Our poor, dying TV

Our new, nice, fancy, LCD TV is on it last legs;) Vennela figured out how to turn on the TV;) She walks over to the TV and she knows which button to press to turn it on. They did press some other button, now we can't turn it off. Only way to turn it off is to unplug it. We dont have enough energy to research how to turn it off. Let me know if anyone is looking to buy a used LCD TV.

They started drinking regular milk over the weekend. We were worried that it may take them a while to get used the regular milk, but they didn't seem to notice the difference. We gave 50/50 formula/regular milk to Vennela for a couple of days, but now it's all real stuff.

Drove down to Sarita's on Sun, for Meghana's b'day party. We were worried that they would not like being in big crowds, but they were fine. On the way back, Vennela threw up in the van. The 'barf bag' that Amy gave us and we thought we would never use came in handy:) We pulled over on the freeway, cleaned her up and back on her way. Our first freeway adventure.

Big Week

Had their first birthday on Tuesday! We had big plans, wanted to take them to the zoo, but the weather was crappy, so ended up staying home. Swapna baked them each a cake. They had more fun playing with the icing.

Their 1 year doctor check up went well. Shruthi is at 22.5lbs and 30 inches and Vennela is at 20lb and 29.5 inches.

Yesterday evening Vennela was near my laptop for a few mins and then walked away. Remu noticed that she had something in her mouth - it was a key from my laptop keyboard! She managed pull off one of the keys. She will be a handful for us;)

They have a brand new cousin now, Sudha had a baby girl on May 8th:)

It works! Don't know why we haven't tried it before. We started leaving them in their cribs around 6:30pm. They cry for about 30 mins and then fall asleep. They are sleeping much better this way, waking up fewer times at night, even then, they are going back to sleep themselves. It works during the day too, makes the days a lot less stressful.

Fri morning I brought them both in to the living room and started making their oat meal. They were unusually quiet, came back and checked up on them - Shruthi was busy dumping a cup of tea on my cell phone, which wasn't designed to be doused with cold chai;) And Vennela was busy pulling down the toilet paper in the bathroom, can't leave them out of sight for even a single minute.

Both babies are standing up and sitting down on their own. It already started, both going for whatever the other has;) We are letting them fight it out, for now, don't know what else we can do.

Went to National Cathedral's annual flower mart on Sat. It was fun, lots and lots of kids and activities for kids. Kids got free baloons, so they were happy.

Tomorrow is their 1st b'day! They are big girls now, one year olds!