Sunday, January 6, 2013
Thursday, January 3, 2013
My little homunculi
ho·mun·cu·lus
n. pl. ho·mun·cu·li (-l
)
)
1. A diminutive human.
2. A miniature, fully formed individual
For a change of pace, K and I took the girls out to dinner tonight. It's something we need to be doing more of, getting the girls out of the house. I'm just such an extreme homebody that I can be in the house for weeks and hardly notice. But I don't want the girls world to be so small that they get nervous when they find themselves outside of these walls so I'm going to make a concerted effort to load them up and move them out more.
Our waitress fawned over them quite appropriately. Charlotte just sat there wubbanubbin away, Tina looked around with a bit of concern until I took her out of the stroller and we played a little bit. Once we introduced her to the space, she was pleased as punch to flirt with whoever happened by.
The manager came over to check them out and thought they were newborns. "They're what, about 6-7 weeks?" *sigh* They'll be 7 MONTHS in a couple of days.
The girls are finally showing signs of growing out of their 3m clothing and we busted out the 3-6m size today. Hardly have anything in that size. Probably because for most babies, they skip through these in between sizes so fast that people don't bother to buy them and thus I didn't get a whole lot of them in the hand me downs. But my girls don't zoom through the sizes. They get to wear each size for a couple of months before they start getting a little tight. I wonder if they'll be spending their first birthday in 6m clothes.
I kind of figured once we got them a few months old, they would kind of average out in size by gaining extra weight early on to bring their start weight up near average, but they aren't doing that. Everything is right on track for when they are supposed to double or triple their birth weight, but with their birth weights so slow, it makes for HUGE differences now. So when we talk about doubling birth weight, for most people, that's somewhere in the 14-16lb range. For my girls, it's the 8-9lb range. I was kind of hoping to be able to continually give hand me downs to my buddy Tulip who just brought home her little girl. You'd think that with a 7 month head start, my girls would outgrow clothing in enough time for hers to fit in them. But she's starting out at a healthy 8lbs, and I would not be at all surprised if in 3 months her baby girl is wearing the same size as my girls, and surpasses them shortly thereafter!
It's going to look really funny if they are walking while still so physically small. Little people running around, bumping their foreheads on my kneecap. Oh well. At least it will take a long time for them to outgrow their car seats and by extension, the double stroller and our small cars.
Our waitress fawned over them quite appropriately. Charlotte just sat there wubbanubbin away, Tina looked around with a bit of concern until I took her out of the stroller and we played a little bit. Once we introduced her to the space, she was pleased as punch to flirt with whoever happened by.
The manager came over to check them out and thought they were newborns. "They're what, about 6-7 weeks?" *sigh* They'll be 7 MONTHS in a couple of days.
The girls are finally showing signs of growing out of their 3m clothing and we busted out the 3-6m size today. Hardly have anything in that size. Probably because for most babies, they skip through these in between sizes so fast that people don't bother to buy them and thus I didn't get a whole lot of them in the hand me downs. But my girls don't zoom through the sizes. They get to wear each size for a couple of months before they start getting a little tight. I wonder if they'll be spending their first birthday in 6m clothes.
I kind of figured once we got them a few months old, they would kind of average out in size by gaining extra weight early on to bring their start weight up near average, but they aren't doing that. Everything is right on track for when they are supposed to double or triple their birth weight, but with their birth weights so slow, it makes for HUGE differences now. So when we talk about doubling birth weight, for most people, that's somewhere in the 14-16lb range. For my girls, it's the 8-9lb range. I was kind of hoping to be able to continually give hand me downs to my buddy Tulip who just brought home her little girl. You'd think that with a 7 month head start, my girls would outgrow clothing in enough time for hers to fit in them. But she's starting out at a healthy 8lbs, and I would not be at all surprised if in 3 months her baby girl is wearing the same size as my girls, and surpasses them shortly thereafter!
