One of each...

I just had to post these two images. Priceless of them both. A close-up of Morgan and Maddie dreaming of being a traffic cop.

Sunday outing...

We took the twins to Royal Victoria Park yesterday. We just had a short stroll around the botanical gardens where we met Andy, Fi and Harrison. It was a nice little afternoon excursion. Ironically, afternoon trips like that are supposed to help the babies sleep better at night but I think they just add to our weariness instead!

The kids...

I took this photo this morning after finishing feeding Morgan. We put them both on their playmat. Maddie was wide awake and looking around at the dangling animals while Morgan fell straight to sleep despite the hand-to-ear interference from Maddie.

I'm syndicated...

It might seem slightly strange given how recently they were born but this post will have no mention of the twins (apart from that one just then).

This post is to announce that my blog (you might notice that I am finally calling this thing a blog now) is syndicated. This is actually not really all that newsworthy except that it is something I have just learned a little bit more about. Anyway, apparently RSS (or Really Simple Syndication) is all the rage on the Internet at the moment so I thought I had better get in on the act. For more information on what RSS is start by looking at this guide by FeedBurner, which incidentally is the service I am using to assist my syndication. Basically RSS is all about receiving numerous streams of information and content (feeds) to one centralised location - whether it be an RSS Reader installed on your computer or a web-based RSS Reader service. For example, you might already be a regular visitor to my blog as well as Andy's blog and you might also go to the BBC website on a daily basis to get your news and sport. Well an RSS Reader would enable you to go to just one place for all the latest from all three websites (and, of course, many more).

Anyway, if you already use an RSS Reader you might already know how to "tune in" to my blog remotely, as it were. If not, maybe check out Bloglines, which is a web-based RSS Reader or click on this icon (which, incidentally, now appears at the bottom of the right-hand sidebar) to help get you started.

A milestone (sort of)...

Yesterday was three weeks since the twins were born and tomorrow would have been their due date had Marla gone full term. I'm not sure if any of this is relevant to their development but I can't help thinking that between the date they were born and their due date we have been making up lost ground, sort of. The health visitor is coming today to, among other things, weigh the twins. It will show us if their growth is steady and healthy, which I am almost certain is the case. Morgan is in fact becoming a bit of a fatty. Maddie is still quite lightweight but is definitely more robust than she was at the hospital.

Here are links to three seperate Kodak Galleries of the digital photos I have taken since the twins were born:

The Twins... the first four days
The Twins... days five & six
The Twins, days 7 - 18...

We are still finding things quite difficult at home but perhaps it is gradually getting a little more familiar to us, and hence not so scary. Marla's parents are still being a huge help. Once they go home things will be harder, but we will be recruiting my parents much more heavily then!