Update: 9/12ths Year Old Today!

THE New Family Twins are nine months old today, or to a tax accountant 9/12 of one year old today.

Mom had their check up appointment scheduled since their last one at 6 months. Back then they were containerized, i.e. easily transported from home to car to office in infant carrier car seats. Those are gone. They are now carried to the car and from the car to the office in Mom and Dad's arms. Loading, unloading, opening and closing a stroller is not worthwhile for these brief excursions. Especially under March's cold drizzle.

Liesel is tall and skinny and in the 90th percentile for height (29") and 25th for weight (16.5 lbs.).  EJ is 75th for height (29") and 25th percentile for weight (18 lbs.). So she'll be the family's runway model and he'll be the Olympic wrestler (assuming they bring it back as a sport).

She pulls to a standing position and crawls like a champ on all fours. He is not lazy, just content to stay on the floor, and uses his massive upper body strength to pull himself around. She is four, while he is front wheel drive.

Neither experience stranger anxiety.

They are both on stage 3 solids twice per day supplemented with formula. Dr. Pedia says to increase that to 3 meals/day supplemented with solid snacks while concurrently reducing bottle feeding. The goal is 100% table food by 12/12ths months old. Dad is absolutely on board with that since he is tired of cleaning, making, and feeding bottles.

Lower two teeth have emerged while their uppers are about to push through. Dr. Pedia wants Buggy to give up her binkies. Oh boy, Bugaboo is not going to like giving up her soothing binky sucking habit. Nap times have just become noisier affairs.

Update: And boy have they. Buggy likes her pacifiers and has formally registered her protests with the Committee for Review before she will fully relinquish them. Mom, composing the en banc committee, will weigh her arguments (and Dad's implorements) and render final judgement.