Playing in the park

We are so fortunate that our church playground is at the top of our garden! We took the twins up to play on Saturday and spent some time on the swings with them. They absolutely loved it!

Fun in the bath with bubble hair...

Many of you have already seen the little video from our fun in the bath with Eli & Grace. As you know, they only have a little more hair than their Poppie, and a little less than their father... so we used the foam in the bath wisely! Grace even had a massive bokbaartjie...

This was also our first real opportunity to catch, on film, Eli's first two lower teeth... they may be small, but when he chomps down the bite force is worthy of the Discovery Channel.

Grace & Eli water fun!

Rocking & Rolling

Well - there are loads of pics this week for you all! We have had two turbo weekends and very busy weeks, coupled with a bit of sniffles and colds, we've been hectic! On the mobillity front, Grace is still half-crawling but every now and then she get onto her knees and rocks for a bit, but then crawls on her tummy again. Eli, he seems to think it's easy just to roll to where he wants to be!

El's big birthday surprise was having

her mom up here for the weekend (last last weekend) but in true investigative, CSI-MIAMI style, she gathered all the evidence and, since the evidence never lies, she figured it out! On her birthday we really just chilled a bit. I took the day off work and we went shopping in the morning whilst the twins were at creche. In the afternoon we were outside with Eli and Grace, letting them experience grass for the first time. Honeydew grass, not Obs grass...

The big 'surprise' was really planned for Friday. Owen had arranged for us to go to breakfast at a garden shop in Muldersdrift, which was on the way to Lanseria Airport, and to my surprise, he paid for the entire bill and had arranged bubbly and a beautiful table arrangement. We had taken Gracie & Eli with us and it was truly an awesome morning! The food rocked, the setting was stunning and the company unbeatable. After that, we moved to the airport to fetch Amanda and after that it was a rocking weekend. We had Anne & Simon and Renee around for dinner that Friday evening. Anne & Simon are expecting twins early next year, so we had lots to celebrate, and talk about!

On the Saturday, we took a trip to the shops with ouma and bought bath rings for

the twins as they have now graduated from the small bath and into the big bath! They are now able to spend more time playing in the water and with the bubbles that we've started putting in! They try to eat the bubbles as soon as the hit the water and then get these adorable little bok-baartjies, but to capture that on camera has been near impossible! Either way, the twins really love their bath time now! Ouma also bought them some more toys for water fun as well as a pair of sneakers each... just too cute.

Last week kind of flew by, I'm sure lots happened, can't really remember it though

. I had to give some of my brain-cells to the twins.

So, last weekend, Candice came to visit. She flew up on Saturday morning and out again on Sunday evening, so it really whizzed by! Anne & Simon had invited us all round for a braai on Saturday, so it was good timing to have Candice as she, El and Anne all studied together. Again, there was loads of twin-conversation and it was encouraging and enriching to share our stories. We took Candice to lunch at our favourite restaurant at Broadacres, Ouwe Werf, and received such shocking service, well just a total lack thereof, that we left. We had only managed to get drinks in the hour that we were there, and after complaining to the manager and declining her offers to speed up our order (which had even been taken yet) and pay for drinks, we left.

The couple at the table next to us told us we were doing the right thing as they had also had enough! So we strolled along to Mugg & Bean, trying to shake the feelings of complete and utter disappointment, were shown to our seats and gave our drinks order. Just as I had said to El that we would definately try Ouwe Werf again sometime, the guy who claimed to be our waiter at Ouwe Werf, I suppose he really did make us wait, sneaks into M&B and asks me to pay for the two soft drinks and one coffee that we had 'ordered'. I politely told him to head back to where he came from and turned to El and told her that we would in fact, never go back to Ouwe Werf. Pity, but that's the way it is. M&B served us an awesome lunch, even if it was almost 3pm.

In the freezing cold weather, we have started to put the twin's first pair of stokies on, and they were fascinated with them! They are really cute, Minnie for Grace and Mickey for Eli. I suppose not everything can be Winnie-the-Pooh...

We hope you like the pics and news - looking forward to hearing from you all!

Love and blessings!