We are so proud of our two little ones for gaining weight and doing so well this week! We have borrowed the baby-scale from Micheline and this morning Grace was 2,19kg and Eli was 2,41kg. Eli lost a tiny bit of weight whilst he was on the scale as he decided to urinate everywhere - it was funny moment for all of us! Grace just screamed, she hates it when we fiddle with her.
We have had tiny amounts of sleep, but are feeling strong. When parents at church hear about the screaming matches between the twins they just laugh, I guess it's a rite of passage that we must journey. Thank GOD we're doing with HIM on our side!!
We have found that after the 4/5am feed the twins settle really well in bed with us and we have a family 'lie-in' until 8am, the next feed time.Ella popped out to the shops by herself this afternoon to buy some more bottles and pick up some things for lunch. We have now got 6 milk bottles and 2 for water which we use in between feeds if Eli or Grace get niggly. She loves the water but he moans if it's not milk!
They have both been registered with home-affairs, I sorted that out last week whilst Grace was still in ICU, so glad that I did it then! They tell you that it takes about 45min... after an hour and a half I went walking around to their back-offices and found my forms and got a lady to capture them, it only took another 5min after that! Grace Colgan Slatter and Eli Neil Slatter are now official South African babies.
We have had a few visitors, some planned, some not, but we're trying to lay low this weekend and recoup what little strength we can before the new week. Wednesday was our 3rd wedding anniversary and we tried to have some take-out and rent a DVD... we made it about 5min into the movie with about 5 mouthfuls of Thai food when the twins started their thing... so in the fridge went the take-out and when we finally got to watch the movie, I fell asleep...
We are loving our children so much, they are such a blessing from GOD. We can't wait till they're a little bigger and we can really start showing them off!
2 comments:
Well done Gracie for making the 2kg mark :) How lovely to have early morning family lie ins!! They are the best :) Tim and Ella, u guys are doing such a great job!! Keep it up!!! Lots of love and hugs to all from the PROUD Aunty down under!! xxx
I LOVE reading about the adventures of Eli and Grace and seeing pictures of them - thank you so much for keeping us all updated :-)
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