Bedtime has become a bit of a nightmare around here in the last couple of weeks. Brown Bear in particular hates to lie down and have her clothes and diaper removed. She squirms about so much that it is really tough to get her ready for her bath. And then post-tub… Holy crapola. She has a bit […]
Tag: screaming
Teething Troubles and Pain Relief
This whole teething thing is starting to cause me quite a bit of grief. I’m not sure what to take for the pain I am feeling due to the girls constant yowling at bedtime. Annalie seems to have it worse than Story but I am definitely looking for something to relieve my pain; even the […]
Blonde Bear moves into her own room
In a big move for Blonde Bear, and perhaps bigger for her mother, Blonde Bear has moved from our bedroom into her own bedroom. She has been sleeping in her own room since about 7pm (it is now 10:15pm). She has woken a couple of times and I have raced up the stairs with a […]
Teething; Need I Say More?
With a title like “Teething” what more do I have to say? Story’s two front bottom teeth just came in one day with not a whimper. Annalie? Screams of inconsolable agony all evening. Screams of exquisite agony that send shivers down your back. Screams that made Jim Dawg whimper…and she is deaf and blind. So […]
Baby becomes a greased ferret
I remember when I was a kid and we lived on a rural property (calling it a farm would be a stretch) my Dad brought home, through some complicated Tom Sawyer like trade, a “pet” ferret. Now anyone who has had a pet ferret might disagree with my observations, be that as it may… A ferret […]
Breast pump up date and Nestle formula
Just a quick update on the breast pump situation; the pump we have is an Ameda pump. I think I said Aveta before but it is an Ameda. The courier brought the new pump to our house yesterday and we are back in the breast milk game. I have to say that the customer service from […]
Do twins run in the family?
Today when people asked us about the twins we replied that in fact they were not twins, we had met on PlentyofFish.com and we both had babies that were the same age, purely coincidental that they were born on the same day. And then later when people asked if twins ran in the family, we […]
Word of the day; unrelenting
The word of the day today is “unrelenting”. That is what it is like being the Papa of twins today. Walking with them to the Starbucks, Story cried the entire time. Annalie slept. Now we are home, Annalie is wailing away. Hold her in my arms and she cries. Lay her in her crib, she […]
The portrait “package” for holiday-themed photo shoot
So the tears have stopped, the cries have abated, the twins are in bed asleep and I have a glass of Vino Collapso (wine from a box, surprisingly nice wine from a box I might add) in hand. What happened? Well, first off, we had scheduled with Sears a 10am portrait shoot for our twins. It […]
Reality-perspective check pour moi
Funny scene in the house today. Caragh was downstairs visiting her mother (she had a stroke a couple of years back and is paralysed except her right arm and her jaw which never stops moving…I’ll probably hear about this comment, but what the hell…) and I was taking care of the twins in the living-room. Annalie […]