First Breather...6 Months!

If you talk to anyone who has had twins they will say, "6 months is your first goal!".  I feel like my actual first breather was the end of football season.  The day my mom left to go back to Lovington was also the day Gonzo started trainings for the Fort Worth school district.  From that point on I had all four by myself from 5:00 AM until 8 or 9:00 PM.  Although I wanted Dunbar to go further in the playoffs I can't begin to tell you how good it felt to know that I was going to have a huge increase in HELP!  Now we are at the famous 6 month mark and I can see why people talk about it as if it's a turning point.  When they first turned 6 months I didn't feel this way.  I felt like they all of the sudden became much more needy because they were more active and needed help trying new things.  Now we have kinda worked through that kink.

I blogged about our daily schedule when the babies were 3 months old.  Things have changed a bit but our house is still muy loco.  Here is a run down of what our days look like with the babies being 6 months:

Routine On Adda's School Days
6:00 I get up and get ready (my version of ready)
6:45 Pump
7:00 I get the older girls up and ready
7:30 I get the babies up, changed, and fed
8:30 Pulling out of the driveway to take Adda to school
9:15 We are usually home by this time
9:30 Playtime with the girls and try to fold (and put away, wink wink) a load of laundry
11:00 Start lunch for Ella and I
11:30 Put Ella down for a nap and change babies
11:45 Feed babies and put them down for a nap
12:00 Wash bottles and empty and fill dishwasher
12:30 Get things situated for dinner
12:35 Pump
1:00 Sit and do nothing (usually I am eating some sort of sweet treat now)
2:00 Get Ell and the babies up
2:10 Leave to go get Adda
2:45 or 3:00 Home from picking Adda up
3:30 Try to go outside for a little bit
4:30 Feed the babies
4:50 Pump
5:00 Start dinner
5:30 Daddy is HOME!!!!
6:30 Eat dinner, do dishes, family time
8:00 Bathtime
9:00 Older girls in bed
9:20 Feed the babies
9:45 Babies to bed
10:00 Wash bottles and pumping stuff, fill bottles for the next day
10:30 Pump
10:50 Shower and bed for Gonzo and I

Non School Days
9:00 I get up and pump
9:30 Adda and Ella are up and eating breakfast, Babies are starting to stir around (they usually sleep till 10)
10:00 or 10:30 I am usually feeding the babies their first bottle
10:45 Get everyone dressed hair in a ponytail (maybe)
11:00 Playtime/laundry
12:30 Lunch for the girls and I
1:30 Put Ella down for a nap and Adda has rest time in the sunroom
1:35 Feed babies
1:45 Put babies down for nap
2:00 Wash bottles, unload and load the dishwasher, start dinner
2:30 Pump
2:50 Sit and do nothing (eat a treat)
4:00 or 4:30 Everyone starts waking from their naps
5:00 Feed babies
5:15 Pump
5:30 Daddy is HOME!!!
5:45 Finish up dinner
6:30 Eat dinner, do dishes, make lunches, family time
8:00 Baths
9:00 Big girls in bed
9:30 Feed babies
9:45 Babies down for the night
10:00 Wash bottles, wash pump stuff, fill bottles for the next day
10:30 Pump
10.50 Shower and bed for Gonzo and I

This is a pretty accurate schedule of our days.  On Wednesdays I try to clean the house! Ha Ha Ha Ha!  Those days I am like a tasmanian devil running through the house and popping in and out of rooms checking on kids!  My version of clean these days is probably not your version of clean!  On cleaning days I try to have everything in the house clean before lunch except my room and bathroom.  Then during sit and do nothing time I close my door and get that clean.  Sometimes I skip the afternoon pumping and then just pump longer that evening to empty all the milk.   This will change a bit in the next few weeks because Gonzo starts track practice. 

Here are a few pictures of the Twinny Twin Twins from the last month (and a few of the older girls too).

First time to all eat together at the table with the babies in the highchairs.

Claire and Ella

Sweet Claire Bear

Clo Clo

Super Star!!!

Sweet Twinny Twin Twins

Falling...

Their favorite toy is Sofie the Giraffe

Adda and I after her nap

One morning I couldn't get them right away so I put them together and when I came back in this is what I found.  SOOOO sweet!

Okay, I have been trying for weeks to get this picture of all four girls with the 6 Month sign.  I finally decided I had to take it today.  Adda is still in pj's, Ella is in I don't care if you pee your pants cloths!  Nobody's hair is fixed, but oh well!

Look at Claire and Ella!  Precious!

Belly blowing!

The Twins don't seem to mind at all!

The babies have two teeth and two more just about to pop through.  They are rolling and turning all over the place when they play on the floor.  They are sitting up with help.  I don't have as much time to work with them on this as I would like to, but I know they will get it soon enough.  We haven't started food yet because I haven't talked myself into it!  Oh gosh that's a whole new thing that makes me want to cry a little!  I feel like I have to get over one hurdle before I can think about the next!  I need time to coast at one stage before we rev up for the next  They drink 4 bottles a day.  All are 7oz. except the last one of the day which is 8oz.  I am still able to keep up with them with pumping.  I pump between 45 and 50oz. a day and then we do formula for their last bottle.  Every once and a while I pump close to 55oz and can put some in the freezer.  I still have a pretty good stash in the freezer even after the pump and dump during the mastitis bout.  I hear that our next breather will be 1 year!  Ready or not, here we come 1 year!!!!