Dear Abby,
You are making me look like a fool on the internet! Why you chose last night for the longest craziest crying spell of your short life is beyond me. Also...NOT cool baby. Not cool at all. But thank you for being very sweet again today.
Dear Jake,
No gloating. You totally started it and you know it.
P.S. I returned the ponies today.
Thursday, January 26, 2012
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Thank you
Dear Jake and Abby,
Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU for deciding that you would start sleeping 12-13 hours a night uninterrupted just in time for Daddy's busy season. Have you noticed how I am super fun and patient and awesome every day now? It's because I'm not tired! I get tons and tons of sleep every night! I can stay up late watching TV and cuddling with Ollie and shopping online (sorry Jeff!) and not worry about sleeping every single second I can. And you are still taking 3 naps during the day! They're getting shorter but I'm totally cool with it, because I love that you can stay awake longer and enjoy it. Your timing for this whole learning to sleep all night thing could not be better. We love you for it. Everyone gets a pony.
Love,
Mommy
Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU for deciding that you would start sleeping 12-13 hours a night uninterrupted just in time for Daddy's busy season. Have you noticed how I am super fun and patient and awesome every day now? It's because I'm not tired! I get tons and tons of sleep every night! I can stay up late watching TV and cuddling with Ollie and shopping online (sorry Jeff!) and not worry about sleeping every single second I can. And you are still taking 3 naps during the day! They're getting shorter but I'm totally cool with it, because I love that you can stay awake longer and enjoy it. Your timing for this whole learning to sleep all night thing could not be better. We love you for it. Everyone gets a pony.
Love,
Mommy
Monday, January 23, 2012
Our old home away from home
Jeff is traveling a few days this week, so of course this morning I realized that my pump broke and I would need to visit the lactation consultant at the hospital to get a new one. (Jeff refers to my pump as "my best friend" and it's not far from the truth - I was legitimately panicky at the thought of a day without it. I'm weird like that.) So, off we went to CDH to this afternoon to exchange my pump.
Because I don't take the babies out in public a lot, it's still surprising to me that the double stroller attracts so much attention. I've never really been a baby person - it would never occur to me to stop to look at a baby on the street, or to ask someone what their baby weighs or eats, and even now unless it's a baby I am related to or almost related to (Allie and Jess, talking about your kids) I'm not interested in holding the baby. ESPECIALLY now - I get enough baby holding at home! So it's always unexpected to me that there are so many baby people in the world, and they go freaking nuts when they see twins. Right now it seems a little strange. I am sure by the end of this summer it will drive me insane, like when people thought it was okay to touch my belly while I was pregnant (hello?! NO! Not okay!).
I was super excited that the first person we saw when we went up to the Mother Baby floor was one of our old NICU primary nurses! She recognized me right away (bonus), told me how great I looked (double bonus), AND remembered Jake and Abby (ding ding ding for the win)! It was so much fun to chat with her for a few minutes about how they're doing and what they're up to these days. Also, they were totally adorable, and I was so proud that they didn't immediately barf on themselves or start screaming when I was trying to show them off. While we were waiting for my new pump I saw a few more nurses that I recognized from my time at CDH last summer, and it was so neat to see how excited they were to meet the babies. What was just a random errand turned out to be really fun, so it was a great day.
As we approach Jake and Abby's six month birthday, I've been thinking about all of the things I have learned in the past six months. Like, the sound of a pacifier hitting the crib when you are steps away from it can be a noise worse than nails on a blackboard! It was just about one year ago today that we found out we were going to be having a baby, and if you had told me then what a roller coaster ride we were in for over the next 12 months, I would not have believed you. Now I can tell the difference between their cries on the monitor, and when they're bored, and when they're getting tired, and the things that will definitely make them throw up (bottles before tummy time are like beer before liquor around here). Every once in awhile they'll do something so them and I'll laugh and say, "I knew you were going to do that! I didn't meet you yesterday!" but sometimes it feels like it. I can't believe how fast the time is going by!
In other news, *sniff sniff*, I think we are approaching the end of the days of the babies sharing a room. Jake isn't as great a napper as Abby is, and the result is that he wakes her up sometimes. It's nothing unbearable, but if we have room for them to be split up and they sleep better that way, why not? So we're going to work on that in the coming weeks.
If you've made it this far in my rambling post, here's your reward!
Because I don't take the babies out in public a lot, it's still surprising to me that the double stroller attracts so much attention. I've never really been a baby person - it would never occur to me to stop to look at a baby on the street, or to ask someone what their baby weighs or eats, and even now unless it's a baby I am related to or almost related to (Allie and Jess, talking about your kids) I'm not interested in holding the baby. ESPECIALLY now - I get enough baby holding at home! So it's always unexpected to me that there are so many baby people in the world, and they go freaking nuts when they see twins. Right now it seems a little strange. I am sure by the end of this summer it will drive me insane, like when people thought it was okay to touch my belly while I was pregnant (hello?! NO! Not okay!).
