New skills

Don't forget to check out the superlong posting below 'cause it cost me a lot of time and the kids, surprisingly, are adorable. But in the meantime, we also need to share a few of Céline's brilliant new skills.

First, since a few weeks she has mastered the skill of sitting independently. Thanks to her soft little bottom, this was at least a month or so earlier than her brother managed this. His bony derrière probably made it much more of a challenge to avoid toppling over.

Second, Céline was fairly modest in the vocal department, the first 6.5 months of her life (the complete opposite of her chatty big brother who started making sounds as soon as he was born, and never really stopped). But today, Céline discovered a new skill:

Talking! So now we have two chatterboxes! How gezellig. =)