The Santifort Family: The First Week

First Night: The first night with the babies will go down in history. It all started out really good. The babies went to sleep at 9:30pm and woke up at 12:00am. I felt that this was pretty decent. Until...dun...dun...dun....they didnt go back to sleep until 6:00am! We were up ALL night with them. They didnt want to sleep at all! The would nod off and we would put them down....and as soon as we put them down they would wake up. I went to bed at 6am and woke up at 8am. Rob went to sleep at 8am and woke up at 10am. Atleast we were able to get 5 hours combine from our few in the early night and a few the next morning.

The next few nights were rough. Rob and I would take turns staying out in the living room with them. One of them was always up at one time. They both slept in their bouncy chairs. But they both liked one more than the other. Neither of them liked the red chair as much so whoever was in the red chair would constantly wake up. I would cat nap with one of them in my lap on the couch with pillows all around me. I would take the first shift from 10am-2am and Rob would take the second from 2am-5am. Then I would go to sleep from 5am-7am and he would sleep from 7am-9am. It was rough. We also tried to put them in the bassinet together and they would constantly wake each other up. I was really looking forward to having them be able to sleep together and cuddle together....but that didnt happen :(

The babies are pretty much sleeping all day and very inconsistant. They are very sweet and love to be held. Kevin and Kira are great with them....they constantly want to be around them and hug and kiss them. It is really sweet to see but can be very overbearing sometimes. Kira says they are "her" babies :) Ryan and Drew also have their own language already. They will grunt back and forth to each other from across the room like they are talking to each other. I love it!

Diane left on Aug 7th. She was a big help for 5 weeks. We couldnt have done it without her.....or atleast it wouldnt have been as easy!

My mom comes on Aug 10th to help for 2 weeks....Im really excited.