As you can imagine, the hardest part of the day is bedtime. Adia hasn't been going to bed at a normal time since I was in the hospital on bedrest and we're trying to get back to it. Yesterday she was asleep by 9:30, which was great, but there was one big problem. Leia didn't feel like sleeping. She screamed until 1a! DiDi was here and tried her best to get Leia calmed and asleep, but as soon as DiDi left, Leia started up again. I finally got to sleep around 1:30a, only to be awakened by Mira at 4a. That wouldn't have been too bad except her crying woke Leia, who once again started screaming and even after eating 5oz, didn't want to go back to sleep. It was rough. I think I got back to sleep a little after 5a and the girls all woke up at 7:45. Daddy was nice to me and took Adia and a hungry Mira so I could sleep longer. Adia woke me up at 10. She walked in and told me she was poopy. I asked her if Daddy was sleeping and she told me he was. I walked out into the living room to find Daddy asleep on the floor and Mira asleep on his chest.
DiDi and I have had some outings with all three girls. We've been to Target, the mall and the grocery store. DiDi wears Mira in a snugli, Leia goes in the Kozy on me and Adia usually walks. I absolutely love my Kozy carrier still. It's so easy to use and Leia loves it too. She's slept through everything we've done.
play dough ice cream
The real interesting outing involved three sleeping kiddos. Adia fell asleep in the car by the time we got to the grocery store. We wore the twins and then had to figure out what to do with Adia. DiDi grabbed a race car cart and we used my diaper bag as a pillow. Adia slept through shopping and woke up as we were leaving the store. It's just proof that she's not getting enough sleep at night.
Today Adia and I baked brownies. She absolutely loves to help any way she can. She pushed a chair over and watched for a bit while I melted the butter and chocolate. I was really worried she was going to burn herself, but she didn't. While she waited for me to give her something to do, she made music with a whisk. She would hit it against a metal measuring cup. She almost had more fun doing that than the actual cooking. She really enjoyed being able to add the sugar, each egg and the flour mixture. This time she managed to get everything IN the bowl as opposed to when we made muffins and she dumped all the flour next to the bowl. She also attempted some stirring, but she just doesn't quite have the oomph for it yet.
When the brownies came out of the oven she was desperate to eat them. I kept telling her they had to cool before we could cut them, but she wouldn't take no for an answer. While I was feeding Leia, I heard a chair slide across the kitchen floor and then it got much too quiet. I walked into the kitchen to find Adia leaning over the brownie pan. She smiled at me and told me she wasn't doing anything when I asked her. When I walked over the pan, I noticed little holes all over the top. She gave me another grin, hopped down and ran out of the kitchen. She did get a brownie before we left. She is such a little stinker anymore.
We went over to my mom's friend's house again today. Adia loves it there and she knew where we were going. She woke up this morning and the first words out of her mouth were, "We go Nita's house?" She couldn't get dressed fast enough, even though we weren't leaving until the afternoon. Every few minutes she'd ask again. When we were on the way there and had just turned on her street, Adia yelled, "I found Nita's house!" She was so excited. I guess I know I have a place to leave her if I ever need a babysitter. Adia also really liked Nita's son's girlfriend. They took Adia to the park and when they came back, she was carrying Adia! Adia's normally very shy so that was a surprise. When it was time to leave, Adia even gave her a huge hug.
Adia fell asleep in the car, just before we got home, which turned into a very late nap. I had to wake her up around 8p to eat dinner. Then we took a bath together, where she demanded we bathe the babies too. Adia helped bathe the babies. She's usually very careful not to get water in their faces. We got out and put on pjs. I fed both babies with Adia sitting in my lap (not an easy task) and they were both almost asleep when Leia kicked off her blanket. She started howling again so I decided I'd grab a couple sleep sacks for them. Adia then wanted one too. She was very upset that they didn't make them big enough for her, but she did remember that we had just bought her footie pjs. Daddy grabbed them out of her room and I changed her. She was so happy to be dressed like her sisters.
We then all piled into the bed. It started out just Adia and me, but then Daddy had to leave so I ended up with Mira on my chest and Leia next to me. We finished watching Arthur and Adia requested songs. I started singing and soon all three girls were fast asleep. Mira and Leia are asleep in the pack and play. I'm hoping the sleep sacks keep them warm enough that they'll sleep well. Adia's asleep next to me. Someday she'll go back to her own bed, but I think my hospital stay freaked her out a bit.
The twins are continuing to grow and a fast pace. Leia's grown out of the smallest clothes we had and is definitely wearing newborn clothes well. She's got the longest arms and legs though so any pants or long sleeved tops are sometimes a little short, even if they're too wide. Mira's almost out of newborn already and can easily wear 3 month clothes. That's a shock to me since Adia didn't wear 3 month clothes until she was 3 months. At 1 month, Adia was still wearing mostly our smallest newborn stuff still. We had the hardest time finding clothes that were small enough for her. I still have trouble finding pants skinny enough, but long enough. Mira's also almost too big for the newborn diapers! Leia will be in them for a while longer though. She's a skinny thing.
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