Tuesday, 28 May 2013

Mini milestones

A few mini milestones for Claudia lately...

Sitting up (a few weeks ago... but not enough to trust her without cushions around her)


(like Zac's attire in the background?!)

Going in to a sleeping bag

She looks so tiny in it!  Seems to be enjoying it though, especially the freedom to run her hand along the bars of the cot.  We'll see if it keeps her up tonight...

Happy birthday Daddy

It was Stefan's birthday last Friday.  Here are some photos of the kids getting ready for it.







Wish I took a photo of Claudia's face when we turned out all the lights and brought out the cakes with candles and sung happy birthday to Stefan.  Priceless!

Saturday, 25 May 2013

Update

It seems that I blink and 6 weeks have passed by since I last blogged.  Thought I'd give a general update on how the kids are doing.



Claudia has finally started opening her mouth for food!  This was pretty exciting after 6 weeks of trying (on and off) and no luck.  She's still a bit hit and miss with it, sometimes ravenous, sometimes only mildly interested, but at least it's a start.  We've had a bit of a setback the last week or so, as she's been pretty sick.  Bad cough, high temperatures, lethargic, vomiting.  The antibiotics seem to be (slowly) fixing her up.  Poor little cherub.



My favourite thing about Zac lately is how he's so into pretend play.  Every second sentence of his starts with "-tend I'm Fireman Sam/Mike the Knight/a baby monkey/a daddy gorilla" etc.  He loves pretending to rescue people and has this cute little tune he sings when in rescue mode "da na na na".  Love it.



Holly is growing up so much.  I feel like she's ready to go to school!  She has started spending a lot of time writing words or sentences which I spell out for her.  She has pretty much learnt every letter, capital and small, and writes very legibly.  I can have quite grown up conversations with her which are really quite enjoyable.

Love our little family.