skinned knees and flippin' over

Today I took Ella out for a bike ride to the playground. While there she tripped and fell and skinned her knees--of course she would fall on one of the few sections that's not rubber. Anyhow, most importantly she did not fall off of her bike to get these injuries :-). She's going to be just fine in spite of what our neighbors must think based on her blood curdling screams while I cleaned her knees. (She fell on the concrete, and then into the black dirt--not a good combo).

AND, while we were gone, Nicholas FINALLY succeeded in turning over. Sadly, nobody even saw it happen. David had put him on his floorgym to play while he was doing some things. He put him down on his back, and the next time he saw him he was on his tummy looking in the mirror! All week he has been trying really hard to flip from his tummy to his back, and from his back to his tummy. He even woke up about 3 a.m. a couple of days ago squirming around in his bed trying to flip over! And when he's on his tummy he looks like an inch worm trying to scoot around. I think we have an early mover on our hands. I checked in Ella's baby book and she flipped one direction at 17 weeks and the other at 19 weeks--much later than Nicholas.

Here are some fun pictures completely unrelated. Nicholas loves to lick or suck on Ella's arms when she holds him!
BTW-Next up will be the recount of our trip to St. Louis. AND if you ever notice any typos, the 't' key on our keyboard has not been working very well. You have to really slap it down to get it to work. Sorry.