It's going to look really funny if they are walking while still so physically small. Little people running around, bumping their foreheads on my kneecap. Oh well. At least it will take a long time for them to outgrow their car seats and by extension, the double stroller and our small cars.
Tuesday, January 1, 2013
Mommy Amnesia
So we said goodbye to 2012 and hello to 2013!
Last night I was thinking about the girls and going all giddy with "best year ever!!!" when I took a step back and thought "wait a minute, I'm happy now, but most of the year actually sucked."
Somehow, I've been granted that Mom amnesia where the happiness of your children takes over and you forget how miserable you were getting those children. I forgot that a year ago, I was in the ER with projectile bleeding, talking with K about what our next steps would be if I weren't pregnant anymore. I forgot that everything about the pregnancy was scary and uncomfortable and icky. I forgot that the first few months of my girls life, I was in a miserable spiral of depression, exhaustion, and sobbing. Because I've actually enjoyed my girls the last couple of months, I simply forgot about how horrible it was before that.
2012 wasn't the best year ever. 10 of the 12 months were actually pretty darned awful. But 2012 was the year that we put in all the work and difficulty and hard times so that 2013 can be the best year ever!
Last night I was thinking about the girls and going all giddy with "best year ever!!!" when I took a step back and thought "wait a minute, I'm happy now, but most of the year actually sucked."
Somehow, I've been granted that Mom amnesia where the happiness of your children takes over and you forget how miserable you were getting those children. I forgot that a year ago, I was in the ER with projectile bleeding, talking with K about what our next steps would be if I weren't pregnant anymore. I forgot that everything about the pregnancy was scary and uncomfortable and icky. I forgot that the first few months of my girls life, I was in a miserable spiral of depression, exhaustion, and sobbing. Because I've actually enjoyed my girls the last couple of months, I simply forgot about how horrible it was before that.
2012 wasn't the best year ever. 10 of the 12 months were actually pretty darned awful. But 2012 was the year that we put in all the work and difficulty and hard times so that 2013 can be the best year ever!
Sunday, December 30, 2012
A day of little things
First things first, congratulations to Bleeding Tulip! Another infertility blogger becomes a parenting blogger! Please welcome her new little girl into the world.
Around here, we've reached a milestone - I'm removing the newborn inserts from the car seats. Probably should have done that a month ago, but ya know, life stuff. We may be breaking out the 3-6m sized clothing this week too. Yeah, I know. They are almost 7 months old and still itty bitty. I hope they enjoy it while they can. With genes like ours, they'll never be tall, but they are likely to be oversized. I hope I do better with my children in that department than I've done for myself. It's weird to watch these little girls with most of the skills of a 6 month old in these miniature bodies.
Some cuteness - when I dance with them, they are starting to wiggle and dance on their own a little bit now. Tra-la-la boomdeyay makes Charlotte giggle. Charlotte is starting to sit up but Tina wants to skip sitting and tries to stand instead. Looking forward to them reliably sitting up on their own.
On the solid food front, we gave meat our first taste today. I figure going from fruits and veggies to meat is a major taste change, so I gave them a puree of sweet potato and turkey. I know they like sweet potato so I figured that would make for an easier transition. I think they liked it!
Last night was a rough night. Tina must be having some more teething pain even though her first 2 teeth have broken through. She was just screaming last night. We did our best to alleviate the pain and got her settled a couple of times, but then she reached the point where she just wanted to be held. Once the Tylenol kicked in and we were pretty sure she wasn't actually hurting anymore, we went back to the cry it out method. At first, I was going in to rock and soothe her, but the moment we put her back in the crib, the screaming started again. That was our indication that she was crying because she wanted attention, not because she was hurting. The rocking and soothing was only delaying her going to sleep so we suffered through until she finally dropped off.
