Sleep, glorious sleep

In case you can't tell by now, I am obsessed with sleep. I think about sleep more than I think about food. Our sleep, the babies' sleep, even Ollie's sleep because it now drives me crazy when he wakes me up in the middle of the night.

We are still having a great run here of only waking up once overnight for a bottle, and our new normal of going to sleep around 9:30 and waking up around 6:30 with only a one hour wake in between for feeding is leaving me feeling great every day. We also survived the magical "six weeks after due date" this past Wednesday, with a little help from Ang since Jeff was out of town. Of course, not everything that Ang did was helpful...

Jake and Abby were in bed around 7 and I fell asleep around 9:30 with Ang watching TV next to me. Abby woke up to eat at midnight, so I fed her and then Jake and Ang slept through the whole thing - I was pretty proud of myself for that. Then at 4:00am, I woke up suddenly to her whispering my name. Here's how the conversation went:

Ang: (Whispering) Dre. Dre.
Me: (Wakes up startled) What? What?
Ang: It's 4:00 and the babies are still sleeping.
Me: So?
Ang: So shouldn't they be awake by now?
Me: They woke up to eat at midnight. You slept through it.
Ang: Oh. Do you think you should check on them?
Me: (Looks at video monitor, everyone is asleep) They're asleep. Did you even look at the video monitor?
Ang: Yes! They weren't moving!
Me: Because they were asleep! And now you have jinxed me and they're going to wake up in 5 minutes.
Ang: But Abby made a noise! I heard it!
Me: I'm going back to sleep.
Ang: (Long pause) Well now I can't go back to sleep. Do you want to talk?
Me: NO. Go back to sleep.

To answer your question Ang, no, Hallmark does not make a "Sorry I woke you up needlessly at 4:00am, new mom of twins" card. But they should. The punishment fit the crime - Ang fed Abby when she woke up at 5:30am while I fed Jake, and then she had to watch me go back to sleep for another 3 hours while she got ready to go to work. (FYI, she did try to hang out with me while she was getting ready, but I was having none of it).

In non-sleep related news, I got my first smiles this week! So now I can breathe easy, both babies' intentional first smiles were directed at me. They have developed a new love for their bouncy seats that have a little bunny rabbit hanging at eye level in front of them, and it's so cute to watch them grin and swat at it. I have some pictures to prove it too!