Still here! We are movin’ along, despite my lack of posting. I am enjoying a very rare moment of silence (both babies asleep, Emma at daycare) so I will try to get this out quick before anyone wakes up!
Elsie likes to jump jump jump
There are new pictures over in the gallery, go take a look! As you can see, we’ve started the babies on solids, hooray! They are getting mixed reviews, but all in all they seem to be taking to them better than Emma did. Still figuring out the texture and swallowing thing, but they love to cram the spoon in their mouths and suck on them. So far we’ve tried avocado, homemade brown rice cereal, applesauce, and baby oatmeal. They seem to like the applesauce the best! Its really fun (and chaotic) to have the whole family eating dinner together at the table.
We also have some teeth on the horizon! I can see and feel Elsie’s two bottom front teeth, though they are not poking through yet. That combined with the horrible cold and cough that she has is making her a wee bit needy these days…
Sleep, um, no real updates to report here. It seems to cycle from normal/bad to horrific every few weeks or so, and for a few days I just get so tired I can’t bear the thought of another day, and then I get a little more sleep and things get better for a bit. I’ve pretty much eased off the cry it out stuff, and because of it I think they are actually sleeping longer again. At some point I am going to start holding off feeding them until a certain point in the night (say, 1am or so, which they sometimes actually sleep until on really good nights) but I’m not quite there yet. I’ve been reading a really great book on sleep, Sleepless in America by Mary Sheedy Kurcinca, that has lots of good ideas and explanations for various sleep issues. No magic bullet fixes for the wee ones, but I figured that going in. They are still so young.
However, we have decided to hire some daytime help and I am in the process of sorting through mothers helper/nanny inquiries. We are hoping to find someone who can come in 4 hours a day 3 times a week, to assist with babies/Emma/household work. I am SO EXCITED but also daunted by the task of interviewing and figureing out what is reasonable pay, etc.
Ah, Elsie’s up, gotta go!
My never ending laundry
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Ahhhhhh…..but your laundry is so gorgeous on those little bodies! Sure hope you can get a nap when the hired person comes….
Those girls are just so darn cute!!
It is very common here for the twins to have nannies (or in one case a manny!) because of the high cost of day care for two. Would you like me ton inquire as to rates in Mt. Airy? I should say these folks seem a bit upscale (Ie the nannies are imported) We are blessed with a neighbor gal/parents’ helper who refused more than $2.50 an hour, but that seems a bit unrealistic.