These little girls are all smiles finally this week and it is so fun. They time everything just perfectly. It's been so perfect having Tate home this for these two weeks when the girls are smiling more so he can see them react to having him around. Tate and Finn love to talk to the girls in silly voices and try to win their little grins. It's darling.
The girls continue to sleep great. One long stretch from 9:30pm ish to somewhere from 3 to 5am and then one shorter one until 7 or 8 when the boys are waking up. We'll see how that works next week when we start waking up before 6 again. Glenn and I are starting this week to be able to tell between the girls' cries. Kenna has a louder, more upset cry but even though it's louder she still somehow manages to sound so pitiful and mournful. And she has the sweetest little chin quiver when she's really sad. It's darling and funny. If I have to let her cry for a bit while I'm finishing a workout or taking a shower, her face is bright red and soaked with tears when I finally pick her up. Taryn's cry is more of a squawk. She gets all wiggly like she's working up a really mad cry and then she lets out a little squawk. It takes a couple minutes of that before she works up to a good cry. It's pretty sweet. Usually Kenna is the one sounding the alarm and letting us know that she is ready to eat and then we have to wake Taryn up so we can get them fed at the same time and keep them on the same schedule. Some days it's Taryn, but not as often. Taryn seems much more chill in general. She loves to be held and sometimes she's fussy just so we'll hold her and then she'll stop. Kenna also loves to be held. They both prefer to be held upright over our shoulders. I wonder if they're a bit gassy and it helps them to be upright and have some pressure on their tummies. Neither of them really snuggle into our shoulders though. They prefer to have their heads arched a little bit so they can look around.
I've started weening them the past week or two. I'm kind of sad and feeling a little guilty about it but it feels like the right thing to do to keep things from getting too stressful as we start to get out and travel more. It's stressful to have to find a place to nurse if we're out at feeding time, which we inevitably will be because it takes much longer than 3 hours to go anywhere and get back home. Plus, how do you nurse in an abaya? I don't think it's possible. I don't think women really nurse here? Or maybe they do but they don't leave the house until they're done nursing? It's a puzzlement. And we're going to London in just 3.5 weeks! I think being done with nursing will make that trip a lot easier.
We took a long weekend trip to Bahrain this past weekend and it was blissful. We spent tons of time at the pool and the girls were so great.
Here they are, Taryn and Kenna, 9 weeks old.
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They both look so alert and wide eyed. The boys will soon keep them laughing and entertained. So glad you got to get away to play at the pool together. I love that the boys are swimming together. 3.5 weeks to London!!!
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