Yes, they are Twins

Yes, they are identical.

Yes, I can tell them apart.

Yes, my hands are full but my heart is overflowing.

Yes, twins do run in my family, they run all over the place.

Yes, they are natural, what's an artificial twin anyway?

Double the giggles, double the grins, double the trouble when you are blessed with twins!

My twincesses

My 2nd attempt at mobile blogging!

Milestones - 4 month

My Twincesses are coming to 4 mths liao! They are premature and may be a bit slow in reaching their milestones but I m sure they will catch up soon!!

4 months
• Smiles, laughs - chk! they smile a lot now!
• Can bear weight on legs - they can't do it yet...
• Coos when you talk to her - chk!
• Can grasp a toy - half-chk! they bat at their toys and sometimes manage to grab it
• Rolls over, from tummy to back - they are trying very hard ; xuan is likely to roll over 1st
• Imitates sounds: "baba," "dada" - half chk!: they now say goo goo gaga
• Cuts first tooth - not yet ; they are not drooling yet!
• May be ready for solid foods - not yet, but I wish they start soon coz wei wei dun seem to like milk...

Xuan can already lift her head high up when she's on her tummy..Wei is still munching on her hands and refuse to lift her head but this little munchkie is going to do soon pretty soon!

Stranger Anxiety

Xuan and Wei are 3 months, 4 weeks old now. They are now in the phase of stranger anxiety (SA)...

I brought Xuan to my mum-in-law's place on Fri nite. Wei was already there as she was taken care by my MIL.

Xuan was sleepy and fell asleep soon after we reached the place. Wei just woke up and was happily lying on her back, smiling and playing with my PILs.

Then Xuan woke up to see herself in an unfamiliar place, she looked a bit confused. MIL carried her and tried to coax her smile.

Then it happened.

Xuan started crying. Her cries became wailing. Tears started streaming down her chubby red cheeks, she cried so loud that we were all shell-shocked. But she could not be pacified even after I carried her away. There was a moment she cried with no sound from her mouth. This was it. I could not bear it. I carried her out of my MIL's place, managed to calm her down then...

We tried again. My MIL carried her again. She started wailing again. We were terrified. My MIL handed her to me again and I had a hard time calming her down.

This was the 1st time I experienced this with my babies. I recalled I did not experienced that with YY coz she's a very friendly baby.

I tot Xuan was different and that she was very smart to realise that she was in an unfamiliar place and someone unfamiliar was carrying her.

I was wrong. It turns out that Wei was also suffering from SA...

Two days later, I brought the twins to my mum's place.

Wei was noticeably unhappy to be there. The normally-smiley baby was not smiling. Her lips started to quiver and her eyebrows and eyes started to turn red.

Then it happened. Wei started to cry. It was a very loud, screeching cry, just like what Xuan did at my MIL place. Not the usual 'I wan milk'/ 'I wan to sleep' cry.

I calmed her down immediately when I carried her from my dad's hands.

Wei wei also suffered from SA. Luckily for her, it might be lesser coz I sleep with her during nights. She stopped crying almost immediately when I carried her.

Poor Xuan...she sleeps with my mum at nite and might not be as close to me as Wei.

I wonder when they would grow out of this SA...I hope they do so soon... if not, I may ve to bring them both back to sleep....

I can feel them....

I can feel them kicking...it's not my 1st pregnancy...

I m still thrilled and excited feeling them move...

The thing is which one is is kicking? :)

We have given them names...Yu Xuan (宇萱） and Yu Wei （宇薇）...

WXY - Wei, Xuan, Yan...you see... :)

the names sound nice and feminine...and they go well with Yu Yan（宇嫣） :)