Henry is coming up on the year mark quickly, it seems. He continues to crawl faster although with some practice he might be able to start walking soon. We're not too anxious for that, though, and he doesn't seem eager to try yet. The past month or so he has been improving his skills with standing and can stand for brief moments on his own, so he has pretty good muscle and balance.
In recent weeks he added some sounds to his vocabulary - "gum", "gub", "bub". He also enjoys mimicking sounds his sister makes. They do "ah! AH!" screams/sounds back and forth and it's pretty cute until it gets really loud.
He just started growing in his upper lateral incisors. He has 3 teeth on the bottom although we suspect his first tooth may be a fused one(/two) since it's fairly wide but we'll see with time. We got some dentist-family-member opinions and one thinks it's fused and the other thinks it isn't. Ha. So by his first birthday he'll have at least 7 teeth in.
Henry is developing into a funny little boy who certainly loves to laugh with others. He has been sleeping about as long as his sister at night (11-12 hours) for the past few weeks (most nights) and that has been a huge blessing allowing my brain to be able to function normally again.
He loves to share what we're eating although he hasn't liked everything he tries. Things he does like he will pick up and eat in a flash when he wants to. Emma loves sharing small pieces of food with him and it's adorable seeing her generous heart in action. Her generosity doesn't often extend to the toys she plays with but she does okay sharing toys sometimes. And she'll get toys for him when he's upset if I ask her to.
We certainly love our two little ones and are so glad to have them in our home. It is often challenging and tiring but they are beautiful little people and I feel so lucky to have them.
Hopefully I'll get pictures of them posted soon.
