10 months old - bedknobs & broomsticks (and Evie walking!)

This month 4 very very exciting things happened.
...and as Dermot O'Leary from X-Factor says "these are in no particular order"

(by the way that little Irish 'yoghurt' chappie will never win. Dad says that you should never trust anyone with hair that big)

1) We kidnapped M+D's 'sonic' toothbrushes.
Now, everyone's seen the Tombliboos clean their teeth - and you've got to admit, they're pretty quick.



And Mum says with the amount of junk we eat, we'd better look after our pearly whites. But we've gotta be honest, brushing is pretty boring, and we ain't got time for that.

So we stole M+Ds sonic things - they apparently do 30,000 strokes a minute!

And with only 6 teeth, this means we can finish brushing practically before we even start! = RESULT.

(We don't actually care what they do - we just like the fuzzy feeling you get when you hold them and stuff them in your mouth.)


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2) We got 'Pyjamas'
Up until now we've been sleeping in 'sleepsuits' - which are pretty much the Ronseal of baby clothes.

This month we literally grew out of all our sleepsuits, and moved up to the grown up version which are called 'pyjamas' - which doesn't exactly describe what they are.

Apparently, the literal translation is 'leg garment'.
You'll all be glad to hear our versions cover more than just a leg.
However, we still haven't discovered why Evie's version includes a ridiculous hat.



And why anyone would want to put a banana in one is beyond us. There's clearly room for a whole fruit salad!

3) We discover the kitchen 'broom'
It has been said that we're not exactly the tidiest of eaters.
In fact, Dad once thought that a small hurricane had swept through the kitchen - but it was actually just the fallout from us devouring some salmon, peas and sweet potato.

So M+D use the 'broom' to sweep up all our debris.
The broom is ace. It's really long, has a tickly end and you can knock things off window ledges with it. You can also trip up over it and smash your nose on the wooden floor. That's not so ace.

Joe immediately understood what the broom was for, and started clearing up after himself.



Evie on the other hand, tried to play it.


'waaaaaaaap'

4) Evie learned how to walk
It turns out, despite her confusion over kitchen tools, that Evie is a quick learner.
Ever since Joe started crawling she hasn't been able to torment him quite so much, so she came up with a plan to keep him chasing after her:

9 months old - climbing, crawling and jumping

Who needs diets??
We can't understand why Dad keeps going on and on about not eating carbs.
We've been so active this month we've burned off our own body weight in Cheerios.

[You'll remember that last month Evie decided to stand.]
This month I decided to move things up a gear and alternate a crawl with a stand. This apparently is how you learn to 'climb'.
I can now climb almost 6 times my height without stopping.

Dad says this is roughly the same as Chris Bonnington climbing Everest, except there's no snow at the top of our stairs. Impressive huh!



Joe has been a little slower on the uptake, but this month finally got crawling sorted.
Now it's like "Strictly Come Crawling" - and man do we make perfect dance partners:



Check out our "hip-hop-trance-funk-tango":

This month we also went on holiday to the Lake District with Jack and Jamie who brought our Godparents along to carry their bags.

Dad and Uncle Dabba did some light engineering work to get us all into the car:


(Jack's in the boot, but because you can't see him apparently we weren't breaking any laws)

And Mum introduced us to 'al fresco' dining:



Evie got some new rattles:



But best of all we learned how to 'jump'.
Jack taught us how to do this on a 'trampoline':



Finally this month we decided to hold a competition to see who could get the biggest "awwww they're just so cute!" from our grandparents.

Joe thought he had it nailed with this one entitled "my first balloon"...



Sadly for Joe, Evie had other ideas.
Give her a ball and some blueberries and she'll melt someone's heart in a flash...