Whew. A lot going on in Linden's world these days. She popped her first tooth a few weeks ago and is very interested in flashing it to anyone who will admire it. We call her the Saber Tooth Baby. It is a very very cute tooth and we look forward to the arrival of its pearly white companions.

She has also figured out how to maneuver herself around a room. It isn't crawling exactly, but she gets places and fast. She can crawl, but she always goes backwards. When she wants to go forwards, she rolls and twists and wiggles until she gets where she wants to go.

Linden continues to be sweet and charming all the darn time. She is such an easy baby, gentle and happy. We are all so smitten with her. Eli loves her so much and is always bringing her toys and giving her hugs and kisses. He is still a great big brother and we're really proud of him for it.

Eli is also a sweet kid. He is SO smart we hardly know what to do with him. He talks nonstop. Really. Nonstop. We are experiencing some of what some of our friends referred to as "three, the new two". He is showing some willfulness and desire to assert himself. he gets really frustrated and acts out when he doesn't get his own way. It is all to be expected but hard to take sometimes. We're all working through it together and he is such a neat kid between the episodes of yuckiness that it balances out. His new favorite phrase is "Mommy, I love you all the way up to the rocketships and back." Heartbreaker, that one.