My favourite time of the day is after the girls have gone to bed. Not because the house is finally quiet but because I can be a hero and make everything in the world alright for Annalie and Story. You see, typically after going to sleep for the evening or night, one or the other […]
Tag: sleeping
Blonde Bear Transitions to the Nursery
I know that awhile ago I talked about transitioning Blonde Bear into her own bedroom. That transition seems to be complete and irreversible. I say it is an irreversible transition because a few nights ago, I was trying to squeeze an extra few minutes of sleep into the night. Blonde Bear is waking at 5am […]
Raising children; an elaborate hazing ritual?
Okay, the joke is over…is there some great elaborate conspiracy that is working against me on this getting kids to sleep thing? I am starting to believe that this sleep/no sleep deal is a hazing ritual organized by some superior life force. And then Story has discovered the stairs. She loves climbing up the stairs, […]
Doctor Ferber; Do You Make House-calls?
Okay, so I spoke too soon. On January 5th I posted a little thing about the girls sleeping through the night. I was feeling quite giddy with my new found freedom to sleep for five or six hours (ah the luxury!) straight through. Unfortunately, as I was posting those thoughts, the twins were plotting their […]
Sleeping Through the Night
The twins have entered a new phase that is somewhat welcome and somewhat inconvenient. For the last couple of nights Annalie and Story have slept through the night. This is a very welcome phase for them to have moved into. The less convenient part of this phase is that they both now wake up at […]
A Merry Christmas to All…
Well it certainly has started out as a very merry Christmas here at our house. As per usual, Annalie woke me up at 2:30am demanding a couple bottles of milk and a diaper change. I obliged her, as I usually do. This was after Story had woken up at 11pm and decided that the night […]
Receiving Things from my Christmas Wishlist Already!
So in a way some of my Christmas wish list has come true. Not exactly what I asked for but sure closer. My father has been moved into a long-term care facility close enough to my mother’s home so that she can now roll over in her electric wheelchair and see him any day. Another Christmas […]
Another Early Start to the Day
Well, here we are at 5:30 am and I can honestly say we have been hard at life since 4:30 this morning. Story awoke, on schedule, and demanded to get into the office to begin her play day. So Caragh put her in the Play-Yard, a sort of containment unit for babies who are a […]
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 […]
The Projectile Vomit
I have seen the stuff of legend; I have actually seen the projectile vomit…live, in action. Annalie, Story, Caragh and I are nursing colds. With all of us having colds, it adds that extra dimension of nifty to our days and nights. As any parent will tell you, we (parents, that is) do most activities in […]