William has now learned how to roll from his back to his stomach. He rolled the other way pretty early on, but just recently has he started rolling front to back pretty regularly. Apparently when Kryssi got him a few times last night, he was on his stomach. Next stop, crawling!
Oh, he’s also 4 months old today!
William is now 1 month old and still doing really well. The other night Kryssi had him on the floor on his stomach, and he rolled over to his back, which I don’t think either Lucas or McKinley did until they were 4 or 5 months. So I got out the camera and tried to catch it on video, which you can watch below.
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McKinley has been taking a few steps at a time for the last little bit, but since this last week, she has started officially walking! She doesn’t like to crawl anymore, unless she needs to get somewhere fast. She looks pretty cute, wobbling around, but she’s getting steadier each day.
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On another note, I don’t know if I’ve mentioned this or not but we’ve noticed for awhile that Lucas has had this bump right above one of his eyebrows. He fell on it once and the swelling never went all the way down. So at his 3-year appointment, we mentioned it to the doctor and he said it was a cyst. So we went to an eye specialist to have it looked at, and he agreed that it was a cyst. He recommended getting it removed, as it will continue to grow as Lucas does, and could damage his vision.
So unfortunately there was no where around here to get the surgery done, so we found a place in Salt Lake. So this Wednesday is the initial appointment, and potentially the surgery could happen on Friday, depending on what the doctor thinks. So far it doesn’t sound serious, but any surgery is always stressful. So if everyone could remember Lucas in your prayers later this week, we would really appreciate it.
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This is a video from a little while back, just haven’t got around to importing it and getting it posted. Shows how much McKinley likes to copy her big brother.
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Well a week ago was Lucas’ 3rd birthday. I can’t believe how fast time flies! I don’t have our camera right now, as it is with Kryssi at the cabin, but I do have a video of Lucas opening one of his presents. I thought he’d be more excited, but oh well.
His birthday was on Thursday, and on Wednesday he had a little party with a group that always gets together and goes to the park to play. Then he had a lot of fun on his birthday, and then we had a party for him on Saturday at my parent’s house. I’ll post some pictures once I get my camera back.
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Well McKinley is now officially crawling. She has been doing her army crawl for awhile, which got her around pretty well. But a week or so ago she finally started crawling for real. It was really exciting, until I realized she was going to be in everything now. And I was right. Now that she is mobile, she doesn’t ever want to sit still. She always wants to be on the ground exploring. She loves following Lucas around, and those two are always in their room playing together.
Here’s a video showing her crawling, as well as getting into my printer, one of her favorite things. She also can pull herself up now, and she’s gotten up to standing multiple times. She does that kind of in the video, using my printer.
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Really not too interesting of a video, but one of the first times McKinley rolled over. She now does it almost instantly if you lay her down. She can sometimes roll back over from her stomach to her back, but most of the time she gets stuck and then gets upset. But the second you help roll her back, she goes and rolls right back over!
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