Six Months

Well, not only is it Fathers' Day and Uncle Gabriel's First Holy Communion (congratulations, Uncle Gabriel!), but it is also SIX MONTHS since Rosabel was born (unless sleep deprivation (from teaching, btw, not parenting) has warped my sense of time, in which case you should just smile and nod). Well done, Rosabel!

Rosabel at Six Months Old

It is a long time since Violet and Ivy were of such an age.  Twas the 5th March 2009 if memory serves me correctly (which it really probably isn't doing).  Violet was about eight and a half pounds, Ivy was about ten and a half pounds, but Rosabel is at least 15 and a half pounds, bless them all.  I have trawled the blog to find some images of the twins at a comparable age to their 'little' sister...

When Violet and Ivy were Six Months Old

 

Violet sat on the nappy bag, playing our old piano at the little house in Galgate.

Ivy and Violet, looking positively menacing in those hoodies.

Violet and Ivy doing their reusable-nappy dance routine.

Peekaboo, Violet!

One Thousand Days!

According to Grandpa, who always knows these kinds of things, the twins are 1,000 days old today, each!  Ha!

Uno montho oldo

Rosabel - or, as Ivy pronounces it, Whoopadoo - is a whole month post-natal today. Well done Whoopy Walton. She still dabbles in the odd bit of thumb-sucking; it's just social, of course, nothing serious.

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HAPPY NINE MONTHS IvY & ViOLET!

The monkeys have now been out of the womb for as long as they should have stayed in! And what beautiful monkeys they are. Ivy is now getting on for 13 pounds and Violet for 11; they're both sitting up with little help and can stand very well with assitance; they have very different eating styles (Ivy takes quite a... dynamic approach; Violet is sensibly measured) and dancing styles (Violet does some incredible, balletic, leg work and Ivy is more of gymnast/slash/head-banger). Anyway, sorry for the lack of posts, it's been a bit crazy with the heat lately - who needs sleep when there's good weather?! - and some of us have had a few examinations. Bearing in mind the latter, I'm felling a little drained of imagination and vocabulary; so if anyone has any caption suggestions for the following photographs we'd be very grateful :-)

Eva and Ailsa