Bald and Beautiful

I know having 3 posts in 1 week might throw a loop in our avid readers' expectations, but I'm sure you can handle it!

Here's a small update (from my perspective) on the girls:

Samarah's geting cuter and cuter every day....her vocabulary has just exploded and she will bascially say and learn any new words we teach her...puts the pressure on to keep teaching her.

She's moved up to more advanced books now (with more text to a page) which makes story time a little longer but we really enjoy reading to her and making trips to the library to find new interesting books. She did great on our trip to SF - I was really worried about the plane ride but she was a star. And then once we were there, she loved the cable cars, the hills, the sea lions etc... It actually felt like she might remember this trip.

Syra is growing like a weed. She's 15 weeks now and is so active. Not a huge surprise since she was really active in the womb as well. She can spend 30 mins kicking her toys on the bouncer and making herself go up and down. She really seems to enjoy herself doing it too which is great. She's laughing now (although Abbas and Samarah are the only ones that seem able to get her to really laugh out loud repeatedly). She's rolling from her back to her side - soon to prove troublesome for me! She's also able to put her weight on her legs for a few seconds - I think she might be crawling sooner rather than later.

With these new developments, Syra is still an angel baby. She's never fussy, hardly cries and has been sleeping for longer stretches (7 hours!). Don't ask why Abbas and I are still ridiculously exhausted....

Oh, and our beauty queen got her ears pierced today! She did so well...barely cried and then fell asleep for her afternoon nap. Go Syra!