31 months 7 days

Day 949. Last night I went to bed 11:25 pm. It was another busy night with them going back and forth between their beds and ours. And Emmy was the first one up again around 7 am, Sammy woke up a little later, and then Emmy woke his sister up. At 7:45 I got up as well. 

I made breakfast and we sat down to eat. Today it was Emmy who had a fit. Last night he had a new pj on, and Randy told him it was a motorbike rider's outfit. This morning he said he wanted to ride a motorbike. I told him we don't have a motorbike, so he started crying. Randy said he could ride the little motorbike downstairs, and I said he could ride one at the amusement park, but he was still crying and saying "motorbike". He came to sit on my lap.

After breakfast I cleaned them up and dressed them, including pants and shoes. Emmy said that he wanted to go to the post office with me, which of course meant that Tammy wanted to go too. Randy went downstairs with Sammy, and I put their coats on and loaded them into the stroller. They both wanted to hold the package I was returning. We went to the subway, rode three stops, then got off and walked to the post office, where we handed in the package. Then we went to the drugstore, where I printed off the new sponsored kids' pictures, and we also bought a few items, including snacks for them. We paid and went to the subway to go back home. I could have put the stuff under the stroller, but the kids wanted to hold it.

Just before 10 am we were back home. Sammy heard us, and we could hear his sounds of joy. I took their coats and shoes off, and we went downstairs together. Tammy was shouting back to Sammy on the way down, using Sammy's own language. Both Emmy and Tammy speak the way Sammy speaks, when they communicate with him, which is using sounds.

I went back upstairs to finally get started on all the office work I had to do. Time was short anyway. Just before 11:30 I went to the kitchen to get cooking. At noon they came upstairs to eat, and it was all ready. We sat down at the table to eat. Sammy didn't have much of an appetite today, Emmy wasn't eating that much either. They all had pudding, then we cleaned up and dressed them, and the boys went to bed. It was 12:40. It took Emmy until 1 pm to fall asleep. Tammy was coming up the stairs at the same time, and it woke Emmy up again. Great! Thankfully I got him to fall asleep again quickly. It took Tammy until 1:30 to fall asleep. I kept going back and forth to her from cleaning up the kitchen a few times. Then I went back to work, while Randy left to go to the grocery store.

Just after 2 pm Emmy walked into the room. I picked him up and lay down with him, like I've been doing, but unfortunately Sammy had woken up as well. And so we had to get back up, get Sammy and go downstairs. Emmy wanted to swing, so I put him in, while Sammy wanted to be thrown around by me, which he enjoyed. Then Emmy wanted to look at a photo book, and Sammy played the drum set for a while. At 3 pm Tammy was calling down to us from the top of the stairs, and I went to get her and bring her downstairs. She wanted to take some squeezies with her, and so they had those as their afternoon snack. We continued looking at photobooks altogether. Tammy wanted to look at one from the beginning, when they were little babies. Sammy wanted to look at a book with sounds and enjoyed hearing all the animal sounds. Just before 3:30 Randy finally returned, but it took him a while to put everything away. At 3:40 he came downstairs and finally relieved me so I could go continue doing office work. However, Tammy wanted to swing and Randy didn't want to push her. I ended up putting her into the swing and pushing her high, much to her delight. Then Emmy wanted to be the one to push her, but she didn't like that, as it wasn't high. I left, then Randy got her out of the swing, and she ran to the staircase, where she was calling up to me and crying. She did that for quite some time before I went downstairs and took her into my arms to comfort her. Then she asked to watch Peppa Pig, and Emmy had arrived by then too, asking for the same thing, and so I turned it on for them. They hadn't watched in a while, and Randy was working with Sammy. Then I was finally able to go do office work.

Half an hour later I went back downstairs to turn the Echo device off. They didn't like it but soon got over it and started playing again. I continued doing office work until 5:15, then went to the kitchen to make their dinner. At 5:40 I went downstairs to tidy up with them. FINALLY I had them both help me! Randy had already done some tidying up, so there was less left to do. Once we were done, we went upstairs to eat, and they were very happy to each get a coin to put into their piggy banks.

They did okay eating at the table, then Tammy put the rest of the food into a bowl that we then took to the bathtub, where they continued eating, but didn't eat it all. Sammy ate very well in the bathtub, and also grabbed food from his siblings' bowl. After some fun play time, they came out one after another and today they were already in bed by 6:55 pm. But it turned out to be a terribly difficult bedtime like we have not had it in a very long time. At first everything was as usual. I sat down by them, and Tammy lay on my chest and we talked. But they started getting up and running around and laughing and playing with each other. As soon as they were back in bed, they were out again. It was so frustrating. Then Sammy was crying, probably because he couldn't join in the fun, and I comforted him. Then I walked away, as I was just worn out and couldn't deal with it. Randy put them back into bed and sat down by them. Both Tammy and Emmy were crying and crying for me to return and sit down. I was in the kitchen getting my dinner ready; I was hungry. But I still returned to sit by them. Emmy was asleep, and Tammy nearly asleep, when I left, but they were both crying for me again within minutes and I sat back down. Then finally I was able to walk away without any protests. I finished getting my dinner ready and went downstairs to eat. Then I went back to work. I'm hoping to make it to bed earlier again, like last night.