Kara in motion
Its now 3 weeks - for this family of 3!
Kara has become even cuter, but her taste for the “night life” has also evolved. She loves entertaining her parents between 1am and 7am.
When she is not sleeping - she is in motion. She communicates, waves, kicks and crawls/slithers (mostly in search of a food source …)
She has a very healthy appetite. In Marga’s words : “She drinks like twins!”
Either her yellow tint has diminished, or we have become more used to it because it is not bothering us as much. We are still keeping our fingers crossed that it will disappear soon.
But you don’t really want to read stories - everyone has been asking us to be more forthcoming with the pictures. So here are a few of Kara in motion:
(If you click on any picture a bigger version will appear)
Striking a pose & the distant look:
Little model & lots of motion:
Dance moves: (these 2 pictures were taken a fraction of a second apart)
Colourful communication:
Strutting her stuff:
Names, Games & Passports
I’ve been interacting a lot with the Department of Home Affairs lately and we’ve had some “fun” to date.
Firstly - they didn’t like the names we gave Kara, because they decided to rather register her as “Kara Weha Scheffler”.
It took me more than a week to get them to correct this - it took very regular and vocal encouragement from me!
We were in a hurry, because we had to apply for a passport for Kara (after which we must obtain a visa) so that she can return to India with us. Obviously we wanted her passport to be in her correct names - so we had to wait for the registration to be corrected. (One Home Affairs official suggested we take the passport in the wrong names. I expressed my view quite graphically on this matter after which it was agreed not to revisit this suggestion).
Secondly - the rules for passport photos makes sense for grown ups, but they are ridiculous when the applicant is 2 weeks old!
The head must be completely upright, eyes open and looking directly forward at the camera, a neutral expression on the face and a white smooth background.
It took four days of taking pictures and some serious electronic creativity, but finally I got the money shot:
Its been a fantastic (although exhausting) 3 weeks. I’m back at the office - and I’m already missing my two girls terribly!
Theo Scheffler
May 11th, 2009 at 7:24 pm
Good grief, but they grow fast! That’s quite a head of hair.
I love the ‘neutral’ expression for the passport pic. Personally, I think she’s planning something …
May 11th, 2009 at 10:52 pm
Theo and Marga - the pics are great!! Ek moes lag oor julle paspoort en registrasie verhale. Ai, dis maar ‘n lekker gemors as jy moet paspoorte reel. Aan hierdie kant het ons ons eie eindelose verhale gehad met my en Aimee se registrasie…toe gaan verander ek my paspoort na my getroude van en toe begin die fun van vooraf. Die foto ding was ook vir my ‘n raaisel. Oor ‘n jaar lyk baba’s mos heeltemal anders, so waarom al die reels en regulasies? Anyway, GENIET julle spesiale nag-tye!! Dis swaar, maar gou weer verby.
May 12th, 2009 at 8:49 am
Hi there, I also had a good giggle about your passport issues - really is ridiculous. Luckily she is still only 3 weeks old - my one is now 8 months old and try getting a photo without movement! Marga, she is lovely and I can see both of you are absolutely loving it …
May 12th, 2009 at 9:37 am
Interesting that there’s no pictures of the parents this time… probably looking too tired.
Kara looks happy however, so whatever you’re doing is working.
May 12th, 2009 at 7:37 pm
She is soooo cute guys! Wow, she really seems to have a lot of character showing through already, and captured well too! Gorgeous poses, front cover model here we come
Howz mum doing? Shame dad, not nice to be away from the little family so soon after one of them has just arrived. Soon you’ll all be together again. And I’m sure the rest of the Scheffler household-the indian residents-cant wait to see Kara! What do they think of this all so far?? Haha!
May 12th, 2009 at 9:01 pm
sy lyk regtig te pragtig baie geluk julle
May 13th, 2009 at 5:51 pm
Jy skryf pragtig en ek geniet jou vertelling rondom jou kind vreeslik! Natuurlik is sy pragtig! Die mooiste in die wereld. Ek kan nie glo sy het al so ‘kyk’ aan haar hier op net 3 wekies nie.
May 15th, 2009 at 9:41 am
sy is die mooiste in die hele wereld - geniet haar
sy is te pragtig
rhoma