Lost Opportunity

So we had a pretty exciting evening around here yesterday. Jeff was trying to convince Rebekah to stand up on her own and maybe take a few steps. In the end he was successful! She stood up by herself for quite a while playing with her rattle. Even when she went forward to sit down, she caught herself a few times and was even able to stand herself back up without any help! Shortly after this she took 3 steps in a row!! We were all very excited.

During all of the hooplah of Rebekah walking, Rachel decided she wanted in on the action to, so she stood up near Jeff, ducked her head to the ground and was doing pretty straight somersaults all by herself. A few were off-center, but they were pretty good if I do say so myself! :)

At some point we realized we needed to video these momentous occassions, and as such, Jeff got up to get the camera. Of course, things don't always go according to plan and both girls got fussy and quit doing their tricks.

To make the evening slightly worse, Rebekah had fallen and hit her mouth around 4:00 and her mouth was bleeding for a little while, but no worries, her teeth should be fine. I also noticed around bath time that she'd gotten a bruise on her chin from the fall, and to make it worse, she slipped and fell down in the bath tub. It gave her this nice bruise right beside her eye. As the evening progressed it became more of a comedy of errors as things kept playing out. It was sad to see how disappointed Jeff was at missing the opportunity to video the girls in some of their firsts.