Sleeping... or lack of

The girls are finally getting on a little better schedule at night. During the day, the eat every three hours (or at least we try to feed them every three hours). Brooklyn has decided that she doesn't like to sleep, when we give her a bottle, she usually try to get her to nap afterward, so in perfect logic, if she refuses to eat, she won't have to go to sleep. Or at least that is what she thinks. So, there is usually a lot of screaming and flipping around to try to avoid eating. However, in the evenings, if they anytime after 9pm, they go to sleep for the night. They both start out in the crib but about 3:30am, the fussing starts and we move Brylee into the swing and Brooklyn into the bed. Then every hour or so "Flipper" does her thing and starts flipping around in the bed because she loses her pacifier. Once it is returned to her, she is happy and back asleep. This usually goes on till about 7:30am. So, in the gran scheme of things, I know we are pretty lucky.

So, yesterday Becky comes into the office and proceeds to announce that Liam sleeps from 7pm-7am. The best part is that she didn't just say it once. This was followed by me politely scratching my nose with my middle finger. This was followed by me thinking... I HATE her. (Not really because she is one of my best friends, but at the time, I definitely hated her.)

She proceeded to reiterate her perfect baby's great sleeping habits at Bunco last night, where again I had to scratch my nose as well as did Dusty, but, I was happy for her... really.

Then, this morning, I get this email from Becky...

In other news, I have to say that karma is a bitch. After 4 days of 12 hours of awesome sleep, little man woke up at 4:45 am with a poopy diaper that had exploded out the side, through his jammies and onto his sheet. He then proceeded to scream until 7am when I loaded him in the car and took him to grandmas…then he fell asleep. Never, ever will I mention how good he is sleeping again. I totally jinxed it so now it’s probably back to 4:30-5am wakeups each morning. Figures…

Love ya Becky!

Yum!

Hanging out together. Waiting on Dad to get home with a new DVD player. It's absolutely amazing how addicted they are to Baby Einstein and how miserable Mom and Dad's life is without it.




Brylee liked sweet potatoes!

5 months

Better late than never. Here are the girls 5 month photos with Mr. Bear.

We also found out the girls LOVE Rockband. It was so much fun Brooklyn passed out after the first song.

Well, it happened

Brylee rolled over today. I thought for sure it would be Brooklyn who rolls first as she is always sleeping next to me on the bed and rolls into me. Although, I guess that just gets blamed on gravity helping and Brylee did it all on her own. However, she didn’t seemed surprised when it happened which makes me think maybe it has happened before where she rolled over went “oh crap” and rolled back so we would never know. All I know is that this officially moves us into the next category, the “you can’t just leave them somewhere and expect them to be in the same place when you come back.”

She also has started smiling a lot more.

This is so going to be the girls in the very near future!

If only...

Liam, Brooklyn/Brylee's future boyfriend finally arrived and Becky is such a trooper. After being there with her, it made me appreciate how fairly simple (at least the actual birth part) I had it. From when my water broke to when I had my two bundles of joy was about an hour and a half. Most of which I don't remember thanks to the Ambein and never once felt a contraction. Since his arrival, Becky has been way to good at updating her blog so I decided "If Only" was an appropriate title for this post since if only, I was as good as Becky about updating my blog. I say that as I sit here in the dark (because Munchkin #1 is sleeping on the bed) typing with one finger (because Munchkin #2 is on my lap devouring her hand).

They are growing so fast. It is amazing. I look back at the pictures posted on the blog and it doesn't even look like them.

Some updated pics...

Chillin at the pool with the nice beer bottles in the background. Wish they had been mine. I still haven't had anything to drink (going on a year next week) and am actually afraid of how my first drink will go. I remember about 7 years ago when Jennifer had her first drink after having Jack and it was quite the scene. I have a feeling my friends wouldn't let me stop at just one and I would be the hit of the party when the time comes.

The twins meeting the twins.

The twins meeting Mike Coats, former astronaut and current JSC Center Director. I wasn't sure I was ever going to get my children back. He absolutely loves kids and is great with them. I am pretty sure he cleared off the entire afternoon to spend with the girls which makes for a pretty cool story.

Family picture at the lake house. I can't wait till they are big enough to take on the boat. Hopefully, that will be next summer.

Back at work and busy

Well, needless to say, it's been awhile. I went back to work on June 6 and it has been absolutely crazy. Since then we have:

• Spent Memorial Day at the lake where Brylee managed to poop all over Maria (and I do mean that literally) but she was a great sport about it; although, they have yet to come back over... hmmmm.


• Went shopping at the Outlet Mall. Who would have ever thought that was a good idea? But, the girls did great and we got a ton of good deals. We must be really lucky because we hit all the "Today Only!" sales. Strange how that is the day we always seem to go on? ;-)


• Went for a walk at the lake house and for anyone who has been there, just imagine me and Dusty pushing the double stroller up that hill right as you leave the driveway. It was quite the scene. Needless to say, the next night we went the other way down the street and avoided the hill. However, we did get chased by the Wild Ginney who apparently lives in the neighborhood. Wish I had a video of that.


• Went down to the beach house and hung out on the porch but never quite made it down to the water


• Had our first pool experience at Susie's. No swimsuits yet so our diaper had to do. Brooklyn had a blast since she got to wear Aunt Deb's sunglasses.


• Started sleeping through the night for the most part. On good nights, they both go to sleep around 11pm and sleep till about 6 or 7am. On bad nights, well... we won't talk about those


• Interviewed our first nanny. Her name is Susie. We really liked her and I feel it is a special angel's way of still watching over the girls. Sometimes I still find myself just staring at the girls thinking how blessed I am to be able to spend those moments with them and end up in tears because for some, those moments are gone.


• Dusty entered a picture of Brooklyn in the Gerber baby contest. You can vote once a day at http://apps.facebook.com/gerberphotosearch/entry/182325/brooklyn.aspx Of course, as usual, Dusty waited till the last minute and submitted the first picture he could find at 11:59pm since the deadline was that day at midnight. The cropping tool wasn't the best so her head is huge but still cute.