SOS

Deer internet peeplz,
We arr sneeking onto the compooter while mama is at werk and the nannie is lokked in the basemint.  Only temporrarilly, of course.  We promiss to let herr out soon.
We has severral greevances with arr present situashion.
1) We arr being locked in tiny jails everry day at leest three times.  Mama calls this [...]

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Ears

Current infected ear census in this household:  3 (Emma only has one sore one.)
Current hours of crying tonight prior to said discovery and treating with numbing drops and sweet, sweet amoxicillin:  2
Visits to my place of employment in search of a decent otoscope with infant-sized speculum: 1
Amount of alcohol consumed as of now: 0 (but [...]

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Boa Constrictor

Just dreamt that one of my coworkers was making me eat grasshoppers and trying to crush me to death (around the torso, like a boa constrictor) because I didn’t put the unlabelled mail in the right individuals’ mailboxes.  (No addresses on anything, so I just had to guess.)  My grandmother, aunt and great-aunt were also [...]

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To Do

My current To Do list (or “why I’m not posting more.”)
Finish baby Easter baskets
Clean out weeds from asparagus-beds-to-be and amend soil as necessary.
Procure soil amendments (compost, peat, etc) from Lowe’s.
Find a trellis suitable for the climbing rose.
Keep working on teaching Thing 1 and Thing 2 to sleep in cribs for naptime.
Hunt down some pansies for [...]

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Haiku

shrieking all night long
four month sleep regression sucks
send large coffee stat

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Ain’t That A Kick In The Head

One of the many hazards of being a twin:
Being awakened from your nap by your sister laughing and kicking her feet in your face.
Sorry, Emma.

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Thoughts on Infant Sleep

1) The odds that a baby will go down without a fuss are inversely proportional to the parent’s degree of desperation for her to do so, multiplied by the number of hours since the parent’s last two consecutive hours of sleep.
2) There is a tiny sensor in every baby’s brain that will wake her from [...]

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Slept Through The Night

The four best words in the English language. 
The little muskrats went down around 7, as usual.  After a couple of re-binkings (Chloe, mostly) they went to sleep by 7:30.  Up at 12:15 or so when I went to bed, to eat.  Then nothing, nada, not a peep until 4:30 a.m. when someone needed rebinked.  Then another [...]

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Blogapalooza

The bubs had their 4 month shots today (What?  They’re only 3.5 months adjusted!) along with their Synagis, so we’re having a low-key kind of day around here.  Lots of nursing, napping and tylenol, and I’m doing about eleventyone loads of laundry.  And frittering away my time on the internet.  And praying my boobs don’t [...]

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Sleep Overhaul v2.0

I’m off tonight, tomorrow night and the night after that.  So it’s time for the big “we will learn to sleep in our cribs” fiesta.  Our normal bedtime is 1900, but with DST it’s been a bit disrupted.
1858: Babies with full bellies in fleece jammies, dry diapers and swaddlers in bed with wubbanubs.  Chloe scored [...]

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