[Jillian]

They do sleep at the same time some of the time, at least so I'm told; I don't remember the first 3 months, due to sleep deprivation What's really fun is *feeding* two at a time.... just say "Moo!"

Now that sounds tricky. How old are yours now?

[inglor]

OT but I couldn't resist:

you know you're a bloke when:
-You don't even blink at trading going out for eating Mac and Cheese 7 nights a week, canceling the hunting club and season tickets to Auburn Football when they are making a run at the National Championship to afford for the wife to stay home and you not feel guilty about sleeping through 3am feedings (because she doesn't have to get up to go to work and can nap with the baby).

-You can remark about the size and consistency of poo in an adult fashion

-Your neat/clean freak wife is coming around to your way of thinking

-You add life support system to your resume (fits in just after sperm doaner)

-Staying up past 12 on a weeknight to get some "Cave Time" and watch Sports Center doesn't sound so crazy

-Sex revolves around somebody's sleeping habits/availability of Mother/ Mother-in-Law

-Your wife laughs at inoportune moments because your O Face gets really silly because you are trying to keep quiet and not wake the baby.

-Your Mother/Mother-in-law knows when you have sex

-You have to look your Father-in-law in the eye knowing he knows you've been doing things with his little girl that you don't want your little girl doing.





Inglor

[NancyBrooke]

If we had a sniggering finger-pointing emoticon I would put it here, followed by the shrugging "I know just how you feel" emoticon, but we don't and I'm too bleary-eyed from waking up at 5:30 am with my daughter's nightmare to go looking for one.

[Rous]

Hope she will be back soon. I know too well how tiring babies are, as does any mother out there. My last one was in for seven days, out one then in two more. Very scary not knowing for sure if you will even bring him home. Doctors running ragged trying to find physical reasons for his starving to death, only to find out he was too premature to know how to suck. Look out ever since. He is twelve now, and had eaten like a man since about six. Kids, go figure.
But twins! After all the suffering from lack of sleep and everything that goes with it, are they not magical? To see two little beings. I am always amazed when I see them. Just one of God's little bonuses.
Rous

[SilverMoonLady]

[Rous]

I used to get lectures for nursing and sleeping with the baby in my waterbed. They said I would roll over and smother the little one. As someone who has always had a cat, and it slept with us, let me tell you that you learn early and painfully not to roll over in bed. A lesson that well prepared me for children. LOL.

[SilverMoonLady]

I think I spent the first two months sleeping topless in bed with the boys, one propped on each side so I could literally just roll over when somebody woke up.... I'd be lying if I said I enjoyed that part.... Loved the feedings during the day though, when I could enjoy their little eyes looking up and all that! I am still trying to hunt down and burn the picture that was taken of me feeding them at the same time though... when I said moo I wasn't kidding!

[Rous]

I LOVED watching them. Their bright little eyes looking at everything and nothing. That was my favorite time of their development. Now, I just try to keep from killing them. Why, again, do they have to grow up? They were so precious. Of course, now we have the nanachild, and it is much easier. I get tired of him, send him home. What a great concept!

[SilverMoonLady]

I think I saw this on a t-shirt somewhere:

"Children are the price we pay for grandchildren."

There are days I'm inclined to agree... like when grammie brings them home high on chocolate & sweets. At 8pm.

*sigh* I do miss them when they were little and cute though

Sil

*who still drools over passing infants*

[Rous]

I was at work the other day, and I went out to tell a customer that his order was ready. He said to me, "Come here, I want to show you something." Okay, it was a man with a van. What do you think was going through my mind????? Anyway, he opens the side door and there are two car seats. Two-week old twins. A boy and a girl. I said, "Can I have the pink one? Please????" He laughed. I just wanted a little girl to make dresses for, again.

When my daughter had hers, I got to be there. (Not happening again, let me tell you. That was the grossest thing I have ever seen. I did not even watch my own.) I tried to get the doctor to put him back. I kept saying "wrong color. We do not want blue!" Shanna just said yes she did. Kids! What do they know? I am still looking for a pink one.

[Jillian]

Almost 4 and identical in most respects, including, but not limited to appearance and sense of mischief.

A cute age. They change when they go to school, and not necessarily for the better.

[SilverMoonLady]

Tell me about it! My daughter just started kindergarten, and I suddenly have a "potty mouth" princess in my house.... Homeschooling is sounding better all the time (or would if I weren't such a selfish and lazy twit.... )

[Amlee]

[Rous]

I am confused. What is your definition of a bloke? 'Cause if is it a man, I cannot see him giving it up without a fight. Now, I have one,

You know you are whipped when you give up elk hunting in Colorado.

But, he did not give it up without a fight, let alone, blinking. LOL

[inglor]