And here is the proof of the chicken pox. Everyone got it quite bad - literally covered head to toe. Here's Alex with his on 2nd March.
And of course, we were just starting the boys with eating solids while all of this was going on. Luckily, it didn't seem to bother their appetite at all! Here's Alex with his baby rice.
And Isaiah eating his (before he was really covered in spots).
This is Michaela on 3rd March, with most of her spots crusted over.
And Isaiah following behind on the 4th of March with his spots. Surprisingly, he seemed to get it less so than Michaela and Alex. But even so, it was tough being stuck in the house for two weeks with everyone ill.
It's amazing how long it takes for the spots to completely go after getting chicken pox. We seemed to be picking scabs out of Michaela's hair for weeks! Here she is holding Alex.
Check out how much food the boys eat. And this was only about a week after starting solids properly!
Michaela is really into pretend play at the moment. Sometimes Mommy steps into the wrong place and manages to step onto her nursery, or Bookstart, or the shop, or whatever! One game she particularly likes to play is putting all of her dolls/babies/teddies to sleep. So she gets a book or paper and puts it under their heads for a pillow and another one on top for a blanket (see below).
And here are the boys 6 months old. Can hardly believe it that this time around things are moving so quickly. You can really see the difference in their weights in this photo - Alex is the chubber on the left, with our little Isaiah on the right. I weighed them two weeks after this photo was taken and Alex was 15lb 9oz and Isaiah was 14lb exactly.
Smiley Alex.
Concentrating Isaiah.
The boys really love playing and seeing how many things they can get into. We got this activity centre when Michaela was a baby and the boys just love it. Especially since there are so many things they can chew on! Here's Isaiah having fun.
Both boys are really strong and can now move themselves around. But it seems Alex is more on the go now than Isaiah as he'll actually push himself around the floor and roll around to get where he wants. Now if we leave the room and come back, you can never be sure where they might be. One thing both boys do love doing is push themselves up to look like they're flying - here's Alex doing that.
And not forgetting Michaela. She's really a girl now, and not so much a toddler. Just look how grown up she looks in this photo!
Daddy and Michaela decided to bake Mommy gingerbread men for Mother's Day. Unfortunately, Daddy forgot they might expand a bit, but Mommy still loves the result!
On the 26th, Michaela finally had her first hair cut. When we first discussed getting her hair cut, she was very upset because she didn't want to look like Daddy! But we went along to watch one of Mommy's friends get her hair cut first to show that it's easy and doesn't hurt and doesn't have to be a shaved head like Daddy! This is Daddy's cousin Dawna cutting her hair.
Michaela was really good for her hair cut and sat really well in the chair. And here's all the hair that was chopped off.
On Sunday morning, Daddy managed to get some really good photos of all three kids (which never seems to happen), so we couldn't resist putting them on the blog for everyone to see! Isaiah, Alex then Michaela.
Not much else really going on here. Just normal life for us - Toddlers on Monday and Wednesday, Michaela still goes to the Sandwick nursery on a Tuesday, sometime 11 o'clocks on Thursday and Kindergym on Friday. We've not really managed to get back into swimming after the chicken pox, but we'll hopefully get going with that again soon. Because our weeks are pretty routine, Michaela almost always asks just before she goes to bed 'what will we do after my sleep?'.
The boys are in their own bedroom now. It was pretty tough to begin with, with lots of getting up in the night, but they're not too bad now. It would just be really good if they would both have their really good nights on the same night, instead of on different nights. It is getting there though. Mommy's going to try to get their napping during the day sorted out soon. It's still very unstructured and short, but Michaela was the same at their age and got better, so we know there's hope to get them into 1-2 longer naps. It was going to be worked on a few weeks ago, but then we got chicken pox, so it's been on hold.
As usual, we hope not to leave it as long before blogging again........but don't hold your breath!
And here's a few pictures of Isaiah playing with the puzzles. Both Isaiah and Alex love moving to the table to pull the puzzles off the shelf so they can play with them. I think it was the desire to get the puzzles that got them moving. They can pull themselves along with their arms, with a little help from kicking legs, to get to wherever they want to go.
And poor Alex managed to get himself someplace he didn't want to go! Here he is stuck underneath their swing.
And finally, on the 7th of April, Alex sat up unaided for a very long time. The boys spend so much time on their backs and bellies, that they learned to move before we could trust them to sit. We still don't leave Isaiah sitting on his own because he always seems to launch himself backwards, but we can now trust Alex to sit alone.
And here's Michaela with her troll feet! Just joking, Daddy managed to get a photo making them look huge. But she is playing her matching pairs game on her camera, which she loves.
And out on the trike for the first time this year. April brought good weather our way, so we've been trying to make the most of it. Yes, this is good weather, even though she's got her winter jacket and hat on!
The next few pictures are of the boys on 12 April - 7 months today. Isaiah left, Alex right.
Alex playing in Michaela's activity centre. The boys actually play with it much better than she ever did - they make use of all the toys on it instead of just a few.
And Isaiah sleeping on the floor.
Michaela feeding Alex his bottle just before bed.
In April, Michaela's best pal Owen and his Mommy moved away. We're going to miss them loads as we always just assumed Michaela and Owen would grow up together. :( But before he left, Owen had a party at toddlers and here's Michaela with the aftermath on her face!
As I said before, the boys have learned they can get wherever they want to now. Their little toys are kept in a basket on a shelf near the sitting room door, and they now know they can pull themselves over to it and keep pulling on it until it falls down. The results are seen below. Here's Alex.
And here's Isaiah top and Alex bottom.
And our little mover Isaiah decided to make his way all around the sitting room, not just the usual direct line to the toys. He even had to move the ring out of his way! See how proud he is of himself.
The horses have come back to the park next to our house. So Michaela tells everyone they're her horses. And here she is getting to pet one, with a little help. And for those of you that don't know how close Granny lives, this is Michaela standing in our garden and Granny's house is the one that you can only just see with the red roof to the left of the picture (her fence is the brown one you can see).
We're really looking forward to summer and have managed to play outside a bit during April. We've now got a few garden toys for Michaela to play with (slide, trampoline and sand table) and are just on the look out for a large picnic blanket so the boys can play outside too.
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And Caitlin holding Alex.
Yesterday (27 January), Isaiah learned to roll from his back to his front! As you can see from the picture though, he doesn't like it. Maybe he'll learn to roll back again soon. We're really impressed because this is a few weeks ahead of when Michaela learned to roll over. And today Alex was trying to give it a go too - maybe he doesn't want to be too far behind his big brother?!
Not much else to really say. Everyone's doing really well. The boys generally sleep well at night (but not so much in the day). And Michaela is still being a really good big sister to them, helping out whenever she can. Our big news is that we've booked a holiday to see Auntie Ivanna, so we're off to California in September! Not sure how the travel is going to go, but luckily Granny Up-By is coming with us, so we can have one child each. Wonder who's going to get Michaela?!?!