10 months 16 days

Last night was tough. Emmy was restless all evening, waking up repeatedly. And just when I lay down to sleep - late as it was already - one after another needed feeding, waking each other up. Tammy was the last one - just after I was back in bed to sleep - and it took a while before I could walk away without her protesting. While it was tough for me, it allowed Randy to sleep until 7 am today.
After everyone had eaten, Randy left once again to go to the apartment and work, while I stayed home alone with the babies. He stayed there for 4 hours and got our bed put together, as well as one of the 2 guestbeds. Our bedroom is small, and the bed and wardrobe barely fit in there, as there are doors on 3 out of 4 walls.
As you can imagine, I had a busy afternoon and evening with the little ones. Sammy sometimes gets cranky, and you need to spend time occupying him, and turning him over. The other two get cranky when they are tired. Emmy fell asleep by himself after a while.
Tonight was a little tough. All three were cranky and crying, but what can you do! You can only take care of one baby at the time! I fed Sammy first and put him to bed; he's usually the first between 5 and 6 pm. The other two were both crying and I was trying to decide who to feed first. It had been longer for Tammy, but she goes to bed last and can go longer without food. Whoever I did pick up, the other one would continue crying. I fed Emmy, and could do nothing about her crying while I did. Thankfully Emmy now only whines when I pray their good-night prayer, but doesn't even cry anymore when I put him to bed. He falls asleep easily now.
Tammy is a different story. I closed the door between the two rooms, so Emmy wouldn't be woken up by her. Even after I picked her up, she was still whiny. When I put the first spoonful of food into her mouth, she burst into tears. It was way overdue for her to eat, so I knew she was hungry. Well, food was not possible. I put some dental cream on, figuring her upcoming tooth was hurting her. I continued trying to feed her, and gave her liberty she doesn't usually have while eating, just to get something into her. That meant making a big mess, but that was okay. After a while the cream must have started working, as she calmed down and started eating.
We were both covered in food, and so I did something we had never done before. We both stepped into the shower together. They have never been in the shower at home before, but take a shower at the swimming pool every week. She enjoyed it. I could tell she was tired, though she had had a nap in the afternoon, which made me wonder how easy/hard it would be to put her to bed tonight. The last few night she had been so tired and it wasn't too bed, especially last night I could walk away soon. Not tonight. It took a very long time before I could walk away. I had to keep stroking her head to help her fall asleep. Every time I'd stop, she'd raise her head up and look at me. Every time I tried to walk away, she'd start crying and sit up then stand up. But at some point she finally fell asleep. Still, I'm glad we don't have to rock them anymore. Tonight was the 7th day without rocking.
Emmy did start crying at some point; he could hear his sister through the closed door. Thankfully he stopped all by himself. I wonder how it's gonna work in the new apartment when they all sleep right next to each other.
As for today's activities, Emmy continues sitting holding on to the bars, and trying to stand up, but we haven't seen him stand since the day before yesterday. And he's really good at using his feed, often having toys on them, but today he grabbed a ball with his toys.
We got some cute pictures of them all today.