Pictures for Week 6 (by Edna)

Here are 3 representative photos for those who tire quickly...or who are also running on 4 hours of sleep. 1) Macy with the puppy dog eyes (one of her favs) 2) Camy content (also a common one for her) 3) Camy left, Macy right. Not identical, I'd say.

Pictures for Week 6 (by John)

Much could be said. There are charts and graphs to recount the fog of the past weeks, but people just want photos. There are more repeats; some pictures are grainy. We usually cull the photos by 90%, this time 1/3 made the quick cut. No names or captions so we hope you have brushed up on Macy/Camy discrimination. Here you go.

The rest of the first month

The Schedule

Every day of the last month for most of our family is summed up by the following repeating 3 to 4 hour cycle:

1.5 to 2 hours: Feed and diaper kids, try getting babies to sleep, prepare bottles for next feeding

1 to 2 hours: Try getting babies to sleep/Sleep. Give up on sleep. Eat. If it's late afternoon take babies for walk, maybe run errands, maybe shower (probably not).

Repeat.

Camy and I often skip the sleep parts.

Somedays, rather than sleeping, we went grocery shopping or to the pediatrician. We haven't taken many pictures. Our camera must have been over loaded from the first couple of weeks and died, so I bought a replacement this week.

The Budget

John and I each have accounting backgrounds, so we actually enjoy reviewing our Quicken records. This quarter's review brought out some sad stats. As noted above, I bought a camera. Over the last few weeks we've also brought home an ice cream maker, a mixer, a projector, speakers, cute sweaters for the girls..... anyway, we're going on a money diet.

John wants to cancel my cell phone ($850/yr.), but it is the only phone I have. Today I checked my phone records. In October I sent or received a total of 107 calls (including John), to or from 26 unique numbers (not including John). But this was a busy month with the twins birth and all. In September it was 70 calls and 14 numbers. August 63 calls and 16 numbers. These include doctor's offices confirming appointments, co-workers with work questions, and a few sales people. Sad, huh?