Feed Me!

So I definitely lost the mother of the year award.... I think I was starving my daughter!

Paige has always been our easy one with a super laid back personality.  She rarely cried and always waited patiently for Andrew to have his turn first.  This was the case until Saturday.  At that point, she started crying all the time.  She needed to be held and was waking up every hour in the middle of the night.  She wasn't sleeping soundly. I couldn't figure out what the sudden switch in her personality was until I really started thinking about it yesterday.  She was starving!  We were trying to space their eating and cut them back to less feeds with everyone's concern with  how fast they are gaining.  We were so focused on adjusting Andrew's calories and rice cereal, we all forgot about Paige.  The doctors thought I should leave their volumes alone, so I did...yet I don't think they realized we had gone from 8 bottles a day to around 6 and we had weaned their formula density!  The poor girl was hungry...ALL the time!  As soon as I realized this, I offered her a much larger bottle.  She downed the entire thing in 5 minutes and then proceeded to sleep soundly for five hours.  I'm sure she was thinking: "You finally figured it out, mom! It took you long enough!"  Ever since then, I have given her more volume and she is back to herself.  Wow, do I feel like a bad mom! But we've all recovered and we have our sweet angel back:)

Our happy girl working so hard to talk!

We are starting to like tummy time!

Andrew likes his frog outfit!

Checking himself out in the mirror

Hope all our local friends are surviving the snow!  It took Daddy almost 5 hours to get home from work last night!  Its probably the first time I've been happy about being housebound with the kids:)