I was super excited that the first person we saw when we went up to the Mother Baby floor was one of our old NICU primary nurses! She recognized me right away (bonus), told me how great I looked (double bonus), AND remembered Jake and Abby (ding ding ding for the win)! It was so much fun to chat with her for a few minutes about how they're doing and what they're up to these days. Also, they were totally adorable, and I was so proud that they didn't immediately barf on themselves or start screaming when I was trying to show them off. While we were waiting for my new pump I saw a few more nurses that I recognized from my time at CDH last summer, and it was so neat to see how excited they were to meet the babies. What was just a random errand turned out to be really fun, so it was a great day.
As we approach Jake and Abby's six month birthday, I've been thinking about all of the things I have learned in the past six months. Like, the sound of a pacifier hitting the crib when you are steps away from it can be a noise worse than nails on a blackboard! It was just about one year ago today that we found out we were going to be having a baby, and if you had told me then what a roller coaster ride we were in for over the next 12 months, I would not have believed you. Now I can tell the difference between their cries on the monitor, and when they're bored, and when they're getting tired, and the things that will definitely make them throw up (bottles before tummy time are like beer before liquor around here). Every once in awhile they'll do something so them and I'll laugh and say, "I knew you were going to do that! I didn't meet you yesterday!" but sometimes it feels like it. I can't believe how fast the time is going by!
In other news, *sniff sniff*, I think we are approaching the end of the days of the babies sharing a room. Jake isn't as great a napper as Abby is, and the result is that he wakes her up sometimes. It's nothing unbearable, but if we have room for them to be split up and they sleep better that way, why not? So we're going to work on that in the coming weeks.
If you've made it this far in my rambling post, here's your reward!
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| I can't get enough of these sweet faces! |
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| I'm going to start showing people this picture when they ask what Ollie thinks of the babies... |
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| ...or I could always show them this one. |
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| Jake: Is The Bachelor really going to pick THAT girl?! Abby: Yep. Dumb. |
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Thursday, January 12, 2012
Happy new year! And five months old
What was supposed to be a low key Christmas Eve with just the four of us, due to the pediatrician's recommendation that we sit out the big holiday parties to minimize the chance of picking up germs, turned in to me sick in bed with a horrible cold and Jeff taking care of all three of us. He did a great job, of course, but I'm pretty sure he doesn't want to trade his own day job for mine any time soon.
We had a wonderful Christmas morning at my parents' house then came home to spend the afternoon together. I was SO excited for the babies to wake up from their afternoon nap so we could "open presents together"...obviously I understood that they wouldn't actually be opening anything, but I was excited for them to be awake and present while we opened things and showed them. They wouldn't wake up! They took the longest nap of all time! Finally Jeff and I just started tearing in to things because we got bored waiting for them. Again, probably the quietest that this will ever be for us, and Jeff and I had a blast.
We had some friends over for New Year's Eve and I learned an important lesson that night...drinking too much champagne is NOT worth it. I was barely functional on New Year's Day. Never again! We hit another great sleep milestone on New Year's Eve - babies went down to sleep around 7pm, and although we had to go in there several times throughout the night to replace pacifiers and help them back to sleep, they finally dropped their 3am bottle and didn't eat again until almost 7am. We thought maybe it was too good to be true, but so far in 2012, no 3am bottle. We have gone from feeding babies 14-16 bottles a day to only 8 bottles a day in three months. Amazing!! So we're here - sleeping through the night has finally arrived. It is just as glorious as I hoped it would be.
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| Waiting for our shots |
We celebrated their five month birthday on Friday, January 6 with our monthly trip to Wheaton Pediatrics for RSV shots. Jeff and I have always taken them together before, but since I'm an accounting widow until spring I had to go it alone this time. I was super nervous, but also excited to see if I could do it. It went great! Although I was more than a little bit annoyed to be kept in the waiting room for more than half an hour (who does that to a woman alone with two infants?!), everything went smoothly and I think I impressed a few nurses with how easily I managed Jake and Abby. I know that I horrified one in particular. She asked me if I wanted her to bring in another nurse to help hold the babies after their shots, and I said no, that Abby would be fine and I would hold Jake because he would NOT be fine. Sure enough, Abby cried for 30 seconds, then went to sleep when I put her back in her car seat. Jake wailed for a solid 3 minutes, then whimpered for a good long while after that.We got another great report from the pediatrician - Abby is up to 10lb 15oz, and Jake is up to 13lb and...to be honest, I don't remember how many ounces, which I guess means we have stopped thinking about weight gain quite so much. It seems a long way from our NICU days!
Our five month photo shoot was easily our best yet. Now that the babies can stay awake longer it's much easier to get some good shots of them smiling! Here we are in all of our five month old glory:
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| From our gag reel! |
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| THAT'S more like it! |
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