Catching up

Haven't posted in a while. Here's a rundown of things that are going on with us.

- Gwen has been crawling all over the place for a while now. We're not terribly good at picking up the Cheerios and puffs (baby treats) that have dropped on the floor. So, she tends to crawl around scavenging for them. I'm pretty sure she likes having a snack available sometimes. We have to be quite careful not to leave non-edibles on the floor though.

- Sometimes at night while Ariel is putting the other two to bed, I'll let Gwen crawl down the hallway and into Johann's room. Frances is always happy to see her.

- Gwen can say "mamama" but it may just mean "parent" to her. She can also say "bababa" but I don't think that means anything.

- Both Johann and Frances have learned to ride their bikes w/out training wheels in the last couple weeks. We've been trying to teach them this spring because Frances will need to ride w/out training wheels in her triathlon. They were both very scared but moving them into the street (with me along side) helped a quite a bit. There they had enough room to weave a little. Johann had "Bike Day" at pre-school last Friday and so we made a big final push to get them to ride by going to parking lots. Apparently, it worked. He had a great time (I'm told). At one point he told me "I can't believe I was scared".

- Gwen still doesn't have any teeth.

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