Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Visiting Santa! On visite le Pere Noel!

We took the girls to see Santa at the mall.. even though we knew they probably would cry. And they did. Both started crying right away when sitting on his lap, then Anjali stopped and kept looking up at his face, and Chaya kept crying. We had a good time, I guess it's more for the parents at this age! ;)

On est alles voir le Pere Noel au centre d'achats avec les petites! On savait qu'elles pleureraient probablement. Les deux ont commence a pleurer aussitot assises sur les genou du Pere Noel. Anjali s'est arrete, et elle le regardait tres serieusement, et Chaya continuait de pleurer. On a eu bien du plaisir, c'est surtout l'fun pour les parents a cet age-la! ;)

Prosanta, sa mere, et Chaya

Mommy and Anjali

Happy Anjali!

Smiling pretty girlie

Chaya (left), Anjali (right)

Waiting to see Santa...

Grandma and Chaya

Annemarie & Anjali, grandma & Chaya

Prosanta & Chaya, Annemarie & Anjali

Anjali & Prosanta

Anjali & Prosanta

Chaya eating mommy's chin

Anjali, Annemarie, Chaya

Anjali, Annemarie, Chaya, Prosanta

The final destination on Santa's lap

Monday, December 19, 2011

Anjali feeds herself!

Anjali has started feeding herself little pieces of food! The food sometimes gets stuck on her hand and doesn't actually make its way to her mouth, but she keeps doing it every meal, it's so cute! She likes soft pieces of cooked apples, pieces of bananas, brown rice and these little puffy rice things I just got them. Chaya has tried, but she's not quite ready for pieces of solid food yet, they often make her gag and then vomit, and it makes her upset. So we will only be doing purees for her for a little while longer.

Saturday, December 17, 2011

Holiday season 2011

The lights I put up on our house
 
This is the first year we have our own Christmas in Baton Rouge, not driving up north to New York and Montreal this year. It was too stressful with the babies and dogs. We plan on doing it next year though! we thought it would be easier when the girls are a bit older.

I've been having fun decorating the house, getting ready for Christmas. The girls like looking at the Christmas tree with the lights and ornaments. We also went to the LSU museum holiday party with the girls (at Prosanta's work). Had a good time.

Will be adding pictures!


Willi supervised my work

Family photo at LSU holiday party

With our friends Richard, Kim and their little girl Phoebe

Anjali pulling our friend Caleb's hair

Mommies and babies

Anjali having fun with daddy

Anjali and daddy


Anjali and daddy
Anjali looking at the Christmas tree

Sunday, December 11, 2011

Mommy turns 34

Daddy and Anjali bringing me my birthday card

"Here mommy, I ate it just for you!"

Took the girls to the park on the baby swings for the very first time!

Chaya enjoying the swing

Chaya

Anjali having fun swinging

Anjali

Daddy and the dogs


Mommy and girls at the park

Daddy sliding with Anjali

Daddy pushing Chaya

Daddy pushing Anjali



Watching the dogs through the fence at the dog park

Anjali excited to be in the restaurant high chair for the first time!
Mommy and Chaya


Mommy and Anjali

Had lunch at the Londoner pub (daddy and Chaya)
Chaya at the end of our lunch (Anjali also fell asleep)

Thursday, December 8, 2011

Videos at 6 months old

Back on the breast!

Haven't written in a while... it's difficult for me to remember to post things here! Sorry about that. Good news, I've started breastfeeding again! Not completely full time yet, but am now at 4 feedings a day, with 2 bottles of formula. So far, so good, no bloody stools! The babies have been eating solids too, which has changed our whole routine. They finally seem to enjoy the purees, of course, I usually have to add fruit to anything they eat. We first started with bananas which they liked, after I tried butternut squash which they hated, then avocado... not a big fan of that either. So I started adding bananas to their vegetables, they liked it, but it caused them to strain really hard for their bowel movements! They were making little hard poops, they would cry and scream and it seemed really painful. That's when I read that bananas can cause constipation! So I started giving them apple sauce, pears, and pureed prunes, which has helped a lot. They are a little picky and don't like everything they taste, especially vegetables. And when they don't like something, they gag and even vomit! So I've been adding fruit to pretty much everything they eat, at least they like it that way.

Tuesday, December 6, 2011

6 month old pictures

Photos des filles a 6 mois

Chaya

Anjali

Mommy and Anjali

Chaya and Bessie (licking some spit-up)

Chaya in the laundry basket

Chaya (left), Anjali (right)

Anjali and her buddy Bessie

Mommy and Anjali napping

Chaya (left) and Anjali (right)

Anjali (left), Chaya (right)

Chaya (left), Anjali (right)

Anjali loving on Bessie

We can both sit up (for a little bit)!

Chaya (left), Anjali (right)

Anjali (left), Chaya (right)

Ready for a walk... Chaya (left), Anjali (right)

Chaya (left), Anjali (right)

Chaya (left), Anjali (right)

Anjali (left), Chaya (right)

Anjali (left), Chaya (right)

Anjali (left), Chaya (right)

Chaya

Anjali