Daily Quiz

This is like a daily routine, Robyn comes by in the evening and we ask her to say the girls names and of course she gets them wrong, every time! May be she should do a George Costanza and do exactly opposite of what she thinks.

I'm doing ok with them now, can tell who is who correctly, with confidence. My mom and dad get them wrong, mom more than dad. Mom got them wrong twice yesterday, 5 mins apart, and they are wearing different outfits:) Swapna's mom got them wrong too. Their excuse is that the girls keep changing their complexion;) Swapna is the only one that still hasn't 'openly' admitted to getting confused between the two girls.

We weighed them today, Vennela is 6lb 13oz(3.09 Kg) and Shruthi is 7lb 8oz(3.4 Kg).

Weekend

Weekends are exhausting! I'm getting more tired on weekends than on weekdays. I don't know how Swapna, her mom and my parents are doing it everyday. Especially Swapna, don't know how she is dealing with everyone telling her what to do and what not to do, the whole day.

We changed the girls feeding times, moved it one hour later. Now it's 6, 9, 12, 3, 6, 9 and 12am. Don't know about the girls, but this timing is working better for me. I can do the 6am feeding since I'm up at that time anyways, but as always, so are my parents and Swapna's mom;)

Girls are moving their hands now, and they are quick too, can knock off the feeding bottles from our hands.

Tired

Giving Bath

We changed their daily bath schedule to evening from morning, the theory being they sleep well all through the night if they had a nice warm bath in the evening. The theory isn't working as well as we thought. One good thing about the evening schedule is that I get to give them a bath once I get home. Both of them love getting a bath, they look so relaxed and happy sitting in the warm water.

Doc's Appointment

Went to the pediatrician this morning. Girls are doing very well, Vennela is at 6lb 2oz and Shruthi is at 6lb 15oz, almost 7lb! They didn't get their Hepatitis shots today, doc said to wait for the 2 month appointment and get all the shots at once, not looking forward to that day;)

Girls are starting to look more like each other every day. Shruthi was in the living room with us, Swapna's mom was so sure that it was Vennela, she wouldn't believe us;) A few weeks more and I'm sure no one can tell them apart.

Walk in the park!

Tara left for CA this afternoon. She missed the babies first trip outside in their stroller! We put them in their double/twin stroller and walked up and down Rosemary Ln. They seemed to like it, fell asleep right away. We took them to visit Robyn&Scott and Amarnath&Jessee.

Todd&Cassandra and Tracy stopped by in the evening. It doesn't look like Todd&Cassandra will move back to the States after her Malawi contract is over in about 6 months.

Namakaranam

Yesterday was the first Puja for the girls, their Namakaranam (naming ceremony). Tara came from Fremont in the morning, caught a red eye flight. Dad and I went and picked up the Pujari from the Lotus temple, was a pain finding the temple, because there is no temple yet! Girls were all dressed up in their fineries, silk dresses and jewelery, looked really cute. Girls did great, they stayed quiet and slept through the whole ceremony. They even slept through the huge thunderstorm that rolled through in the afternoon. So glad for the thunderstorm, cooled down things a little, more important because our A/C unit died yesterday;)

Saritha & family stopped by this afternoon for lunch. Didn't know that Saritha hasn't been to India in more than 5 years! Both of her kids had been to India, but not her.

Today is the Clarendon Cup races, the first time that I missed the races in 10 years;)