can't find Hazel WHERE IS SHE oh there she is

I invented this game ten minutes before Trudi took this video. Hazel knew exactly what it was all about. Ivy didn't catch on until the next day. They are both into it now.

This is the place we stayed at in Cape Paterson. It's one of two "ocean view" units in the Cape Paterson caravan park. They really do have ocean views. We watched the ENORMOUS amazing waves and spray from the huge windows.

Hazel stands and wears fluffy pants

While we were away last week, Hazel really got into pulling herself up to stand while holding onto furniture. No free-range standing yet.



Ivy does it a bit too, but not as keenly. However, she does like to play with power cords:

Hazel is not napping

We are nearly there! Will have to construct cots when we arrive.

Ivy in the car

Playing with the blue cloth book.

Who has been watching this video?

There is a mystery.

After you put a video on Youtube, you can see how many times it has been watched.

Most of our videos of the girls have been watched about 5 times.
If I include a video in this blog, it gets watched about 20 times.
This video of Pegs has been watched 146 times!

What's happening here folks? Would you like to confess that you have watched this an unreasonable number of times? Perhaps researchers into the interactions between small twins have taken it up? Perhaps this video has a very minor underground cult following. Or maybe Youtube's statistics are wrong.

Packing up for our holiday in Cape Paterson

The car is not yet quite as full as it could be, so we can't leave yet. Also the girls are still napping. Well Hazel is occasionally giving a Great Shout, but I am sure that Ivy is asleep.

What our family looked like in May 2005

We had just picked up our new 5-month-old cat Selby, but Minke was still a bit sick, so we didn't get her until the next week. We used this photo in a Happy Mother's Day message to Trudi's mum.



In other news, the afternoon nap might we not happen. The girls are in bed making a lot of jolly-sounding noise. i think they are sitting up in their cots squealing at each other.

In other other news, I just made a yeasted bread loaf, which rose alarmingly. Maybe I will doctor the next sourdough loaf with some yeast to see what happens. I assume the damn thing will RISE.