Megan was on vacation Monday through Wednesday this past week. This time of year it’s very difficult us to take vacation days so Nana and Grandma Sunshine did tag team care duty for us!

Getting the day started

Waiting to eat. Thank goodness for our baby jail!

Happy babies, eating ravioli served with love

Nana played photographer before I left for work one morning

Busy, happy babies at play

Nana even found a fun toy that was waiting for us in the basement. We are so excited to play piano like our daddy!

Busy babies in the bath

Steven, Sammy and Amaya say, “Thank you for taking such good care of us, Nana and Grandma Sunshine!!”

This week, these awesome stools arrive in the mail from our forever friends, Mary and Dave Hartley. We can’t wait to use them. They’re sure going to come in handy when little people need to reach big places!

Megan returned on Thursday and baby development continued on it’s rapid pace.

Steven is still working on transitioning from army crawling to crawling regularly. It’s good to see him on his hands and knees. (Sammy, too!)

And he really wants to stand, but he’s not quite there yet.

Amaya, on the other hand, is pulling up on anything and everything! And she’s very proud of herself. As she should be! 🙂

In fact, we had to do an emergency night in the pack & play when we realized that Amaya was pulling to standing in her crib. My little girl is a big girl with her crib lowered to the lowest level. I only shed a few tears.

It was a BIG week for Steven! After his last orthotist check in we started wearing his helmet only at night but, on Thursday, he was released from the craniofacial surgeon. As Uncle Bob would say, Rocket J Squirrel is free!

We had lot of fun this weekend. These kids are starting to get into everything and nothing gets in their way, not even each other.

I was able to catch Amaya pulling up. Every day, she’s getting more and more steady.

Amaya wore a fun, fancy dress for a lazy Saturday.

Steven was adorable in these superhero overalls passed down from Chase

Here is trying to escape the playroom. I wonder who’s going to be first to try to scale the gate. (Kidding. We all know it will be Amaya.)

And the Sam Man wearing his Farmer Phil button down, also passed on from Chase.

See?

On Saturday evening, Jason shot a short video of me feeding SSA chicken in cream of mushroom sauce. They eat it best when I shred it, though this wasn’t necessarily the most efficient way to serve it. The chicken was followed by broccoli but, right now, I serve their protein before their veggie.

Finally, to the point of nothing stopping these babies. Amaya climbed clear over Jason. It was pretty amazing to watch.