So Tired

Both boys have been waking up between 4;30 and 5:30 every morning lately. After getting up that early the last few days sleep has been pretty minimal. I think a big part of the problem is that they are awake all day now, and only taking couple of short naps. So then by the time they eat around supper time they are out for the night then. And then they get up early cause they have been sleeping for so long.

Last night they were cranky all evening and didn't actually fall asleep until after we feed them at 9. We fell asleep out on the couch ( like usual ), and woke up and went into the bedroom at 2 when we heard the boys crying. After a few minutes we decided to get up and feed them. Then the amazing part was that Alex slept until 6AM this morning. When he woke I thought that we had fed them at 2AM last night so it had been 4 hours. Alex was cranky and I couldn't get him to fall back asleep so I decided at about 6:15 that I had held him off long enough and was going to go ahead and feed him. This way Alex would hopefully finish eating before Kevin got up. Well Kevin woke up at 6:45 and Alex had only eating 2 ounces! So I got Kevin up and let Alex sleep a little while I fed Kevin. It took Kevin almost half an hour to eat his whole bottle. Then I went back to Alex and he was so tired he wouldn't open his mouth to eat. Eventually I just gave up and let him go back to sleep after eating less than half the bottle.

After I finally gave up and let Alex go back to sleep Jamie got up. And she informed me that we went bed at 2AM, then that few minutes minutes that we waited before feeding them wasn't really a few minutes. It turns out that I was so tired I had fallen asleep for a full hour and we had really fed them at a little after 3AM. So when I tried to feed Alex it had really only been 3 hours since he last ate...no wonder he only at half the bottle.

Jason