Definition: When something happens on "Baby Time", it is happening at the most odd time, and likely at a time when it should not happen.
Example1:
Baby's eat at 3pm:
Parent Time says they should eat again at 7PM.
Baby Time says cry ( kind of hysterically at times ) from 5:30PM to 6:50 PM and then fall asleep until at least 7:30.
Example2:
The next morning:
Parent time says get up at 7AM and eat.
Baby Time says get up at 5:50AM and cry. Proceed with crying on and off ( mostly when loosing nuk ) until parents get sick of listening to the crying and decide to make you a bottle.
Parent Time then says at abut 6:45 is close enough, so go ahead and make the bottle.
Baby Time says fall asleep while parent makes bottle....
The next logical step ( and hopefully Alex doesn't take it ) is wait for brother to wake up and then start crying again so parent has two crying-hungry babies instead of one.
Update:
Alex woke up perfectly just after seven and Kevin stayed sleeping until after Alex ate...I like Parent Time
Saturday, June 28, 2008
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
The Boys' First Football Game
I know its the middle of summer, but to me its always football season. Is there really any better way to spend a Sunday afternoon?
This past Sunday was their Cousin Ethan's last flag football game of the season. Since it was the first time any of our nephews was old enough to be in a football league we thought it would be nice to go see him play.
So we packed up the boys...short sentence, but boy does that actually require a lot of work. It was new park that we have never been to before, so of course I got lost. It was kinda goofy, Kelly told us it was on Jordaine St., but what I didn't know is that it was literally in the middle of Jordaine St. and where we turned onto the street we couldn't get to the park because the street went to a dead end before the park. So we turned around and got back on Jordaine St. on the other side of the park and all was good. Then we weren't sure exactly which field it was on ( they had 3 games going ), so we decided the best choice was to pick the one all the way at the other end of the parking lot. This might sound like an odd idea, but they boys had been kinda cranky during the day so this field provided the best opportunity to take the boys on a little calm down walk. Of course that was not the right field, so we walked around a bit and found the field we were looking for. By that point the boys had gotten a nice little walk, so it worked out good that we walked around for a little bit as they were now starting to fall a sleep.
But they didn't stay sleeping for too long. Emersyn wanted to talk to they boys ( just like any little girl does ) so that got them up. The boys are not quite as excited to hear Emersyn talk as Alexis, but they do love talking to any little kid that comes to talk to them. So they woke up and were all smiley while Emersyn and Kelly talked to them. Jamie and Joe's friend Adam was there, and I didn't realize that he had never seen the boys before. He was helping Jamie be an assistant coach so he didn't get long to see the boys, but it was a nice chance for him to meet them.
Then we started to feel a couple of sprinkles. No big deal, but I hate having the boys out in the rain. So we grabbed thier blankets and started to drap them over the stroller. Then we could see it coming...on the other end of the park you could see this massive down pour. It was kinda neat to see, and if the boys weren't there I probably would have just sat and watched it coming. But we really needed to make sure the boys weren't caught in that, and I'm not sure how well our little baby blankets would have held up to that. Luckily Kelly's mom was also there and she had a big thick blanket that Emersyn was using to sit on. So we quickly grabbed that and threw it over the stroller.
By the time we got the blanket over the stroller the down pour had hit us. I grabbed the stroller and started pushing as fast as I could. The football field was set up right past the infield dirt of a baseball diamond. So we pushed as fast as I could towards the dugout. Kelly was trying to help hold the blanket on the front of the stroller as I pushed. Then about half way there we realized that Emersyn wasn't running under the blanket anymore. So Jamie ran back and got her. The dug out is just chain link fencing with a roof over it, but for the most part we weren't getting rained on too bad. We kept the blanket half drapped over the boys, so they stayed pretty dry.
One of of the games had already started before the rain so those kids kept playing. Thinking back to when I was a kid, that must have been a lot of fun for those boys. What probably wasn't a lot of fun was that Kelly remembered she had left thier camera on the chair, so she made Jamie(brother) run back to the chair and get it. It was sitting in a pretty big puddle so hopefully it dries out ok for them.
Once the rain slowed down a bit the referees decided to start Ethan's game. We watched the game for a little bit from the dug out. After about 10-15 minutes the rain stopped, and most of the people left the dug outs to go back and watch from the sidelines. We decided that we didn't want to risk having the boys caught in that again, so we decided to head home. In the end the boys didn't even get to watch any football.
