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TLG is eight months old, and we have already seen him take a couple of unsupported steps while flinging himself at the ottoman. He is an enthusiastic eater. I don’t spoon-feed him very often, I just put things on his tray and he dives in with both fists. He is also in the middle of another bout of teething, which makes him uncharacteristically fussy. I started teaching him a little baby sign language, and he makes the sign for “nurse” now and then.

OLC has a little notebook of her own, and recently she was drawing long zigzaggy lines, carefully positioned between the lines on the pages to look like real writing. She still “reads” (makes up) Pippi and Peter stories to herself occasionally.

I am fighting off yet another bug or two. I am beginning to suspect that I’m allergic to something or other, maybe to the cat. I’m still working on a play stove/sink for OLC for Christmas. I bought a stainless steel dog bowl to use as the sink; the rest is from odds and ends that we had around. I was hoping to put legs on it today, but circumstances and childrenses are not cooperating. One interruption after another.