{"id":322,"date":"2009-09-18T08:45:07","date_gmt":"2009-09-18T08:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/10.131.168.108\/wordpress\/?p=322"},"modified":"2009-09-18T08:45:07","modified_gmt":"2009-09-18T08:45:07","slug":"and-so-it-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/2009\/09\/18\/and-so-it-begins\/","title":{"rendered":"And so it begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A recap of beginnings in our world these days&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I bought my first Christmas present this week.&nbsp; Fun times!<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve begun to crawl for real now.&nbsp; Alex does it most; he seems to have skipped the army crawl.&nbsp; He even crawls to me sometimes.&nbsp; Love that!&nbsp; Erin only crawls very short distances before dropping back to her stomach to army crawl.&nbsp; But she&#8217;s definitely getting there, too.<\/p>\n<p>Both babies are showing signs of pulling up.&nbsp; If I&#8217;m not mistaken, Erin might even become a climber before too long. Yikes!<\/p>\n<p>Erin is beginning to test her boundaries, which is, I guess, our entrance into the realm of real parenting.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>She desperately wants to get into the shelves in our TV cabinet and can now open the door by herself.&nbsp; She always takes out some of Eric&#8217;s connectors to chew on.&nbsp; We now have a routine.&nbsp; I find her, take them away, tell her no, and give her something different to play with.&nbsp; She melts down, complete with red face and tears because she isn&#8217;t allowed to have the cords.&nbsp; <\/li>\n<li>She tests the gates on their &#8220;baby enclosure&#8221; and if I leave it open, she makes a getaway.&nbsp; And when I bring her back inside and close the gate&#8230;she melts down, complete with red face and tears.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m beginning to see a pattern of stubbornness (don&#8217;t know where she&#8217;d get that! <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/s.xanga.com\/images\/whatevah.gif\">) with extreme crying when she doesn&#8217;t get her way.&nbsp; Great&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Alex seems to be eating things all of a sudden. <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>He has taken to eating books.&nbsp; I have found him, twice now, holding one of our board books and chewing a corner off.&nbsp; Actually, by the time I find him, the corner is already gone, and I can only surmise he&#8217;s swallowed most of the cardboard he&#8217;s ripped off with those sharp little teeth.&nbsp; <\/li>\n<li>Last week, I caught him eating grass when we were outside for a bit.<\/li>\n<li>He&#8217;s been putting things in his mouth because of teething (and I think he&#8217;s working on some new teeth now, too) for a long time, but seriously&#8230;he&#8217;s <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">eating<\/span> them now.&nbsp; What&#8217;s up with that?!?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I want to start a couple of new little craft projects.&nbsp; But I&#8217;m trying to make myself finish one I started before the babies were born first.&nbsp; We shall see whether it works or not. <\/p>\n<p>I am trying to start adding more people food into the babies world now, and mostly skip Stage 3 baby food.&nbsp; Does anyone have ideas for good finger foods for snacks or meals?<\/p>\n<p>And with that, I am ending my post on beginnings.&nbsp; Happy Friday!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recap of beginnings in our world these days&#8230; I bought my first Christmas present this week.&nbsp; Fun times! 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