121 + 17 Weeks

This week we took the kids to the Mogo Zoo.  It was Carmen's (and Arley's, of course) first visit to a zoo, and she loved it.  The highlight was the 'golillas'.  Carmen announced to the crowd that 'the daddy golilla has a big bottom', and she loved seeing the babies rolling around.  We bought an annual family pass, so we'll be going there a lot more often.  It's not quite Taronga Zoo, but a lovely little zoo all the same.  

Little (or should I say big - he is moving into size 0 clothes already, which are for 6-9 month olds!) Arley is still an angel.  We can just lie him down in bed and he usually talks himself to sleep within 10 minutes.  This is so different to how Carmie was at this age!  He loves to sit up and when he is lying down he is constantly straining to sit upright.  He is not rolling over much, but he doesn't hate tummy time quite as much as he used to.

Carmie has been her usual self, until today, that is.  She was so rotten after school on Monday that Jeffrey had to cancel his guitar lesson because we couldn't get her to stop crying/screaming for a good half hour.  But since then I have been doing lots of reading, and putting my new-found parenting knowledge to the test, and it seems to be working.  She is usually at her worst when she comes home from school, as she has been busy all day with only a short nap to keep her going.  But today when she got home, she was an absolute angel, even yelling happily, "It's bedtime!" and letting me put her to bed!  Now we are wondering who swapped our naughty Carmen for this little darling.  Hopefully it lasts!

Here are two videos of Arlito:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlpwMSQN3EE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnSbNP6rwRE