Happy 8-month birthday, then first cold :-(

This is a couple days late, but - whew! - I had to take a little break after the flurry of blogging in the last few weeks of trying to catch up to the present. Last Wednesday was Rosa's 8-month birthday! We captured the cupcake and the singing on film this month.

In the past couple days, real crawling has started. But it's now a choice for Rosa, who still exercises her option to do the hand-slapping commando crawl when she feels like it. I put the standard bribe (remote control) on the floor yesterday and tried to get her to crawl to it so I could take a video, but Rosa decided to commando instead, so you'll all have to wait until another day to see her crawl.

The other first that just happened is that Rosa got her first cold on Friday. It had to happen sometime! It seems like it's a fairly mild one, but it's making her snotty enough to have trouble nursing and sleeping.

The cold didn't keep us from going to the playground with the twins from downstairs today. We just kept them from chewing each others' fingers and toys.