9 months 25 days

I'm extremely tired tonight, but writing these updates is a must-do for me. The reason is that I have to get up two hours earlier on Friday to go baby-swimming. Still, I enjoy the swimming with them so much, Friday can't come fast enough!
Today was the third time, and we changed up again who has who. I took Sammy today, and Randy Emmy, and Grandma had Tammy again. That was a good decision. Sammy did great with me, did a lot of smiling and even laughing. He had fun! Towards the end the teacher suddenly said that we would dive today. Oh no! I was a little apprehensive about that, and how Sammy would do. They all dove twice, very briefly. The first time Sammy was in shock, but recovered well. The second time he was pretty cool about it. Tammy and Emmy did really well with it. Who would have thought that they'd be diving at this point!
I've got a lot of pictures and videos today. Emmy was very tired after the swimming and lay on the ground with his brother, when our power-house girl came and crawled on top of them both. That's her favorite activity these days!
Emmy and Tammy both fell asleep on the 1 km walk home. Once home, I was already late for their lunch meal. Sammy got fed right away, and Emmy soon woke up. Tammy slept longer. The two following meals were later as a result as well, and they all went to bed about an hour later than usual.
Tammy has had a really active day. She's sitting up quite a bit now, and I got several pictures. This morning, Randy woke up, sleeping next to their bed, and saw Tammy looking over the railing. In the afternoon I saw her do the same thing, twice, and got to film her trying to stand up! And this girl's biological age is only 7.5 months!!! It's time to lower the mattress! Even though that will make it hard for me to reach them in there.
I was extremely tired in the afternoon. Emmy has been fussing a lot lately, wants to be held all the time. Tammy also wants to be held more now. Randy ended up taking a nap with Emmy this afternoon, and they were both sleeping well. I pushed through my tiredness to work. When Tammy was really sleep and whiney, I lay down with her and helped her to fall asleep, resting myself, though not sleeping.
In the evening Sammy fell asleep right away, and Emmy was fine too. I was wondering about Tammy. She now throws a fit when you put her to bed, crying as hard as she possibly can, wanting to be picked up! It seems that she's getting into a habit of being rocked to sleep. When I rocked her last night, I had to think of their first 9 weeks of life, in the hospital, when there was no one to rock them when they cried, nobody who picked them up (at least at night when we were not there). No child should go through that, and I gladly held my daughter, letting her know I was there for her, when she needed me. It may be inconvenient, maybe some people think it's not good. So be it. Randy is so tired at night anyway that he needs a nap, so tonight he got to rock her and himself to sleep, and I then moved her from his chest to her bed.