The babies will be nine months old in 4 days!
As you can probably tell from the frequency of these blogs, life has ramped up toward the busy side again. It must be a phase, or something to do to with the move, or a combination of both. The bottom line is that Geeta and I are both much busier at home with the kids these days. We think part of it has something to do with the kids adjusting to the new environment – for example it generally takes 1-2 hours to get the kids sleeping solidly at night; most night Geeta and I aren’t done with the kids until 10pm. We’ve been struggling to get them used to the cribs and 90% of the time the munchkins find their way into our bed at night because mommy and daddy are just too tired to keep running back and forth to the nursery. On average we hear one of them cry every 30 mins to 1hr and so we get up to comfort them and rock them back to sleep – we’re thinking they are now at an age where noise is now starting affect them while asleep. When they were younger, if one of them started crying it never really affected the other; I guess this is changing. Up until recently, the kids have been sleeping through the nights fairly well and Geeta and I were really enjoying being well rested. Unfortunately, these days we both find ourselves on the tired side. We just bought two more cribs and now have three cribs in the nursery. We started separating the babes into their own crib given that they are now pretty big and often pull at each other’s hair or kick each other – not sure if they like being separated but I guess we’ll need to be persistent as parents to get them used to it. They also haven’t quite adjusted to the daylight savings clock adjustment (i.e. 1 hour forward) and hence they are waking up for breakfast at 6AM instead of 7AM – totally bites! To cope with the sleepless nights and early morning feeds, Geeta and I have resorted back to the good old days and have once again been alternating night shift and morning feeds – that way one of us is kind of rested to take on the early morning feed. This has worked okay the last couple of weeks given that I’ve been taking holidays and winding down my current role at IBM. Moving forward, as I start my new role at a new company we’ll need to find another way.
We recently hired a new part-time nanny – Meagan has been a huge help over the last week and has really helped keep our household running. We are happy to have found her.
What’s new?
The boys are sooooo close to crawling – any day now! Everyone is also very close to cracking their first tooth. The timbits often bite our hands and legs and pretty soon I’m pretty sure it’s going to hurt! Ariya seems to be leaning more toward becoming a veggiesaurus – she tends not to like meat including chicken and steak, while the boys love it! Nanni (Grandma Uppal ) is definitely happy about that as she is a vegetarian.
The kids are starting to interact with each other. Now they seem to play with each other and even compete for attention, toys, and food. Mommy and daddy are having to try extra hard to evenly distribute the love which is sometime difficult when one screams louder than the others (i.e. Kailen has become quite the aggressive little boy!). Striking a balance and ensuring equality are going to be two goals that we strive toward as new parents.
Mommy giving Kailen a ride on the swing:
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