The kids are in bed. Asleep. I tidied up and the living room looks like adults live in this apartment. The cats aren't getting on my nerves and I have a cup of tea.
Shhhhh.
Shhhhh.
Sunday, February 27, 2011
Friday, February 25, 2011
the cost of twins
We have a good income. Nothing amazing but good enough. Good enough if we either didn't have kids or they could just sit at home all day.
Let me explain
We go to a music class each week. It's a 10 week class and costs $360 for one child and $1 for the other. Well, that's what it costs when the kids were under 6 months. Now the next class will cost us $610 (we get a sibling discount for returning to the class!!).
HOW MUCH????? $600+ for a 45 min class??????? WTF????????
So I am going to do it. I am starting a play group with my friend. That's 4 kids. I shall invite a twin mommie from the music class, that's 6 kids. I shall find a space, we can get the 'stuff' from co.sco or sam.s c.lub and bobs your bloody cheaper uncle. Feck me!! I am boiling mad.
Next year I know of 5 more kids that will need somewhere to go and the mums have already agreed to join our merry band.
I know, this way lies madness but I refuse, absolutely bloody well refuse to pay thousands of dollars for my kids to bang a frikkin drum or finger paint.
Let me explain
We go to a music class each week. It's a 10 week class and costs $360 for one child and $1 for the other. Well, that's what it costs when the kids were under 6 months. Now the next class will cost us $610 (we get a sibling discount for returning to the class!!).
HOW MUCH????? $600+ for a 45 min class??????? WTF????????
So I am going to do it. I am starting a play group with my friend. That's 4 kids. I shall invite a twin mommie from the music class, that's 6 kids. I shall find a space, we can get the 'stuff' from co.sco or sam.s c.lub and bobs your bloody cheaper uncle. Feck me!! I am boiling mad.
Next year I know of 5 more kids that will need somewhere to go and the mums have already agreed to join our merry band.
I know, this way lies madness but I refuse, absolutely bloody well refuse to pay thousands of dollars for my kids to bang a frikkin drum or finger paint.
Thursday, February 24, 2011
Buggers are at it again!
Teeth. My poor kids have new teeth coming through and constipation (sorry kids). They are starting to eat solids. 'P' foods. We had three days of peas. Now its pears. Not sure why they are getting constipated on the P foods since they are supposed to have the opposite effect.
It all means that last night the spent the entire night groaning and moaning and I couldn't do a thing about it. Mimi is so tired now she is just laying in her crib with her nanny doll (a stuffed toy goat/dog head with just fabric for a body) and she is trying to behead the poor thing. Hey, share the pain, I get it.
It all means I am knackered and I have a major work issue and oh!! all I want is to go to my bed. Preferably with a little sleepy cuddle monster or two.
Ah, the dulcet tones on my daughter are calling ... glass shattering groaning. She sounds like she's possessed. Possessed by baby teeth!
It all means that last night the spent the entire night groaning and moaning and I couldn't do a thing about it. Mimi is so tired now she is just laying in her crib with her nanny doll (a stuffed toy goat/dog head with just fabric for a body) and she is trying to behead the poor thing. Hey, share the pain, I get it.
It all means I am knackered and I have a major work issue and oh!! all I want is to go to my bed. Preferably with a little sleepy cuddle monster or two.
Ah, the dulcet tones on my daughter are calling ... glass shattering groaning. She sounds like she's possessed. Possessed by baby teeth!
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
sleep training ... me
Thank You. Your advice was heart felt and honest. I took a little of this and that and got my plan together.
1. let them cry or 10 mins
2. go in, calm without words, retreat
3. go back in 15 mins later.
4. repeat in extended intervals.
Sorted. Ha!
I hear my little one gabbling to each other. Now I know what they are saying:
" I'll scream tonight, you tomorrow. We'll hand off each night for about two weeks. After that just watch her come running in even when we don't cry! It's called mom training."
Yep. Neither one awoke but I ran in twice to phantom crying!!! What do you bet that tonight is a cry fest.
1. let them cry or 10 mins
2. go in, calm without words, retreat
3. go back in 15 mins later.
4. repeat in extended intervals.
Sorted. Ha!
