23 months 21 days

Day 721. Last night I headed to bed at 1 am. And it was a busy night with Emmy getting up and coming to me repeatedly. He has now stopped drinking milk, with the last of the baby milk being used up a few days ago. I've tried to give him regular milk in the type of cup they're using during the day, but last night he did not want it. Tonight he has fussed, but not received milk, and so far he's fine.

Emmy was the first one up again, and the only one up for a while, until he woke his siblings up. If only we could get him to sleep longer. They were asking for salami again, but don't like it any more. I guess that salami phase was short and is over. They did ask for cheese. Emmy likes camembert, but not too much of it, and both like Emmentaler (Swiss cheese), and had some of that. Tammy even drank her cereal today - before she ever sat down in her chair. By that time she was done eating and would not eat anything else. Emmy did not want his cereal at all. Tammy drank his in the bathtub tonight, and was the only one drinking it.

After breakfast I took them downstairs, turned the worship music on and opened the blinds. Before I was done Emmy was asking for the instruments. They played, and then I got the Bibles out that we all looked at together. When Randy came, I went upstairs to clean up.

It was 7:45, when I went upstairs. I was really tired and decided I needed to sleep more than I needed to work. I set my alarm for 10:45, as we were having leftovers. But 20 minutes before that Randy stormed into the room with Tammy saying she was bleeding. I was still half-asleep but did not see any blood. She fell and bled somewhere in her mouth, but it was already over, and she was not crying. Randy took her back downstairs, and I went to the kitchen to get the meal ready.

At 11 we all sat down to eat. They didn't eat much, but enough to get icecream which they were excited about. Then Tammy wanted a pudding, and because she got one, Emmy wanted one too, but he didn't eat it, so Tammy ate his as well. Then I cleaned the boys up and put them to bed. Emmy always asks for Sonja, all throughout the day, and I kept telling him she's not coming today but the day after tomorrow. I still needed to make my own meal, but he wanted me to stay with him. It took him a while to fall asleep. The girl always needs a lot of time to fall asleep, but she just plays until she does. Thankfully she now stays in her bed.

I went to work after having eaten and made good progress. When Emmy woke up, Randy sat down with him, and they both slept together on the chair. When Sammy woke up, having slept longer than usual again, I picked him up, and put him by me on the floor, while finally doing the lunch cleanup. Before I was done, Emmy was up, and all three went downstairs. Once Tammy woke up, I called the boys upstairs. Tammy was calling for her Daddy, which she does quite a lot now, wanting him and not Mommy.

I got their food out, and we opened the balcony door, and I set the bowls with fruit out for them to help themselves. They love jumping on the trampolin, and especially when I take their hands so that they jump higher. They ate a little bit, but not that much, and then I took them downstairs. They wanted to do some drawing which they do a lot now, and so I got the table and chair down and the paper and crayons. We had fun drawing together. I'd draw something, and they'd scribble all over it, as if to hide it.

Then they went into the swing, one at the time, and I did some throwing around of the boys which they enjoy. Emmy keeps putting his hands in the air for me to throw him and does not want me to stop. Just after 4:15 Randy came downstairs, so I could go upstairs to continue working. They did some dancing and singing with him, and he took a video that I'll upload tomorrow.

At 5:30 I stopped working and started making their food, and at 6 pm they came upstairs to eat. They ate some at the table and did not finish it all in the bathtub, but had fun playing. Then we put them to bed. Emmy now always wants me to stay, more than his sister, while I wanted to get my food ready, so I left a few times, only to come back quickly. I finally stayed, and he fell asleep. Tammy was still awake and active, but I was able to walk away, and she fell asleep a little later. I made my food, ate, and went back to work. Now it's all done, and time for bed before another day starts in the Wilson household.