We have a new morning routine around here on days that K works. He gets up a half hour early and takes a shower. Then he wakes me up so I can pump while he does random chores and is available in case the girls wake up. Then he goes to work and if I'm lucky, I go back to bed. This way, when the girls wake up, I'm not desperate to pump while trying to get them fed. Most days, they seem to wake up right around the time that K is pulling out of the driveway so I don't get the chance to go back to sleep. This morning, we were hoping they would sleep a couple of extra hours since they were up late last night. I went back to sleep for about an hour before they woke me up. They woke me up at that point in the sleep cycle where if you wake up, you just feel like crap.
I've got a headache, a general body ache, and I'm really dehydrated. I'm trying to get a lot of water in me, but that doesn't seem to be happening as much as I'd like. I don't think I'm sick, but I wouldn't be surprised if I'm changing my tune on that one tomorrow.
In making my coffee, the bag sprung a leak and my entire utensil drawer got a coating of fresh coffee grounds. Brilliant.
Charlotte is being crabby today. I'm not sure what her issue is. And Tina seems to just be tired. She's taken a 2 1/2 hour nap which is really unusual for her. I wonder if they are feeling the same kind of crappy that I'm feeling.
Ok, Tina seems to finally be awake now that Charlotte is down for another nap. Swell. An out of sync day. This'll be fun.
Around here, we've reached a milestone - I'm removing the newborn inserts from the car seats. Probably should have done that a month ago, but ya know, life stuff. We may be breaking out the 3-6m sized clothing this week too. Yeah, I know. They are almost 7 months old and still itty bitty. I hope they enjoy it while they can. With genes like ours, they'll never be tall, but they are likely to be oversized. I hope I do better with my children in that department than I've done for myself. It's weird to watch these little girls with most of the skills of a 6 month old in these miniature bodies. Some cuteness - when I dance with them, they are starting to wiggle and dance on their own a little bit now. Tra-la-la boomdeyay makes Charlotte giggle. Charlotte is starting to sit up but Tina wants to skip sitting and tries to stand instead. Looking forward to them reliably sitting up on their own.
On the solid food front, we gave meat our first taste today. I figure going from fruits and veggies to meat is a major taste change, so I gave them a puree of sweet potato and turkey. I know they like sweet potato so I figured that would make for an easier transition. I think they liked it!Last night was a rough night. Tina must be having some more teething pain even though her first 2 teeth have broken through. She was just screaming last night. We did our best to alleviate the pain and got her settled a couple of times, but then she reached the point where she just wanted to be held. Once the Tylenol kicked in and we were pretty sure she wasn't actually hurting anymore, we went back to the cry it out method. At first, I was going in to rock and soothe her, but the moment we put her back in the crib, the screaming started again. That was our indication that she was crying because she wanted attention, not because she was hurting. The rocking and soothing was only delaying her going to sleep so we suffered through until she finally dropped off.
We have a new morning routine around here on days that K works. He gets up a half hour early and takes a shower. Then he wakes me up so I can pump while he does random chores and is available in case the girls wake up. Then he goes to work and if I'm lucky, I go back to bed. This way, when the girls wake up, I'm not desperate to pump while trying to get them fed. Most days, they seem to wake up right around the time that K is pulling out of the driveway so I don't get the chance to go back to sleep. This morning, we were hoping they would sleep a couple of extra hours since they were up late last night. I went back to sleep for about an hour before they woke me up. They woke me up at that point in the sleep cycle where if you wake up, you just feel like crap.
I've got a headache, a general body ache, and I'm really dehydrated. I'm trying to get a lot of water in me, but that doesn't seem to be happening as much as I'd like. I don't think I'm sick, but I wouldn't be surprised if I'm changing my tune on that one tomorrow.
In making my coffee, the bag sprung a leak and my entire utensil drawer got a coating of fresh coffee grounds. Brilliant.Charlotte is being crabby today. I'm not sure what her issue is. And Tina seems to just be tired. She's taken a 2 1/2 hour nap which is really unusual for her. I wonder if they are feeling the same kind of crappy that I'm feeling.
Ok, Tina seems to finally be awake now that Charlotte is down for another nap. Swell. An out of sync day. This'll be fun.
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