My little sweethearts!

We're at my moms this week.

Lucas and Tilly are currently NOT camera shy at all, and we have been using the
digital camera to capture them smiling. I also have a couple of them
holding hands, which they do sometimes when they are laying together
on one of their play blankies (These were posted in the previous entry).

They have a wonderful routine now- they go to bed at 11:00 and get
up for their first bottles at 7 a.m. After their bottle we play for
45 minutes, then they nap in their swings. They take a longer nap
after their 11 a.m. feeding, and they go to bed at 8 p.m. but we
wake them up for their 11 p.m. bottle (actually we wake them around
10) and put them down for the night. They sleep in our room in
their "soothing motions gliders".

One question- what are opinions on the baby einstein videos? Matilda
sometimes gets bored and I keep thinking there is something we are
missing in the realm of entertainment. Songs, games, and toys seem
to only take her so far, and then shes ready for something new!

We hope to have some family pictures taken through the holidays. :-)

Now, Duane and I both believe in attachment parenting as much as you can do with
multiples and Lucas NEVER cries. If he starts to cry, he is picked up
an consoled instantly. I do not believe in Cry It Out. They are too young for
it anyhow. But, Matilda is allowed to sometimes "cry". I put it in
quotation marks because its really not a cry at all- its like this
weird whining "fake cry" and if you say something to her she cackles
and smiles. She does this really bad around 5 a.m. because she wakes
up bored and has trouble getting herself back to sleep. I am up every
5 minutes for about half an hour handing her a pacifyer which falls
out of her mouth as she drifts off then she wakes up again. I probably
would try and ignore her, but, it wakes up Lucas, who does cry when he
wakes up. (A true cry).

Which brings us to daytime. Basically anytime Matilda is bored, wants a new toy, or is fighting sleep she starts whining. My mom thinks its funny, and will go up to her and in a baby voice whine back, and Matilda will laugh at my mom. But, when she really needs to nap it IS annoying. She just whines until she falls asleep. Like I
said above, if it turns into a true cry, I get her and console her,
then put her back down. But, the little fakey cries when I KNOW she
just needs to nap we ignore. We touch her cheek, hand her a pacy,
but then we walk away. If I did pick her up every time she did the
fakey cries, Lucas would NEVER be held. The first day I was here my
mom actually lectured me that she hoped to goodness I did ignore some
of Matildas antics because she worried that Lucas was left out because
he is so good natured and peaceful.

So, here we are staying at my moms, and its been hard to keep them on their schedules, because my poor sister is very sensitive to Tilly's crying, and picks her up at every whine. And my mother is worried I am picking her up too much. Love "back seat" parents. Hee, hee.

Lucas HATES formula. We will be discussing this with the peditrician on the
5th. He will eat at first when he is hungry, but then he stops and
cries when his stomach makes any sort of gurgling sounds. He is on a
soy formula, and not sure where we go from here as I doubt its a
formula problem. You just feed him through the crying until he his
stomach stops making noises and then he eats well, or, he stops
altogether. Well, he will sip his juice (for his bowels) just fine
even when his stomach makes noises because Lucas loves sweeties. :-)
So, my mom decided Lucas should have juice at every bottle even though
it makes him poop and we only use it to move his bowels when he has
trouble. I let him have juice again to shut my mother up, and he had
a "blow out" and a belly ache afterwards. So, then she agreed that we
were right to limit it, but lamented how sad it was since he loves
juice.