Emmett has been trying really hard to move around lately.� Although he's been doing the army crawl for a few weeks now, recently he's started to get up on all fours!� He can't really do much more than rock back and forth and lunge forward onto his belly once he gets up there, but it's definitely a look at what's to come.� My guess is the little man will be cruising around with ease in a matter of weeks.� See for yourself!

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Age Timer: 7 months, 4 days

Topics: Milestones, video, Firsts, crawl, army crawl

I can't tell you how many times James and I have been injured by our baby.� We've been headbutted, pierced by his razor sharp fingernails (I swear they're made of teeny tiny razor blades), pinched, slapped, kicked in the groin ... you name it.� If you have kids or read this article, then you understand a little bit better what we've been going through.

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So when I saw this MadTV sketch parody of the early 90s disaster programs Fox used to air, I totally related.� Hilarious, and on some level, so true!

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Age Timer: 28 weeks, 4 days

Topics: video, Internet Fun, baby attack, comedy, injury

The past couple of weeks have been a whirlwind.� We had the Fourth of July (which was a lot of fun - Emmett almost stayed awake through all the fireworks), Gus was born and I've been super busy with work.� I finally got around to taking Emmett with me to HubSpot (the company I work for) one day, too!

Oh yeah, and it's as if because Emmett is 6 months old now (I know, half a year? SO hard to believe!), he thinks he's become Mr. Independent or something.� Our little trick of feeding Emmett with the aid of the Boppy no longer works.� Instead, he wants to try to hold the bottle and feed himself.� I guess he doesn't need me anymore ...

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Here are some picture highlights from the past couple weeks ...

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[caption id="attachment_899" align="aligncenter" width="545" caption="Happy baby!"][/caption]

[caption id="attachment_900" align="aligncenter" width="545" caption="Kisses from mom."][/caption]

[caption id="attachment_901" align="aligncenter" width="546" caption="Eskimo kisses from dad."][/caption]

[caption id="attachment_902" align="aligncenter" width="545" caption="Nap with Mr. Caterpillar."][/caption]

Age Timer: 6 MONTHS!

Topics: Weekly Updates, Milestones, video, bottle, feeding, 6 months old, independence

Topics: Weekly Updates, video, baby, nephew, sister, aunt, due date