The girls seem to be doing something new every day and are becoming more like little girls and less like babies with every passing week. Don’t get me started on the (lack of) teeth though:

1. Food. The girls still eat better at nursery than at home but aren’t exactly starving waifs so I’m trying to be less concerned about it. They are now on two main meals a day and two desserts each. They are getting into finger foods and love toast and bits of sandwiches – essentially, anything they can grind up with their gums or allow to go soggy! They also eat yogurts now, but R hates the ones with fruity bits in as we found out rather graphically a couple of weeks ago! They also like my (lovingly) home-made four veg (sweetcorn, carrot, pea and runner bean) and mash potato reasonably lumpy mush concoction – AK eat your heart out! This means I’ve finally dusted off the ice cube trays and put them to good use.

2. Liquid. We’ve reduced their milk bottles to 4 6oz ones a day and they have started leaving quite a lot of the 11am and 3pm ones. They still pretty much down the 7am bottle in one go. G will happily drink several ounces of plain water a day. During the hot weather (briefly) recently, we were reduced to offering R water on a spoon as she acted as if she had been poisoned if we gave it to her in a bottle. Nursery tried her on a variety of different bottles and cups and have found one she likes. I thought G was the diva!

3. Teething. None have made an appearance, still 40 to go 

4. Weight. According to our scales (as of a few days ago) G is approximately 18lb 4oz and R is 17lb 6oz. You can actually tell that there is a small weight/height difference between them now but it’s not on the Schwartzenegger/De Vito scale just yet!

5. Developmental milestones: they both crawl backwards – G does it happily and R does it angrily! They can sit up for ages now without support and will quite contentedly play with toys on their own. They also like stealing toys from each other and play a convoluted game where one picks up a toy and the other one steals and discards it. This process is repeated until all of the toys are positioned to the side of one baby, just out of reach. A smallish roar notifies mummy that they would like the toys to be in the middle so they can start round two. Repeat ad nauseum. G has always been the chattier baby of the two but R has really found her voice in the last week or two and they are just starting to make babbling noises that may nor may not be actual words. They really laugh at each other now and we’re witnessing proper twin interaction between them. G will do a hi-5 if she’s in the mood. R will picks up two toys and bang them together. We also play a game with them where we put a muslin square over their heads (they look like little ghosts!) and encourage them to remove it. They get a cheer and clap when they achieve removal. They can bear some weight on their legs and will bounce up and down when put in a standing position. They now roll over and sleep on their tummies during their daytime naps – and will twist round in their gro-bags at night given half a chance.

6. Baths: now that the girls are eating several meals a day and getting more active, I noticed that they were starting to whiff a bit. Don’t start me on the state of their nappies! They now have a bath (in our bath) at least every other night. I even managed to do bath time on my own last week, which was a small logistical achievement.

7. Sleep: After last month’s night waking phase, this month we’ve been through a roaring at bedtime for more than an hour phase (see earlier despairing blog entries for a graphic example of how demoralising this was) and a waking at 4am and going to sleep at 6am phase. My ‘Going to bed at 9.30pm phase’ continues unabated.

8. Illness. It was R’s turn this month to scare us with a wheezing in the night incident. The poor nurse from NHS Direct must have thought we were a prank call when R stopped wheezing and started chatting down the phone to her… R tends to be a little more prone to getting little illnesses (coughs, colds, runny nappies) than her sister.

9. We drank the champagne on our 4th wedding anniversary last week. It was lovely and they need to make champagne bottles bigger as it went far too quickly!

10. We’ve had several nice days out without the girls. We’ve been shopping, eaten several long lunches, visited Tate Modern, seen the Tutankahmun exhibition and watched Wall-E at the cinema.

11. My blog has been featured on the Babycentre www.babycentre.co.uk homepage and the entry they link to (‘The bonding process) has had over 600 hits in less than two weeks. Fame at last?!

12. No-one has bought our house yet and we’re going to stage a sit-in until our landlady removes us!

We’re going to reduce the 11am and 3pm milk bottles gradually with a view to replacing them with water or juice. G is already starting to reject these bottles. We’ve also bought the follow-on formula and will experiment with that. I’m not particularly keen on them having fruit juice but if it means that R has more fluid I’m willing to go along with it.

Our backwards crawling babies might start shuffling forwards. R has started reaching forwards a long way (without topping over) and sticks her bottom in the air when on all fours so we’ll have to see what happens next.

We’re going to try baby signing with them and I’ll try and provide an update on our progress with that.

I’m willing to bet cold, hard cash that there will be NO TEETH though!

I’ve just noticed that this is my 100th ‘House of Twins’ blog entry. Scary.