So the monkeys have been home with us for just about two weeks now. Its been both the most amazing and at the same time most physically taxing time for Jen and I in a long time.

As we try to get them on a schedule, they do good, then bad. It seems like they’ll be fine for a day, then the next 2 days they’ll be on complete opposite schedules. Even one of them keeps w/ a 3.5-4 hour feeding schedule, the other will decide at about 2 hours that they’re STARVING, like we’ve never fed them before.

We’ve yet to have them sleep through the night. They have no problem sleeping through the day though, so we try to get stuff done in the afternoon when they’re sleeping. But come nighttime, its seems like during/after their overnight feeding they wanna partttttttttttttttttttttttttttty. If they eat at 1am, they’ll be up and fussy till 3. I think I was up till almost 6am yesterday with Tyler. You cant get mad at him either. He’s such a cute kid. Hailey does the same to us too. She’ll be fine for days, and then 1 night she’ll pick to have a meltdown, and I mean MELTDOWN. Screaming to the point that she’ll almost be out of breath. It gets to you, but they just want to be held most of the time.

We’re getting used to them. They’re getting used to us. We know what they need and when they need it. Guess that’s what being a parent of newborns is all about.

Hailey seems to almost have doubled in weight (well not literally, but you can really tell she’s putting on the weight) Tyler is gaining too, but not at the same rate as her. That poor kid too, his sister got all the good stuff even when they weren’t born yet.

He’s probably going to not know his name either. It seems we have about 10 nicknames for him already. Bubba, Bubs, Squeaker, Popeye, Lil Brother, Ty, and probably 4 or 5 other ones that escape me at the moment. Most popular one is Bubs though. Hailey has her share too. Lil Momma, Big Sister, Chunky, etc

Ah well. Back to baby’in

Mike & Jen