Screamfest '07

How long can they possibly scream you ask? Well last night it was 2+ hours, tonight it was only 1. This week Lily & Reese have decided to not go down to sleep as well as they have for the past 8 months. Oh no. Now it is a negotiation with Reese, who in-turn, recruits Lily in her screamfest. In some ways, we have created some monsters. First, we let them stay up way too late in the beginning. Everyone elses kids were going down at 7 or 8 pm, ours were up until Midnight until about 1 1/2 months ago. Second, we started letting them drink bottles in order to go to sleep, drink thier bottles in thier cribs. BAD IDEA. This has made going to bed without a bottle a nightmare. I have to say, lots of moms have given me advice on putting kiddies to bed. Its a whole other ballgame with two. The same rules don't apply. There is no "crying it out". If #1 wakes up and is screaming, #2 is waking up which is a huge SUCKS. There are no good advice books out there for putting two to bed. NONE except other moms of twins. And even they don't have any good tricks. You can't take one to bed with you and leave the other in the crib. Then you are just giving one special treatment. You can't leave one screaming either. So for now we have the 15 minute rule and bottles with only water to bed. Oh and ps, now that Reese can pull herself up she works herself into such a fit that you find her standing in her crib screaming. Safe right? I think the reason she is so motivated to crawl, sit, and stand is because she gets so pissed off that we leave her in her crib to go to bed. She screams and bulldozes herself around the bed. She also cracked her egg (ie head) yesterday on the TV stand which is a totally cheap IKEA thing, so no major harm done. I should of known she would be the first to crack her noggin'.

Lets hope they sleep until at least 4am. I went to work on about 4 hours sleep today thanks to Lily waking up at 3am and not going back to bed until 415am. I get up for work at 515am. Luckily I can function quite well on little sleep nowadays. I am totally adjusted after 8 months of craziness. Conditioned.

I had a flashback of my two little burritos when Hilary sent me some baby pics from a friend of hers that just had twins yesterday. All swaddled up with the little hats. Now I have two climbers, rollers, and screamers that want to be free al night long and eat stereo wires.