Crib Status

             I am a very proud mama today! My babies slept in their own cribs last night. We stuck to our usual bedtime routine…. bath, bottle, bed. They went down around 10:30 and woke up at 2,6, and 10 for a feeding which is not bad at all. Of course I did not really get a wink of sleep because I was so worried. Every tiny little noise I heard through the monitor I jumped up and ran down the hall. The boys will only sleep on their bellies because they continually startle themselves on their back. They have great head control so I know I should stop worrying so much. We also have the Angel Care movement sensor monitors which are great ( we 100% recommend them). If they do not detect movement (*breathing) for more than 20 seconds it beeps so loud you can hear it throughout the house. They have different sensitivity levels ( ours is set on the most sensitive level)  so sometimes it can go off if the boys move too far off the sensor pad. Last night we had an alert and I jumped out of bed so fast! It only went off because Jonathan had wiggled his way all the way to the side of the crib by the bumper. Thank God I purchased breathable crib bumpers. I am definitely not ready for this big change… but I know they can’t keep sleeping in their bouncy seats or boppy pillows. I want them to be close to me all the time…I missed them so much that I could not wait for them to get up too see their smiles while they got changed. We are also moving them into the crib for their nap times during the day. Usually they fall asleep in their swings so as much as I do not want to move them I do anyway because I want them to associate sleeping with their cribs. So tonight is night two… we will see how It goes! Updates to follow….

 

Precious boys

Transition....

I know I have said this before and we completely failed at it, but tonight we are going to attempt crib sleeping again. I have been researching ways to make the transition easier. Basically I think we are doomed and I should stop being selfish and accept that it will be a long process of crying on the boys part and exhaustion on mommy and daddy’s part. I read about the cry it out method and the no tears method. I will definitely be opting for the no tears method. Which means a lot of comforting and rocking because I know my boys are not going to want to be left alone in their cribs. I have also read a lot of articles on twins wanting to sleep together. Some even say that their twins cannot sleep unless they are together. The boys have their own cribs, however I may have to try that method although SIDS scares me to death. I’m having a hard time letting them go into their own room, I love being right next to them. So it is a good possibility I just might cry along with them. As hard as its going to be I know we need to transition them now. We need to take advantage of the time we have with daddy because when he leaves in march for deployment training I’m on my own. We have 54 more days with him until training begins, and this upcoming deployment becomes a reality. Those of you that are close to us know this is our first deployment with him. One of my fellow army wives called me a superhero the other day! Of course this made my day. She has been through deployments before with her husband and told me that my motherly instincts will kick in while he is gone and we will make it through. Although she said she could no imagine raising two children under one year without her husband. All I can say is it will only make us a stronger family. I read a quote the other day “Live everyday like he deploys tomorrow” so that is exactly what we will be doing! I am posting some new bath time pictures!! Also Jonathan fell asleep the other day in the living room all stretched out! Cutest thing EVER! Smiles are an everyday occurrence now and it melts your heart!! Hopefully tonight goes well, or mommy and daddy could be spending the night on the nursery floor….

Our Bottle, Formula, & Diaper Factory!

         I thought it would be interesting to share with everyone about our new bottle, diaper, and formula factory in our house! I seriously feel like we actually have a bottle factory in our home. We go through at least 16 bottles per day. We only have 18 bottles, so every day I spend at least an hour of my time washing/sterilizing bottles! Believe me it never ends! It took us three different types of bottles till we found the ones that worked perfect for the boys. I 100% recommend the Dr. Brown bottles to every one! They are absolutely amazing! They made Jonathan and Christopher’s colic almost nonexistent. However, there are like a million different pieces to them so it takes a lot of time to clean them. With that said trust me it is sooo worth it to not have to hear your children cry in pain. It would break my heart every time they got colic. 

       With formula, we use Enfamil Gentlease. We finally found a good formula that works great for them. We go through a 16 oz. tub every 2 days!! Let me break that down for you, that is three tubs a week, and 12 tubs a month! With diapers, we love Huggies Snug & dry with the cute Disney characters on them. They are in size one, and the box comes with 100 diapers. We go through a box a week! Sometimes more depending…The boys get fed 8 times a day, and we change their diapers at every feeding so that would be 16 diapers a day. Sometimes they get changed in between feedings also. So actually maybe we go through more than a box a week. 

