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{Ok, another disclaimer.... I have been trying to post this post for days. I am having major issues lately with uploading current photos and videos. Now granted, I am not as quick posting as I used to be but the issues I've been having with blogger are really vexing. I am unable to upload any of the videos I have been taking of the girls. So there are videos of Emily crawling and Sophie singing Beatles songs and I can't get any of them up there for you all to enjoy. Sigh. Maybe it's time to switch blog platforms? We'll see... But I promise I will try to figure this out in 2011 so as to not keep you waiting so long.)

Another exciting week here at the Oxenfords. Emily is now sitting in a high chair and eating like a real champ. So far, she has had rice cereal, mashed bananas, pears and today some sweet potatoes. She's also had teething cookies and a few cheerios. Her appetite is much better finally and I think eating more solid foods is definitely helping her poor little tummy because she spits up a lot less now, too. Tonight we ate dinner all four of us together at the table (with Sophie and Emily both in their own special chairs). It was absolutely hilarious and ensued into a laugh fest. See... Emily cracks Sophie up and Sophie cracks Emily up and then Jim and I crack up because they are laughing. It was pretty funny. Gosh, we are either going to have the time of our lives with these two girls together or we are in sooo much trouble or probably a healthy mix of both, huh?

Emily is also crawling so fast and so determinedly that we even have had to put up "baby jail" to keep her contained once in a while. Unless you are right on top of her, she is off and running and ready to pull down that low hanging ornament on the Christmas tree if you let her. Sophia is still in the midst of Beatlemania. She demands to watch at 48 minute compilation video of combined mini Beatles documentaries multiple times a day. And she'll call out to us and say "what's that one, Mommy?" and I have to ask Jim "what's that one, Daddy" and he'll tell her what the song is (her daddy's the Beatles fan and his knowledge of all the songs on the documentaries is muuuch better than mine). Honestly, I like the Beatles, I really do. And, JIm LOVES the Beatles but to tell you the truth, we are both getting a little sick of them. The Beatles are on All. The. Time. It's all she wants to watch. Is this normal for a 2.5 year old? Who knows. But Sophie is clearly enamored with her Beatles and well, it's a heck of a lot better for her to watch that than SpongeBob (we don't watch SpongeBob in our house) or some of the other shows she is allowed to watch.