Tie Ball Game!

Thursday morning I was defeated.  DEFEATED, I tell you.  I'm not a very competitive person until it's a competition, and I have made the quest to sleep through the night a competition - me vs. the babes.  *Disclaimer: they're good sleepers.  We get up 1-2 a night still but usually they nurse or just need their pacifier and go right back down.*  I had VERY high hopes that starting solid food would make them sleep through the night.  Immediately.  Not so.  We had reason to hope at first...we've even had a couple 6-7 hour stetches of sleep.  But here's a little tale of Wednesday and Thursday night.

Wednesday night.
I would say we went into this night on a fairly even playing field.  There'd been a few nights of status quo, a few days of routine naps and outtings, and decent amounts of solids actually making it "down the hole".  Wednesday evening I had the bright idea to try carrots.  So far they'd only had sweet potatoes and while they had done well and seemed happy, I was broadening their foodie horizons.  They no-likey carrots.  We had gags, terrible faces, that all over body shake that if Dan would have been home and I could have gotten on video would be viral by now.  I don't think ANY of it made it "down the hole".  At this point, I was not discouraged at all.  It was new, they had done so well with the sweet potatoes, I had high hopes and no fears about one night of no solids in their little bellies.  WRONG.  I guess my babes had grown accustomed to that full feeling.  They needed it, they missed it.  No amount of milk could take it's place.  But they spent the night nursing every 1.5-2 hours trying to fill the hole.  Mommas surviving those first few months when this is normal and to be expected - God bless you.  You will move past it, it will get better, ugh.  So.  Thursday morning: Babies 1, Momma 0.

Thursday night.
I don't have it all figured out, but I'm no dummy and I NEED MY SLEEP!  My plot to out-smart the little monsters started early.  I decided to add a morning "meal" of solids and try the new food then.  It still got introduced, they still hopefully won't eat only sweet potatoes for the rest of their lives, but we would sleep.  Carrots on day 2 went better (per Dan, I was at work, exhausted).  They had their new food, then milk the rest of the day, and sweet potatoes for supper.  Those girls LOVE sweet potatoes.  I was doing supper time alone.  Both girls in Bumbos on the counter, one Momma, one bowl, one spoon.  (Judge if you must, I'm sure there are too many food safety violations to even count.  I don't care.  They suck on each others toes and fingers, slobber on the same toys, and I can't handle 2 bowls and 2 spoons!  So THERE.)  Anywho...I could not shovel it in fast enough.  It was a mess, but they had their tummies full.  And we got up ONCE last night!!  Momma 1, Babies 0 (figuratively, I think they think they're still winning!)

Maybe everyone in the world already knows this.  Maybe it shouldn't have felt like such a victory.  Maybe I shouldn't feel like I should call GMA to be a guest to introduce my new way of WINNING, but I do.  Deal.

Clean, full babies.  My new favorite kind.

Love.

The Winner

P.S. I received my first-ever blog "shout-out"!!  I'm on a list of favorites posted by my friend Tracy.  Read her blog, I love it.  Read the other favorites.  Read, read, read...comment, comment, comment.  It makes us feel good.  The Blessed Life - Five Things Friday (or if that doesn't work, 'cause I have no faith in my "link" skills, go to http://theblessedlife-tracy.blogspot.com/2011/04/five-things-friday-blog-edition-part-1.html)