A common site around here. The pink pillow. Me=passionate breast feeder who looks forward to the day I can burn that pink pillow! Nursing two, while unquestionably worthwhile, is a whole different ballgame. The view from here has changed just slightly.
Both babies are asleep! Leo and Ellie are at school/camp! Quick! Blog!
Let's see.
Where do I even begin? Eyeroll: how many of my posts lately have gone this way?
I MISS you. But these darn kids, I tell you!
I'm working at lowering my standards. It's going OK though others might disagree.
Afternoons are by far the hardest, when the big kids are home and hot and sometimes bored and needing snacks and and and. We're all doing the best we can, it's all we can do.
Not much to say about sleep really. At seven weeks things are better but certainly we have a long way to go.
Harry continues to have horrific spit-up issues. If he's not sleeping or eating, odds are he's crying.
Oh sure he looks mellow here. Don't be fooled. Also who wants to see a picture of a crying baby?
He has tiny windows of placidity but overall, he's one uncomfortable guy. My heart breaks for him. Yesterday I eliminated dairy from my diet to see if that helps. Word is it will take between 24 hours and a week to tell a difference. And being one to not do anything halfway we ALSO started him on Pepcid which was pointed out to me as being silly (to do both, i.e. how will we know which one is doing the trick if in fact his condition improves?).
We were all shocked by how calm he was during a recent bath.
And this is more like it. Perturbed. Poor guy! (But don't you love what the bath does for his hair?)
Anyway, dairy free me. The things we do for love. Sigh. All I know is, half in half in my coffee, I miss you already.
And Lucy's awake. So this is cut short.
I'll just say this. Someday we'll look back on this and laugh and cry and maybe roll our eyes a little. This will be That Summer. I'm quite sure of it. Yup, the summer our kid-load doubled. The summer we added two little cuties. Lost our minds a little, but certainly expanded our hearts.
But as you can see, when things are good, they are very, very good.
3 comments:
aw, babies. In that first picture it looks like they're playing rock paper scissors. how advanced!
I do not remember the first 6 months of the twins' first year. It's all a blur and I put it away in a special mental box that couldn't be opened with years of therapy and a blowtorch. I certainly understand the difficulties, especially when you have older kids. Cut to the present and we get to sleep through the night and we were all holding hands while walking through a parking lot. No more gargantuan stroller and packing everything but the kitchen sink to go out. We even go out! Hang in there!
I love Harry's hair! Reminds me of my own (kids, as babies, not my own hair). Glad things are improving in the sleep department... That first chunk of time was (for me) Not Fun. Not Fun at all. But then you get smooshy babies!
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