The walk back to the car required us to walk quite a ways through the grass and mud. By the time we got back to the sidewalk the tires had accumulated a pretty good collection of mud on them...its a good thing we have an awesome stroller because it wasn't too hard to walk though all the junk with it. Me and the boys took a few laps through the large puddles that had formed on the walk ways and that cleaned off the tires pretty good.
On the way home it started raining again, and talking to Jamie(brother) later they kids played through the rain when it came again. So its a good thing that we did decide to leave early. Sounds like Ethan is playing again in fall so we'll try to take the boys to a game again then.
This past Sunday was their Cousin Ethan's last flag football game of the season. Since it was the first time any of our nephews was old enough to be in a football league we thought it would be nice to go see him play.
So we packed up the boys...short sentence, but boy does that actually require a lot of work. It was new park that we have never been to before, so of course I got lost. It was kinda goofy, Kelly told us it was on Jordaine St., but what I didn't know is that it was literally in the middle of Jordaine St. and where we turned onto the street we couldn't get to the park because the street went to a dead end before the park. So we turned around and got back on Jordaine St. on the other side of the park and all was good. Then we weren't sure exactly which field it was on ( they had 3 games going ), so we decided the best choice was to pick the one all the way at the other end of the parking lot. This might sound like an odd idea, but they boys had been kinda cranky during the day so this field provided the best opportunity to take the boys on a little calm down walk. Of course that was not the right field, so we walked around a bit and found the field we were looking for. By that point the boys had gotten a nice little walk, so it worked out good that we walked around for a little bit as they were now starting to fall a sleep.
But they didn't stay sleeping for too long. Emersyn wanted to talk to they boys ( just like any little girl does ) so that got them up. The boys are not quite as excited to hear Emersyn talk as Alexis, but they do love talking to any little kid that comes to talk to them. So they woke up and were all smiley while Emersyn and Kelly talked to them. Jamie and Joe's friend Adam was there, and I didn't realize that he had never seen the boys before. He was helping Jamie be an assistant coach so he didn't get long to see the boys, but it was a nice chance for him to meet them.
Then we started to feel a couple of sprinkles. No big deal, but I hate having the boys out in the rain. So we grabbed thier blankets and started to drap them over the stroller. Then we could see it coming...on the other end of the park you could see this massive down pour. It was kinda neat to see, and if the boys weren't there I probably would have just sat and watched it coming. But we really needed to make sure the boys weren't caught in that, and I'm not sure how well our little baby blankets would have held up to that. Luckily Kelly's mom was also there and she had a big thick blanket that Emersyn was using to sit on. So we quickly grabbed that and threw it over the stroller.
By the time we got the blanket over the stroller the down pour had hit us. I grabbed the stroller and started pushing as fast as I could. The football field was set up right past the infield dirt of a baseball diamond. So we pushed as fast as I could towards the dugout. Kelly was trying to help hold the blanket on the front of the stroller as I pushed. Then about half way there we realized that Emersyn wasn't running under the blanket anymore. So Jamie ran back and got her. The dug out is just chain link fencing with a roof over it, but for the most part we weren't getting rained on too bad. We kept the blanket half drapped over the boys, so they stayed pretty dry.
One of of the games had already started before the rain so those kids kept playing. Thinking back to when I was a kid, that must have been a lot of fun for those boys. What probably wasn't a lot of fun was that Kelly remembered she had left thier camera on the chair, so she made Jamie(brother) run back to the chair and get it. It was sitting in a pretty big puddle so hopefully it dries out ok for them.
Once the rain slowed down a bit the referees decided to start Ethan's game. We watched the game for a little bit from the dug out. After about 10-15 minutes the rain stopped, and most of the people left the dug outs to go back and watch from the sidelines. We decided that we didn't want to risk having the boys caught in that again, so we decided to head home. In the end the boys didn't even get to watch any football.
The walk back to the car required us to walk quite a ways through the grass and mud. By the time we got back to the sidewalk the tires had accumulated a pretty good collection of mud on them...its a good thing we have an awesome stroller because it wasn't too hard to walk though all the junk with it. Me and the boys took a few laps through the large puddles that had formed on the walk ways and that cleaned off the tires pretty good.
