Here are a few pictures.

A little puppy dog

Yes, that is a sock in his mouth....

They are becoming much more vocal and babble all the time.  They will go on and on trying to tell you something.  They also talk to each other quite a bit.  One of our favorite books we read is about farm animals.  When we get to the cow part I will ask how the cow goes and I will moo like a cow and Elijah will imitate the sound! It is so cute! Also, since we started telling them “No”, Jack has learned to shake his head back and forth when we say “No” …I definitely think he understands…

They are eating everything now.  In fact, it is getting really hard to even get them to eat the pureed baby food.  They like to eat “real” food…and not only that…they want to feed themselves and pick it up on their own.  They will eat anything. In fact, there is  a funny story about Elijah… Matt had this sticky man that he would throw up on the ceiling and they would laugh so much when he did it.  Well, one time the sticky man was left up on the ceiling but he fell at some point…when I realized what happened, I found Elijah with it….and one of the legs were missing.  So….lets just say the 4th leg was located the next morning in Elijah’s diaper.  Here is the remains of the sticky man…we do not play with sticky man anymore…

The remains of Sticky Man