Accidents

Tangie’s turn at this –

I’m so excited. The twins had their best 2 nights (knock on wood). Probably because they were worn out from their afternoon and evening crying episodes. :) They slept for 4-5 hrs then another 3-4 hrs. Then they sleep off and on all morning. They even took their turns waking up so I could feed one without the other one crying not wanting to wait turns. (Dual feeding doesn’t quite work for me since they don’t tend to eat as much and then they have to feed more often then the 2-1/2 hrs they are usually going right now during the day.) I decided to feed them a pumped bottle in one of the last feedings of the night but not the final one so we know how much they are getting and don’t go to sleep at the wheel. They tend to burp and choke a lot on the bottle still which I think was preventing them from sleeping good when we tried it for last feeding of the night. Also, they were outgrowing their swaddle blankets from the hospital so we upgraded to the fleece Velcro swaddlers. They can’t get their arms out now!

This week I think we have officially outgrown the newborn size diapers. The labels say they go up to 10 lbs but I don’t believe it. Should be 8-9lbs. I vaguely remember this with Braelyn – when they start to blow out of them, we need to move up. My oh my did we have some blow outs! We decided this week was our first jaunt to Sabbath school. As we are all getting ready Madelyn had her blow out – luckily before we put her clothes on, but got Daddy dirty, then Kohlden had his blow out while eating – ruining his outfit that matched everyone else. (The stains come out if you put stain remover on right away. If you wait until the next morning like we did – well….so much for that outfit. We can’t wait to get Callen’s old clothes). We finally made it out of the house and actually got to Cradle Roll before it started. Amazing, although it was a half hour later than I had calculated. They decided to take their time eating. I need to plan for blow out time as well. Luckily we had Lolo and Lala helping us get the three kids out the door.

Later during the weekend, Lolo was feeding Madelyn and she had another blow out. Got all over his clothes. We were joking with him that it served him right that she got him as he always passes the baby off to someone else to change them or when they are too fussy. Uncle Mike – thanks for changing her.

The fun continues. I was holding Kohlden later in the week and he had a loud one that got all over my white pants and even on to the floor. In the mornings I put them on the bed with me after Allen gets up to take Braelyn to school and they sleep on his pillow. Madelyn decided her diaper was too full so she leaks out on the next blow out. Luckily I had them on a blanket too. Sorry Allen it was on your side of the bed. :) We are on our last box of NBs. Did pretty good at guestimating how many diapers we’d need. Braelyn lasted 6 wks in the newborn size. I think we are going through 20-30 diapers a day, although with 3 changing stations in the house, we aren’t really counting. Sometimes changing a diaper is the easiest thing we can do to see if that is the culprit of the crying bout.

Braelyn decided to join the accident fun. On memorial day we were so jam packed with activities that we didn’t get her down for her nap soon enough so we thought it best instead of fighting with her to take a nap in her room at 4 pm, to then interrupt night-night time just a couple hours later, that we would have her lay on the sofa watching some of her calmer shows. She ended up falling asleep a lot longer than we anticipated and of course when that happens, her potty training goes out the window. More things to wash.

Saturday we got to see Marlissa and Jared Clarke at the hospital with their new baby Isabella Grace born 5 weeks early. Welcome to the 2010 babies club. We are so excited to join you in this adventure!
Braelyn loves to be a helper. She always kisses the twins (even when they are sleeping and we beg her not to). Unfortunately she is learning to take her bench into the kitchen to get up on the counters and get things. Just last week she propped it right up and opened the fridge and got the milk out. Yikes. She does like to help us cook. French toast is currently her specialty. Sunday she helped me make some cookies.

Monday we went to the zoo – which was very HOT and we didn’t last very long. Hard to breast feed under a cape in 90+ degree weather. Although it was warm enough to just put the babies into a deep sleep.

In the afternoon we went to the Ottati’s for a wonderful time of grilling and swimming.

Wednesday night we had a whole slew of friends over for a pizza party to celebrate the Jessels being in town. Had lots of fun seeing everyone and catching up!

Uncle Mike got to stay with us another week and sadly he goes to the Dominican today. We’ll miss the extra set of hands and fun he shared with us. He babysat the twins while I had a doctor's appointment and Allen had fun hanging out with his bro. Brae will miss her dance partner.

Wish us luck on continuing to get more sleep and being able to accept that even though they are fed, burped, and changed, that they still may cry for no apparent reason – in unison like a hungry nest of robins…or make that screaming hyenas. We are sending them to time out in separate rooms. :) Have a good week.