Time flies. It's been seven months since our boys arrived.
The first six months were tough.....but it has gotten considerably easier - starting about the six month mark. I hesitate to use the word easier in any sentence mentioning infant twins....but everything is relative. Until April both Gram and Noah were stirring several times through the night. Gram decided he could go the entire night without a feeding and sometime around the middle of April just did it. Noah, clearly the more wiry and restless of the two, had become notorious for being difficult when going to bed, and for waking up every couple of hours. It was exhausting for everyone. But he too, around the first week of May, decided he would sleep more. Lately he has been waking up just once each night. So between the hours of 7pm and say 6:30, 6:00, 5:30am our boys are quite happily asleep which means Mom & Dad can get their (relative) sanity back.
It has been a small miracle that Courtenay and I have been able to do anything else this winter. Perhaps I'm prone to some hyberbole on the topic. But we're getting the hang of it, we think.....I'm sure....at least for now.
The six month mark also signalled significant changes in the boys. They are both becoming much more aware of everything, much more interested in every little thing, much more interactive, much more expressive. Now they beam when Mom or Dad comes home......which just melts your heart.
Gram is a stickler for routine. He will tell you, somehow, if the schedule is different today. If everything is going as usual he is quite tolerant - happy to cooperate with just about anything. If he misses a nap or gets thrown off his routine, by late afternoon, he will get surly and really make you pay. There is nothing he loves more than eating.....at which point he becomes very demanding. If you don't keep up the pace with the shovelling he will let you know it. He can sit up all by himself but hates being on his stomach. Calm as anything, if you lay him down he won't move. He can just about get his jumper off the ground. And often he can amuse himself quietly, contentedly, beside you for long periods of time.
Noah is a little less predictable which means the strict schedule isn't quite as important with him. He is inquisitive and busy - always interested in what you're doing. He'll be the kind of kid that just goes until he drops. He too is ready to sit by himself and unlike Gram likes to roll around on the floor and doesn't mind being on his stomach one bit. He may start to crawl one of these days. Noah also loves his jumper. And bounce? He'll bounce himself into walls and laugh.
Both of them have adorable personalities. Obviously very different. Just in the past they've started to enjoy each other's company. They'll coo back and forth in their exersaucers and laugh at what the other has to say.
Hope you are doing well....as you can imagine...everyday is an adventure for Mom & Dad.
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