Jamie's SuperMom

Jamie has been pretty sick, running a fever and stuff, since yesterday afternoon. So that has left me as solo dad. I honestly don't know how she does it all day. Things are fine when the boys are sleeping, or when they are happy to just sit in your lap and talk to you. But I've only been doing the solo dad thing for one day and I'm ready to pull my hair out ( and that's not good cause I don't have that much to pull out ).

I guess the only time that it really got frustrating enough to pull my hair out was supper time last night. Kevin and Alex had decided that they wanted to get cranky at the same time. So it had been just 3 hours since their last feeding ( we are trying to go 4 hours between feedings now ), so I wanted to try to hold them off for a little while. Well they were going to have nothing to do with that. Its tough enough when one gets crabby at night, and nothing you do will calm them down. But you really feel bad when you got 2 that aren't happy and won't be no matter what you do. Normally when one gets crabby I can hold them ( laying on their side along my arm with their head in my elbow, and lightly patting their butt with my other hand ) and walk around for a minute or two and they will calm down. Then we rock on the chair and all is good. But I discovered rather quickly last night that with 2 of them in your arms their is just no way that you can hold them like that. And they don't especially like sharing the space on my chest when I try to hold them both while rocking. So I had to fall back to the one solution I knew would work and feed them early.

Really other than that one time it hasn't been too bad. But just the overall amount of work that you need to do when your by yourself is tiring. Alex is a pretty slow eater so from the time that one wakes up until the time you lay the second one back down is usually an hour and a half at night and two hours during the day. Then once they are laying down you have to watch them for a little while because they spit up so much. And with Alex insisting on eating every 3 hours by the time you get them all calmed back down and resting your lucky to get an hour before the process starts again. And Jamie does it well. Somehow she still manages to find time to do things around the house, like dishes and laundry and all the other stuff. She even got the bassinets all ready to go into storage yesterday. I don't know how she can do that. I'm gonna be lucky if can manage to get the dishes done today.

Edit: Now I know what keeps her going. Getting the boys up this morning was one of the greatest feelings. First there is that joyous feeling that you made it through the night ( or day in Jamie's case ) and the boys are still doing good. Then there is the smiles from Alex after you get him all changed and cleaned up for the day.