Sweet babies

When I came back to our bathroom after putting Macey down for the night here's what I found.

Pictures, pictures, pictures...

Wow

Baby A and Baby B, now known as Miles and Camryn, are 4 months old today. As every other mother does, I look back to the day they were born when each milestone is reached and lament at how much they have grown and how fast it has gone. Here are a few pictures of what 4 month old twins look like.

And here are a few pictures to see their growth.

They are 10 days old in this picture

Vent...

For those people that say..."you will survive, you are not the first and certainly not the last people to have twins (multiples)" and they don't have multiples themselves...they've got some guts. That's like me opining on the next space exploration. Or me offering advice to someone who has a life threatening illness that I've never experienced myself ("Thousands of people have survived this, you can too"). No, the kids are not illnesses, but it's just funny how people think that they should offer advice looking in with their rose colored glasses. Maybe I should offer them to come and live in my world for a day, week, or month. Maybe they wouldn't say such cavalier things about a topic that they themselves have never walked a day in the same shoes. Ok, yes, we will survive, and yes, we are having a blast, but sometimes the random statements of strangers or even from people you know can get annoying. I mean let me not even begin to explain the logistics of feeding twins and having a toddler to tend to, or loading all the kids in the car (just wait until all of them are mobile), or unloading all the kids by yourself into a triple stroller, or grocery shopping alone with all 3 kids... No, I'm not saying "whoa is me" or "look at me, I'm doing this"...just had to vent about how ignorant some people come across.

Who is who?

So this is easy since the hair thing is a giveaway. I can say that they have different looks, but very very similar.

Under the weather

We're still struggling with colds/sinus/whatever you wanna call it. I've pretty much lost my voice, my throat feels like it's been hit by a train and I have congestion as well. Sean's got a nasty cough and congestion. Macey's got the runny nose, cough at night and when she runs around and gets "heated". The babies have a cough and congestion. I tried to lay Miles down in his car seat tonight, but he wasn't having it. He was tired of sleeping by himself. Every time I laid him down he'd wake up. I tried to see if he'd just go back to sleep, but no such luck. So I moved Camryn out of her car seat and laid them down together. So far so good. I should've known he wasn't going to sleep by himself tonight because he wouldn't do it after the night feedings (insert he slept with me instead) last night.

Miles's rash kept getting worse and worse so I called his pediatrician back to see what she had diagnosed. And lo and behold she did diagnose eczema. What frustrated me is that eczema is an intake or contact allergy and she wasn't going to try to troubleshoot to see what was causing it, instead she just prescribed a higher dosage of hydrocortisone cream. There are side affects to prolonged/continued use of that cream. So since I had a milk allergy as an infant I removed diary from his and my diet and see how he does. Today was the first day. Here is a picture of my baby with the horrible rash. It's all over him...his arms, legs, stomach, a little on his back and it itches as he scratches at it a LOT.

A Hundred Kisses

This is how our evening went...

Macey.wake up from nap.crying.babies just ate.go get Macey out of bed and hold her in the bed with the babies...more crying...okay..let's go downstairs. Pick up babies and say, "let's go Macey.."wailing, crying, slobbering, snotting...take babies downstairs and lay them down in a playgym...get stuff out to make a snack for Macey (maybe that'll cheer her up)...go back upstairs to get Macey..she's in the exact.same.spot we left her...except now she's sitting on the floor hunched over slobbering. pick her up and take her downstairs. make a cracker and peanut butter snack for Macey...crying...okay, momma eats it...crying...making another cracker and peanut butter snack for Macey...she takes a bite...yeah...oh wait crying again, is she hurt..no...okay..done with snack...Miles is screaming on the floor..bring Macey to the living room and put her on the floor with us...crying..pick up Miles and he calms down....Macey slobbering. snotting. wailing..."Show momma what you want..." crying.slobbering.snotting..."Do you want to go night-night in your bed again.." "yeah", said through slobbering.snotting.crying...take Macey back upstairs and tell her I love her and kiss her and lay her down...crying...back downstairs, Miles is crying...monitor needs new batteries...put new batteries in..Macey's hysterical...tell myself I'll give her 5 minutes...pick up Miles...put him back down, make Macey's dinner....set TV to Blue's Clues...wait Noggin changed their schedule...no Blue's Clues at 5pm...WHAT!...how could they...don't they know that's the only show Macey will watch...and now it's not on at 5pm...good thing there's On Demand...get one of those Blue's Clues going..time to go get Macey...whew..seems like she's over whatever was bothering her...she's talking as we go downstairs...BLUE'S CLUES....and dinner...play with car...happy Macey...dancing.laughing.silly Macey...time for bath and bedtime...Macey wants momma to carry her upstairs...hands are full with the babies...put babies down upstairs...get bath water running...go back downstairs to get Macey...she wants to read her Dog book...we'll read that at bedtime, time for bath...splashing. laughing.cheerful Macey...Miles is crying..turn on the hair dryer (works every time)...no more crying...sleeping Miles...get Macey out of bath and ready for bed...singing our bedtime songs I get kisses over and over and over again from Macey (which she's never done before)...loveable.kind.cuddly Macey...sing our songs, tell her I love her and give her one.hundred.more.kisses...lay her down...quiet.sleepy Macey....get back to babies...fussing babies...bathe Camryn, then Miles, rock and down for bed...