Another month, another round-up:
1. Food. The girls like finger foods, especially: banana, cheese sandwiches, crumpet, cucumber, tomato, scone and they think it’s great when we let them try our foods e.g. sausage rolls. R was very resistant to yogurt but will eat most of a small pot now. They have also tried weetabix with cows milk and loved it.
2. Liquid. They still have four bottles of milk a day, amounting to 20 ounces but don’t always drink them all. We switched them to follow-on milk and they haven’t noticed the change. They are getting very adept at self-feeding now and will hold their own bottles. G can hold the bottle in one hand and drink, with her other arm casually flung in the air! They also have water after every meal from their beaker, which they can hold in one hand now.
3. The ‘T’ word. Nope, zip, zilch, nada, nothing.
4. Weight – they are both around 18lbs now, according to our scales and I think R has caught up with G, so that’s good.
5. Developmental milestones:
• R = backwards and forwards bum shuffle, pulled herself up on to her knees, pulled herself up to a standing position using the bars on the playpen
• G = still crawls backwards and spins herself around to reach toys
• The love standing up but can only do so with help so it gets very tiring after a while. On the plus side, I don’t have bingo wings any more!!
• They are sill incredibly chatty and constantly babble and giggle. G can make a whole range of noises: dada, lala, gaga and baba. They have both said mamama a couple of times, but in an indiscriminate way
• They are extremely good at clapping now and will clap when we say ‘clappy hands’ to them.
6. Illness. The bouts of conjunctivitis were, thankfully, short-lived. I’ve had a throat infection (not tonsillitis) and cough for nearly two weeks. Anti-b’s aren’t touching it and now the girls are coughing and snotty now so I hope they don’t get it too badly
7. We took the girls to their first cricket match at Lord’s, visited a National Trust home and went for a pub lunch, all of which they thoroughly enjoyed.
8. Our landlady has taken our house off the market and we’ve signed a contract for another year, hurrah!
I wanted to start baby signing but we’ve been so busy that I haven’t been able to devote proper time to it. I’ll have another go this month.
I’m finding it really hard not to compare the girls’ development with other babies, especially other twins. I know that all babies develop at their own pace and that you don’t see any 5 year olds that can’t walk, wear a nappy, use a bottle, can’t talk, etc. I just don’t want R and G to be left behind by their peers at this stage.
I’m going to start running a book on when the girls will get teeth. I reckon after their first birthday, personally!