Hi all

It's been a couple of weeks since my last confession (oops blog) and things have been a changing. The girls took well to sleeping through the night, well at least from 9pm to 5am and then just as we were getting used to that....what blessed relief, they started teething. I know what your saying, teething at four months, surely not! Be assured they are and so our sleep is once more disrupted as they have a tendency to tag team us with one feeling good and one unhappy.

Luckily for my older sister Carolyn, she arrived about the same time (see pic) and had the joy of sharing their nightly wailings, although Gin and Tonic at sundown and wine with diner seemed pretty good as a sleep aid! I think despite the general chaos she had a good time as summer was with us for the first week and after that she and I escaped to our house on Vancouver Island for a couple of days where she had an opportunity to go whale watching. Killer whales were the target and success made the trip worthwhile. Even saw a pod of about 200 dolphins from the ferry on the way back to Vancouver.

Now we are back on our own and everyone is taking an afternoon nap on our equivalent of a bank holiday.



For those of you interested the girls now weigh in at 18lbs and are 25 inches in length, which puts them the size of an average 6 month old singleton. Must be something in the water! The picture shows how similar they are, especially if as rarely happens they get dressed the same! Guess who is who (answer at end).

Our most recent development is that the girls now sleep apart in separate cribs in the nursery. This helps us to get some sleep and stops one waking the other as they perform night time body slams when woken by their sore teeth. This was hard for Miwako as they were sleeping in our room, but as they are just yards away , we don't miss much and our room suddenly seems so much larger!

Overall though as Carolyn would likely say they are happy kids and a joy to be around as the following pics indicate.





















A. In the shot of both Zanti is on the right, Aila on the left!
So what is the above??????