Once Upon a Time

there were two babies that were very predictable. They loved to sleep right after a good belly full of milk. They slept for 3 hours and half of the time we would have to wake them. They rarely cried, fussed or showed signs of irritability. Fast forward to the days of two newborns. Today we are behaving as newborns. Things have become more unpredictable. Bryson tends to have a hole in his stomach. It is not uncommon that we think something is wrong considering he slept for an hour and woke up crying and can't be calmed. The only thing wrong is that we don't have another warm bottle ready for him two hours after the last feeding!!! He doesn't seem to require very much sleep these days. We used to think Addison was going to be the low maintenance baby but lately she's more high maintenance than her brother. Keep in mind high maintenance = parental time consumption + parental confusion. It is no longer advisable for anyone to be left alone and outnumbered 2 to 1. They'll eat your brains!!!! Kim found some new bottles that have really lowered the irritability as the Modela bottles were pushing too much air in their tummies. Supposedly the Dr. Brown bottles put off some chemical / estrogen reaction so that wasn't an option for mommy; nor Addison when she is 12! Both are growing fast and tonight I realized how fast they were growing when I saw Bryson in the tub, on the mat after the bath and on his sleep positioner. His legs are hanging off things now. I even had a feeling that I wanted them to stop growing so that we could enjoy them at this age and size even longer. I think because we've nurtured them as preemies, it makes me like the moments are moving too fast or leaving me behind. Well I should end the update because Bryson is not going to last past midnight without a feeding. Meanwhile Addison could sleep for 5 hours easily. Also I forgot to mention we don't have updates on size because the home health care nurse isn't coming weekly but she'll be back one more time before the year is up for the next round of RSV shots.

One of these days I'll post more pictures but I have not even had time to take that many. It will be in another picasa album so you don't have to scroll past all the preemie era pics.