I hear my little one gabbling to each other. Now I know what they are saying:
" I'll scream tonight, you tomorrow. We'll hand off each night for about two weeks. After that just watch her come running in even when we don't cry! It's called mom training."
Yep. Neither one awoke but I ran in twice to phantom crying!!! What do you bet that tonight is a cry fest.
Monday, February 21, 2011
Sleep training twins...again.. help me decide what to do please!
Looks like the sleep training is going to have to resume. They are doing OK but each of them wakes in the night and Mimi won't settle till she gets fed again, usually at midnight.
So, what the f**k do I do now?
When I read other blogs and they have sleeping through the night babies I wonder why I am so weak, that I don't go the whole hog and do the night screaming thing. My neighbour told me she let her kid cry for 2 hours one night, then 30 mins the next and voila! sleeping through the night. I let my guys cry from 10 - 20 mins then in I go. They go back to sleep if the binky is replaced, or they repositioned.
Should I let them cry it out 'old style'?
So, what the f**k do I do now?
When I read other blogs and they have sleeping through the night babies I wonder why I am so weak, that I don't go the whole hog and do the night screaming thing. My neighbour told me she let her kid cry for 2 hours one night, then 30 mins the next and voila! sleeping through the night. I let my guys cry from 10 - 20 mins then in I go. They go back to sleep if the binky is replaced, or they repositioned.
Should I let them cry it out 'old style'?
Sunday, February 20, 2011
P is for Peas
Oh yeah, we have pea eating people in our house. Both still make 'yuuuuuk' faces but they open their mouth and ask for more in that wonderful baby way. Oh I love being with my kids. I swear they are so amazingly fun to be with. Their 'Aunty' came around today (she brought homemade chocolate cake - man, what an amazing Auntie) we played, sang, danced and then we went for a walk to the park. They were fast asleep in no time! I got to bathe both of them and have a rock/cuddle before bed.
The only cloud on my revoltingly wonderful day is the start of toothache. I know I have it coming. When I got pregnant I needed two re-root canals and I have one good tooth that I chipped on popcorn!!! Do I care? NOPE. I have really REALLY good pain killers left over from my C-section :-)
Its 8.45 pm on a Sunday and I don't have to go to work tomorrow. I get to play with Pip and Mimi again. YIPPEE
The only cloud on my revoltingly wonderful day is the start of toothache. I know I have it coming. When I got pregnant I needed two re-root canals and I have one good tooth that I chipped on popcorn!!! Do I care? NOPE. I have really REALLY good pain killers left over from my C-section :-)
Its 8.45 pm on a Sunday and I don't have to go to work tomorrow. I get to play with Pip and Mimi again. YIPPEE
Saturday, February 19, 2011
6 month visit
Well, Pip has gone from the 3% to the 50% and Mimi went from the 50% to the 75%. We just went shopping for 'P' foods. Peas, Peaches, Pumpkin etc. So today was the first real food day. Well at least it was a sip of peas. Pip's face was a picture!!
We live about 1/2 mile from a baby food shop so for exercise I pushed both babies (30 pounds) and the stroller (plus tons of baby food on the way home) super fast all the way there all the way back. It was cold outside (started snowing) but I must have looked roasting hot (my face gets really red with exercise).
Poor Pip is teething. Mimi seems to handle it by ripping into soft toys. I think Pip feels the pain more. I put baby ora.gel on his gums and he screamed louder??? Either way there is lots of groaning and crying. Poor things.
As they get more active I am more and more aware of my body. Before I had the kids I was strong and agile. Now, my bones hurt. My pelvis seems permanently twisted and muscles twang all day. Anyone else know what I'm talking about??
We live about 1/2 mile from a baby food shop so for exercise I pushed both babies (30 pounds) and the stroller (plus tons of baby food on the way home) super fast all the way there all the way back. It was cold outside (started snowing) but I must have looked roasting hot (my face gets really red with exercise).
Poor Pip is teething. Mimi seems to handle it by ripping into soft toys. I think Pip feels the pain more. I put baby ora.gel on his gums and he screamed louder??? Either way there is lots of groaning and crying. Poor things.
As they get more active I am more and more aware of my body. Before I had the kids I was strong and agile. Now, my bones hurt. My pelvis seems permanently twisted and muscles twang all day. Anyone else know what I'm talking about??
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