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It is Chinese New Year Eve, I have cleaned and tidied and there is a lot more to do but I am tired and over it. I have done some major things and added some special items in certain areas of the house to help with feng shui. I was using the flying stars for 2012.

It would be mighty nice and great if this water dragon will give us better luck than the rabbit did for 2011. I suppose we will have to wait and see.

Today James was tidying up as well. He finished his work in the yard and the girls helped. Lillian was later playing with his measuring tape (the metal ones), she is o.k, I was just worried and asked her what she was doing. She said that she was measuring. I asked what she was measuring. She then told me it was the rock. She came in as asked and I then asked her how long it was? What was the measurement? She then thought long and hard about it. She then told me it was “many”. I think that is just very cute.

Lillian copied her name on the keyboard twice and was so clever at some other computer tasks. Julia is managing to understand how to use the mouse and to move it and to click on things she wants. The girls are taken with a game on the seseme street website that they can colour with just the computer.

Yesderday was the day the girls go to their swimming lessons. As I had to be somewhere straight afterwards, I thought I would take the girls to the pool early and to have them spend time in the kids pool with the bubbles. This idea was not a good one as when we arrived, I found out that the spa and the kids pool was closed for maintence. The girls were very upset. Lillian who is very expressive, put her arms in the air and to mimick what you might think was old italian women having a chat about something annoying. She was displeased. Bubbles closed she said with a sad angry face. She threw her arms up, and lifted her head and did the impression of a much older wise woman. I found it hard to remain serious about the situation.

All throughout the day, even at Coles the girls kept telling people that the bubbles were closed. They told a lady I do aqua aearbics with that the bubbles were closed, they told my chirporator that the bubbles were closed, told daddy who did not know what it meant until I told him  – then it all made sense.

Today the girls were at child care, and told Olivia a lovely lady that takes care of them and other people that the bubbles were closed.

Today we have been in our house and in Katoomba for 9 years. It does not feel that long and there has been so many changes to us and our lives.

Woolworthes at Leura opened on the 14th of April.  I decided to go and visit to see what the new shopping experience was like. I can honestly say, that I was amazed at the selection, the displays and just the whole experience. Not sure what it was or if it is just new, but I really enjoyed it. That is quite a thing coming from me as lately it is a chore to go shopping with the girls as they are more curious of things and seem to be grabbing extra things to add to my already stuffed trolley.

My mum and step dad are currently minding a house in Katoomba so thought I should ask if they would like to come along as well. They were getting ready to go there as well, so I did not feel so bad that my day consisted of visiting a place to buy food and other supplies with children.

I explained this to Kay, my sister. She could not stop laughing that this was my day out. I explained that this is big for our area, and it gives us so much more choice now. But it is rather sad that I had such a fun time going food shopping. Oh well…. let’s pray this does not last.

The girls are not eating again. Well they do eat something, but not a lot and not as much as they once used to. It is worrying. They are very small and already underweight for their age.

However they are twins, born 6 weeks early, and were always going to be small.

I was hoping it might be a phase, the weather, or that they are not interested in the food. I have changed the food, given different types of food, treats, and other things. Nothing seems to work. As they are nearly 2 and half my husband wants to stop giving them milk.  However I feel that if they are not eating what else can I do. I have been giving them PolyJule in the milk and food to help. Also been adding liquid vitamins to their milk to help boost things.

We were seeing the nutrietiist at Katoomba Hosptial. I think we need to go back to get some things sorted out. The girls need to eat more. I give enough food, they just don’t eat it.

I have taken to looking at one of many of my cooking books for toddlers and babies for ideas. All of the things that I have done, well most of them have been met with shaking the head, and closing the mouth and the arm pushing it away from them.

Oh well. Will make an appointment with the specialist at the hosptial and to see what they suggest.   Does anyone else have this issue? I am doing all the right things and the girls are putting on weight, loosing weight, putting on weight, and loosing it. Very annoying and concerning.

Any thoughts on how to interest them in eating more would be appreciated.

I have been trying to teach the girls the colours. Every chance I get, I let them know what colour something is. However, once they hear blue or purple, then every colour after that is either blue or purple. Oh well they are still learning.

However today, Lillian said Blue and Yellow Balloons on a bag that the girls are using as a handbag. These bags are just the bags you use to wrap presents or gifts. The girls put it on their arms and walk around like they have a handbag and are off shopping. They normally go and put all number of toys and drink bottles in their bags. At the end of playtime it is an interesting find on what is in their bags.

Julia and Lillian seem to be good with the colour Yellow but it is said in their own way. Lello is more like what it sounds like.

Grandma Cheryl bought them a colour book, and hoping that reading more of that and intergrating more of what colours things are will have the girls understanding what colours are and what colour is what.

The girls were dropped off at childcare early and I managed to get off and do what I needed to do. So that was great. I had to finish my tutorial discussions for my university course. Nearly at the end of semester and crossing fingers that I have done o.k. Hard to study now that I have babies, well now toddlers to specific.

I picked the girls up and they were wanting to stay. They love the place and have so much fun that they did not want to come home. I pretended that I was happy to leave them there. Lillian told me that that is o.k, and she said good bye to me and waved. Julia wanted to come home but was worried that sister was staying. All very hard when you have to try and get them out the door. I am currently not using the pram to take them back and forth from child care as it is such a drama to put it up and take it down for such a short journey. Plus they are getting older and like the freedom of walking.

Finally I got Julia in my arms and one of the lovely ladies Christine helped me take Lillian to the car. Yes success, we are all in the car. The girls look tired and I drive us all home. When I got home, I checked their nappies to make sure all was good, and it was o.k. so put them to bed. While doing this Lillian kept on saying no as she knows it is bed time and really wants to stay up.

I have noticed that when this happens she is most tired, and a sleep is really needed. The more they protest the more I make sure they get a nap. This might help someone else. I think when I first noticed it, it was amazing. As this has allowed me get more done.

Other than Lillian telling me she wanted to stay awake, I noticed that the growth or callicum thing on Julia’s foot as changed. It is no longer black and seems to have decreased in size. Interesting how this happens after you see the specialist. He did not do anything other than look at it and for the sake of paying $160 for the visit to have it slowly get better on it’s own is freaky timing and annoying. Don’t get me wrong, I am happy about it but wish I had not spent the money.

Now need to call the specialist and see if we need to still go to the clinic at westmead. I will call next week as I got the message late and see what we need to do. Maybe the bath helped? She has had another one since. All very strange.