Happy 3rd birthday, Katherine & Katelyn!

Grandma made a yummy jelly birthday cake for the girls and invited their 'friends' - Minnie Mouse, Little Lamb and Little Bear - to their birthday party. Katelyn and Katherine will have a proper birthday party on 24 Oct so that Mummy has time to recover after delivery. They are looking forward to their party and having their school friends over at our house.

Isabelle Marie Lau!

Well after 8 days of deliberation, and 3 name changes over 3 days, we have finally decided on a name for our baby:

ISABELLE MARIE LAU

You won't believe the amount of effort we went to! Our inital bottom line was that it must start with "K", in keeping with her siblings, and must have a meaning related to God. Why "K"? Cause we have two "J's", then if we were to have 2 "K's" and surname of "L" we could have a J, K, L...now we have I, J, K, L!

Well anyway, firstly, we agreed on Kaylee - which means "Who is like the Lord" However there was some pushback on this name from some family members. The next day we agreed on Kimberley. But after research, we found the meaning of this name to be nonsensical. So we did a search on all the girls names which mention the word "God" and we came up with Isabelle. Isabelle means my God is my vow. Isabelle is the French version of Isabel, and incorporates the word 'belle' - French for beautiful. We are both very happy with this name, and believe it suits our girl well!

Below are the many faces Isabelle has shown us on her first week on earth...

#K3 Marie Lau!

Well we still don't have a name for our baby. We agreed on Kaylee, which means "Who is Like God". But now we aren't sure....suggestions are welcome...

Anyway the baby is home now and doing well. She eats, sleeps and poos, and thats about it for now. Every now and then she'll smile or chuckle in her sleep, which is really cute. The twins are also very good at helping out with K3. They help with the bottle feeding (but in the last day, Jeanette has moved back to breastfeeding) and they also help with bathing. They are unfazed with her crying, and instead when K3 cries, sometimes we will find the twins singing songs to her!

Our sleeping beauty...


And the girls - Jeanette and I were just discussing that their 'look' seems to be changing again...their 3rd Birthday is coming fast - 6 October...

Tattoo artists?

Katelyn and Katherine showing off the war paint on their arms and legs. They had just watched on tv elephants getting painted for an elephant parade and decided to do the same for themselves.

Daddy time

Dad getting acquainted with the new girl in his life :)

Day 2 with our new kiddo

Well Day 2 has seen our new bubs take to breastfeeding quite well, so of course mummy is quite pleased. The twins are talking about the new baby all the time too!

Dad is knackered from taking care of the twins full time....now I know why I prefer to go to work!

Anyway, some more pics...

Just before delivery:



Just after delivery:
Big lungs!

Sleepyhead:


And last but not least, Katelyn & Katherine with their new sister! In case you are having a hard time working out who is who, Katelyn is in the blue dress, and currently weighs 10.6kg, and her height is 82cm. In contrast Katherine is in the red dress, and weighs 11.7kg, and is 88cm tall. So the little sister is bigger!

Sleeping bubs

Another pic of the sleepy girl from our camera phone. Its proving to be a handy gadget!

Proud dad

Dad is pretty stoked with the third edition to the family. That makes it 3 girls now!

More pics!

Baby number 3 has arrived!

At 8.10am this morning Jeanette delivered our third baby by caesasean. It took just 10 mins to pull the baby out and she weighs in at 3005grams, 48 cm long and head is 32cm round. She is doing well and so far seems to be quieter than when the twins were born, although its early days. Jeanette is going ok at the moment but is dreading the pain from the operation that will kick in soon once the epidural wears off as she can only take panadol as pain killer! We are still undecided on the name so over the next day we'll decide the name, and more pics will be posted!

Making pizza

Jeanette has started to get the girls interested in making their own food, so last week they made pizza's for up twice! They really enjoy making pizza's and we find that if they make their own food they always eat it! Their speciality is to make little mountains me topping's in the middle of the pizza!

Clowning around!

The girls turn 3 next month and have become great friends. They can spend endless hours chatting to each other and playing!

Katelyn

Big sisters turn to look cute!

Katherine!

Looking cute!

Ballet lessons

The girls started their ballet lessons 3weeks ago, but have since stopped as katherine has stage fright and takes a long time to warm up. We'll start them again after they turn 3 on 6 oct.

Asthma!

Katelyn is turning 3 on Oct 6, and has been diagnosed with Asthma. So here she is, poor little thing, using her nebuliser. The great thing is that she doesn't mind using the face mask, and seems to be quite ok with the whole ordeal.

You will notice that this is our first blog in a very very long time. Our apologies. Jeanette had a phone which blogged pics directly, but it got stolen, so ever since then we've been very lazy to blog. But anyway, problem is now solved as she has a new Sony Ericsson phone, and it blogs directly!

So stay tuned for more updates, as baby no.3 is on the way, estimated for Sept 22!

Modelling... again

Katherine and Katelyn wearing the cute new outfits from their grandparents in OZ.

Testing the new camera!

Well I finally did it, we bought an SLR - after much shopping and comparing, we settled on the Nikon D90, the only SLR so far that has High Definition video recording as well as the ability to take great pics!

The girls at school, having their birthday cake!

We had dinner with some friends the other night - here are the girls modelling with their buddies!

Katelyn in our front garden looking serious

This little polar bear was a free gift with my new camera! Hahaha. This pic was taken the famous 50mm 1.8 lense from Nikon.

Kiddies up to Mischief!

Katherine in the ball pen at her party!

Katherine on the slide having fun!

The kiddies, Daddies and Mummies from the girls party

Katelyn wearing heels at her party!!!