13 months 22 days

Last night I went to bed just after 3 am, but before I could fall asleep, Tammy needed her milk at 3:30, as I had not fed her before for once. I felt that missing hour or so all day. I barely made it out of bed this morning, made their food, went downstairs to carry them up to the dining room table, and fed them. Then it was nap time. I put Tammy into her bed and lay down with Emmy. Tammy was still crying, so I got up with sleeping Emmy, put him into his bed where he continued sleeping (thank God it worked) and lay down with Tammy. Emmy woke up first; he sleeps shorter on his own. His crying then woke up Sammy, and so both boys were crying. I was wondering where Randy was and why he was not responding. After a long time he finally got the boys and took them downstairs. Me calling him a couple of times woke up Tammy, and so she joined them downstairs as well, not having slept long enough at all.

I went back to bed and hit my snooze button twice because I was so very tired. I finally crawled out of bed, put their food on the table and went downstairs to get them. Today I fed them only while sitting in their new high chairs and did not follow them around feeding them, even though they would have eaten more that way. I guess they'll just have to start eating more while being seated, realizing they won't get any after they get up.

We all went downstairs again, and after Sammy had joined us, I went to the kitchen to cook while Randy stayed with them. We had just started eating, when our friend and much-appreciated helper Sonja arrived. She's a God-sent! It's amazing though how I don't get to do anything more than when she's not here, since the babies still want to be with me. And today they had a really bad day being cranky and crying most of the afternoon.

Emmy was crying so much, being so very tired, that I decided to lie down with him at 1:30, before the 2:30 meal. He fell asleep on me. At 2:15 Randy and Sonja came to upstairs to feed Tammy and Sammy. Emmy was still asleep on me. Tammy was also so tired that all she did was cry, and cry really hard. There is no feeding at in that state. I felt so bad that I got up with Emmy, put him in the high chair, and Sonja fed him, while I lay down with Tammy. Unfortunately Emmy's nap had been cut short that way. Sammy lay down to sleep, while Sonja went downstairs with Emmy, and Tammy slept on me. And it didn't take long before I heard Emmy crying, and crying, and crying. He was still tired. What to do? I gently slid Tammy down onto the bed right next to me, and got up to get Emmy. I lay down with him, and he curiously eyed his sleeping sister. He was about to fall asleep when Tammy woke up, and it was over then. Emmy never got to sleep again, even though I tried one more time a little later.

We went downstairs to join Sonja who tried to play with them and distract them, but there were only a few moments when they weren't crying. I held Sammy for much of the time, and when I went into the play area, all three would cling to me. There's just no getting ANYthing done during the day.

At 4:30 I went upstairs to get their dinner ready, and thankfully Randy returned from the grocery store at that very time. He went downstairs where Sonja was trying to comfort three crying children. At 5 pm everybody came up to eat. Today Sammy sat in his new high chair for the very first time. It worked well, though Randy does have to hold him up.

Tammy did not eat much tonight, as she does when she's tired, but Emmy ate most of it, and Sammy ate it all. As their soup tonight was tomato soup which is more liquidy, it was quite a mess, and I decided to put them in the bathtub again to clean them up.

As I'm trying to start weaning them off the nighttime feedings, and because I read it's not good to give them a bottle of milk when they go to bed, they did not get a bottle tonight. We had only done that for a few weeks anyway. None of them complained about the missing bottle. All three were up for a while, and I walked away a couple of times and came back before they finally fell asleep. I also want to get to the point where they can fall asleep without me being there, which won't be easy.

Cooking, eating, office work, and Randy is putting inserts into the shelves, the last thing to do related to the move. It's not even 10 pm and I'm very tired tonight. I very much doubt I'll go to bed any earlier, though.