May 18:
We're just over 7 months now and we have started giving Mom and Dad a taste of
what toddlers are like!
So much has happened since the last update that Mom is
sitting in front of her computer and doesn't quite know where to start!
On May 5 while crying to be fed, Cordelia uttered "Mmma-mmma" for the first time! Our parents were thrilled; we know it means "I want milk" more than "I want my Mommy".
Véronique
is crawling like the best of them. She is also quite a climber,
climbing on anything she comes across in her little expeditions.
Whenever Véronique is in her playpen it doesn't take long for her to be standing up
in there, holding on to the bars.
She is also good at getting back in a
sitting position, letting go one hand at a time, coming down slowly
(sometimes she does try the
"standing up using no hands"
approach but that doesn't work as well). The day after the last update Cordelia
gave crawling a try. She made some
notable progress since and she now has adopted a style of her own: little butt
in the air, chest on the ground, using her forearms to pull herself forward,
Mom calls her a "little sniper".
We can both sit up, we are even able to do so by ourselves,
we no longer tumble
over; except sometimes when we are tired. Mom and Dad were very impressed when
they realised that we could do that on our own. We sometimes play together,
and when we do, we steal each other's toys or tug at the same toy, we even
share sometimes. We like
trying
to pull each other's ears off or poking each other's eyes out ... fortunately
we aren't succeeding!! We have some pretty nifty toys, two of our favourites
are a plastic measuring tape and one of
Dad's belts, we discovered those by
accident since we like exploring and touching everything our parents let us get
our hands on. We also like our rattles and all our squishy and suckable toys.
We are making wonderful growth progress, we clocked in as follows on our 7
month anniversary:
Cordelia 16 lbs 14 oz
and
Véronique 15 lbs 15 oz. Mom is pretty convinced that Cordelia will have Big Blue Eyes (like Dad's).
The bets are still open on Véronique's eye colour.
We are both quite intrigued by the big box, full of lots of
shapes and colours constantly moving! Mom sometimes sticks us in front of the
television (not without a bit of guilt) when she is getting our breakfast
ready. Véronique likes the
Teletubbies
a lot, they are awfully cute. Cordelia's favourite TV moment is the opening
theme song for Breakers, an Australian soap and the only decent thing on telly
in the afternoon. She gets very animated and very excited when it comes on.
Some
commercials also have that effect on both of us, we sure know how to
recognize a catchy tune!
We found out a while ago that we had a great-great-great-auntie (Mom's dad's great-aunt)
whose name was Cordelia! Mom and Dad thought they were being original.
We are
still looking for a Véronique up the branches of our family tree though.
Véronique is still entertaining us with her singing, she loves hearing her
own voice, she'll often break into a "song" when she hears music. We both like
being sung to, specially when Dad holds us on each side of him, facing a mirror
jiggling us while singing to us. Dad is really good at making up lyrics about
us as he goes along. We love all the attention we get from our parents.
This is it for this one. Mom is getting photos developed as we speak, so come
back in a couple of days.
June 9:
June 1 was a big day for us.
Véronique, who has been making all sorts of sounds, started saying Da-da-da-da-da on that day. She says it with a big huge grin, it is her favourite (and only)
thing to say these days!
Also important news for June 1: We have a cousin!!! Samuel was born on that day and we are quite thrilled! What a day!
We posted the new pics, as you can tell. We hope you enjoy them. Contrary to popular belief, Cordelia was not falling from the sofa on the photo on the right, she was simply having difficulties going from the sitting position to the crawling position. We both got so excited when we saw Mom with the camera that we just had to crawl to her; she wanted to take a picture of us sitting, we just wanted to grab her camera!
