eating and sleeping

So there's a fair amount of self-feeding going on in our house these days. Theo and Beckett eat 2-3 times a day, and usually one or two of those is self-fed. Plus for snacks they're eating Cheerios and these baby puff things that taste like peaches. They seem to enjoy the social aspects of eating, and they relish having control over what and when food is put in their mouths. Favorite lunches when Mama Lovebo is around to supervise self-feeding include toast fingers, orange wedges, and cheese sticks. Dinner is usually cereal, plus a pureed fruit or veggie, plus yogurt. Theo cannot get enough yogurt and oranges, but Beck usually prefers the carbs.


Since our last pediatrician visit in December the boys have been sleeping really well. They go to bed between 6:30-7:30, depending on how tired they are, and they sleep through til between 7 and 8am. They wake up around 3:30-4:30 to nurse, and then after I have fed them both (usually tandem, because they wake each other up and are then ravenous) I put them back in their cribs wide awake and they fall asleep. At night they nurse to sleep about a third of the time, though I usually end up waking them up by jostling them into their cribs. They are great about putting themselves to sleep.

The other morning I came in to grab Beckett before he woke Theo up, and I found Theo sleeping like this. When I laid him down, he was perpendicular to how he ended up here. His head was banging against the mirror in his crib, and his feet were practically through the rails. He was still asleep. Both boys love to put their blankets over their heads when they sleep-luckily they are crocheted and they can breathe through them. Note the fingers through the crochet holes--this is how they both sleep!