Always the opposite

So here is the deal!  If, when I put the twins back to bed after their first breakfast, I decide to sneak into my lovely warm bed to nap too, one of them is guaranteed to wake up as soon as I start dozing off.  If I have a shower, get ready for the day and clean upstairs they sleep like logs!  Always the opposite of what I want.  But I am not complaining, I love it when they sleep (Emilia tired is not a pretty sight!), it's just sometimes I would like to get a little bit extra myself.

Emilia has worked out that she can move around in bed.  This morning at 5.30, she was lying there playing with her pillow whilst grinning away at me.  She is a cheeky little monkey.  Yesterday I found her in crawling position and sometimes she has turned herself around.  She is starting to outgrow her 3-6 months clothes and we are now starting to put her in Eva's pyjamas!  She is still really small but she is long!

Eva has started sitting up in the pram like a proper big girl.  We all went out for a walk yesterday when Jens got home from work and she saw where we live for the first time.  I am sure her neck must be sore today from all of the head turning she did.

We are meeting with our neonatal Dr tomorrow.  I get proof every day of how healthy they are but it will be nice to get it confirmed.  It will be nice to hear some good things about little Emilia's development.  She is just so perfect and sometimes I have to pinch myself to check that it is real.  But as always it is the weighing that I anticipate the most.  Watch this space for tomorrow's results ;)

The perfect twin teethng toy :)

Eva in the garden with Wanja

The twins in their lovely hoodies from their Great Nanna:

Eva the hairdresser:

Eva the pianist:

Smiling together

Me and Jens have tried and tried to get a picture of our beautiful twins smiling together, sadly to no avail! But today we got it :)

Then they yawned at the same time ("Mummy now we are just sick of you singing at us and making Mr Turtle fly towards us - BORING!"):

But this one is our favourite:

Eva got over her cold after only one day!  Who says premature babies have got comprimised immune systems?  I am still suffering from it and so far Emilia hasn't been sick at all :)  It is a wonderful feeling to get even more proof that they can handle whatever is thrown at them.

My life is just so much fun now.  The looks that I share with my twins, the little games we play, that we can laugh together is just so fantastic. They are all the rewards that we have waited for, for such a long time.  Seeing them with Jens and the lovely relationship that they have with him is better than I could ever have imagined.

I am so happy and I love my little family.

Always something

So we woke up today to no electricity!  PANIC :( My first thought being that I cannot feed my babies. My brain starts racing and I plan to send Jens off to a local garage, thermos in hand, to get us some boiled water. To add to the joy, both me and little Eva started with colds yesterday and I feel lousy.

But I calm down and manage to get the electricity back on by turning off the electricity and flipping a few trip swtiches.  I have absolutely no idea what I am doing but it worked anyway.  Panic over, then about an hour after breakfast it goes off again.  PANIC!, porridge is in about an hour and again I cannot feed my babies.  I call Jens at work and then ring an electrician.  They promise to come ASAP.  In the meantime I get it to work again, he arrives and it clicks off again.  It is a mystery but of course the electrician works it out and the problem is the thermostat for our under-floor heating in the bathroom downstairs. It could have been a lot worse.

There is always something and everything seems to be happening at once.  Whiskey's tail being amputated and us having to care for her now for 10 days after the op.  Me and Eva being sick (it is just a matter of time until Emilia joins the party) and now the electricity.  

But it is sorted and I can relax again and go back to feeling sorry for myself, Eva (who looks very cute with her runny nose) and Whiskey (who doesn't look so cute with her bizarre looking rat's tail).

Playgroup :)

I just got home from Emilia and Eva's first playgroup visit.  It went really well and they were perfect little babies who seemed really at home in a new environment.  I feel so proud of them.  We had a sing song and then the teachers brought out some animals and little Eva laughed out loud.  Bless her!  They were really helpful and when it was one on one baby play one of the teachers played with Emilia and I was with Eva.  Next time I will take Emilia :)  It was great fun for them and for me.

Eva can sit up on her own :) She is a little bit wobbly and is still mastering the art but she can definitely do it.

Emlia is desperate to crawl and flips over to her belly as soon as she is laid down.  She is eating well and I am sure that she will have put on a good amount of weight by the 13th June when we will see their neonatal Dr.

So all is going so well.  We are slowly but surely getting our house organised and it has been lovely being able to be in the garden with my babies.  Just seeing their little bare legs wiggling around in the pram gives me the biggest surge of joy, especially now that Emilia is starting to get tubby thighs :)

Daddy time

Playtime

Feeding time, a particularly messy event!

Some close ups for extra effect (haha!).

Laughing

The baby girls have got dirty laughs like me!  Enjoy

First night away

I am watching Emilia trying to turn over from her back to her belly whilst sucking her thumb at the same time!  Bless - I wish I could tell her that it doesn't need to be so hard.

Eva is sitting in the middle of my twin breastfeeding cushion (am glad it is finally getting some use!) and it is supposed to be a back support, encouraging her to practice sitting up but instead she has wriggled down and is using it as a pillow and just lying there chilling out!  haha, they are just so different.

They are both little stars who just let me and Jens have a 10 hour sleep - undisturbed :)  We were naughty parents this weekend and stayed over in Varberg after Martin and Peter's 30th birthday party by the sea.  We were having too much fun to leave early as planned.  So I caller super nanny Mandy who said it was no problem to come home in the morning.  It was nice to be able to let go in the company of such fun people.  It is really important to be able to have a social life in the midst of this parenting lark; I think it keeps my sane and definitely gives me a mental energy boost to be able to be the best Mummy I can be.

We were greeted by two very content little baby girls who were very excited and happy to see us again.