       We buy wipes in a big case at Sams or Costco, so we probably go through those every 2 weeks. We love our diaper genie, we heard a lot of negative things about it but it works great for us! That could be because we have to take it out twice a day haha!! All of this is a little insight to what life is like with multiples! It is kind of funny to add everything up and write about it! Like I have said many times before we would not change any of it for the world!! Well, I think I should stop procrastinating and get back to my factory duty! I have bottles to wash before the next feeding!!

Almost to three months!

Mommy's touch

I just wanted to share a quick note about how amazing a mother’s touch is. Lately the boys are going through these stages of being irritable and over tired. They fight going to sleep SOOO much! They just don’t want to miss anything. They will cry and scream so loud and nobody can get them to calm down but mommy (hehe). I hold them so close to me and we rock in our chair and sing. Call me crazy but I think their favorite song is twinkle twinkle little star because it is the only song that works. I rock them and hold them tight and close while I’m singing and it works like a charm every time. It warms my heart to know I can calm my children to sleep. A mothers touch is like magic and it is absolutely amazing. Im so glad God chose me to be their mother!!

Our precious angels!

Growing Boys!

I know I have not blogged in over a month! Can you blame me? As a wife and mother of two newborns I can barely find the time to brush my own teeth in the morning! Well here we are at 10 weeks to the day! (Sorry everyone I started writing this yesterday and had to tend to the boys). These two and a half months have flown by. Where are my two little boys?? They have already grown so much. We can’t believe they are both over 12 pounds now!! Over the past month they have both really crossed some developmental milestones. They are now awake a lot more during the day, they have really great head control, and they are smiling every day! We are working towards getting the boys on a schedule. When we wake up in the morning we have “breakfast” then play time on their jungle play mat ( which is starting to get too small for both of them to share) lol. Then we have a mid morning nap, maybe a swing, more play time, and at night we have bath time around 7 or 8. They have a bath and then we try to put them to bed. We are working on transitioning them to their cribs L Of course I am totally not ready for it. I like being right next to them to hear every little whimper or cry so I can run to the rescue. Of course we have baby monitors for the nursery but to me it’s not the same. We also invested in breathable crib bumpers because I have read wayyy to much about SIDS. So on paper everything looks great and they are ready, however mommy is definitely not! J and C had their two month check up a week ago and we were advised that we have been over feeding them! I proceeded to explain to the doctor that they wake up every three hours on the dot starving!! When their diapers are dry, they don’t want to have anything to do with the pacifier, they are being held and they still scream their heads of they are definitely starving! Other than that he said they are perfect and that we are doing a great job! He also wondered if we still had our sanity hehe. He told us that soon they should be sleeping at least 5 hours during the night and skipping a feeding…… we are holding out for that!!! Please come soon! However, last night was amazing they slept from 2:30-8:00!! Amazing!! I found a new trick, when they get fussy after about 2 or 3 hours during the night I roll them onto their bellies and they fall right back asleep. They LOVE to sleep on their tummies (which scares me of course). They are both so alert it’s amazing. Also, they are both starting to look more alike!!! It’s scary!! Jonathan’s cheeks are filling out more now so he is starting to look more like Christopher. We recently went to Orlando to spend time with Granny, and some very good friends of the family from Belgium Lut and Lies. We had a great time, and I think we handled traveling with the boys fairly well. Of course I WAYY over packed! We had the whole bed of the truck packed down. It’s kind of funny, we can only go anywhere in Gregs truck because we cannot fit anything in my car. I can’t wait for the day I get my big SUV! Anyways we had a blast and it was sooo hard to leave. It tears me apart to watch my granny cry. Oh how I wish we all lived closer. Reality is setting in with Gregs upcoming deployment. Time is flying by too fast, what will we do without him? It is going to be a major challenge emotionally being without him and also trying to raise two boys under 1 year by myself. Thank God I have my mom to help out! Time needs to slow down some so we can soak in every second with him. He is the best daddy in the world! Everyday we overcome new obstacles with the twins. God knows it is definitely not easy raising multiples but somehow we make it work. We are a great team, and it gets easier everyday. I never would have thought we would have twins but now I could not imagine it any other way. I am loving being a mommy to my two precious boys. Being a mother is the most rewarding thing on earth! I cant wait till they start sitting up and crawling!!I am posting some new pictures of the boys! Can you tell them apart??