Routine

The girls have been working on getting back into their routine this week after we traveled to Florida. I had a couple of nights with very little sleep since Addison thought she should wake up every few hours or sometimes minutes. When Brian got back in town he took over the night shift so I could get some sleep! They are almost back on their normal nighttime schedule, which looks something like this: eat around 5:00 PM, bath, another small top off bottle, rock/snuggle, bed around 6-6:30 PM. They are getting back to sleeping until about 3-4 AM and waking up occasionally in between for their pacifier. They wake up for the day anywhere between 5 and 6:30 AM. It’s weird because typically they trade off on which one wakes up during the night, some nights its Emma and sometimes it’s Addi. This week it’s been Addi.

(Emma just loves to stick out her tongue these days!)

(Addison doesn't stick her tongue out often.)

(Emma taking a afternoon snooze.)

(She has been working on finding her thumb.)

The girls are almost 17 weeks old now. Emma especially has taken an interest in watching us eat. She started this at my mom’s house. She watched her eat a piece of pizza. She watches me eat my breakfast or lunch if she is awake. Last night when Brian came home from work he was refueling on trail mix before the marathon we like to call bedtime routine. Emma was smacking her lips and watching her daddy eat. Brian let her lick a dried peach. Apparently she liked it because she continued to try to “eat it”. So this weekend we are taking the plunge and trying the rice cereal. We’ll take some pictures and post them next week.

Addison

(Playing with new toys.)

(Addison gets so mad when I try to make her sit for a picture! Emma working on finding that thumb.)

Not much else is going on around here. It is still too cold to do a whole lot outside, Brian is traveling every week, and I’m still trying to get the girls on a schedule.

I also wanted to ask a question to anyone that has experience with twins. Have you noticed that one twin reaches milestones a couple of weeks before the other? We have noticed that with our girls. Emma seems to be about two weeks ahead of Addison on most things.

Emma is getting good at holding that head up.

and trying to sit up (with support of course)!