..So Very Sleepy..

The twins are 8 days old today. Everybody's healthy and happy, although I'll have to wait to post new photos until our DSL is repaired. (Damn you, Earthlink!)

Twin parenthood so far feels like we're some sort of test subjects in an evil experiment about sleep deprivation. I haven't been truly sleep deprived since my college days, and I had forgotten what it feels like to try to get through the day on 2 to 4 hours of sleep. Kathy and I have found that we're not quite as good at dealing with sleep deprivation as we were back in the day. Of course, in college, we were sleep deprived, but we didn't have the fate of two little human beings in our hands at the same time.

So far, the consequences of the sleep deprived parental brains have been pretty minor -- things like:

• We accidentally call the babies by other names, like Chloe (our cat), or the names of our friends' kids (like Hailey and Sofia).
• We have periodic meltdowns caused by incredibly minor provocations, like the condescending voice of a DSL customer support representative (I say, damn you, Earthlink!)
• We do things like accidentally tucking in Riley's shirt into her diaper, resulting in unpleasant surprises when we next change her poopie diaper.
• We accidentally start leaving the doctor's office room after making sure we have everything in hand (purse, diaper bag, car seats, stroller), but alas, not our youngest daughter.

By "we", of course, I mean "I". I guess, similar to college, Kathy's a little better at dealing at sleep deprivation than I am.