Lucas and Sam - 8 weeks old

Lucas and Sam are 8 weeks old tomorrow. Time has indeed flown! I have been a bit slack with updating the blog of late. I have been too busy. I've taken quite a few photos, but it is hard to get both of them looking okay at the same time and to have the camera ready when it happens. Instead you get a bunch of shots like this:
Lucas
Sam
Again, good for 18ths, not so good for putting in a photo album

When you are trying to get something a little more like this:
Sam
Lucas
Little cutie boys!

Both boys are much more alert now. They track you with their eyes and kind of look at your face - Sam has a bit of a habit of looking at my hair rather than my eyes. Both of them aren't quite to the point where you know if they are smiling or just experiencing wind. They occasionally make cute baby noises, but not much going on there either.

They had their shots on Friday for whooping cough and other things and also rotavirus. They cried but were asleep again by the time they left the surgery. They both also slept most of Friday, perhaps hoping if they didn't wake up no one would stick another needle in them again. Speaking of sleep, it really is a bit of a lottery at the moment. We have some really bad nights and some reasonable nights. They don't do anything like sleeping through at the moment. It is only 8 weeks though and Mitch didn't do it till he was 11 weeks. I suspect they will be later though, because it only takes one of them to wake up and they're both awake. We're not waking them up to feed at night. They're quite vocal in telling us when they're ready. I think the record between feeds is about 5 and a half hours. Meeks and I have forgotten what a full night's sleep is. We wont know ourselves when we finally get one. On a good night, if we're lucky we might get 6 hours sleep, however it is generally in chunks of no more than 2 hours which isn't really good sleep.

Thanks to all who have been cooking for us over the past couple of weeks. We have really, really appreciated every meal. Also thanks to Anne-Daisy who over a couple of weeks ago and took care of the house while Meeks had a sleep. It was very appreciated. Thanks also to those who have been praying for us. It is making a big difference and we greatly appreciate it.