Se tenir debout et la Saint-Valentin

A little update from our household:

Margot
Margot has started to pull into standing entirely by herself. She was able to do it if you put her in a sitting position first, but now it's the real deal. My mom set her in the crib for a moment this morning, and returned to find her standing holding on to the railing, which was really cute until she fell down. I guess she'll learn quickly how to get out of standing position. Also, I may have been hearing things, but I really thought I heard her say "Mama" yesterday.


She also had her first play time with another baby her age last week, Makenah, who was crawling circles around my little Margot. Margot can move, but it is not crawling, yet. She crawls for about three steps and then goes down, then she is right back up for three more, then down again. She'll get there. In any case, she can get where she wants to go, which is usually where Chloe is playing with her teensy-tiny toys, which brings the girls to a whole new chapter of their relationship.

Chloe
Chloe is super-excited for Valentine's Day. She has been holiday crazy ever since Christmas, which was great fun in January, the month of nothingness. That's okay--she kept me busy with her "art projects." Regarding Valentine's, she already has it planned out whom she is making a Valentine for, whom she is getting a Valentine from (just Papa) and what the Valentine will entail (card plus heart sucker). Jerome and I never celebrated V Day, but we will now!

Chloe's friend had a birthday party yesterday, and Chloe had a lot of fun. In her treat bag, she got a sparkly calculator, which she calls her i-Phone. Blame that one entirely on her grandmother, folks; we don't even have an i-Phone.

A bientot! (I know, I know. It's without the circumflex accent. Apparently, Blogger doesn't accept accents. How disappointing!)

UPDATE:
Margot woke up from her nap...and is crawling! Yeah!