Solid foods

The Dr has recommended that we start the girls on cereals. We've bypassed the rice cereals and moved directly to oatmeal (pooping issues!) and the girls have taken to it like a duck to water (their poops have been fantastic in case you were wondering. I know - I'm obsessed with pooping!)

Kendall



Sydney

Halloween tasties

I always like to take the opportunity to show off the Australian cuisine (excuse me? yes I said it, cuisine!) so in an attempt to educate my American friends on the power of Copha, I made chocolate crackles! (Well, actually in the spirit of Halloween I made Spider crackles.) Next time I'll use licorice for legs instead of pipe cleaners but the concept was there.

See the spider crackle with no legs? This is what happens when you miscalculate pipecleaners - 8 legs per crackle really adds up!

I also saw this great idea for a dip holder (cauliflower) on some website and we managed to freak quite a few trick-or-treaters out asking them if they wanted some "brain dip"? The majority said no but some younger kids were quite brave and tried it. Looked great and because I filled it with a yummy garlic dip to ward off the vampires, it tasted great too!

Side-by-side

So one afternoon I couldn't get either girl to settle down and sleep so we spent some time in their bedroom putting away clothes etc and I thought I could finally get a pic of them side by side!

So we have a weight difference of course but don't you think they look a little bit alike? The eyes especially?

I thought that I would get in on the action and take a photo of me and the girls via a happy snap! Well did you think that I could get myself into a position that I didn't feel was going to break one of the girls legs? Of course not so I just snapped away and lo and behold this is the best one that didn't show a triple chin but it does almost show my brain via my nostrils!

Cutie-pies

I love how the girls are smiling so much now. Of course it's Murphy's Law that the smiling can only be captured on film like once in a blue moon but I managed to get a couple of Kendall smiling after her bath and a couple of Sydney smiling in the bath.

Makes my heart just melt...


So cute....(I made sure to cover Sydney's girl bits!)

Hallowweeeennnn!

Yes, finally Halloween came. We went to the Galvins to spend Halloween about 4.30pm. BJ and Leanna invited us all over for chili before the candy free-for-all began!

I had them in their halloween daytime outfits all day. Doesn't Kendall look like she belongs on the docks?

Too cute to scare!

And when I put Sydney's cap on her I was struck by how much she looked like Kendall from weeks ago. It's amazing how that hemangioma on her forehead really makes her, her (if you know what I mean!)


Lily with Kendall. (Note Lily had just removed her whiskers makeup - she was a cat!)

Kendall got dressed up as a love bug and Sydney was a ladybug. Note that I didn't get many pics of Kendall so the ones of her were actually taken afterwards (like a week!) because I didn't realize my mistake (and hence why this posting is coming so late after halloweeeeennn!

Mavis with the love bug Kendall.

Me with my ladybug Sydney.

Storm with beautiful glow in the dark bunny ears! Oh and Sydney of course!

Here's better pics of them afterwards.

Isn't she cute? (The dribbling is intense!)

And this one too? (Does she think that the grasshoppers will eat her?)

Can't wait until next year when they won't sleep through the whole thing.....