Shruthi the Destroyer

Shruthi loves rolling over to the air vents and putting her face on the vent, likes warm air blowing in her face. Yesterday, she pulled one vent cover off the wall, screws and all. Can't wait to see what she will do to stuff that's not nailed down;)

Went for their 9 month doc checkup and shots on Tue. Both babies are the same height, 28 inches, in the 90th percentile. Shruthi is 19lb 6oz and Vennela is 17lb 1oz. Vennela hasn't gained any weight in the last 3 months, surprising because she has been eating better than Shruthi for the past few weeks.

Vennela is our pseudo-animal, makes different animal noises each day. Most days she is a lion and some days she is a donkey:)

Working from home is nice, get to see the babies all through the day. Vennela does get really mad if I come upstairs and don't pick her up, she would be following me wherever I go.

Moving our India trip back three weeks really messed up with Swapna's plans for baby clothes. She didn't buy them any new clothes thinking we will be in India, in the warm weather. Babies have outgrown all their clothes, can't even really stretch their legs; we keep some of he buttons on their dresses unbuttoned so they can move around a little ;)

Trying night

Nights like last night really test our patience. Shruthi woke up screaming around midnight, she was quiet as long as someone was holding her but started screaming as soon as we put her down. As if we didn't have enough, Vennela woke up screaming too. Don't know why they are doing this. Didn't help that Shruthi woke up at 4am;) Don't know why they are waking up crying, still in their sleep.

We really are in trouble now, Vennela started rolling over, for real this time. Now both are rolling into each other, trying to pull each others hair. It's puzzling why they are so interested in hair;)

One more week to India trip. Swapna already packed babies bags, but you never know if we packed everything.

We are mobile

Both of them are moving around now, albeit in their own strange ways. Shruthi just rolls around, till something like a wall stops her or she gets stuck under the furniture. Vennela has the most unorthodox way of getting around; she moves while sitting up:) It's hard to describe how she does it, but she is going places, very slowly though.

Both babies are eating their tiny snacks on their own. Vennela is our own soprano. As soon as she wakes up in the morning, she starts singing;) There is one thing that scares Vennela, it's the pressure cooker whistle. Don't know when she will get used to it.

They really love the toy toy that Grace got them. All I have to do is put it in their lap and turn it on and they break out laughing:)

On Sunday, I left Vennela on the couch and went into the kitchen, came back in 5 mins and the TV was on and she was watching cartoons, in Spanish;) She IS a firecracker;). Like Remu says, she likes both babies, but Shruthi is her favorite, she didn't want to say that Vennela is a trouble maker. When they get a little older, I'm sure we will have trouble keeping baby sitters, because of Vennela.

We moved our India dates to Jan 30th, don't have any bassinets available in the second leg of the flight, not a short leg, 9 hours, will be interesting, with two babies on our laps.

Pizza on Fire!

Had an adventure on Tue. Munni said she would stop by in the evening. We went out and got Ledo's Pizza. And of course they were late, so Swapna in her infinite wisdom decides to put the pizza boxes in the oven and turn on the oven, in the broiler mode! It only took a few mins for the pizza boxes to catch fire and the house started filling with smoke. We took the pizza boxes out, were able to save most of the pizza, except for a few slices. Nitin and Greeshma thought the pizza was great, real barbecued flavor:)