Random Friday

True story...I spent 20 minutes sitting in my car yesterday in my garage. The twins had finally fallen asleep on our drive home and I didn't want to wake them up. I seriously considered just leaving them in there and going in the house to start dinner. Finally Jack started stirring and I took them inside, where they proceeded to scream their faces off. I should have taken a nap in the car with them. Lesson learned.

When Jack cries, I rush to see what's wrong. When Amelia cries, I give her a good 5 minutes or so to see if she's serious. Play favorites much? Actually, I think she cries wolf too much. It's never too early to learn a lesson.

Jack's new favorite activity is playing patty cake. We need to find a new activity because I am sick of rolling and patting and marking with a B...

The new hypoallergenic soap makes Amelia's skin so soft and pretty...as if she could get any prettier right? Touching Jack is still like touching an alligator. Amelia must have stolen all the pretty in utero. Poor Jack.

This blanket was not washed with our new hypoallergenic detergent. Sorry if you break out in a rash big guy.

Speaking of a big guy....Jack gained 7oz in 2 days on his new high calorie diet. I might get my dream of a chunky baby after all!

Amelia has been crying the entire time I've been writing this post....that's what you get when you cry wolf ;)

Have a happy random Friday everyone!

Go The F* To Sleep

Ok I'd probably never say that to my children, but boy, do I feel where the author of that book is coming from.

So after a few days of some VERY fussy babies, some on-and-off sleeping through the night, some extreme clinginess, and a very tired momma...I decided it was time to do some sleep training! They're still a little young, but considering they have never slept in their cribs before, I thought we should probably get things started.

The twins have a great bedtime routine and I think that's because we established it from the very beginning. Between 7:30-8pm we take them upstairs. We bath them, do mini-baby massages with lotion, feed them, and put them to bed by 9. They USUALLY go to sleep pretty quickly. Then things get messy. If they ate well that day, they'll sleep for 5 or 6 hours. If they didn't, they'll be up in 2 or 3 hours. If they slept well and had a good active day, they sleep 5 or 6 hours. If they have a bad day, they'll be up every 2-3 hours. So I figured setting up a schedule during the day might get them into a schedule at night (preferably sleeping for 5 or 6 hours through the night).

Well day 1 was terrible. Jack cried for the ENTIRE time. I'd put him down, he'd cry for 15 minutes. I capped the cryfest there and would go in to cuddle. He'd quiet down, I'd put him back to bed and we'd repeat the cryfest. For an entire hour this went on. And then he went down into his swing where he quieted down. Boy loves his swing. Mia slept for almost 2 hours, then woke up in hysterics. So I got her up and fed her and called it a mini-success.

We're on day 2 now, I'm far from being an expert.

Nap time started out like this...

That's (by some miracle) 1 sleeping boy and 1 wide awake baby girl. After some intermittent screaming though, we had 2 sleeping babies for about 45 minutes! woohoo!

But after that 45 minutes, nap time went down the drain with 2 hysterical hungry babies (keep in mind, at this point they had just eaten 2 hours ago...they act like I starve them or something). I decided to hold them off from eating for another hour (seriously, how starving can you possibly be? you JUST ate kids!) and nap time ended with this...

Brother Sister tummy time!

Of course, about 10 minutes in, that ended too. And here we are...with 2 babies who sort of napped and ate like pigs all afternoon.

Still an exhausted mommy. When do things start working out in my favor? And when does daddy get home from work?? :)

I ordered The Happiest Baby on the Block and a few other books on Amazon about sleep training and baby wrangling. We'll see if they have any good tips. Out of all the pregnancy, newborn, and baby books I've seen so far though, the most I've learned has simply been from experience. So we'll see where we end up in another week or 2....

To be continued....