What life is like right now {January 2016}

I thought it would be fun to include a full rundown of our current daily life in my 2016 Project Life album. So I'm putting it here too, just for full posterity. M & E are 3 years (+ 2 months), and I know that daily routines will surely be quite different by next January....

Life and Schedule update, v10 (26 months)

I realized that a few things have changed a lot since I last did one of these--over a year ago!--and I wanted to make note before I forget and before even more changes happen. First and most obvious, they walk and run and talk now, ALL THE TIME. 🙂 Their little voices are really cute,...

Life Right Now (Schedule update v8) (11 months)

In a word: Tired. (That's us, though.) Around the end of October or so, I guess around when they turned 11 months old, the babies ended up changing their routine in an important way--they basically dropped two feedings. We've also changed their sleep routine a little. And naps are in the process of changing too,...

Life with Babies Now: Schedule v6 and v7 (8 months)

I think it was around May or so, when the babies were around six months, that their nice schedule of 3-4 45 minute naps a day dissolved. What was good was they started occasionally taking longer naps, sometimes an hour, sometimes an hour and a half, and very occasionally two hours. What was bad was...

Regression?

Thanks to Ask Moxie, I learned about growth spurts and sleep regressions long before it would ever be time for our babies to go through them. I blame pretty much blame any weirdness on one or the other. However, as their four month 'birthday' came and went, I wondered if somehow we had escaped the...

Having It All

Another post from over a year ago. The babies have changed so much, and yet my day-to-day mama experience is pretty much still the same. Seriously, I need more hours in the day. Hahahahahahahahaha. {breath} Hahahahahaha. That's funny. At this point I would settle for having some of it. Whatever "it" is. I currently have...

Nighttime Baby Playlist! (Schedule update v5) (4ish months)

This latest schedule is not too different from before, but a little more refined, and a lot more regular. Feels a little more settled and permanent. And I hope so, actually, I think it works quite nicely. 730ish--Andy gets babies up, first feeding 900am--nap for 45 minutes 1000am--feeding 1100am--nap for 45 mins 100pm--feeding 200pm--nap for...

Schedule update, v4 (3-4 months)

Well, just as I suspected, the babies did indeed change their own feeding schedule a few days ago. They happily took 6 ounces at each feeding and were able to wait for the whole three hours to eat again (we'd been giving them 5oz and they were getting hungry for snacks and wanting to eat...

Schedule update v3: Current schedule (3.5 months)

Babies already seem to be transitioning themselves yet again, so I wanted to document our recent schedule. It's been a little over two weeks since the babies spontaneously slept through the night. It wasn't a fluke--they are still sleeping well! (There have been two times when one baby woke up in the middle of the...

Is it really true??

The babies slept through the night last night!!! Ready for our secret? Well, too bad. We don't have one. We didn't do anything. The babies apparently sleep trained themselves and we just allowed it to happen. Here's the progression. In January, they dropped one of the overnight feedings and started sleeping 5-6 hours. (It started...