Naptime Blog

I thought raising a little girl was difficult.  I mean for a seven year old girl, she has the mouth and attitude of a 17 year old!  And the outfits, hairdos and the girly melodrama issues are really starting to turn my hair gray!

So finding out I was having twin boys really made me very excited!  I wouldn’t have to deal with whining girls, I wouldn’t have to deal with the dramatics, I wouldn’t have to deal with the dressing up and competition with girlfriends…  But I guess I was not prepared for the boys!

My twins are only 10 months old.  They are a pleasure to have around.  I am amazed that I have been blessed with good sleepers, sleeping through the night since they were seven weeks old.  They have never given me any problems with eating, although Louis has acid reflux, and once we put him on Zantac and changed his formula, he became a new baby.  We go out and they don’t scream and cry.  We go to restaurants and they sit like big kids.  They smile at everyone and are always pleasant.  They really are great kids!

But boy are they bruisers!  I didn’t think I would have to worry about wrestling for years!  How can two ten month old boys lie on each other and roll around on top of each other without getting hurt?  I guess since they have always known life together, scrunched up inside the womb all those months, they are used to it, but wow!  And I would have thought it was way too soon to see them yank back and forth at a toy they both want!  I rarely hear them cry over any of this, but I am still amazed that this has begun at only ten months old!

Yesterday, Anthony took off his shoes and socks in the play corral.  He was standing up holding on.  All of a sudden, I see the tiny toes of one foot creep into the x shaped slats in the corral… then the second set of tiny toes crept in as well… and Anthony was halfway up the corral wall trying to get out!  And where was Louis?  Right behind him!  In a split second after that, I saw a third set of tiny toes creep in there as well.  I jumped up and got them both off the corral, but not without more gray hairs!!!  I am afraid my little monkeys will be out of the crib, corral and Pack and Plays sooner than I thought!

Shortly after the toes in the corral experience, I was cooking dinner and was peeking at them from the kitchen.  Luckily I can see everything from the kitchen.  I saw Anthony push Louis down on the ground and he stepped right on top of him to gain more leverage to the top of the corral wall!  And Louis wasn’t even complaining! Am I in trouble!  Especially since I am pregnant again…. with another boy!  Boy oh boy… oh boy!
I was hoping maybe I would have another famous family of male actors like the Baldwin family or a famous family of boy singers like the Jonas brothers, the Jacksons or the Osmonds… It would have even been nice to have another famous family of boy athletes like the Mannings of football or the Bodines of Nascar driving!  Instead, I may just be looking at the next Ringling Brothers!  Well, how fitting, sometimes this house is just that… a circus!

Hmmm…  and who said girls were easier?

Jennifer
Mom to Juliana (7), Louis (11m) and Anthony (11m)
Expecting #4 in September!
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