After less than a month of crawling Andy is ready to take the world on two feet at a time!

PLUS, Meghan took a video earlier today of Andy clapping and playing peek-a-boo. He’s really growing up (too) quickly!

On December 20th, Andy turned 10 months old. He is so much fun right now! He is crawling all over the place and pulling himself up on everything. He can crawl up the stairs (but only when we forget to close the gate), and he walks behind his car. He makes kissing noises, tickles his lips and sticks his tongue out at us.

He loves being able to play with Eden and pushes her around in his little car which makes them both happy. Andy recently began expressing his dislike for riding alone in the backseat, he especially hates it now because Eden recently started talking to him and playing games with him in the car.

Andy had a wonderful Christmas and did really well with all of our travels and time with family. We hope that you had a Merry Christmas and that you have a safe and happy 2011!

At the time of our post Eden had not been to see the doctor.  At her appointment she weighed 26 lbs, 2 ounces and was 34 1/2 inches long.  She gained 2 1/2 pounds and grew two inches since her 18 month check-up!

On Sunday we celebrated Eden’s second birthday! She is very grown up these days.  She is talking in complete sentences and does a great job explaining herself when we don’t understand her.  She recently started saying while Ben is watching the Colts play on Sunday: “after Dada’s football done, I want watch Elmo.” And she is understanding more and paying attention to what is going on around her.  Last night Eden asked Ben for more juice and Ben said he needed to check with me.  Eden turned to me right away and said, “Say yes Mama!”

She still loves to climb and sing and takes particular pleasure in accomplishing things by herself.  She recently mastered the skill of pulling her pants up and down which has made potty time much easier on Mommy and Daddy.  🙂  Eden really enjoys playing with Andy now, especially tag.  Eden runs to Andy, hits him, then runs the opposite direction so that Andy crawls after her.  We got some great two year pictures, but this one really captured Eden.

On Wednesday Andy finally started crawling like a normal baby! He’s been army crawling for a month or so. We would put him up on all fours but he’d just rock back and forth and then lay on his belly and scoot. However, he finally got the courage (or arm strength) to stay up on his knees as he went forward and he was off! Neither Meghan nor I were forcing it (at the time) either; he just off and crawled. (He probably saw the TV remote sitting all alone and waiting to be chewed on)
Between dragging himself around and rolling he could get anywhere he wanted to. However, now he is really moving. If he sees something across the room he’ll work himself around and just go over there. If we leave him in the living room and go into the kitchen he’ll crawl over and peek around the corner at us with a huge smile on his face!
I delayed writing this post hoping that I could get a nice video of him crawling. Unfortunately he reverts to the army scoot every time I turn the camera on! However, this morning I finally caught him! See the Videos page for the video.
While I was uploading the video I noticed that it had been a few months since I posted some. You’ll be happy to know I’ve rectified that and posted about 15 videos! If you want to watch them in order, this is the first one of that group.

FYI: You can see the crawling video on the blip.tv site in a bigger player: http://wolfes.blip.tv/file/4470255

Note that there were some notable videos in this batch: Eden’s braided hair, Andy’s first teeth, Andy standing, Eden climbing onto the toilet by herself, and Andy feeding himself!