No news is good news.

I'm sure any parents following our progress would not have been surprised by the lengthy gap between our blog posts since getting both of our beautiful girls home. It has been almost 2 months since our last report, and a famously busy period it has been too.

Feeding time at the Huddlestons.

Eliza's long awaited home-coming coincided with an unprecedented period of my needing to be away for work. Within a week of both twins being resident in Karori, I was off on a 3 week shoot, I returned for 5 days, before heading to Auckland on a 2 week edit. I came back from that for a fortnight, and now tomorrow I'm back up to Auckland for 2 final weeks of cutting, but with the luxury of coming home for Easter.

I left Megan holding the babies. Plural.

Suffice to say Megan has had a crash course in twin parenting, but with amazing and admirable assistance from her family. Her Aunty Mani covered my first 3 weeks away. And her Mum Winifred assisted over that period, and then came to stay with Megan for my first fortnight in Auckland. I came home from Auckland for weekends and have just done the last fortnight at  home, and I can say with a huge degree of confidence that going away to "work" definitely means expending the least labour.

Great Aunt Mani with double trouble

Granny Winni and her Olive

We'll always be indebted to Mani and Winifred for helping out as they have over this period. It has helped  in so many ways, and Megan has become an expert Mum already. Our two girls are very different characters, and they have a lot of nuances to master when dealing with them. Megan seems to have learned them all already, and I'm struggling to catch up.

Olive shows her Daddy the ropes

You're going a bit grey Dad.

Speaking of our girls, they are progressing spectacularly well. Olive has just about hit the 5 kilo mark, and Eliza is a gnats under 4 kilos now. Olive is still well ahead in terms of her feeding... Eliza may well retain her nasal gastric tube for many months still, until she settles onto solids. Olive is also just ahead developmentally, she is giggling while Eliza is smiling, but maybe Eliza is just a tougher audience.

What a fine pair.

I'm sure you'll see from the pictures they are both perfect. Just in slightly different ways.









As for us as a family, the only way is up from here. Olive has been sleeping through the night for several weeks now, and a recent development with Eliza's pump feeding means she is now being fed over a 7 hour period at night too. Which means Megan is finally able to sleep for longer periods of 6 hours +. We have an excellent trainee Nanny Jessica who helps out Mon, Wed, Thu and Fridays. And Winifred is coming over the hill and helping Tuesdays too.

Jessica the hired help!

Now I just need to knock this final block of Auckland work off, and we will all be full steam ahead to Primary School, Secondary School, Uni, the Silver Ferns, Medical School, the U.N. No pressure girls...