Four months since I've talked about the kids... that's too long. Too much to think about and try to write down, but I'm going to try.

James has started crawling (within the past week)... he has a pretty funny gait, two hands, one knee, and one foot. He really gets around though. I have to watch him like a hawk now or he finds every single bit of fluff on the floor and it goes straight into the mouth. He can sit up by himself as well, which is nice as it makes it easier for him to play by himself. He also pulled himself up to standing yesterday... eep!

He has started eating more now; a combination of him figuring out the pincher grip, and us figuring out how to keep him from getting all plugged up. When we started feeding him solid food, he didn't poop for two weeks. Poor kid got pretty much nothing but peaches, pears and prunes for two months.

James is still the happiest baby ever; even when he got his first two teeth last week, we couldn't tell until afterward. He was slightly fussy, and not sleeping well, but that was it. No sustained scream-fest like with Wil. James is so full of smiles and giggles. He is still totally thrilled to be around his big brother, and also loves the fact he can get to the cats now. Hah!

Wil is doing well. He is finally starting to speak more; we get more sentences out of him these days. He's still tough to understand, and I have to translate for him, but I think it's starting to come along. Unfortunately someone's taught him "Why?" "Why?" "Why?" and I'm not such a fan of that.

He is more or less potty trained now; we did the three-day method, and he pretty much had it by the end of day two. It had the unfortunate side effect of nighttime potty training him as well; we weren't going to bother with that, and just put diapers on him for naps and bedtime, but the first night after he "got" it, he was up twice asking us to take him to the potty. Not loving the 3am wake up calls, but at least we'll get him out of diapers sooner. He still has a few accidents now and then, but overall I'm totally happy with the progress.

I'd better get to bed; hopefully I update again sooner than four months from now!