A day in the life . .

A typical day in the Lebow house:
6 a.m.: Baby wakes up. Go give her a binkie
6:15 a.m.: Baby 2 wakes up. Go give her a binkie
6:45 a.m.: Both babies awake, and Clara is yelling for us, too. One of us is up to turn on a show for Clara, have her sit on the potty chair to watch it (more on that in another post) and feed the babies, in their carseats, on the couch.
7:30. Change babies, get them dressed. Put them on boppy pillows or activity mat. Feed Clara. Unload dishwasher and wash some bottles. Get dressed. Dress Clara. Get ready to go somewhere?
9:00: Take Clara to Amy's house two days/week, or maybe we all go to the YMCA.
10:00ish: Feed babies again. Try to do a little cleaning. Maybe take a shower? Play with Clara. Put babies down in their cribs to sleep. In next two hours, go upstairs 5-6 times to give a baby her binky back and try to get them to both sleep at the same time and not wake each other up.
11:30: Feed Clara.
12:30 or 1:00: Clara takes a nap. Feed babies again. Try to spend at least 1/2 hour playing with them on the floor. Unload dishwasher again. Throw in some laundry. Fold some laundry and put away. Devotions?
2:30 or 3:00: Clara gets up. Play with her, or take her outside or to a park or somewhere. Figure out dinner. Keep trying to get babies to sleep somewhere. Anywhere.
4:00: Feed babies.
5:00: Dinner for us. Clean up.
7:00: Feed babies AGAIN.
Evening: No set schedule. Try to keep everyone, including mom and dad, from crying too much. Give Clara a bath every other night, and try to get the babies in the bath twice a week. Clara goes to bed around 7:30 or 8:00 and then we are rocking the babies or putting them in swings or whatever it takes to have them not fuss too much and hold them off until around 9:00 for their last feeding.

Unload dishwasher and reload. For the 3rd or 4th time of the day. Oh, yeah, and maybe take another load of laundry out and have it sitting around all night because we're just too tired to fold it before going to bed. LOVE this picture. It gives a good idea of her stage right now: in as little clothes as possible during potty-training time. I will do a whole post on this soon.

Getting someone to smile

Clara likes to hold one of the babies on the couch, and she really likes me to sit there, too and says, "Let's hold her 'gether (together) mama!"

This picture says it all, too . . . Jeremy, burping them both at once, after feeding them both at once on the couch. We have quite the little system!