Kason & Cohen have been SO well behaved the last couple of days - generally happy and going to sleep easily, and sleeping 8+ hours at night!!! Oh, and charming the pants off everyone they meet, but that's nothing new ;-)
The weather here is definitely picking up, we had such a stunning weekend! Simon was working again even though he is only supposed to work alternate Saturdays, and after he got home, we decided just to pop down to McLaren Vale to get some wine from the cellar doors. Rosemount have changed their tasting list and didn't have any of my favourite, so we got a couple of bottles of their 'Ruby O'. I'm only having a couple of glasses a week, if that, after the boys' last feed at night and the wines I've had recently just haven't hit the spot!
Our stash of MCNs arrived yesterday, so a load of washing later, we've been using them today and I just LOVE them! I just love Kason & Cohen's little bums in them, SO gorgeous! I'll have to get a picture of them both wearing them.
Tomorrow is going to be a super busy day for us...I hope the boys manage ok with it. We have coffee group at a friend's place, then a multiple birth assoc. playgroup (our first one), then picking my friend up from the city. I think if I just try to stick to their feeding and sleeping times as much as possible, they should be fine.
I've finished Project S!!! It's all sewn, chopped and washed twice. I just want to wash it one more time, then I'll take a picture and upload it before I send it. I'm so stoked with how cute it has turned out, and I can't believe how easy it was to make. I have another three to make now...although one doesn't need to be done for six months, so I have some time up my sleeve for that!
xxx
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
Long Weekend!
We had such awesome weather here over the (long) weekend! Unfortunately, Simon was working Saturday, but Kason, Cohen and I picked him up when he finished and we headed up Mt Lofty before heading home. Sunday we went for a drive with some friends down to Victor Harbor, had a late lunch at Port Elliot and spied a wooden toy factory! It was closed, but we will head back there at some stage in the not too distant future to see if they have the kind of rocking horse we are after. Monday was another cracker day, and we were planning on going shopping...didn't realise that the shops would almost all be closed!!! In NZ, shops are generally only closed on Good Friday, Easter Sunday and Christmas Day! All other holidays are just an excuse for sales! Not the case here...guess we should have figured that out considering nothing opens until 11am on Sundays, and apparently that has only just come in recently - it used to be that everything was closed all day Sunday. Anyways, we took the boys down to Port Noarlunga - their first trip to the beach :-) We are just loving the fact that we have so many awesome beaches within 10mins of our house! And we can acutally get to them much easier now that we have a car! Yesterday I also managed to finish sewing Project S. Now I just have to chop it and wash it a few times...I so hope it turns out as cute as I hope it will.
Kason & Cohen both slept for 9 hours on Sunday night - it was fantastic! I just wish we had of gone to bed earlier than we did...oh well! They are both asleep now, and I've managed to bake some muffins (thanks, Betty Crocker, for inventing packet mixes! Have to add in here that, generally, I don't bake from packets...just have to take a plate to playgroup tomorrow so got a packet incase I didn't get a chance to bake from scratch!) and clean both of the bathrooms. Now I'm just waiting on the two little men to awaken for their next feed, which will be any minute now so I better go.
xxx
Kason & Cohen both slept for 9 hours on Sunday night - it was fantastic! I just wish we had of gone to bed earlier than we did...oh well! They are both asleep now, and I've managed to bake some muffins (thanks, Betty Crocker, for inventing packet mixes! Have to add in here that, generally, I don't bake from packets...just have to take a plate to playgroup tomorrow so got a packet incase I didn't get a chance to bake from scratch!) and clean both of the bathrooms. Now I'm just waiting on the two little men to awaken for their next feed, which will be any minute now so I better go.
xxx
Friday, October 1, 2010
Random Musings
I didn't get a chance to work on Project S last weekend, so it is still in it's unfinished state. It's a long weekend this weekend, although Simon is working tomorrow, so I'm hoping to maybe get a chance to change that! We don't have a lot planned - we got several things done today (SO handy to finally have a car!). We'll catch up with some friends of ours, and hopefully take Kason & Cohen to the beach for the first time as the weather is supposed to be lovely!
A friend of mine is coming over from NZ for a work conference at the end of next week. After her conference ends, she's staying with us for a week - I SO can't wait to see her, and introduce her to K&C. After she leaves, another friend of ours is heading our way from Sydney. Not long after he leaves, Simon's Dad, his partner and his sister are planning on visiting (also from Sydney), then we are heading to Goldy, then three weeks after that, we're heading home to NZ for Christmas! It's going to be a busy few months, and I imagine it's going to go FAST!
We're trying to find a cool rocking horse - it's not as easy as you'd think. Perhaps that's because I have an imagine in my head of what I want it to be like, and I can't find one that matches!
Kason & Cohen made their photographic debut in a magazine this week...the Multiple Birth club here had a picnic day last weekend, and a photo of the boys sleeping in The Hummer (aka, their pram - it's a tank!) there features in the monthly magazine they put out. They also got their four-month vaccinations this morning. They did awesome, and both cried for about two minutes, then promptly fell asleep.
Better get myself some dinner before the two little munchkins are up for their feed.
xxx
A friend of mine is coming over from NZ for a work conference at the end of next week. After her conference ends, she's staying with us for a week - I SO can't wait to see her, and introduce her to K&C. After she leaves, another friend of ours is heading our way from Sydney. Not long after he leaves, Simon's Dad, his partner and his sister are planning on visiting (also from Sydney), then we are heading to Goldy, then three weeks after that, we're heading home to NZ for Christmas! It's going to be a busy few months, and I imagine it's going to go FAST!