On the way home it started raining again, and talking to Jamie(brother) later they kids played through the rain when it came again. So its a good thing that we did decide to leave early. Sounds like Ethan is playing again in fall so we'll try to take the boys to a game again then.
Sunday, June 22, 2008
Picking Names
I'd like to start by apologizing to all you die-hard Kevin and Alex fans out there, its been a while since we've written a full blog entry. Most of what we have wanted to say can be said through twitter and its so much easier to post there. With that said I thought I would share the story of how Kevin and Alex came to be the twins names, since we never put it up here....
We went back and forth on lots of names when trying to think of what the names of the boys would be. Lots of names got thrown out there, like Brett and Peyton ( from Grandma JoJo ), but nothing ever sounded good to us. After a lot of digging through baby name books/websites we were still stuck with nothing. Then one day Jamie said she always liked the name Kevin. Right when she said that I knew that was a good name and we had one of our names. Then for the first time it having twins proved to me more work than a single baby ( many more of these times have come and gone since ), because we still had to come up with a second name. After pondering the options again for a short time I thought about Diggnation, which is one of my favorite shows ( side note: if you like to laugh and like news or technology go check out www.diggnation.com ). The hosts of the show are Kevin and Alex, so naturally since we had already decided on Kevin I threw out Alex as the other name. Jamie said that she liked the name too, but quickly realized that DiggNation is where I had come up with the name. So she made a point that she liked the name, but we agreed that they are not "named after" the hosts of DiggNation.
So the next natural step is deciding which baby would be Kevin and which would be Alex. Looking at ultra-sound pictures neither baby really looked like they were a Kevin or an Alex. So we decideded that we would wait until the boys were born to decide which one was which. So for the rest of the pregnancy we stuck with "Baby A" and "Baby B" as thier names ( and yes I did consider using those as there permenant names, but my better judgement took over real quickly when that thought popped into my head ).
All the way up to thier birthday we thought about how we would choose which baby would be which. We considered everything, from the first one born would be Kevin/Alex, to just seeing which one looked more like a Kevin or an Alex. Then the day came and we still had no idea how we were going to choose which one would be which. So as we sat in the room waiting for the delivery we kept thinking about it, as if we didn't have enough other things to think about. Then we got into the delivery room and I saw Jamie laying on the operating table and amongst all the other thoughts of happiness, joy, fear, and anticipation ( mabye I'll get around to writing an entry about that one day ) I thought oh boy, how are we going to decide which one is which. Then I saw they take out "baby A" and all the thoughts of names left my mind and were replaced with all the thoughts that come along with "holy crap I'm a father". Then "baby b" was born and I was still just stuck on "holy crap I'm a father of two". Then after basking the joy of our boys for a few minutes one of us, and I don't remeber which one, ask "who is who". For some reason I said "Well baby A has hair, we should name him Kevin". To this day we still have no idea why, but at the time that made total sense to both us and Baby A became Kevin Joseph Burich, and Baby B became Alex James Burich. I guess its one of those special parenting things that you just instinctvly know your children.
We went back and forth on lots of names when trying to think of what the names of the boys would be. Lots of names got thrown out there, like Brett and Peyton ( from Grandma JoJo ), but nothing ever sounded good to us. After a lot of digging through baby name books/websites we were still stuck with nothing. Then one day Jamie said she always liked the name Kevin. Right when she said that I knew that was a good name and we had one of our names. Then for the first time it having twins proved to me more work than a single baby ( many more of these times have come and gone since ), because we still had to come up with a second name. After pondering the options again for a short time I thought about Diggnation, which is one of my favorite shows ( side note: if you like to laugh and like news or technology go check out www.diggnation.com ). The hosts of the show are Kevin and Alex, so naturally since we had already decided on Kevin I threw out Alex as the other name. Jamie said that she liked the name too, but quickly realized that DiggNation is where I had come up with the name. So she made a point that she liked the name, but we agreed that they are not "named after" the hosts of DiggNation.
So the next natural step is deciding which baby would be Kevin and which would be Alex. Looking at ultra-sound pictures neither baby really looked like they were a Kevin or an Alex. So we decideded that we would wait until the boys were born to decide which one was which. So for the rest of the pregnancy we stuck with "Baby A" and "Baby B" as thier names ( and yes I did consider using those as there permenant names, but my better judgement took over real quickly when that thought popped into my head ).
