Sarah and Robert dropped the twins off around 4:00 yesterday afternoon. They stayed for about 20 minutes to tell me the different schedules including what to eat for dinner, how much to feed them, when to put them to sleep, how to put them sleep even though I assured them I knew exactly what to do (I mean I do have a nine-month old myself). But I quickly learned that L and E are not quite like my baby, who I am used to every single day. Luckily, my amazing friend Hannah decided to come over to help us conquer this. While I waited for Hannah, I sat on the floor with all three and tried to take as many pictures of possible, while my husband was glued to the tv (some help he was). I didn't get to take nearly enough pictures because I spent the hour walking to move Adelyn away from the fire place, running to get Leighton away from the dog food, and stopping Adelyn and Leighton from stealing ALL of Easton's toys (poor guy)! I was pretty much exhausted by the first hour. Hannah arrived around 6:00 and another hour began. I had to feed all three babies, because Rene and Hannah could not stand the smell of the broccoli and cheese that my sister had brought for the twins (they are such weenies). Once all three were fed, we finally got to eat ourselves. Rene and I took turns eating while Hannah sat with the babies since she wasn't in the pizza mood.
Once we were done (7:00), we started to put the babies in their pajamas. This really wasn't too difficult (other than Leighton trying to pull out Eastons hair). Around 7:15, I decided it was time to put these crazies to bed. Hannah took Easton, I took Adelyn, and Rene took Leighton. Easton was out in about 5 minutes, Adelyn took about 15, and Leighton took about 20. No sweat right!! Things were looking good until......Adelyn took a poop. Well of course that woke her up. I told Hannah to go put Easton in the rocker and I will take care of Adelyn. Rene came out of the bedroom to put a sleeping Leighton in the pack n play....and you can probably guess who started talking at this point --Adelyn. Rene laid Leighton in the pack n play and she immediately started screaming, and then the fun began. She screamed and screamed and screamed.....Rene started yelling at me staying that it was my fault that I couldn't get my own baby to go to sleep and I tried to explain to him that it wasn't my fault she had to poop. So luckily Easton was sleeping through the whole thing. I changed Adelyn and tried to rock her to sleep again.....well Rene also tried to rock Leighton in the other room. Lets just say it didn't go so well. Leighton would start screaming and crying and as soon as Adelyn heard her she started screaming and crying. Leighton would stop for a minute and then Adelyn would and her eyes would drift to sleep. Leighton started screaming again and immediately so did Adelyn. This went on for a good 30 minutes (by this time Easton was wide awake just watching tv in the rocker). We finally had to give Leighton some tough love and put in her pack n play and close the door. She cried for almost 20 minutes and then it slowly died down to a whimper. It was then that I put Adelyn in her room and let her kind of put herself to sleep. Easton was wide awake so we took him out of the rocker and he just started laughing. He just smiled and smiled at us until eventually he got tired and fell asleep. (Thank goodness for one easy baby). FINALLY by 9:30 they were all three asleep and we were exhausted. Hannah left for the night and Rene and immediately went to bed. I could not sleep at all-----I kept coughing and I was paranoid about Leighton being in the other room with no monitor that I felt like I didn't get any sleep. Leighton started crying around 5:30 so I told Rene he had to get up and go get her so she didn't wake the others. Lucky for him she fell back asleep. Then at 6:43 on the dot, Easton woke up, followed by Adelyn at 7:00, and Leighton at 7:15. Whew.....thank goodness they slept all night!!
The morning wasn't too bad, though every time I would pick Leighton up, Adelyn would burst into tears because she was jealous. Then Easton started doing the same thing (spoiled much?) Then around 9:00 they ALL got hungry at the same time. Easton was screaming at the top of his lungs. I grabbed him and put him on the couch with me, while Rene made a bottle. Leighton started SCREAMING so I put her up there with me, well I bet you can guess who didn't like that. Adelyn crawled to couch and wiggled her way up and they ALL three cried at the same time. I have been around loud, I mean I teach kindergarten for a living so I'm used to it, but this was completely different. My ears were ringing for pretty much the next hour. What was worse was that Easton would not take the bottle. Trying to feed all three took some work. I finally put Adelyn down and let her cry and fed Easton. He was able to fall asleep, and Rene had to once again show Leighton some tough love and put her in the pack n play. I was afraid that she would start crying and Adelyn wouldn't be to take her morning nap so Adelyn and I went to Starbucks for a quick drive! By this time, I needed it. Adelyn fell asleep the second we left the house. When I returned Easton and Leighton were both still sleeping and so was Adelyn. I got to take a shower and clean!!!! What what. They all three took about a 2 hour nap. When they woke up they were all happy as could be! We spent the remaning time chasing Adelyn and Leighton and protecting Easton from the girls!
