Week in Review

Sunday
12:30a Woke up not feeling so hot
1:00-2:30a Pray alternatively for life or death
2:30a Manage to crawl upstairs enough to yell for Adam
2:30-2:45a Debate miscarriage vs. intestinal distess vs. calling an ambulance
2:45a Pass out in front of downstairs toliet
2:50a Come to, reflecting on the merits of cold tile
3:00-4a Chill on the floor with pillows and blanket whilst Adam looks up things on WebMD while bouncing and feeding shorter girls.
4:00a Determine I'm going to live, crawl to bed under two comforters
8:00a Prepare for Dadageddon
11:30a Dad arrives 30min early

Visit with dad, cook and wait on him hand and foot untill 11p

Monday
5:45a Girl o'clock
7:30a Truman hurls by dining room table, and aims and fires downstairs. Wearing his Queen Anne collar. Which he shakes when I try to get it off him. Decide to wake Adam
7:45a Dad awakes
8:00a Make breakfast, resume hand and foot routine
8:00-10a Girls shriek, cry, and fuss, dad sits on ass 7 feet away ignoring them on his computer 10:00a Blow up at dad, clean kitchen
10:00-11:00a Dad sulks, wash girls
11:30a Dad picks up a girl independently for the first time
1:00p Manage to bathe self and hed out for lunch/errands
2:00p Jenna chucks a spoon halfway across Steak and Shake, Al sleeps through entire meal 4:00p Dad decides he's coming don with something, and probably shouldn't handle the girls 5:00p Dad backs out of Chicago trip, scurry to cancel suite reservation downtown for something out in the burbs

Tuesday
12p Head to Chicago
8:45p Find hotel, settle in
10:00p Girls crash
10:30p We crash
11, 1, 3, 5a Allison wakes up; Adam spends quality time in the lobby watching the Pope stuff with Al in his pjs trying to let me have a good night's sleep
4:30a Jenna wakes up and has breakfast 5:00a Excited to have dad up and Al for company, Jenna starts shrieking. Adam moves them to the bathroom, shuts the door and runs the coffee maker, shower and sink trying to keep them from waking up the rest of the hotel
10:30a Make it to the Navy Pier. Adam tries to nap in van since girls were quiet (and he couldn't find any bullrushes to leave Jenna in). I find my room (just short of the ligthhouse), start freaking out, and find Mountain Dew and snacks.
11:00a Meet cool people in the hall, wait and wait and play "guess that person's profession"
11:30a Start the warm up and the test. There were probably 120-150 taking the test in my session. Of the 50 questions, I answer about 90% (you only had 8 seconds to answer), knowing about 30 of them and guessing on the rest.
12:30p Tests are graded, they keep the top six people only (not me
=) ) But I got a cool Jeopardy pen!! Hunt down Adam and the girls, eat a fancy lunch at McDonald's
2:18p Head out of Chicago (I'm driving since Adam slept about an hour and a half). Realize that one of the "To I-290 signs was missing. Cruise downtown until we find familiar roads (map is the Cruiser, of course)
3:00p Get stuck in traffic. With 42 miles to go in the gas tank (love that gadget)
3:30p Find exit. Pump fast (it's about 50 out with a huge wind), manage to leave with all four hubcaps and no one asking how much for the women
4:30p Leave the Western Suburbs, starts to rain.
4:45p-8:00p Strong thunderstorms
8:45p Make it home. Get girls out and to bed, contemplate dinner.
8:46p Girls wake up, dad realizes we are home
9:00p Find four piles of Truman hurl
9:30p Attempt to eat sandwiches. I got a half down before Jenna erupted again.
9:45p For a change of pace, find toes in a pile of Truman hurl
10:45p Give up, take Jenna on road trip to Marsh. Put remaing sandwich by door while I find keys
10:45:30p Harry sucks turkey from sandwich
11:45p Return home with sleeping Jenna, attempt more food
11:50p Find another Truman hurl

Thursday
12:00a Jenna wakes up
12:10a Al wakes up
12:20a Give up and give them tylenol.
12:35a Both girls fall out asleep
12:45a Watch a couple of minutes of TV, see commercial for the birth control patch. Mention that I'd like to go on the pill, but I wouldn't mind picking some of those up to chew like bubble gum just in case
3:45a Al wakes up, feed her, back to swing in 30 minutes
6:30a Jenna wakes up and stays up
7:00a Find the last Truman hurl (for now - he hurls when he's nervous sometimes...and dad snores to the point he sucks the walls in and out)
8:00a Start getting ready for dad to leave, call Community, and low and behold, the Cruiser is ready (after one month and one day)
8:15a Ben shows up unannounced to see if we have a garden tiller
8:30a Adam attempts to leave for work. Turns out the loaner is dead in the garage. Eventually it turns over, and he can leave (the windshield wiper on the driver's side doesn't work, just for fun). Picks our car up before the loaner turns into a flaming hull on the side of 37
9:00a Ben leaves
9:30a Dad leaves
9:45a Jenna starts screaming
1:00p Adam calls it a day, comes on home. We sit down to lunch, flip on the TV, and attempt to flip on the Receiver. Remote must be dead...wait...nope, receiver kicked it in the thunderstorms last night
4:35p Jenna stops screaming to nap

Truman III

And in case you were all wondering...taking twins to the vet is almost as much fun as it sounds. I debated swinging past the large animal clinic for some horse tranquillizers. For whoever would take them, honeslty...

Truman II

Is at the vet and will have his tail “docked” this afternoon. It was indeed broken, and the doctor (who has three year old girl twins) says it was either bitten or more probably caught in something. She shaved it back, it was infected and the tip of the bone did look like it had punctured. He’ll be under general anesthesia, and the procedure will take about 30 minutes. She said to call about 3pm to see how he was waking up, and he could probably come home (although groggy and disoriented – and with a short tail) tonight.

Truman

Truman and Harry were rolling in the hall last night...and I think Truman may have gotten his tail caught in the bathroom door (since when he crawled into bed with me it was bent and had a lump, but I could touch it. In fact, he laid with his tail under his chin since last night...like he was going to have to say goodbye to it.)....

Where do I sign up?

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2005/04/08/DDG27BCFLG1.DTL

Sincerely,

Brother Gatling Gun of Moderation
(http://homepage.mac.com/whump/ujname.html)

It's all fun and games...

...until you get a toe up your nose.So apparently a fool proof way to get Allison to open her mouth to feed her is to suck/blow raspberries on her toes.And Jenna just cracks up when Al’s foot slips and the domestic overseer gets a wet toe up the nose.

Allison rolled over by herself for the first time last night! Made bathing her really interesting too =) Do they make infant snorkels?