When they are mad at Mama...

HY is very funny. Sometimes she is very serious and likes to focus on her own thinking. She looks out into the distance and there is no expression on her face. She also does that when she is mad at me for not picking her up soon enough.

It is difficult to get HY to smile once she is mad. It takes some energy. I will play the "eye catching game" with HY to try to make her smile. Well, I try to "catch her eyes with my eyes". She avoids my eye contact when I hold her. I turn her around so that my face is in front of her eyes. She looks away to the side and I just keep on turning her body to get her to look at my eyes. When she runs out of space and neck room, she quickly turns to the opposite side, successfully avoids my eye contact. Then, I keep on turning her little body so that my face is always right in front of her eyes. Sometimes I even get very closed and right up to her face. After a few rounds of "eye catching", HY stops all of a sudden and looks straight in my eyes. Her face was still straight, as if she is saying "Mama, can you stop that, that's annoying. Give me some space." Once she looks at my eyes, I cheer and give her a sequence of big kisses on her cheeks and her forehead. I make sure I have loud kisses because she loves that. At the end of my kisses attacks, she gives in and smiles. Sometimes she even giggles.

There was one time that she was really really mad. After the "eye catching games" and kisses, she was still made. One more trick, I turned on some music so that I could sing and dance alone the music with HY in my arm. She loved the dance movement with the rhythm of the music. After one song, I got her to give me a second long smile. Well, that meant I had to try harder. Another trick, I let her sit on my tummy facing me. I arched my back up and down so that she bounced up and down. She for sure giggles this way!

When EY is mad, she doesn't avoid my eye contact but her mouth frowning. I have to immediately do my dance move so that she doesn't start crying. Instead, she will break into laughter.

Yes, little babies do get mad:-)

after meal

HY seems to be in good moods after she eats. Lately, after each meal, I put EY and HY on the couch facing each other sitting up. HY always smiles at EY and me and her eyes are so sparkling. She is a happy bird after her tummy is filled.

Their favor game to play after eating is scratching the pillows with their fingernails to make noises. Yesterday I sat them facing each other with a pillow in the middle. As they making their musical scratching, they paused and giggled at each other, then, continued on. I had to stop their fun play because they added mouthful of saliva to the pillow :-P

EY swallow the food!

Well, finally, EY started to swallow the baby food. She still pushed some out with her tongue but she swallowed most of them. It was right before small group(fellowing) starting last Friday. We had to feed them before hand so that they would behave. I was afraid that she would not eat and got hungry earlier and cried later on. I asked God to help EY to master the new skill. We used their car seats as feeding chair. Many things were not the same as home but we managed to start. Surprisingly, the girls were very cooperative. They ate relatively fast and no fuss. Even EY started to swallow and ate most of her food instead of making a big mass on her bib. Thank you, Jesus! Their clothes were a bit messy but who cared. We were able to join small group for the first time in six months!

What a gassy girl!

EY didn't quite like the rice cereal. She has not been swallowing it. She started to make her white beard again. I cut back on her rice cereal amount back to 1table spoon, which was enough for her to practice. She cried for milk often after the fifth to six spoonful. Why was she regressing? Don't know.

On the other hand, HY was surprisingly finishing her rice cereal well most of the time. There were a couple of times that she broke out in tears and screamed in the middle of the feeding and refused to finish. That was odd. I thought she liked the rice cereal. I gave her the bottle of milk instead. It happened again today while she was in a rhythm eating the rice cereal. I was scratching my head what could have triggered it. Her milk was not ready, still warming up. So, I picked her up and tried to calm her down, thinking half of the rice cereal was going to waste. While I was holding her, she was still fuzzy until she had a big burp. After the burp, she stopped crying. Ohh, it could be that she needed to burp. I thought they did not need to burp eating solid?! Guess what, she needed it. We resumed the rice cereal feeding and she happily accepted each spoonful of food! What a gassy girl?!

So, now I know, if she refuses the food, she needs to be burped. It doesn't matter it is the milk or the solid food. She is a gassy girl!

a year ago...

It was a year ago when we found out that we were going to have twins. A year flew by and here we go, we have two baby girls. We were so blessed in 2009 that we were taken on this exciting and wild ride by God with this unforgetable experience - expecting and welcoming and having EY and HY. And now, they are 6-month-old! God is awesome and thank you Jesus! Ohh, hehe, Happy New Year to everyone! --- From WHEY :-)

A fun way to sit

Our girls are learning how to sit up. Their backs are stronger now and they can set up briefly. I usually put them on the couch side by side so that they can practice sitting up. They will swing back and forth, left and right to keep their balance. They topple over to their sides, on their faces. It is always funny to look at them topple over like a doll. Once we help them to reposition and they will try again and again to sit straight and swing their bodies around. They start to grab toys in front of them and they will bravely let go off one of their supporting hand and go for the toy. After many topple over, they start to master the new skill of grabbing the toy without fall over.

Tonight they were crying not wanting to take a nap at their own crib. Instead of taking them back out to the living room to practice sitting up, I put them in a same crib and sitting up face to face. I spreaded out my arms around them to be ready to catch in case they topple over. They both straightened their backs at the same time and looked at each other. They loved the new way of looking at each other. They started to giggle at each other. As they giggle, their backs were not stable. They were swing back and forth a few times then they managed to grab on each others shoulders and gave each other a hug. Ohh, that was just so funny and sweet! Opps, as mama enjoyed the lovely scene, they pulled each other down and fell on their back before mama could catch them. Luckily, the mattress was soft :-)

Mama was on TV?

Our girls love to watch TV. When they start to get fuzzy and we cannot hold them because of house tour, we sit them in front of the couch in the Bumbo seats and turn on the Good Night Sprout show for them. They can sit still for a good 20 minutes before they get bored. They usually have their eyes wide open and focus on the TV with little blinking. They usually do not show any emotions while they "watch" TV.

In the past two days, I noticed HY was smiling at the TV on and off. She only did that when Nina the hostess was on. She smiled at Nina?! But, why Nina? Because her friendly smiling face? No. Everyone on the show had big smiles on their face, why not them, but Nina only? I guessed she just like Nina.

Today, Nina was talking on the TV and HY was smiling while she was watching. I was holding her little hand when she watched Nina. She looked at me and smiled then looked back at the TV. I told WY that HY was smiling at Nina again. WY turned around to look at HY. He started to laugh and told me that Nina was wearing the same Pajama as I did. We both wore red top and pink stripe PJ pants on the bottom. When I stayed home with the girls, that was what I wore all day. Ohh, HY thought Nina was me, haha, that's why she was smiling when she saw Nina. She thought mama was on TV talking to her, haha, haha, hahahaha.