This Post is Totally Gonna Jinx It
If you're a regular reader of this blog, you may have noticed that I haven't written much recently about how sleep deprived Kathy and I are. Well, I've avoided this topic because I was afraid of jinxing it, but here goes...
Leah and Riley have recently been sleeping 7+ hours in a row at night. Sometimes 8. Once this week, they slept almost 9 consecutive hours. It's true.
It first happened a couple weeks ago. We put the babies to bed at 9:30 pm as usual. They had been typically waking up every night for a 3:30 am feeding, almost like clockwork. On that night, I woke up to go to the bathroom and glanced at the clock. 4:30 am. What the --?
Kathy was awake too and was similarly confused. Were they still breathing? Should we wake them up to make sure they're okay?
Luckily, we came to our senses and realized that waking our babies up to make sure they were sleeping wasn't the best idea. Instead, we peered into their bassinets and convinced ourselves they were breathing. Our babies were, in fact, alive, and had actually slept seven hours in a row. And counting.
Kathy and I were absolutely giddy. We felt like we had won the lottery or something. Or more accurately, we felt like we had found a lottery ticket stuck to the bottom of our shoe and the ticket just happened to hit the jackpot. We were actually so excited about this turn of events that we found ourselves completely unable to get back to sleep. We both laid in bed in a semi-euphoric state until the babies woke up, about 45 minutes later. I realize that staying up for 45 minutes in the middle of the night to celebrate your babies sleeping longer is kind of self-defeating, but hey, we didn't care - we were happy, dammit.
The downside of Leah and Riley sleeping longer at night is that they are now sleeping shorter and shorter during the day. The hour or ninety-minute long naps that we had gotten used to have turned into half-hour mini-siestas. Which means that we have to cook and eat meals really fast. Plus I need to type really fast when I'm blogging, lest the babies wake up before I finish my tho-
posted by Dave @ 8:38 AM
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Congratulations! Hooray for more sleep.
P.S. I like this picture because it makes it look like they are conversing. Also, Leah has more hair!
Yes, hooray for sleep! Leah has the same amount of hair as at Christmas. The picture just provides the illusion of more hair.
Aw - so nice to hear that your excellent parenting and adherence to a routine is paying off! You've got these twins wrapped around your fingers!
Although, as a regular reader (fan) of your blog, I am noting that you are truning into those parents - you know, those you blogged about earlier. The parents who only present the very upbeat aspects of their children. You bring them to work - and they are cute as can be. You talk about their sleeping patterns, and they're sleeping more than normal teenagers. Could it be that parenting is just as easy as it looks? Whatever it is - no doubt you guys are doing a great job! Well done.
And the picture is tremendously cute!
Sleep on, parents!
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