What a difference 9 months makes!

Last night the Meisenheimers came over for dinner. It was great to catch up and see them and have them bring dinner. It was also fun to see their little daughter, Avery, who is about 9 months older than Dane. She is still not talking much, but she is so expressive and was walking (albeit slightly unsteadily) around our apartment. It really made us excited for Dane to start doing more stuff: to crawl, to walk, to start talking, to play with toys, to enjoy looking at and then reading books, to eat real food. Avery was doing all of these things and its hard to believe that Dane will be doing those things within the next 9 months or so. Crazy. At the same time we are very excited for all of those things, we also realize that we have a lot to do before then... we all had to occassionally reign in Avery to not climb the entertainment center or to not play with the photos on the counters... we'll need to do some serious Dane-proofing before he gets very mobile.