This is a recent evening photo of the twins. Although Margaret is smaller than James, she is definitely the ringleader in mischief. Out of all our children no other one has been as inquisitive and mischievous as Margaret. She doesn’t stop exploring, questioning, climbing, collecting, gathering, sneaking. Yesterday, I found that Maggie had taken some [...]
Small fry
The doctor weighed Jim this week to work out what dose of antibiotics to give him for a throat infection. He was 15kg or 33lb. I measured him today and he is 99cm tall or 39″. Maggie weighs 11kg and is 95cm tall (24lb, 33″). I found this site to obtain the average weight and [...]
Online slideshow creator
I started noticing a few slideshows appearing on different blogs and wondered how they were created. There’s a free service called Slideroll which enables users to easily upload photos and create slideshows using various effects. There is an option to add background music from Sonific. I haven’t tested all the features yet, but it’s free, [...]
Dancing princess
Maggie has started dancing lessons. She doesn’t actually do much. Apparently she just sits there, which makes me question the wisdom of spending $70 a term for her to sit on someone else’s floor, but I’m told this is not uncommon for three-year-olds and the whole exercise (sitting, listening and watching) is good for her [...]
Third birthday
The twins celebrated their third birthday today. It's hard to believe they are that old already. Here's the entry I wrote the day after they were born. Jim and Maggie aren't old enough to understand it's their birthday, but they know it's a special day because of the presents they received and the party we [...]
