4.5 mths and growing fast

The girls are now 4.5mths old and are becoming more and more fun to be with each day (not that they weren't before!). Both of them can roll from lying on their backs, over to the fronts with ease now. So we've gotta keep a sharp eye on them.

Chinese New Year saw us doing lots of visiting - which meant the girls were amply entertained over the 3 days of visiting. Only about a week ago they became very aware of their surroundings, including people. Which meant at Chinese New Year, everytime they came across someone new, at least one of them would start crying...it was actually quite amusing as you can see their faces turn from happy and smiling, to sad and 'pouty', and then the crying starts...

Katherine seems intent on trying to participate in our conversations. Just tonight Grandpa had a friend over, and while we were all talking, she kept on trying to add her own 2 cents into the conversation. Such a cutie!

Katelyn is quite strong now, and loves to lie on her front, watching the world go by...

Anyway below are a few recent pics. The first is of both of them lying in their cot one night. Katherine scratches her head a lot (maybe she's already thinking about the world), and below she is scratching her head while trying to touch Katelyn's face!


Another one of Dad teaching Katelyn how to fly. Notice how she strategically lifts her legs up, and also lifts her arms into an aerodynamic position - no training required here...she learnt this possie herself!

This one is Happy Katherine after her bath. She loves bathing and on this particular night she was happy to pose for us on her towel after a nice relaxing bath...

The very last one is of Happy Katelyn after her bath - she was in a real good mood on this particular night!

Lastly...if you haven't seen the movie "Happy Feet", go and see it - we bought the dvd and have watched it twice already! The cute baby penguins in the show remind us of our girls!

Bumbos!

We took some nice pics of the girls sitting in their Bumbo's...so cute!

And here's one of grumpy Katelyn with her pink footy (courtesy of Derek!)

Tiring

Man these girls are tiring. Today Katherine wouldn't stop crying in the afternoon, so Mum and Jeanette had to carry her for most of the afternoon. Fortunately, Katelyn was a little better.

They finally went to bed just after midnight tonight. Phew. Shortly after putting Katherine down, she woke again (maybe from a nightmare), yelling and screaming. "Wah lauie" as they say here - meaning "oh my goodness"....so tiring.

Anyway it's 12.30am and both mum and dad are awake...Dad's eating his dinner and mum is having her snack. Although Dad's eating dinner late because he took Galvin out to the pub (he's only here in Singas for 1 night!!!) for a drink....dad's first drink at the pub since the babies arrived! Woo hoo!

Good nites....

4 Mths old now! Crawling...

Well the girls are now 4mths old and are really starting to accelerate in their development. Katherine regularly flips onto her front, while Katelyn loves us to pull her arms so she can move from a lying into a seating position. Here's a picture of both of them after about 10mins of being on their front at 9pm at night...both are a little tired!

Both are frequently chatting now, and we pop them into their Bumbo's (a little seat for infants) now on a daily basis, to encourage them to look at each other and chat to each other. Here's a picture of Katherine just after her feed. She usually is very chatty, and of course is very happy after eating (just like a normal person!).

Both girls clocked a record for feeding last night - they went 9.5 hours between a feed - they fed at 9.30pm and didn't feed again till 7am the next morning! Amazing! (If you told us about such records 6mths ago before the babies arrived, we wouldn't have given 2 hoots...but now, little records such as these are the highlight of our day!).

Egyptian queen

Grandpa and Katelyn - middle name Cleopatra.

Cuddles

Daddy having a cuddle with Katelyn. She is just the right size for cuddling now - just like a big teddy bear!