Rain, Rain Go Away

This must rate as one of the wettest summers in a long time. We are also wearing the odd jersey all day - quite weird. Difficult in some respects as we have not planned to dress the twins in long sleeves and long pants every day. Summer is usually shorts and t-shirts weather!

With all the wet weather, it was an indoors weekend. We did our Spur thing on friday night which was nice. Daniel managed to dislodge his baby chair from the table (it was caught by the chair underneath - thank goodness) and so he got to sit in his baby chair on the actual chair for the rest of the evening. Actually they were both pretty well behaved as usual.

And then on Saturday, Emma woke-up at 7am, had her bottle and fell asleep again until Daniel got everyone up at 8am. A nice lie-in. We later went out to the toy store and bought a big box of second-hand big "lego" blocks for R100. These went down very well with both playing with them for the rest of the weekend. Very noisy! Daniel then slept for about four hours before we let Emma in to wake him - she did an hour!
Otherwise it was a very quiet weekend with lots of sleeps for all on Sunday and we got to do some reading on Sunday which was nice.

And then today there were no performances when they were dropped off and picked up at creche - a nice sign of them both getting used to the change. However, at home they turned into screaming banshees as they were tired after having to get up early for creche. Quite tough as they wanted our attention all evening. We got them down at 8:30 - luckily they went down very quickly.

We've noticed that they are beginning to interact quite a lot - talking to each other, occasionally touching and laughing at each other and, of course, pulling and pushing each other to get their way. Emma has developed a nasty habit of picking up whatever is close by and throwing it down in a fit of temper. A new tactic as we are ignoring the screaming fits on the floor.

Liz, who works with me, gave us a brand new baby gate to install at the entrance to the kitchen. Seems they have had it for several years and never even unpacked it from its wrapping. So it will be installed during the next weekend.

The power blackouts have affected us both at work virtually every day. Today, they were a great deal more organised with pointsmen at the major intersections - so the rush hour was not too traumatic. The lower half of Blairgowrie has had outages every day but we have not had one. We think it is because we have DSTV Head office and a fire station nearby. Who knows. Today seemed to be a lot less intense than last week's virtual meltdown. A learning curve for all.