The girls are getting so big, so fast, in size and personality. It seems they're now officially toddlers ... with attitudes and all.  Lucky for them, the sassiness is still pretty cute at this stage.  Cracks me up when one of them looks me right in the face before throwing food off of their tray.  

Emmaline is walking all over the place.  She hasn't quite figured out how to get herself to standing without pulling up on furniture, but she does do a lot of squatting down to pick up toys and standing back up again.  She pulls up, walks across the room, falls, and then crawls straight to another object and starts all over again. 

Avery still isn't showing any interest in walking, but this is most likely because she's too busy climbing.  On Sunday, I found her in the bedroom sitting on the diaper box and trying to use it to climb onto the diaper table.  I'm not sure why it shocked me because Friday she climbed onto a preschool chair and stood up to play with a dollhouse.  She fell before we could get to her, but she's a tough little thing. She didn't cry at all, just crawled over to me for a quick reassuring hug and then went right back to the chair. 

They're both really into climbing into buckets, boxes, laundrey baskets, etc.  Recently, Emmaline fell in head first - like the good mom that I am, I helped her, but only after I ran to get the camera.  It was far too cute to pass up. 

We've also started learning how to drink from a regular cup.  I give them about a half an inch of milk in a small dixie cup to keep manageable for them.  I admit I was a little surprised that they took to it as well as they did.  Naturally, there were a lot of spills and more milk ended up down their shirts than in their mouths, but the impressive part is that they knew exactly what to do.  Even more impressive is that Avery held the cup with just one hand.

We're spending our Christmas up north in a beautiful log cabin.  The muppets will get to go on their first winter hike.  I'm hoping they'll get so some Northern Wisconsin wildlife, from a safe distance, of course.  I'll take lots of pictures.