how time flies...

Has it really been a week since I last posted?  Wow.  The time really has flown by.  Last week, I only had baby 1 until friday.  It was a pretty easy week.  She was on a great napping schedule, I had two-three hours at a time where she would sleep, allowing me to do things around the apartment.  Friday came and baby 2 had forgotten how to sleep.  Sigh...it is certainly a challenge getting them both to sleep and not wake the other one up.  Mostly, I figure they will just learn to sleep through a lot of noise.  They will have to.  They do ok, there are just the occasional hiccups. 

Today, baby 1 came in having slept only 6 hrs in the last 36.  Not cool.  She took her morning two hour nap for me as usual and would've slept longer, but I had to wake her for a feeding.  This afternoon however, she slept 45 minutes and was then awakened by baby 2's fussiness.  She was obviously still tired, but I tried for 45 more minutes to put her back to sleep but to no avail. She was up.  So our afternoon two hour nap turned into a mini 45 minute cat nap.  Boo.
If baby 1 wasn't sleeping well, do you really think she was going to take her bottle well?  Ahh, you catch on quick!  I had to resort to using the medicine dropper which I have not had to do since the very first week.  It was an hour long tedious process of getting her to take it all, but she ate about 3 1/2 oz.  Hard to tell with spilling some, and her spitting some out, but oh well.

Baby 2, after playing on the floor, was looking sleepy, rubbing his eyes (so cute!) so I swaddled him up and laid him in his bed.  Baby 1 began to look sleepy too.  Swaddled her up and did the same.  I am working on getting them to put themselves to sleep.  So, I lay them down while sleepy, but still awake.  If they cry, I check on them every two minutes and reassure them that I am still there, but do not pick them up.  Baby 2 is pretty good at it.  Baby 1 is decent, but she still takes a few checks.  This afternoon I decided to let her go longer than 2 minutes...at 3 minutes and thirty seconds, she had stopped crying. Sigh...it's been 20 minutes of peaceful silence, although it really feels much longer.  Here's hoping for a good 2 hour nap to replace the earlier one.  Do you know, that at 3-4 months of age, they are only supposed to be awake for 1-2 hrs at a time and then sleep about 16 hrs a day??  Crazy.  Anyway, I do my best to keep within those time constraints.  I know they need that sleep to rest and grow and develop.

Two babies is certainly more challenging than one and they are so unpredictable sometimes.  I'm hoping I continue to get better at it and that they do too :-)  The stress and frustration I experience when I can't get them to stop crying is so minor compared to what I experienced at my previous jobs.  This still beats working for someone else, any day.

In brighter news, last friday I had the babies make their first craft!  Foot print snowmen!  Love them.