Monday, February 15, 2010

This week

Our house is pretty crazy.  I've reached that delirious stage I've always gotten to with all of my boys.  I've gone almost 10 months with hardly any sleep between being pregnant with the twins and since they've been born. So during the day, I feel like a walking zombie.

Confession: In all of the twin books it says when one baby wakes up to eat, you need to wake up the other one too.  The purpose of course being so they will be on the same schedule, making life a little easier, getting up only half of the time.  Well, easier said than done.  I have tried but I HATE waking a sleeping baby.  They are usually on the same schedule during the day, but at night, they like to trade off.  That means I get up 3-4 times with each baby making it a total of 6-8.  It usually works out that once I get one down it's a matter of 30 to 40 minutes later, that the other one wakes up.  I know everyone will think I'm crazy but it really is harder than you would think. Those of you that have twins and have succeeded,  I'm proud and jealous. Anyway, that's what I have been doing.  But being a zombie all day isn't very fun so I'm going for it.  I am going to change our sleeping patterns around here.  I'll keep you posted.

Of course that's just one part of our crazy lives. With the older boys, its school, homework, sports, chores, etc.  Don't worry, I won't bore you with that for now.  Enough of that, here's the fun stuff we are experiencing.

The name of my street where I grew up is called "Sunset Drive".   From my parents house you could see the most beautiful sunsets around. Hence the name.  I have always loved seeing the colors in the sky and have been lucky to live in beautiful places to see them over mountains and at the beaches.  This is a picture of a Spanish sunrise from our top balcony .  My boys probably get sick of me always telling them to look at the sky but it's just one of my things.





This is our Jake.  He couldn't be more of a typical 4 year old boy.  Most of the time, his attitude is cute but he can definitely be more of a stinker than he should.  Anyway, this is a little clip of our  conversation the other day.



We know we put a lot of videos on here and that some of you might be bored with them.  But we want to share some of these moments with family and friends that are so far away from us.

This is a video of Tanner rolling over.   Spencer seemed like he would be the one to roll first, but Tanner sort of did it out to the blue. We didn't even see his first one since he did it when we weren't in the room. But later that day we captured this one.



Finally, a clip of a brewing sibling rivalry.



Jake:  "Mom!! I don't want this tortilla because it has brown on it and brown is the color of coffee and I don't like coffee.  Its disgusting."

6 comments:

  1. Rebecca, I am so sorry that you get no sleep. I seriously have nothing to complain about. I want to cry sometimes because Claire still wakes up to nurse twice a night. Last night she slept through the night for the first time in months. I don't know if I could function being woken up every half hour. Those babies are so lucky they get such a giving mother. Hang in there!!

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  2. You are amazing! I am not sure I could ever handle twins. I wish I had some great advice but I don't. Good luck and hang in there. It will be worth it...someday!

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  3. Jake is hilarious. I wish at 25 and not married I still thought kissing was disgusting. You need some help! Prepare a million bottles and have Nick do one night and you do the next. You need a break. Love you, miss you and wish I was with you. You better come home this summer or heads will roll.

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  4. i ditto what emme says...nick you need to take a night of feedings. however, if you're like me, the husband just doesn't always do it just right and i'm up listening to him not doing it right. i might as well get up myself. they try so hard. anyway, i LOVE the videos. i wish i was there to snuggle up on those precious boys....all of them. jake cracks me up. i love how he gets mad at his body for growing up. only jake. hey, did you ever get the package we sent? it's the first time i tried sending something MPS to someplace other than oki. miss you guys tons!

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  5. I am so sorry you are a sleep zombie. It stinks. Landon had me getting up every 45 minutes for months but is finally over it. I can't imagine how you're doing it. Good luck with fixing the sleeping problems. Ugh.
    I miss your boys. A lot.

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  6. I think you could win some serious AFV money with that video of Jake. Hillarious!!!
    I enjoy popping in to see how you are doing and enjoying the incredible scenery of your world travels vicariously through you!!!

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