Playing with forts is fun

So is playing with fuzzy felt stickers...



And playing with friends...



James has had a pretty good week!

Baby Victoria

Paula, who many of you know is my colleague in Spark's London office, recently ended up in the hospital with her baby daughter, Victoria. Vivi was born three days after James and we've already decided that they will make the perfect boyfriend and girlfriend someday. They're both adorable (according to their parents anyway). Plus, James will know how to speak Portuguese thanks to Ana, and Victoria's family is Portuguese, so it's really a match made in Heaven.

That's why we need Victoria to get better. She's having trouble with her sweet little baby heart. At the moment, it's too big. And lots of doctors are trying to understand why. Her dad (Paula's husband Andre) has been writing a blog about what they're all going through and it's one of the most beautiful things I've read in a long, long time. http://bigheartbaby.posterous.com/

Please keep Paula, Victoria, Andre and Alice in your thoughts and prayers.

This is a pic of Victoria and James before they made their grand entrances (week 37):

More teeth

Seemingly overnight - James has grown another tooth! This one is on the top, in the middle. And it really did appear out of nowhere. This morning it sounded like he was chewing on something hard and when we opened his mouth we realized that he was grinding his teeth together... and that he actually had teeth to grind together! As of yesterday, there was nothing. Now he's got another big pearly white. The first two came in as slow as glaciers, so this was quite a surprise. It also explains the high fever he had a few days back.

In addition to growing teeth, James's current favorite activities are crawling really quickly, pulling himself up on anything and everything, and trying to walk. I think he feels much more comfortable walking and just wishes that he could figure it out already! Ana's prediction is that he'll be walking by 10 months. Uh oh...

He also may be the smartest baby on the planet. The other morning Ana discovered that when you say the words to his "Trucks" book out loud, but aren't holding the actual book, he'll go and find it in his toy basket and bring it back to you! That is seriously amazing for an 8 1/2 month old baby, right??!!

Dressing up babies is almost as funny as dressing up pets...

Happy Friday!