We're trying to find a cool rocking horse - it's not as easy as you'd think. Perhaps that's because I have an imagine in my head of what I want it to be like, and I can't find one that matches!
Kason & Cohen made their photographic debut in a magazine this week...the Multiple Birth club here had a picnic day last weekend, and a photo of the boys sleeping in The Hummer (aka, their pram - it's a tank!) there features in the monthly magazine they put out. They also got their four-month vaccinations this morning. They did awesome, and both cried for about two minutes, then promptly fell asleep.
Better get myself some dinner before the two little munchkins are up for their feed.
xxx
Sunday, September 26, 2010
Four Months!
Dear Kason & Cohen,
Today you are four months old! We have had a wonderful day, the four of us together. We went to a Multiple Birth Association picnic and met some other twin families, and then we went and (finally!) bought a car.
It has been a busy month - we had your Nana H come and stay for a week, we’ve had playgroup twice a week (the Neonates playgroup is on a six-week break at the moment), and you met your Uncle Mish.
Kason, you now weigh 5820g and you are 60cm long. Cohen, you weigh 5930g and you are 60.5cm long.
Kason, you LOVE to blow raspberries and talk to the baby in the mirror. Cohen, you get so excited lots, and when you do, you slap your tummy! You both absolutely love the ‘Heads, Shoulders, Knees and Toes’ song, and giggle when I sing it to you – you both especially like the “two eyes, two ears, one mouth, one nose” part – it even often stops you crying.
When that song won’t work, you both like to be outside. The minute I step one foot inside, you start crying again!
You had a couple of weeks when you were waking twice during the night, rather than your usual once at 4/4:30am. It must have been a ‘wonder week’ extended because since then you have been talking SO much more, and giggling! It’s so awesome to hear you talking away to each other on the monitor, and then when we go in to get you guys up, you get all excited and squirm and grin up at us.
Cohen, over the last few days, I have noticed you trying to roll from your back to your tummy; I don’t think it will be long until you master that skill!! Kason, I’m sure you won’t be far behind. You are both bringing your hands together in the middle now too.
Whenever you are playing together on the floor, or having a feed, you have to be touching. And even in you cot, you squirm to the middle so you have your heads on each other’s shoulder – it is so sweet to see, and I can’t wait to watch the bond between you continue to develop.
My love for you both just multiplies so much every day. I love you in a circle.
We love you both so, so much!
xoxoxo
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| Cohen & Kason |
It has been a busy month - we had your Nana H come and stay for a week, we’ve had playgroup twice a week (the Neonates playgroup is on a six-week break at the moment), and you met your Uncle Mish.
Kason, you now weigh 5820g and you are 60cm long. Cohen, you weigh 5930g and you are 60.5cm long.
Kason, you LOVE to blow raspberries and talk to the baby in the mirror. Cohen, you get so excited lots, and when you do, you slap your tummy! You both absolutely love the ‘Heads, Shoulders, Knees and Toes’ song, and giggle when I sing it to you – you both especially like the “two eyes, two ears, one mouth, one nose” part – it even often stops you crying.
When that song won’t work, you both like to be outside. The minute I step one foot inside, you start crying again!
You had a couple of weeks when you were waking twice during the night, rather than your usual once at 4/4:30am. It must have been a ‘wonder week’ extended because since then you have been talking SO much more, and giggling! It’s so awesome to hear you talking away to each other on the monitor, and then when we go in to get you guys up, you get all excited and squirm and grin up at us.
Cohen, over the last few days, I have noticed you trying to roll from your back to your tummy; I don’t think it will be long until you master that skill!! Kason, I’m sure you won’t be far behind. You are both bringing your hands together in the middle now too.
Whenever you are playing together on the floor, or having a feed, you have to be touching. And even in you cot, you squirm to the middle so you have your heads on each other’s shoulder – it is so sweet to see, and I can’t wait to watch the bond between you continue to develop.
My love for you both just multiplies so much every day. I love you in a circle.
We love you both so, so much!
xoxoxo
Friday, September 24, 2010
Thursday, September 23, 2010
Project S
Millie is out of hibernation and Project S is underway! All going to plan, it will be completed by the end of the weekend. Although, if we're being honest, the chances of that happening are about as high as the chances of me getting up only once tonight - not high at all!!!
xxx
xxx
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
So. Tired.
We had playgroup at our place this morning. Kason & Cohen are four months old on Sunday. We have a Multiple Birth Club picnic on Sunday. The mother-in-law was here for a week last week...she didn't even change one nappy. It's exhausting looking after two babies AND a mother-in-law who doesn't help out. We are thinking of changing to Modern Cloth Nappies (MCNs) and got our trial one in the mail the other day, it's drying on the line right now...can't wait to try it out. It's red, I love it. I tried it on Cohen's bum, it looks super cute.
Right now, both of the boys are asleep...the first time that's happened during the day in a L-O-N-G time. I'm going to make the most of it and have a nap myself...hopefully they don't pull their usual trick and wake up literally just as I am about to fall asleep.
I'll post again on Sunday or Monday.
xxx
Right now, both of the boys are asleep...the first time that's happened during the day in a L-O-N-G time. I'm going to make the most of it and have a nap myself...hopefully they don't pull their usual trick and wake up literally just as I am about to fall asleep.
I'll post again on Sunday or Monday.
xxx
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