ten months
dear Elizabeth, as hard as it is to believe, i'm seeing little glimpses of your future toddler self now! you know just how to make us laugh (primarily by blowing very vigorous raspberries), you clap proudly for yourself multiple times per day, you shriek and scream at the girls if they take one of your toys away, and finally, you are actually crawling! you still don't move very fast in one linear direction, but you manage to make your way around the room with a combination of traditional crawling, scooting, pivoting, and army crawling. you can kneel upright without support now, and after a few frustrating episodes where you got stuck on your stomach, you can now push yourself back to sit up. quite belatedly, we moved you out of the co-sleeper into the pack'n'play for naps and bedtime. we have your crib all ready to set up once we receive replacement hardware for the hardware that was damaged earlier this year when our basement flooded. but for now, you're quite happ