The weather is changing and we just love to go out more!! And the kids like that too!

I can watch them for hours!! They are just so cute, and when I look at them I am thinking, do  I hold them enough, do I kiss them enough, do I say I love them enough??? Because time is on a jet plane.... but I am here with them 24/7 , and I haven’t miss one thing of them.....I COUNT MYSELF SOOOOO LUCKY!!  To have the privilege to be a stay-at-home-mom...its the best job ever!

Wium is racing to have all his teeth soon but Nika ( have the symptoms but no teeth showing) They getting more and more talkative , saying the basic one years old words, and their own twin langue. Nika can say her name!!! But I think it’s only because it such an easy name.

This morning she wake and I was lying in bed listening....first she call mamma....and then when she defiantly wanted me to come and get her....she call Nika..its so sweet.

They are sleeping so much better, I can not tell you how more sleep for us has changed my life. For the past 2 weeks( when we decided to not get up for them all the time)  every night one of them will sleep from 7 to 6 and the other one will wake once ( so much better than 10 time a night) for the first time in a year we have had time to start watching a series on TV, its addictive!! So soon all the last years missed movies will follow.

They are eating everything you give them and are not fussy about food, its great. And they love coffee shops ( maybe because other people are having them on the hip,  and they got attention.

We are going out ALLOT!! So when they saw I am getting out their Orange-bag ( with all their goodies in it) they go BALLISTIC !!! Then they will cling to your legs ( which mean you cannot move to pack) they will start to moan. I think they know we are going out and they are so scared we will leave them behind ( who will ever leave them behind??) if I pack for the weekend they will be on me the whole day till daddy comes home. If you put the one in their car seat the other one will crawl to the other side  of the car and sit and wait for the door to open.....just so scare to not leave with us. When they all strap-up.....they start smiling!!!

They love playing hide and seek for the past 2 months. They do it daily! One will go behind the curtains and then the other one rip the curtain open.....and then they think its the best ever. Last week I saw them each with a cloth over their eyes while they crawl.....it think you call that game hide-and-seek-on-the-run.

Their best game of all time, when I am lying on the floor and they can crawl, attack, climb and abuse me. Very funny for them to put the fingers in my navel....

..they love giving kisses and hugs!!! They adorable!! xxxx

if you catch them like this.......trouble

 

MY ARMS FULL OF PRAYERS

 

ONE YEAR LATER....

Sunday we went for some shopping at a nearby town. Just to fill-up all or cupboards and baby stuff we are in need of. After an hour in the mall we have done NO shopping, just diaper change and giving food!

Before kids..... in that hour , I would have finish ALL the shopping !! now NONE.

Then we sleep over  at friends, which are always a bliss!! To see them and to have so many laughs!! Thanx for your hospitality chaps xxxxx

Next morning 9h we visit the chiro, Nika was having a bit of discomfort after her leg got stuck 2 weeks ago and I have had terrible headaches lately  ... now we sorted out!!

Then it was vaccinations time, I am always feeling so sorry for them and then they take it was a breeze ( maybe use to needles after their stay in ICU)

Nika is weighing 10, 7 kg and her length 79 cm.  Still only have 2 teeth and she got her first torn in her foot ( and she can not even walk where did she got that from?) Wium are weighing 9, 7kg and his length 78cm and busy with tooth no 8.

After that they fall asleep and I hit the shops while Luv did car-baby-sitting, amazing how much you get done on your own!

As we hit the road they wake and so we end up at a coffee shop where they played on the grass. For them to be in car seats all day not nice at all.

 

Family time are just so cool!!

after  getting into and onto everything in the house

 

 

you look pass-out like this at the end of the day...

 

We are a week and a half into our new very strict sleep routine. The twins did not sleep well at all and we where awake almost the whole night. Sometimes better than other but then when they hit it full on again!!

Wium never want to sleep. Nika is a better sleeper but then her brother wake her all the time.

I don’t want to move them away from each other tried it months and months ago they were so in need of each other so we won’t go that path again,

So we were in despite need of SLEEP!!!!!!!

But when they turn one..... Enough was enough and we both agree we will not get up anymore at night. They were never screamers at night , they just don’t stop talking......when they awake.

 

We start this not-going-you-2-too-manipulate-your-parents-anymore-ever-at-night-again...

And it works like a bomb!!!  They will go to sleep from 7-8 at night and will wake at 4 o’clock ( thats what you call heaven) have quick sip and sleep till 6-7.

Funny how scared you are to try something new, and then you wonder, why did it took us so long???

Its suppose to be the start of summer.... but  its pouring outside!!! Its raining cats and dogs!!

And when it rain the first thing on my mind...” pannekoek” !!

Rain=Pannekoek ( pancake)

 

My grandma have live just opposite us on the farm and she was the best “pancake-baker”,

 the clouds could just look like rain and she have start making the mix...and then when the first raindrops fall, we ran to her house because all our kids just LOVEEEEEE pancakes, and we know she will have then , so when you hit the door, a pancake was already waiting on a plate for you. That such wonderful memories I’ve got form when I was a kid.

I think South-Africans just love them because at any fair or “boerebasaar” the waiting rows are endless...

Me and Luv both like pancakes. I am not the best baker of them ( maybe because everything must be snappy with me, luv will  take his time and that’s why he is the best pancake baker ever in my eyes) as you see its something that get made often in our house. We love them with fillings , sometimes weird ones but interesting....but the best pancakes

Ever are the cinnamon-sugar ones!!!

And today they will be on the menu!!!

 Wium are getting new teeth again so he is a bit like a whizz now, moaning and complaining. Shame poor chap! Nika have decided this is not for me and still only have 2 shining teeth.

Their sleeping during night turned into a night mare!!! We where up all night. But now they have turned one.... and we decided this is IT. On Sunday night we decided we are just not going to get up for them anymore. They must start learning to sleep. We will only get up when we hear after a long time that they not going to settle. And the outcome....wonderful nights!!!!! They only wake once now, which is heaven on earth. It makes a unbelievable difference for us....more sleep!! We really hope this will last, because with babies, they always do things that amazed you.

They can stand for longer times now and give a step to something near, for me this is not walking ( walking is when they walk) so for now I will call they trying to walk babies. But they are on the move now and I cannot leave them for a sec.

They love climbing stairs ( I think if they can they will do it all day long.) and they can get down too, after lots of practice. Nika is better than Wium she is more stable. They are getting onto everything; the coffee table is where they almost sit all day. Its funny how you think they still babies and then they do stuff that shock you like yesterday.

I went to town and while talking, I get them out of the pram so that they can crawl, what they did. They climb onto their pram by themselves, and wanted to get to the top bar. They just wanted to get onto EVERYTHING!!

Then when I got home I put them on the grass. Wium wanted to swing he loves that. Nika is always playing around the slide, her favourite. I put them on the grass and quickly just push the pram inside the house, it took a few sec’s. When I turn around Nika was climbing up the slide.......my heart nearly stop from shock!!

 

 

 

Nika is not scared of anything....she climbed to the top!!

 

maybe she is a monkey and not a baby.....