11 months 7 days

What a day! And it's 2:30 am as I start writing this, so I'm planning on keeping it short if I can.
In the morning we were packing to move in the afternoon. Sammy fell asleep, and then Tammy, but Emmy was crying and wanted help falling asleep. We were so busy packing, we let him cry, hoping he'd just lie down and fall asleep, as he does at times. When I finally went over to him, I heard someone in another apartment shout and curse and complain about the crying baby and the terrible parents that were not taking care of him. It went on for a while, while I was stroking Emmy and helping him fall asleep. I did not want to walk away until he was fast asleep and not crying any more! I guess it was our moving-out gift!
We had another friend from Upper Austria come at 2 pm to help us move to the new apartment today. She was playing with the kids while Randy was closing the last boxes and filling her little car up. She then left to drive to our new apartment, while the five of us took the subway to go there. Time had gone by fast, and so it was already after 5 pm when we got there. It was time for their last meal, but everything was packed. All I had was milk, so I gave them milk.
Our friend and Randy unloaded fast and returned to the apartment to fill the car up a second time. I found myself alone with three tired, crying babies, one of the top five most challenging moments of being alone with them. At first Sammy fell asleep in the only bed we had set up. I decided to take Emmy and Tammy downstairs to the play area. They were both crying because they were tired. After a while they were happy to be with me, but still cranky. I really can't put two babies to sleep at the same time. Tammy woke Emmy up several times, it just wasn't working. And then I heard Sammy cry upstairs, so I left them, which made them burst into tears once again. I put Sammy's pacifier back into his mouth and went back downstairs, but I heard Sammy again. So I took Emmy and Tammy back upstairs with me and lay down on our bed with them. That way I was closer to Sammy.
Sammy cried again, and I weighed up whether I could quickly go to him to give him his pacifier and leave the other two kids on our bed. While I was with Sammy, I heard a thump. I ran back to the bed and Emmy had fallen off it. Thankfully it was not too high. He really did not cry any harder than he had already been crying.
This was not working, and so I put Emmy in bed with his brother and Tammy into the stroller so she would be safe, and helped Emmy fall asleep next to his brother. It took a while, but he was finally sleeping. I picked Tammy back up and returned to our bed. She'd fall asleep, and wake back up, fall asleep, and wake back up. A lot of time had passed, and Randy was coming back from his second trip. Our friend said her good-byes, while I had Tammy awake on my arm. I lay back down with her, and she was finally falling asleep for God. In the meantime Randy was putting Emmy's bed back together that he had taken apart to bing to our new place. I needed a bed to put her into! He had also brought Sammy's smaller bed. I was finally able to put her down on our bed without her waking up, we put the other two places where they belong, and I put Tammy into her own bed. Done!
It was sure late (maybe 9:30 pm) and I hadn't eaten since 3 pm. But everything was still packed. Randy and I started opening kitchen boxes and putting everything into the new cabinets. We did this for a long time, and I still haven't seen everything. I did get something to eat. It's a little overwhelming to see all the boxes everywhere and not know where anything is.
It wasn't even yet midnight when Emmy was up crying, but I was able to put him back to sleep without eating. A little time later I dream-fed the bos, only 100 ml tonight. Emmy was not happy and fussing when I put him back. He would not let me walk away and so I stroked his head and would come back when he complained about me leaving. A new bed, a new house, I had to give him some grace tonight! Even Sammy had a harder time tonight. Thankfully Tammy is sleeping well now.
Time to go to bed for me. We'll see how the morning goes, as the babies need to be taken downstairs where they will be during the day.