All the way up to thier birthday we thought about how we would choose which baby would be which. We considered everything, from the first one born would be Kevin/Alex, to just seeing which one looked more like a Kevin or an Alex. Then the day came and we still had no idea how we were going to choose which one would be which. So as we sat in the room waiting for the delivery we kept thinking about it, as if we didn't have enough other things to think about. Then we got into the delivery room and I saw Jamie laying on the operating table and amongst all the other thoughts of happiness, joy, fear, and anticipation ( mabye I'll get around to writing an entry about that one day ) I thought oh boy, how are we going to decide which one is which. Then I saw they take out "baby A" and all the thoughts of names left my mind and were replaced with all the thoughts that come along with "holy crap I'm a father". Then "baby b" was born and I was still just stuck on "holy crap I'm a father of two". Then after basking the joy of our boys for a few minutes one of us, and I don't remeber which one, ask "who is who". For some reason I said "Well baby A has hair, we should name him Kevin". To this day we still have no idea why, but at the time that made total sense to both us and Baby A became Kevin Joseph Burich, and Baby B became Alex James Burich. I guess its one of those special parenting things that you just instinctvly know your children.
Monday, June 2, 2008
First Night without the boys
Yesterday we went to dinner with Grandma and Papa. When we were done eating Grandma insisted that Kevin and Alex should spend the night at her house.
It was a really tough decision to let them go for the night, but after thinking about it for a while we decided it would be nice to get a little sleep. And boy were we right. Now that the boys are sleeping through the night I've been feeling a little less sleep deprived every day. Last night might have been the last little bit that I needed to get back to being a non-sleep deprived parent. Notice I said non-sleep deprived parent, as I know there is no such thing as a fully rested parent.
I thought I was going to have a lot of trouble sleeping last night, but it turned out that I was so in need of catching up on sleep that I fell asleep at 9 and didn't get up until 6:30. Jamie on the other hand did wake up a few times wondering about the boys, but I think she also got enough sleep to re-energize herself as well.
Grandma wasn't so lucky. Jamie and I have become so used the little noises the boys make at night that it doesn't phase us anymore. When they start making noises we just listen to the monitor for a couple minutes and we know right away whether or not they are going to fall back asleep. Of course Grandma isn't used to those noises. She heard Kevin sucking his thumb at 3:30, so she got up and made the boys bottles. By the time she was done making the bottles Kevin had fallen back asleep. Then at 4:45 Alex started making some noises, so she got up and did it again. And, yup you guessed it, Alex was back asleep by the time the bottles were ready. The boys finally got up them at 6:20. I never realized just how helpful it is to know the sounds the boys make. Now that the boys are sleeping through the night, if we didn't know the boys sounds we would be just like Grandma: not sleeping through the night even though the boys did.
It was a really tough decision to let them go for the night, but after thinking about it for a while we decided it would be nice to get a little sleep. And boy were we right. Now that the boys are sleeping through the night I've been feeling a little less sleep deprived every day. Last night might have been the last little bit that I needed to get back to being a non-sleep deprived parent. Notice I said non-sleep deprived parent, as I know there is no such thing as a fully rested parent.
I thought I was going to have a lot of trouble sleeping last night, but it turned out that I was so in need of catching up on sleep that I fell asleep at 9 and didn't get up until 6:30. Jamie on the other hand did wake up a few times wondering about the boys, but I think she also got enough sleep to re-energize herself as well.
Grandma wasn't so lucky. Jamie and I have become so used the little noises the boys make at night that it doesn't phase us anymore. When they start making noises we just listen to the monitor for a couple minutes and we know right away whether or not they are going to fall back asleep. Of course Grandma isn't used to those noises. She heard Kevin sucking his thumb at 3:30, so she got up and made the boys bottles. By the time she was done making the bottles Kevin had fallen back asleep. Then at 4:45 Alex started making some noises, so she got up and did it again. And, yup you guessed it, Alex was back asleep by the time the bottles were ready. The boys finally got up them at 6:20. I never realized just how helpful it is to know the sounds the boys make. Now that the boys are sleeping through the night, if we didn't know the boys sounds we would be just like Grandma: not sleeping through the night even though the boys did.
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