4 weeks

It is currently 3am and all is not well. Riley and Reagan had a great night last night and slept a 3 and a 4 hour stretch overnight. Tonight they are making up for lost time. We put them down at 10pm and at 1am we both got up to feed them. It is now 2 hours later and one of them has been screaming since we got done feeding. It is currently Reagan that is fired up and Riley should be taking over soon. My parents in the first 2 weeks told us that they did not believe us that the girls were ever bad because they were "precious angels" as my dad called them every time they saw them. The problem is that they always saw them at 2pm. 2am is often a different story as they have learned now on 2 occasions. The girls have gone to their house twice now overnight to give us a break. After the first one I called them at about 8am and all dad had to say was "you were right, I was wrong". They girls had them up all night. I don't want to say I was happy about it but I did feel a bit vindicated.

Things have been progressing. We are learning our way through the ins and outs of twins. I never want to belittle what the parents of single babies go through but WOW, twins are a different animal. There just never seems to be a break in the action. The biggest stress is times like now. Reagan is still screaming as I write this. She is fed, changed, rocked, clean, and should be happy but nothing I do will satisfy her. She is acting like a little woman already.

With the exception of going to the neighbors house once and my parents house and Andrea's parents house a few times we have not left the house with them since we came home 4 weeks ago. We are ready to get out of the house with them but fear the cold and flu season. We are trying to not be the kind of parents that are paranoid about germs, other people holding them, etc. but I see Andrea's mother bear instincts getting stronger. (On a side note it is now 3:10 am and Reagan just stopped crying and Riley has taken over. I swear they know what they are doing and want to give each other a break every now and then). Ok, back to Andrea. She is feeling much better post surgery but still hurts and is not back to normal. She is down over 40 pounds from the day she went into the hospital and is looking like one hot mom.

I went back to leaving the house every day for work last week and it was hard but we got through it. Andrea stays busy caring for the girls all day while I am gone but they are typically pretty good girls when the sun is up. Tuesday was a long one for her as I was gone for about 14 hours. (3:16am update- Reagan in the swing and Riley in the bouncy seat, Boo in his bed. Reagan and Riley screaming like the house is on fire and Boo sleeping like a baby, or should I say like I wish a baby would sleep). My goal now is to keep them going till 4am when I will feed them both and try another attempt at bed.

We have their one month Dr. visit on Monday. I am looking forward to seeing what the weights are. I am guessing that Reagan is at 7 lbs and Riley is about 45lbs. It actually looks like she is getting a beer gut. (3:21 update- Reagan sleeping and Riley is beating the hell out of the parrot on her bouncy seat while screaming at it. I don't know what that bird did to her but she is mighty angry at it). I will try to hold her a bit now and see if that helps at all but it often does nothing. I think she is just in one of those moods. The pics above were from better times earlier this evening. Signing off at 3:27 am. Wish me luck.