8 Months!

Hattie's cuddliest times lately are when she's tired.  

Two smiley girls.  Hattie is on the left, Tille on the right

Both girls always sleep in this position (Tille on the left, Hattie on the right).  Usually when they're tired and almost asleep, they'll put their hands behind their head.  That's the magic moment when if we get them right to bed they'll go to sleep without fussing. And sometimes they'll be in the middle of playing and put their hands behind their head for a second before they remember that they're not tired.

My phone was upside-down when I took this picture. This was their first bath together in the big tub.  Their little cheeks are just the cutest!

I tried to get a cute picture of us all lying next to each other.  This is the best I got.  Very typical moment in our living room.

Here, Tille's resting on my leg while she plays.

Tille likes to rest on whatever is nearby.  We were watching tv and she just sat there so nice with her head resting on my foot.  So cute!

Here's Hattie being cuddly again.  I think she had woken up after going to bed and just needed some hugs.

I love this picture.  I was sitting at the table doing some work on my laptop and I looked up and it had started snowing outside and the girls were watching it.  Now that they can pull themselves up to stand, they love looking out the window.  But they don't know how to get back down, so when they're done looking or get bored, they just scream until Matt or I comes to the rescue.  Speaking of screaming, the girls sit in their high chairs at the table every night for dinner now.  Usually we'll give them some baby food first and then give them little bits of our dinner.  If we take too long between bites for Tille, she yells at us.  She really likes dinner and doesn't appreciate having to wait for a bite.  Hattie is pretty patient between bites.  She'll play with the straps on her chair or just look around.

8 months old!  This picture perfectly captures the girls.  Tille smiles with her mouth wide open.  Sometimes I'm not sure she's smiling.  She just opens her mouth as wide as she can and looks at us.  But sometimes it's a definite smile.  Hattie usually smiles with her mouth closed tight.

Hattie's coming to get me at the table while Tille watches.

We bathe the girls in the tub most nights now to help them settle down for bed.  Last night, I was looking for their bath toys and Matt called me over to look.  Tille had gone and sat right under the faucet while it was going (Matt turned off the water by the time I got my camera ready).  She likes to sit under the water and on top of the drain.

Hattie usually sits at the other end of the tub and plays with toys and splashes.
I don't know if the video below is loaded right, and it won't let me add a caption, so I'll caption it here. This is one of Tille's first crawls.  She army crawled for a couple weeks before she figured out how to really crawl.  Hattie is super fast with her army crawl.  Lately, if one girl finds something interesting to check out, the other will follow closely.  So we see them crawling down the hall as fast as they can.  The other day, Tille had crawled over to their bedroom and was playing with some socks in the closet.  I figured they were both in there, so I went to get them, but I couldn't find Hattie.  Turns out she'd gone into our room and was playing with my shoes in the closet.  Matt said the day before he found Hattie under our bed.  Time to baby proof! (and sweep under the bed)